sosoo, you are not alone. Same at over 100 Rite Aid stores. The procedure is (at most stores): Tech counts, puts bottle away, pharmacist gets Counted Bottle with label that has 1 year expiration date from printed date.
I can see "sosoo" was not teaching us to wrongly extend the date; "sosoo" was just pointing out the fact in some stores at CVS which I concur that such practice is happening in many stores at Rite Aid, too.
The ethically correct way is: we have to ensure we input real expiration date.
The reality is: the system does not FORCE us to input real expiration date. The un-ethical reality is: the company is forcing us to do TOO MANY THINGS within 8 hours. Therefore, we skip what we can skip and this happens.
Can we fix this from caring standpoint? Only if the computer forces us to input EVERY.SINGLE.TIME. Until then, corporate pharmacy will force us human to skip the expiration date step to finish the script within 15 minutes. Yes, some Rite Aid Pharmacy District Managers are still pushing for this 15 minute goal.
Now, if the Original Package is given out and the pharmacist did not match both dates on label and Original Package, the pharmacist is simply asking for trouble. I have fixed by handwriting over 10 wrong dates a day at various stores, multiply that by 10 years and that would be a huge opportunity for coaching and retraining.
Thanks for pointing out the method, I will be asking for Original Bottle with Counted Vial from now on.