We absolutely LOATHE Rite Aid, even this new "shiny" one!!!
Why are we so horrified?
Rite Aid isn't paying their Pharmacy staff enough, so staff quit.
Rite Aid is contributing to the higher rate of Covid in the Rogue Valley by not paying their staff enough to keep them, and keeping staff would otherwise help the community be better vaccinated.
Rite Aid has violated the public trust. Pharmacy positions need to be staffed.
But here's another problem -
We had appointments for our Covid-19 boosters scheduled TODAY at this Rite Aid in Phoenix and were texted and emailed several reminders, including two texts in the past 24 hours. We drove there, and the entire pharmacy had only one pharmaceutical staff member working. Others quit. Why? Rite Aid in the area underpays. Whoever would've given us our Moderna vaccine had quit as well, and we weren't notified that we wouldn't be receiving a vaccine today, or at anytime in the near future.
"Where can we get a vaccine?" we asked. Grants Pass Rite Aid is better staffed. We asked ourselves, we have to drive from Ashland to Grants Pass to get this booster, because Grants Pass staff hasn't quit, and bypass all the other local Rite Aids in our county because of not enough staff at any of them? Seriously?!!! What's wrong with this picture?
Rite Aid Pharmacy staff has quit ALL OVER Jackson County because Rite Aid just will not pay them enough for the extremely VITAL work they perform. What's enough for payment? I don't know, I'm only a customer, but I do know that, throughout this county, Rite Aid has lost its pharmaceutical staff.
In the end, it's the PATIENTS and other customers who are victims of Rite Aid calculating cold stinginess. With the Rite Aid's online sponsored ads for getting vaccines, scheduling appointments, receiving texts, and then failing the public, this is a sham. read more