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
2.0
Mar 24, 2013
Recommend
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Pros

It looks better on a resume than fast food. Not much else.

Cons

Poor management, highly disorganized scheduling and uneven workloads; supposedly union yet it makes no difference; many rude, self entitling customers to pacify. For $7.60 an hour, I ring up purchases, load them in carts, listen to peoples problems, have intense anger directed at me, have sick people cough at me, deal with coupons, hawk whatever corporate promotions are going on, not have a schedule ready until the day it starts, having said schedule changed mid-shift and not being told about it, being told to smile when an inspector or secret shopper may be in the store. It's not as bad as my last job, though. I've worked long hours without breaks, and all my supervisor said was "I haven't had a break, either." Well, he got paid much more to not take his break. When I have to wait 4 hours to get some water or eat something or pee, it's going to make doing my already stressed job that much harder.

3.0
Mar 21, 2013

Poor Management

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Awesome employees and products, I loved the enviroment with the employees. Everyone has a friendly face and are accepting of the downfalls we may have

Cons

The employees and the management are horrible, when I first started, nothing was taught to me, I was expected to know everything and got fired over something I was never told.

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