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Rite-Aid Delivery Guy Saves Elderly Customer's Life
By Chris Morran on March 5, 2012 12:15 PM  
Automated prescription refills and deliveries have probably saved patients' lives by insuring that they got their medication on time. But this time, it wasn't the pills in the bottle that saved a Pennsylvania woman; it was the man who delivered them. More »

Drunkenly Groping A Cardboard Display Woman Will Get You In Trouble
By Mary Beth Quirk on October 31, 2011 12:15 PM  
Can we just say right off the bat it's a better a cardboard woman than a real one? A convicted sex offender in Pittsfield, Mass., has been fined after he reportedly kissed and fondled a cardboard cut out of a woman at a Rite Aid. More »

Rite Aid Sells Video Chats With Doctors
By Phil Villarreal on September 27, 2011 9:15 AM  
Drugstores are fast becoming outlets for quick, relatively cheap medical care. Many CVS stores have MinuteClinics inside, and now Rite Aid has started offering video chats with doctors in a service called NowClinic Online Care. For $45, customers get 10 minutes of virtual face time with medical pros. Patients can also opt for voice chats or instant messages. More »

Target, RiteAid, And Publix Change Policies To Cripple Extreme Couponers
By Ben Popken on July 5, 2011 5:00 PM  
In the past few weeks, three big stores have changed their coupon policies in ways to curb some of the more lucrative coupon tactics. It appears to be fallout over noob extreme couponers inspired by the TLC show Extreme Couponing, who are ruining the game for everyone else. More »

Man Buys 1 Powerade At Rite Aid, Gets 21 Inch Receipt
By Ben Popken on March 28, 2011 2:00 PM  
Josh bought a singular Powerade from his local Rite Aid. He handed over one dollar and thirty-six cents. In return, he received not only his Powerade, but a 21 inch-long receipt. More »

What's Up With Rite Aid Scanning My ID To Buy Booze?
By Mary Beth Quirk on April 10, 2010 3:34 PM  
Consumerist reader Mark lives in the L.A. area and says he often picks up his alcohol from Rite-Aid because they’ve got good prices. But now Mark says Rite-Aid has gone beyond checking IDs and is actually scanning them into their computer. Not cool, in his book. More »

Watch Out For Drugstore Price Traps
By Chris Walters on April 7, 2010 1:13 PM  
I was at a Rite-Aid a couple of weeks back and went to pick up some cheap dish detergent, and the bottles that I remembered being less than $1.50 were all in the $3-4 range. I left and found sanely-priced soap at another store a few blocks away. Our reader Stan just wrote in with a similar example, where he caught his local CVS charging him three times as much as a nearby competitor. More »

Rite-Aid Puts Aspirin On Sale For $3 More Than Regular Price
By Chris Morran on March 31, 2010 3:01 PM  
Consumerist reader Uriah was shopping at his local Rite-Aid when he spotted something strange about the big yellow sale tag on this bottle of aspirin. Upon closer inspection, he noticed that the huge sale price of $9.99 wasn't such a good deal... because it's $3 higher than the $6.99 the aspirin usually goes for. More »

$500,000 In Consumer Refunds From Rite Aid After False Cold Remedy Advertising Suit
By Laura Northrup on July 14, 2009 11:41 PM  

—>Remember the class-action lawsuit against the makers of cold-and-flu-preventing magic potion Airborne? Airborne claimed that it could prevent or shorten colds and flus, without any actual scientific evidence to back those claims up.  More »

Walgreens Cancels EasySaver Program, But That Doesn't Mean You Can't Still Play "The Drugstore Game"
By Chris Walters on June 4, 2009 2:53 AM  

—>Mitchell wrote to us complaining about Walgreen's decision to cancel its EasySaver Rebate program, where customers could submit multiple rebate requests at once and get the money back along with a 10% bonus applied to a gift card. Although the program is no longer with us, it's still very possible to game the reward/discount systems at Walgreens and other chain drugstores to accumulate huge savings. Sometimes you can even make money back.  More »

If you transfer a prescription to RiteAid, you'll receive a $25 gift card. Emily, who tipped us to this, says the cashier told her you could do this for up to four meds, but their website says just two. Also, you can't use the gift card to pay for prescriptions. Still, hey, free money if you don't mind where you get your prescription filled. [Rite AidMore »

If you transfer a prescription to RiteAid, you'll receive a $25 gift card. Emily, who tipped us to this, says the cashier told her you could do this for up to four meds, but their website says just two. Also, you can't use the gift card to pay for prescriptions. Still, hey, free money if you don't mind where you get your prescription filled. [Rite AidMore »

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NY AG Will Take Legal Action Against CVS & Rite Aid For Selling Expired Milk, Baby Formula
By Meg Marco on June 12, 2008 10:13 PM  
Back in March, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's Office started an undercover investigation into all major drug store chains in New York State. The AG's Office uncovered what they describe as an "egregious" pattern of selling expired products at two chains, Rite Aid ad CVS.   More »

My Wife Was Attacked In The Parking Lot And Rite Aid Won't Help!
By Carey Alexander on June 1, 2008 4:07 PM  

—>Virginia police are unable to track down the creep who grabbed Michael's wife in a Rite Aid parking lot because Rite Aid is refusing to hand over its security tapes. Even worse, the store manager apparently knows the creepy grabber guy and is also refusing to help. Michael wrote to Rite Aid's corporate office begging them to cooperate with law enforcement. He hasn't heard back in two days.  More »

Rite Aid District Manager Successfully Handles A Customer Complaint
By Chris Walters on February 19, 2008 2:01 AM  
With all the customer service horror stories we post, you'd think businesses in the United States have lost the ability to treat their customers with respect—and by and large, you'd be right. More »

Naughty Cough Syrup Returns
By consumerist.com on December 7, 2007 12:37 AM  

—>So for a while there local newscasts were soberly worried kids drinking cough medicine that only contained dextromethorpan (DXM). It seems that children of all ages were guzzling bottles of it in order to go on a cheap hallucinatory journey.  More »

Did Rite-Aid Kick Out A Gay Couple For Hugging?
By Chris Walters on November 2, 2007 8:07 PM  

—> Washington, D.C. is actually a pretty gay-friendly place—hell, even a few closeted types seem to find a way to make a living there. (Just a few.) But in early October a gay couple was thrown out of a Rite-Aid a few blocks away from the city's traditional gay neighborhood for allegedly hugging each other in the store. According to them, while they were shopping, one of them hugged the other one from behind, and the store manager ran up and shouted, "Get out! Get out!" A few seconds later, the security guard told them they had to leave, although he said he didn't know the reason why. The manager, Denny Getachew, won't comment, and Rite Aid spokesperson told the local gay magazine, "We are looking into this matter, and we will take disciplinary action if need be."  More »