Safeway reviews

3.1

40% would recommend to a friend

(10,559 total reviews)
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Susan Morris

23% approve of CEO

31% positive business outlook

Safeway has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 10,559 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Safeway employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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11K reviews
3.0
Jul 11, 2025
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good entry level job for beginners

Cons

Retail is a bit overwhelming depending on management and store operations

5.0
Jul 10, 2025

Good First Job

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Union Job, Job Security, Opportunities for advancement

Cons

It's retail, the job is hard for the pay

2.0
Jul 9, 2025

Over it after 3 years

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

*awesome coworkers *great regular customers

Cons

*scheduling is awful. Regularly have all closing shifts one week. Then all opening shifts the next. Sometimes have both opening and closing shifts in the same week alternating. How am I supposed to sleep. * they will constantly not move employees over to more desireable departments, and instead hire new people into them who just quit or get fired anyways, despite long time employees begging to be moved from front end. * oh you were invited to an event? Should of thought of that 2 weeks ago before you even get your schedule because good luck getting it off now. * your schedule will be different every single week unless you are in management. *as a PIC you are expected to make everything work with an actual skeleton crew and if its not done you will hear about it every time. * you're forced to solicit every single customer for donations during certain campaigns multiple times per year. And you have to meet the minimum amount or you have to sit in a conference call with corporate like detention if you're PIC or higher. *our store let's customers get the digital deals without the app, so you have to hold up the line and do all the math manually

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