Rite Aid Employee Reviews for Anonymous Employee

"Initially I thought I'd made a mistake to accept the cashier job. Extremely rude customers, no support from management, thieves, thugs, fraud. As time went on the thugs and fraud stopped coming it. Finally Loss Prevention was doing something. Now I find the RA I work in to be pleasant and enjoyable with a good team of coworkers with a couple of exceptions."

"Not bad, lots of room for advancement."

"I am currently as a pharmacy clerk at Rite Aid who is waiting for her pharmacy technician license to come in the mail. I work part time, and was expecting to be paid $12/hour because one of the technicians told me when he first started out, he got $12/hour (as a clerk, and $14/hour when he got his technician license). But, because this is my first job, (fresh out of high school) I agreed to $10/hour. I'm not sure if it's fair to be paid less because I work part time. When my license comes in the mail, I will definitely settle for more. The coworkers are okay, some I love as a person, but some who could use a bit work on treating customers fairly. For example, the pharmacy I work at is really busy, but we lack hours for technicians because of a store limit. At one point, we had about 270 prescriptions to do "for the day" aka, we were behind already, and it piled up badly. My store has 6 technicians/clerks (just me). When we are behind, and customers want to wait for their meds, sometimes we have to tell them to wait for an hour (and it's sometimes not even an hour because no one worked on it). But what really frustrated me was when there were some regulars who were more friendly or familiar with a technician working who got their meds in literally 10 minutes. There's a lack of fairness in treatment on customers, but I'm pretty sure this happens almost everywhere that deals with lots of customers. All in all, coworkers inside and outside the pharmacy are friendly towards each other, but I should not be paid $10/hour (same as a normal cashier) for the customers I have to deal with. My role requires for me to be more patient, learn how to use a complicated pharmacy program, and deal with some angry customers whose meds aren't done yet (which most of the time, isn't my fault, but are my coworkers fault because they are in charge of processing prescriptions, and they receive them at the drop off window). But, at least I get more than minimum wage (saving up for college)."

"I've worked since the end of high school in 2010. The job has gotten me through school but is not enough to love on."

"I work full time, and don't make much, but for someone in my position with a college degree, I should not be working retail, so that is my fault. The people are nice, and my store is the best I've ever been in, and while the customers and vendors can be a pain, the employees of Rite Aid are friendly and cheerful. If I did not have a degree, I would love working here. But I have a family to support, and I cannot do it on my current hourly rate. I either have to make store manager, or move on."

"I've been working for Rite Aid almost a year now and for the most part it's been a good part time job. However the store manager doesn't really do much and corporate expects you to push people into getting a wellness card. They keep track of how many cards you scan, which is honestly pathetic because not everyone will sign up for it and we get in trouble for it. On the other hand my coworkers are great and a majority of the customers are sweet."

"Worked here for over a year. Shift manager smokes pot outside of the store. Store manager plays favorites. Low pay, lots of drama. The customers are pretty nice.I like our pharmacy staff since they are all so outgoing. Only real problem is at the store level. Most employees at this location are miserable and suffer from low morale. Two managers are always picking on the one shift manager and he is the ONLY one who seems to genuinely care about keeping morale up. If it wasn't for him, I'd quit."

"I have worked with Rite Aid since 2008 as a certified pharmacy technician. The company is great."

What do you like about working at Rite Aid?

"Not monotonous. Challenging."

What don't you like about working at Rite Aid?

"No sick days. No PTO. No vacation. No benefits. Employee budget hours keep getting cut, so we are constantly short staffed."