Comments on: Back in the USSR at Rite Aid…

By: pissed off ex manager

pissed off ex manager — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 19:18:16 +0000

I have worked for rite aid for 7 years!!! that place is a fucking joke! they expect you to do all this work yet they keep cutting hrs and you have no staff!! then they have the nerve to bitch at you when your store looks like shit! gee why dont you pay the people down at the bottom as much as you pay people at the top who are clueless morons! i work in washington and i must say all the mangers i have worked for at rite aid (and i have worked at like 10 stores) are all the same washed up old assholes who think that they are gods gift to the earth!!! reality check you people are a JOKE!!!!!!!! i will never go back to rite aid nor shop in thier dirty ass out of stock stores again!!! good luck to you rite aid ur pretty much dunzo and no company wants to buy!!!!

By: leslie

leslie — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:32:26 +0000

Okay..old CEO Mary Sammons still gets her 1 mil $ for this year and so does John Standley. (2010)That was part of the agreement to replace one with the other. Plus 200% bonus for John. I got a 34 cent raise after 10 years teching…and my insurance premium went up more than that for my health insurance. They cut our hours…expect us to LOVE OUR RITE AID…not!! The people in the pharmacy and front end are great people for the most part. The PDM and DM are just handing down the corporate message to us peons that make or break the company. I love my job but not the company. I put my customers first and then the company! sorry Wrong Aid. If I did all the lame things the “CEO know nots how the real employee works” rules you put forth there would be no rite aid customers.!!!! Just keep printing out transfer gift cards….but do nothing for our loyal customers! keep printing millions in unread pamphlets like you care!!! Make a new wellness program for millions and then see where it really gets you!!! Maybe all the CEO’s COO’s and whatever other C boses there are should step into the real world and touch base with the average person! In other words…REALITY CHECK!!!

By: Former employee

Former employee — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 21:31:32 +0000

I no longer work for this rotten company. I liked the folks I worked with at store level and with the notable exception of some store support and a couple of Dm’s, the rest of the company needs a flush out!!!!! Pharmacy staff and front end are cut hours, yet expected to do double the work. Morale is horrible, except for the corporate folks!!! Sorry, I’m glad I am no longer a part of this sinking ship. When it goes under, and it will shortly, a lot of good loyal people will lose jobs and have to make some major adjusstments in their lives. A lot of the corporate bozos will also drift somewhere else to screw up another comapny!!!!

By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 02:04:13 +0000

Wow, I thought I had bad days at work. Seriously, if you hate your job that much quit. There are a whole lot of people that want to work and can not. Don’t think for a moment that the people at the warhouses, or even your district manager has it that easy. They are just the bearers of bad news made from people that have no idea how to get out the forest they have found themselves lost in. Aqusitions take time to recover. Riteaid did not have the business sense to know the economy they were walking into and they got stuck. If you want hours…be nice to the customer’s. Order until it comes in. Call another store if you have to. People know they can buy toilet paper anywhere, they come because the people are nice. Yes, corporate has done wrong. They are people too. But you have the power to be the light in someones day if you are at the front counter. I’ve worked in a great many riteaids, the top selling stores, have a great store team. The best manager I ever worked for also had the busiest store i’ve been in. She set out to say we are going to have fun and treat people right no matter what. and she did it. Don’t let the grumpies ruin you too.

By: Lizee

Lizee — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:34:01 +0000

I am currently a pharmacy tech at Rite Aid…I think the company is a mess and so is the management..a complete joke! I worked for a private for 18 years and they sold out to Rite Aid when ready to retire…That is the only reason I am there and the fact that there are not many tech jobs available in my area. The jobs that are available are more low wage chains or must be able to speak spanish…
I’m so frustrated! Being in a thankless job for a thankless company is humiliating! Help!

By: Dave Bartlett

Dave Bartlett — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 14:32:52 +0000

I worked for Field Systems Support for Eckerd, and became part of Rite Aid’s Field Technical Support. On our first day with RA, we lost our sick days (RA does not offer sick days), and were assigned Perpetual On-Call. The ONLY way to get a day off is to take vacation, and you are only off during 8 to 5; after your vacation hours have expired @ 5PM, you are back on call, with a two hour, on-site response time, including all holidays, nights and weekends. No days off, ever. If called out on Sunday or nights, we are forced to stop work on Thursday mornings, and cannot clock-in until management feels ‘safe’ that we won’t incur over 40 hours (no paid time and half), since work-week ends on Saturday. We must maintain an on-line diary of how we spend every minute of the day, and clock-in/out of every store we visit. Kronos hours are strictly watched during hours we are paid, but most working hours (strictly enforced perpetual on-call) are not paid, so the system is rigged. People who work here have no options, and are not qualified to work anyplace else. It’s no wonder RA is at the bottom of the chain-store heap. Needless to say, I left for CVS, which is light-years better.

