Safeway reviews

Often feeling pressure from devision heads

- Still very formal and conservative retail culture (even the dress code) - Top down management style (Courage is one of the competencies that is encouraged in the individual development program book. However, it is known to backfire in reality) - Many red tapes and approval needed to get things done - Many meetings, process, procedures and reports that can be streamlined and consolidated to save company's resources and employees' time - Reactive environment rather than proactive/creative - Silo driven (getting a little better than before) - Uneven workload and salary (some functions/departments in the companies seem to have much shorter days than others) - Many unhappy and burned out employees - Starting to lose hardworking, core and experienced employees - Many newly promoted managers lack experience but the company doesn't seem to have a choice because slowly the experienced ones find better jobs externally - Benefits is getting worse each year for the last few years (you and/or your family will have to pay more for medical vs before) - Pension was decreased to half what it used to be a few years back - No 401K matching - Very political (yes I know big companies are like that but this one is exceptional)