Safeway reviews

3.1

40% would recommend to a friend

(10,566 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 10,566 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
Jan 28, 2026

Work elsewhere

Recommend
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Pros

hired right away and close to home

Cons

incompetent management of department and store. horrible work schedule. Constantly adding and changing policies. horrible pay, worse benefits.

1.0
Jan 24, 2026

Don't expect much

Recommend
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Pros

You get paid on a weekly basis.

Cons

Since they are with a union, you are effectively getting paid minimum wage, sometimes less, depending on how many hours you work that week. Union dues are $30 a week, and you get paid weekly. The produce department is constantly under-staffed due to the company not seeing it as a department that Needs a lot of staff. So all of your coworkers are stretched thin and breaking their bodies to get things done. Do your stretches and eat enough calories, you WILL break your body with this job if you're not careful. Schedules are also variable, some weeks you're workign 30+ hours, some weeks you get 10 hours, and management (store management, as they don't let the produce department manager write their own schedule) wil say "well that's just how it is". I had to fight constantly for an ounce of predictability, and even then it only lasted maybe a month.

1.0
Jan 23, 2026

Safeway Stayaway

Recommend
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Pros

At least I am not living on the streets.

Cons

Management is terrible. Stay away.

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