Safeway reviews

3.1

40% would recommend to a friend

(10,565 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 10,565 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
1.0
Aug 18, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Health benefits, hour long lunches, great people to work with, works (mostly) with school schedules, free food for the holidays

Cons

Management lacks communication skills, when you need help they're slow to provide or ignore/tell you no, write-ups about ridiculous things (purple shoe laces?! Management needs something better to do), they fire you even if you have no prior infractions over petty things...

2.0
Jul 7, 2011
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The pay and benefits are very competitive in the bakery. The corporation provides excellent training materials with very detailed pictures and instructions of the products to be produced.

Cons

Employees in the bakery don't receive enough thorough training. The morale is very low due to the excessive workload for the number of hours given.

2.0
Apr 25, 2011

Starting to be Disillusioned

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Stable company Free gym for employees and their spouses You don't need to work long hours (the parking lot is practically empty by 5:30pm every night) You don't necessarily have to have a degree to be promoted 10% discount on Safeway branded items

Cons

There are more out-of-pocket costs for medical benefits every year Salaries are not competitive Lack of communication from senior management Lack of career pathing in most departments A lot of nepotism Very hierarchical Very conservative company Dress code - shirt & tie for men Mon-Thus and you can't wear jeans any day of the week

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