Safeway reviews

3.1

41% would recommend to a friend

(10,554 total reviews)
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Susan Morris

25% approve of CEO

31% positive business outlook

Safeway has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 10,554 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
Aug 7, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

I've worked foe Safeway for 30 years. The pay is decent and the benefits are quite good. My co-workers are great. I get plenty of vacation and getting certain days off is usually very easy.

Cons

Constantly barraged with soliciting charitable donations. This irritates many customers. Also, the company's new "customer service" policies are designed to force employees to drive sales rather than be courteous and helpful to the customers. Job recognition or positive feedback of any kind is non-existant. Rather, our jobs are threatened if we are not perfect on secret shopper reports.

1.0
Aug 2, 2010

Grocery industry

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

The large number of emoployees enables one to take time off if time requested is not on a holiday.

Cons

Extremely low wage. Extremely poor bath facilities and lack of cleanliness in employee free space and baths. Extremely low quality health benefits with high deductibles. Very small percentage of educated staff, which I am sure is related to the low salaries and poor benefits. Work all holidays. Work nights and weekends. Work until 12 midnight and have to be back at the store the next morning at 5am. Work 9 - 10 days in a row because of the way the work week ends/starts.

3.0
Aug 1, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Steady pay, union, relatively flexible hours

Cons

It's Safeway! The new secret shopper system.

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