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Toxic work environment - Retail Store Manager Albertsons Companies Employee Review

2.0
Oct 10, 2022
Recommend
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Pros

Good salary, pto time, ok benefits

Cons

Very long hours, expected to essentially “be on call” as a store director, a lot of favoritism, not every store and store manager are treated equally and fairly, threats are made about job status if certain goals aren’t met, open communication is not encouraged or fostered, upper management says they care about you and we are like family, however little to no care is given for our personal lives. Overall it is a very negative toxic work environment, they put as much pressure and stress on management as if we were in a more important field like doctors, we’re not we sell groceries. You deal with constant mistreatment by coworkers, and customers and very rarely does anyone come to the managers defense. In short the only thing good about this job is the salary.

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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
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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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