Rite Aid reviews

Maybe because of the Company's financial condition things always seem to be presented to us at store level as a problem or crisis. Never hear much of anything positive from above--but I guess this is the nature of Management. From an employment standpoint low wages seem to prevail at store level outside the pharmacy; with meager if any raises the norm. Much is expected while incentives of a tangible nature are not offered. Currently Assistant Mgrs are being laid off or being forced to take huge salary cuts in the lower volume stores while Store Managers in those locals are being made hourly employees. With no information forthcoming from the Corporation to the stores, rumors are now rampant about what may be in store for the rest of us. Meanwhile inventory levels are being cut in the DC's and the stores resulting in an unacceptable amounts of out of stock items, which naturally is the Store Managers fault.

Payless used to have a motto " Use common sense and good judgement" Rite Aid's motto must be "Don't think" . (The manager had to go through corporate to get the air conditioning fixed too bad he was"too stupoid to hire someone locally".) We had one terrible manager who was forcing out all the best people. We were able to get him transfered before he could do any more damage to out customer base. Then a new District Manager was transfered in and that manager was reassigned to our store --- 10 months later he was let go for stealing over $10000 out the back door... never prosecuted though and an unsuspecting local company is saddled with him. I was told that they would rehire me at the minimum wage and have to start out with the vacation at one week per year --- at 18 years I had three weeks if vacation a year. I believe that I was the most efficient worker there - certainly more so than the young women who did nothing but flip through magazines at the checkout or chat mindlessly as they were (slowly) putting out freight.