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      Safeway

      Part of Albertsons Companies

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      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

      Ratings by category

      3.5

      Diversity & inclusion

      2.8

      Culture & values

      2.8

      Work/Life balance

      2.8

      Compensation and benefits

      2.8

      Career opportunities

      2.6

      Senior management

      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
      Jul 12, 2010

      Not the job it once was

      Food clerk
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Decent benefits but it depends on how you look at it. You can work with great people which can make the job fun, but again it depends on the store. And if you know the customers personally some of them are amazing and you look forward to hopefully helping them out again. You can start to build a repertoire with customers as well.

      Cons

      Management has really gone down hill at Safeway, seniority means nothing to them as it did before. Favoritism plays a major role in what jobs you and the amount of hours you work. The benefits they now offer are horrible! I cant even find a doctor that will take my insurance. And the Union cant help you with much when you ask them to. I've had managers that some employees were praying to be kicked out and people were transferring or trying to because the management was so poor

      4.0
      Jun 28, 2010

      Safeway Courtesy Clerk

      Courtesy clerk
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      *Training can be applied to future jobs *Benefits and health care package very good *Management respected employees *Fellow employees fantastic

      Cons

      *Too many duties placed on courtesy clerks (It even upset cashiers to see my list of daily duties for opening/closing courtesy!) *Some snooty customers (but that was due to the area of downtown the store is located in *Lack of hours

      3.0
      Jun 24, 2010

      waiting for other companies to start hiring

      It person
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The job pays pretty well. I work with intelligent people.

      Cons

      Incredible micro-management. This week, you must drop everything and work on ProjectA. Next week, you must drop everything and work on ProjectB. Every 2 years there is a reorg, although it has a different name every year (transformation, etc.) and we lose more worker-bees than bosses. Everyone is afraid of speaking their mind unless they agree with whatever is spewing forth from the VPs mouth because those people are the ones that are "dismissed" during the next reorg. The management people that make the decisions seem to be very few in number and each time there is a reorg, nothing changes at their level. The few technical people that are still left seem to just "do what they are told" and seem to be waiting for the recession to ease.

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