YORK, Pa. – Elena Santiago says she was fired from her job at a Rite Aid in York, Pennsylvania after she defended herself from a customer who reacted violently when she asked him to leave the store for refusing to wear a face mask.
Before the incident, Santiago loved that job.
A shift manager at the Rite Aid pharmacy just off the square in downtown York, she loved talking to regular customers, people she considered friends. The store serves as a center of the community downtown – more like the corner store than part of a corporate chain.
For instance, during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic when toilet paper and hand sanitizer were in short supply, she would ask regular customers for their phone numbers and call them when shipments arrived.
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