Safeway reviews

3.1

40% would recommend to a friend

(10,580 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 10,580 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 1, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

My experience has been great at Safeway. There is ample opportunity to move up at store level into management.

Cons

Skeleton crews, not having sufficient employees available and scrambling to cover all areas of the store has been an issue at particular stores.

1.0
Feb 28, 2014

Safeway

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Great people to work with and good supervisors/management within store locations.

Cons

The pay does not match responsibilities of positions within store locations. Cashier's make the same as baggers and in most cases as a cashier you may be doing both, everything from AR/AP functions and minimum wage. You can make more working at a clothing store within a mall than Safeway. Overall I liked working with the customers and my fellow employees, but the pay was horrible along with the hours. Some weeks I received less than 7 hours work at 7.80 and hr...good job for a teenager to buy maybe some McDonald's on payday and put $10 in savings, but you definitely can't afford much more than that over a week period.

3.0
Feb 26, 2014

employee treatment

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

union based, close latest at 9pm, weekends close 5pm, seniority.

Cons

limited hours, seniority, some staff are rude, unhelpful, old computer system.

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