Safeway reviews

3.1

41% would recommend to a friend

(10,553 total reviews)
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Susan Morris

26% approve of CEO

32% positive business outlook

Safeway has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 10,553 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
2.0
Apr 19, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great coworkers, room for job advancement, overtime offered, works with school schedules, medical benefits after passing probation, dental after 1 year and vision after 3 years, 1 week vacation at 1 yr, 2 at 3 years, 3 at 5 years so on.

Cons

Young management, management has terrible communication skills with employees and co-management, little-no training, quick turn around, desperate to hire employees with little experience, harder and higher expectations for good loyal hardworking professionals and low expectations & consequences for lazy workers, call in sick once on a busy day and they will remember it for the rest of your career, consistently hold hard workers to higher standards than everyone else. Union reps defends those who deserve consequences and don't study the handbook and know their stuff for the people who really need them. Mess with/mistreat veteran employees by trading schedules converting day shifts to graveyard in order to force early retirement. Would rather hire 3 young/green associates at a lower pay than pay the wages of a full time 20+ year associate who is grandfathered into the old contract.

2.0
Apr 16, 2017
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good Pay after two decades of work, Challenging Work, Good Location.

Cons

A change in management has ruined the place. Hours have been cut severely. Over hiring unqualified help hasn't helped.Probably no more chance for advancement for me.

2.0
Nov 18, 2016

Land of the Lazy

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

It is nearly impossible to get fired here, so if that's what you're looking for, then by all means...

Cons

This is a company full of lazy, low-skilled workers. Most of the IT Support is outsourced overseas, and the critical business systems are from the 80s. The company culture encourages skilled workers to leave the company out of frustration and encourages the lazy, low-skilled workers to stay and perform at minimum expectations without fear of termination.

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