Background
Investing in Rite Aid (RAD) beginning in 2000 and routinely visiting those stores locally in the Manhattan area until 2003, nationwide store visitation began soon after I moved to Florida where Rite Aid has no stores. These inspections ended in 2015 when I advised Corporate in writing that I would no longer play "baby sitter" for them and solve store execution issues that middle management had the luxury to ignore because Corporate was not properly supervising their stores. I call this the "middle management problem," but then that means it is a regional management