Rite Aid reviews

Pay stinks less than you would make at CVS or Walgreens. Benefits are getting worse. Only Aetna health fund is available now. Raises are abysmal 2% a year is an insult. The cost of the health insurance goes up more than that every year making the raise pointless. District management varies from district to district. I felt that the DMs were more yes men to certain RVPs and would only stick their neck out so far for their managers. In my case I was fired for poor performance (working 55+ hours at the time). Basically I was "unable to get the store looking the way it should" in the insane hours I worked. A month earlier when "bonuses" came out my DM told me that I had the best bonus in the district because of my store's great CSI scores and EBITDA. So basically they fired me even though my customers were happy and I was making a decent profit. To make matters more insulting I was fired on the 8yr anniversary of the date I started with Eckerd. Out with the old in with the cheap I suppose. They recently made low volume managers hourly and "demoted" assistant managers back to shift supervisors and cut their pay. I was fired literally the weekend before this was supposed to take effect so I can't comment on how it affected sales/profitability in the store. I can't imagine it helped very much if at all.

The company is extremely cheap. They treat the associates like slaves. If you are an associate at Rite Aid you are looked at as a dime a dozen. They will start you out at minimum wage and give you one raise a year which is 2% 3 if you are lucky. They have changed so much to eliminate costs, they have demoted assistant managers to supervisors. Instead of hiring consultants they use the employees to do that job and call it the Cultural Change group. Compared to what the competitors are paying versus Rite Aid i am extremely unsatisfied. In a couple months i take on a lot of responsibility for less than a 2 dollar raise when i would make more if i worked at CVS or Walgreens as a cashier. Rite Aid is more concerned about catching associates stealing they have cameras in all the places where we handle money but people are stealing thousands of dollars worth of merchandise in the aisles daily.