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Albertsons Companies

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Disconnected Penny-Pinchers (Safeway, Texas Division) - Department Manager Albertsons Companies Employee Review

2.0
Oct 1, 2017
Recommend
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Pros

- CAN be a decent place to work, depending on the store management team. - Great team building, depending on the store management team. - Pays a bit better than some of the competition, depending on your locale. - Room for advancement. - High expectations. - Focuses on product quality and variety. - Stimulating work (Depending on your store management).

Cons

- Upper management/Store management occasionally employs negative reinforcement: sometimes on employees under a Team Leader (the leader should be ultimately responsible). - Very high expectations of management regardless of staff situation. - Overly bureaucratic: Programs, schematics, and operating procedures put in place often conflict with others and hinder reasonable productivity. - Communication between the store and corporate level is sometimes off. - High prices on products.

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5.0
May 30, 2026
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Pros

Good discounts, a free item every week through the app, hardship fund if approved, option for stocks

Cons

Not enough hours/pay to pay bills, odd hours makes it almost impossible to work a 2nd job

2.0
Mar 17, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

good pay rate, associate discount on groceries, mostly good techs

Cons

Zero work life balance, unless you live to work. "Training" screams of "I don't care". They brag about how GREAT their pharmacist training is, but that was 20 years ago, today their 4 week great training has been shoved into ONE week of on-the-job training with zero follow up or concern that you can't possibly learn all you need in that time, then they shove you out the door. Training during a cyberattack that has nothing working? That's fine, you don't get any extra time despite the fact that you can't learn on a non-working system. Management BS is deep, such as "we want our employees to know why decisions are made" then no way to ask and none of the low level managers has any freaking clue as to why changing an address in the database was changed from just overtyping it to a 5 minute process of logging into a poorly written website to update - and you thought we were bad about it before! And they ask for feedback an entire ONCE a year, with no way of providing it before.

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