Rite Aid

Bizarre and fun all wrapped up in one.
Good: discounts. Literally everywhere you look. Sale. I shop here a lot because it’s close and it’s cheap. And I’m a cheap guy. Judge me.
Bad: the pharmacy does NOT respect privacy or HIPPA. Like its… scary. They read all my information over the PA and the weekend «tech» (who I wish spoke English and knew that capsules are NOT tablets…) is a joke. Course when I meet patients and they ask me which pharmacy to use I tell them to use walgreens for their mess but to come here for everything else.
Weird: One of the managers (I think his name is Joe) tries a little too hard to be friendly… to the point it’s hilariously uncomfortable when he rings you up. I wonder if he’s high? I thought about asking him. But I’m any case he’s funny and listens, even though it’s clear the poor guy can’t stand his job.
Overall: this place is a circus. Eva, one of the sales associates along with Rosemary are sweet and the poor girls do their best to deal with drunk customers as well as their strange (if not slightly creepy) manager.
Cheers.

It’s not a bad store and it is huge as others have mentioned. (Too bad they can’t cede some space to QFC next door). Even so, I often leave unable to find what I came for.
It is clean and well maintained. But I hate the register layout with them all in a line across the front of the store. Really inefficient design. Staff are friendly but slow.

Pretty average. Nothing really remarkable about this particular location. But the all over business practices are great. I get my prescriptions filled here and if you sign up for their RX program, they’ll send you a text when your prescription is ready. To verify my insurance they just gave me a quick call and the pharmacist was helpful and patient as I couldn’t figure out all the jumbled numbers and letters and what, was what.
One thing I will warn is that the parking lot is sometimes mayhem. I saw a lady’s cart go hurtling at another car and she drove away. Ratchet, but it is Rainier so you shouldn’t be expecting that much.

i stopped in to pick up some tape to wrap up my hand. some of that stuff to prevent blisters. i was in the area and it was a spur of the moment thing.
whoa, the place has been totally rearranged since the last time i was in here. all the check out counters were picked up and moved off to one side and maybe there are fewer of them.
in any event, an already huge store looks even bigger… and more empty. the floor looks sort of empty and even some of the shelves are a bit sparse. if this store was in a more upscale neighborhood, i could see them carving out space and putting a branch of a bank in there or maybe a starbucks or something. the place is that big inside.
instead, it looks a little sad and lonely.

It’s huge for a rite aid… For no reason. It does usually look empty.
In my experience, rite aid in general has always been bad at stocking their shelves and staff and updating what’s not on sale anymore which is why this isn’t my favorite business.
But at this location, I haven’t had a problem with their customer service, they are usually friendly especially for the area (everyone is on bitch mode around here). And they will usually try and call another cashier when the line is getting long.
For such a large rite aid… Really, no bathroom? Good thing they are next to
Qfc.
Helpful hint: Stop by here if you are looking for some decent beer and price on a 12+ pack of beer. they got deals and a surprisingly well variety!

I only go here because it’s so convenient. That being said, I usually think «oh it’s a huge Rite Aid, I’ll be able to grab everything I need here.» And this typically results in me being disappointed and not getting everything I need.
There is inevitably only one checker open. Sometimes it’s fine because you’re the only person in the store. Other times you wait for the other 5 people in front of you while you wonder how they found so much crap they needed in Rite Aid.
And gosh forbid you need something out of one of their «locked» areas. Which is a lot of things. I wanted to buy a curling iron. I had to search the store for somebody, eventually had to ask a checker, and then waited by the curling iron for like 5 minutes just for a grumpy clerk to come «unlock» it for me so I could buy a freakin’ $ 20 curling iron.
Anyway, if it’s convenient to you, it’s worth slipping in if you need. Otherwise, I’d find somewhere else.

I HATE THIS RITE AID!!! Now, I don’t have a «thing» about all Rite Aid’s — just this particular understocked, never have what I’m looking for, mispriced, idiot-​staffed one. I’ve been going to this Rite for 4 years now — since I moved to Beacon Hill and because it’s right next to QFC — convenient, right? Not so much. First of all, this parking lot is like a demolition derby — I have almost been hit so many times here — until I learned to just assume people are probably going to pull into the driveway and then STOP abruptly, OR barrel on through the «intersections» without looking right or left, OR go in through the out and out through the in because nothing is marked. Second of all, this Rite Aid has a very grumpy pharmacy manager, so grumpy I’ve actually heard employees talking about how grumpy he is and I chimed in with my concurrence since they weren’t trying to be discreet at all. And, speaking of discreet, there is no privacy when you’re at the window, no line to wait at — total HIPAA violation! I have many more gripes with this particular «by the book» «no bending of the rules allowed» pharmacy, but that’s another review. But, my 3^rd and worst gripe of all about this particular Rite Aid is that 9 times out of 10 the sale prices are not entered into the computer. This is SO VERY annoying because when you’re checking out the total is always WAY over what you thought it would be and then if you don’t go through your receipt right then and there, which of course makes you look like a total cheap ass, then you have to schlep your cheap ass back to the store and talk to the manager about all the «sale» items that you were charged full price for. The other annoying thing that occurs and this happened to me yesterday at my last trip EVER into that particular Rite Aid, is when you question the clerk, asking «isn’t this pot supposed to be 50% off», for instance, they argue with you. Yesterday, even though signs were posted over the entire plant pot section that said «50% off», the clerk insisted it was only the plastic pots. She didn’t offer to check, call someone for a price check, just a big, fat unfriendly, unhelpful «NO». I left everything I was going to buy on the counter, stated in a loud voice, «I hate this Rite Aid» and left NEVER TO RETURN AGAIN. If it was only this one incident, I wouldn’t complain, but it’s each and every time. I don’t know who the manager is at this store, but they need to be fired. This Rite Aid is GHETTO — do not go here unless you want to be annoyed.