Pros
-Compensation is slightly higher than minimum wage -Not as busy as other drugstores (CVS, Walgreens) -Since its a pharmacy store, many customers are regulars and you can develop good relationships with some of them -The discount is 20% for employees; about what you'd expect from this type of location, I guess. It's not terrible.
Cons
-Apparently this company is losing a lot of money, because they only schedule ONE person to run the entire front end of the store (everything but the pharmacy). So you are there alone with the manager, and you're expected to be the cashier, help people on the floor, run the photo lab, make sure everything's clean, help people with perfume, AND perform extra tasks such as price changes. It is ridiculous. I certainly do not mind hard work, but with this level of work, it is difficult to provide the best customer service. I suppose if the manager is hard-working it would be better, but at my location, the manager sat in his office essentially the whole day. So, I was basically working by myself. Rite Aid needs to take a cue from Walgreens and have at least two people scheduled in the front end. -Management does not communicate with employees. You have no idea if you're doing a good job or not. -The attitude at Rite Aid is not focused on the customer, its focused on getting as many people to sign up for their stupid Wellness Cards. Maybe if they cared a bit more about customer service, they'd have more business! -Like CVS, Rite Aid now requires a card (the Wellness Card) for a customer to be eligible for sales. Unlike CVS, Rite Aid will NOT scan a courtesy card if a customer does not want a Wellness Card. This sucks for cashiers because you get customers constantly whining about how unfair it is to need a card.
