We can see the Rite Aid had very competitive rank 5 years ago and had dramatic decreasing during 2017-2019.
Campairing to the Rite Aid, Costco was experiencing great increaing during last 5 years while the majority companies was maintaining steady.

Us Food and Staples retailing companies come most from CA, IL, OH, PE, NC

The firms in Arkansas are much bigger than those in North and west.

According to the grophic, we can indicate that Sysco Corp was the only one been collected data, so we must only analyse data from 2015-2019.
US food & staples industy is dominated by Walmart, costco, CVS, Kroger, and Walgreens.
We can also said that the industry is competitive and many companies are trying to get piece of pie. Rite Aid is only 0.016-0.027.

China may have more opportunity and higher competition intensity than US.

Because Chiness's daily demand goods are traded in a variety of ways, so the percentage of profitable ebterprises is behind the US. 

The typical company's performance is going down for both US & China, especially the US. 

The US is much better on assets utilizing. 

the US cash flow had dramatic decreasing during 2014-2016.

Food and Staples retailing is big in revenue, but not good with margins!

the food and staples retailing is expierencing the decrease on revenue but the median is growth fast, which means the total revenue of the industry is not good but the revenue level is skewing to the higher level. also, the househould and personal products has the bad performance on revenue aand Operating Income.  

Compairing to the similar category, Food and Staples retailing has good inventory turnover and labor productivity. 
The ROA, ROIC, and bargaining power are in the middle of the entire retailing industry.

RAD is larger than most companies but still performed below average.

WMT is the largest and most profitable; and there is a big gap between Walmart and other companies.

Take a close look after zoom in:There are a lot of smaller but profitable coompanies, but the RAD is not profitable.

RAD has very big amoung of assets
RAD has the bad performance on operation income vs. Assets. 

RAD is far below the most of companies, worst performer in its revenue class. 

First, the entire industry is not good in the both ROA and Financial health. 
RAD is ranking first 5 on total assets, but, still RAD has very bad performance on both ROA and financial health, the ROA even goes negative, which means they has loss on assets. 

Rite Aid is 21st in Operating Margin while the total revenue is rank in 8th. 

RAD is ranking 23th in ROA. Negative.

RAD is in the worst performing 5 (negative), -0.1--0

RAD is similar to the US foods Holding on size but smallest.

RAD has smallest margins.

RAD is still the smallest one, which explain the stock price

RAD might have a little bit strenths on Gross Margin and Current Ratio, but still the smallest size, so it has bad performance in almost all the KPIs.

we could see it has profit issues. 

While all the competitors are increasing the total revenue during 2015-2019, the RAD is slightly decreasing. 
For the OI,  Walgreens and US Foods Holding stay steady, Costco is increasing, but the Wal-mart and RAD are decreasing 

RAD has dramatic decreasing on Net Margin in 2017, and still suffering, so as its ROA
RAD has bad performance on Operating Margin neither even it is not the last on gross margin. 
In all, Walgreens take a good place on the margins. 

RAD liability asset ratio and long term debt ration are way above other into the danger zone!!

Take a close look at Cash Conversion Cycle:
The Walmart, Costco, and Walgreens are trying to go nagetive for their CCC, which make their finacial circumstance healthier.
However, the RAD and US food Holding is still around 15 days of CCC which could cause big problem on the Caash flow.

A higher liability asset ratio may cause a lower operating margin. 

A higher liability asset ratio may cause a lower ROA.

RAD is the only one has the negative Net Income. 
Walmart, Costco, and Walgreens are higher than the industry average on net income, and Walgreens is the best performance in the industry.
RAD has very big ratio on SG&A Expenses, and also has the highest income tax campiring to the average. 

The non-current liabilities is way higher than the average, which shrink the stockholder equity. 
All the other companies have higher Equity than average around 34%, while the RAD is only have 7%.

Compairing to the Average, RAD and USFH are stucking on too much Net Receivables.
RAD and costco tied up too many inventory, but costco has a lot of cash which could keep their finacial healthy while RAD couldn't do because of lower cash to the average.