Avantages
It's a job and many aren't fortunate enough to have one but, if you have a choice, don't choose Rite Aid. Whoever wrote that Pharm Techs make $16 an hour at Rite Aid was lying. They make less than $8 per hour where I am and, I'm in a major city where the stores are union. Furthermore, if you train as a tech at Rited Aid, you CANNOT use that experience at a hospital. They will not accept it. So it's poor pay with little room for advancement.
Inconvénients
Rite Aid grosses over 200 million dollars per quarter and yet their employees make minimum wage ($7.25 an hour). Even at my store, which is union, no one but the store manager made over $10 an hour. There were people who worked there for 10+ years who were never promoted. Lunches weren't forbidden but they were shunned and, if you wanted to take a break, you had to take it in two 15 minute increments. The job required a lot of heavy lifting and there were a lot of injuries on the job due to the poorly structured supply chain and logistics setup (*new employees beware; if you get injured within first three months you don't qualify for workers compensation). Clearly this job doesn't attract the likes of Harvard Thus, most of the employees are 1) young 2) uneducated 3) unreliable making everyone's job doubly as hard but you get what you pay for.