Safeway reviews

3.1

40% would recommend to a friend

(10,564 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 10,564 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
Mar 27, 2014

Conservative Corporate Mentality

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Overall I enjoyed the job, the benefits were good and for the morst part the people are friendly. It's a very hierachial company and if you don't have a seat at the table with the people at the top you won't go far.

Cons

It was not a collaborative work environment. No one wanted to share ideas for fear that someone else would take the idea and run with it and call it there own.

3.0
Mar 19, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I liked my coworkers, stable employment, flexible schedule in my department.

Cons

While my coworkers where all good people the majority lacked work ethics and common sense. The pay scale is terrible for lower level employees so if you can't move up to a better position you are stuck making barely above min. wage.

2.0
Mar 18, 2014
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Experience Union (sometimes helpful) build strong relationships with the people you work with you will learn a lot about people

Cons

poor raises. you will have to put up with the most disrespectful people. its not always the customers that are unpleasant. your "union benefits" wont kick in for a while and when they do you wont always be covered. you have to pay a large union fee which increases with each promotion. once that fee is paid off you are still required to pay union dues which are taken out every third paycheck. if you should chose to leave Safeway, you are still being charged union dues, even if you no longer work for the company. for the work you do the payout is not worth it.

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