By: Front End Cashier here...

Front End Cashier here... — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:14:40 +0000

I have been working for Rite Aid for a little over a year. I guess our store was one of the most highest grossing stores our DM had, but when Wal-Mart came, our sales were cut in half. Thank God we have liquor and photo or we would wouldn’t have jobs.

Heres my little rant. I was started at full time and now I work anywhere from 20-25 hours per week. I live in a very small town with only about 5 stores so finding a new job as convenient is not an option. Get this. I started out at 7.00 an hour, a little more than minimum wage. When minimum wage went up, guess what….they didnt adjust it, so now Im just making the minimum. Our store manager is ridiculous. If you even get make him upset he will cut your hours and make you close the couple of days a week that you work. This is until he isn’t mad anymore. Then as he gets over it you slowly start to see the little hours you have returning. I have never worked with a manager that did nothing but slam his employers and make fun of customers after they leave.

I guess we will be opening our stores until 11 during the Xmas holiday season. Thats great. We are allotted 230 hours of payroll for 6 of us. I dont know how rite aid expects us to be open from 8am to 11pm with only 230 hours.

I have been commended on my customer service quite a few times, but Im beginning to crack. How can a company treat their associates like this? Without us, they have no company….

I wish a walgreens would open here!!!

By: unappreciated

unappreciated — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:45:27 +0000

I am a union driver for rite aid,with 10 yrs of service, we just recently ratified a new contract with rite aid and we took some major concessions due to the economic times and the companies bad financial condition. I work many 14 hr days with sometimes little or no breaks and end up sleeping on their lot in order to try and get the freight there in the store.The result from this is I am seeing my take home pay cut even more & more. they are cutting & scrutinizing us in every way possible,many of the stores are now delivered bi-weekly which increases the freight load on those weeks they are delivered.A private carrier is delivering phamacy on the off week which does not make sense because of the cost and because all the bi-weekly stores that I deliver complain to me of the empty spots they have on their shelves, everything I hear and see concerning RAD is negative,things they do in operating and managing makes no sense in cost effectiveness & profitability. Stores I once delivered in 1 trip are now being delivered by a driver who is the 3rd driver in the relay to get the load there. I wonder how many possibilities come into play here for something to go wrong with the delivery to the store, but then what do I know I am only a truck driver & a consumer. Some one in Harrisburg needs to get their head out of their … the sand.

By: Glen

Glen — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:30:00 +0000

There are some very good people working at Rite Aid. But there are a few DMs who are total jerks.

A campaign was started this past year called, “This is my Rite Aid and I love it!” What a bunch of crock! Don’t even dare to think that your idea matters…it doesn’t mean shit with Rite Aid. Corporate Rite Aid blames everyone but themselves for running the company into the ground. And they are going to continue running it into the ground blaming the associates all of the way.

Every week we get pages and pages of outs that won’t be shipped to the stores and then the DMs run around blaming the managers for not bringing the product in. It is disappointing to work so hard but still get crapped on.

Again, not everyone is like that, but there are enough around that ruin it for those who try so hard. Rite Aid is going under and it is those at the top who are bringing it down. Glen

By: mike

mike — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:00:58 +0000

Listen people… I am a former Rite Aid Store Manager. I worked for Eckerds for 5 Years and loved it. When RA came in to purchase us, everything went to complete hell. The dist. centers are working like pigs and anthing is correct. I strive on having a beautiful store and being in stock with items esp sale ones. Alot of the stock issues have to do with Store Managers not doing their jobs correctly. Rite aid is completly Mickey mouse it is not even funny. From my old District Manager that was completly useless and stupid…to the RVP that had no personality and was a complete ass to everyone he saw…Wow what a great place to work…These corporate heads are complete assholes and want nothing to do with us in the store until there is a complaint…Then they are all mighthy and powerful…no. I left RA and have been working with CVS and love the company. the standards are wonderful…the dm are great and they truly do care about their employees as people…i must say. As a store manager with RA they took away all bonuses and raises….what kind of shit is that??? we bust our asses all year for them to make things right and thats what they do…Not CVS…it truly is a wonderful place to work. Great pay and the bosses are awsome.Rite aid just sucks…No quality people…no quality management. Mary Sammons is no fool…come on now. she knew what she was doing when she bought us out. she made sure she took real good care of her pockets and her family. A nice lump sum of MILLIONS>>>> She set HERELF up for success while she took money out of our pockets…This is a woman that NEVER checks her E-Mail…NEVER…I used to check when the last time she would sign on was and it literally was 14 months. He assistant signs on once a week…What kind of shit is that??? We were expected to chect it 6 times a day…HA…Mary Sammons I hope you have a wonderful life here on earth but I hope you burn in hell forever for doing what you did to us store managers when you took us over…You really need to use some of that money you got and use it to get some plastic surgery…Damn you are busted…well thank people for listening to my lovely story…Mike