What you expect from a retail job. - Retail Sales Clerk Safeway Employee Review

3.0
Apr 14, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Safeway is exactly what you expect from a retail job. You deal with customers, listen to what they want even if it's unreasonable, and get through the day trying not to get in trouble. It wasn't bad, it wasn't great.

Cons

The worst part about it was that they tried to gimp me on my hours since I had a limit of 24 hours, but they constantly tried to schedule me for 40. I ran an entire starbucks kiosk with a team of three, and they expected to keep it up fifteen hours a day. I'm not quite sure what was stopping them from just hiring more but the fact that it went on for several months led to me quitting.

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5.0
May 11, 2026
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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
Jul 5, 2026
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Pros

Nothing at all, only work at Safeway if you're about to be literally homeless

Cons

Genuinely hellish work environment. Management is lazy and absent, customers are the most disrespectful and clueless I have ever encountered. Complete unrealistic labor allocation and expectations. As a PIC, I have to run 9 SCO robots, unlock cases for customers, perform transactions at Customer Service, and answer external phone calls. Customers rightly get frustrated at the complete lack of care by corporate, and take it out on employees.

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