Safeway reviews

3.1

41% would recommend to a friend

(10,549 total reviews)
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Susan Morris

26% approve of CEO

32% positive business outlook

Safeway has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 10,549 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
4.0
Feb 1, 2011
Recommend
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Pros

There is alot of support from management at Safeway. It is a clean environment and the benefits are good. There is also good advancement opportunity.

Cons

The work hours aren't great, including having to work weekends. The pay for lower employees also isn't great, it could be alot better.

3.0
Jan 23, 2011

It was okay.

Recommend
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Pros

Meeting new people and learning something knew. Learning things is one of the reasons I wanted to work at Safeway. It helped my work experience.

Cons

They're always changing the store around and made it confusing for customers and myself. They also need to hire better managers. My manager didn't really care about the employees.

2.0
Dec 9, 2010
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

-Part time hours -Working overtime considered a grievous offense for hourly workers -No problems scheduling around another job/school -Switching shifts with coworkers usually easy -Requested days off usually honored -Usually able to pick up extra shifts from coworkers or other stores -Most coworkers helpful and enjoyable to work with

Cons

-Starting pay is minimum wage with a $0.05 raise after 500 hours -New hire training consists of days of boring lessons on a computer, with very little actual training -Constant under scheduling forcing you to neglect your own work to stand at a cash register -Frequent calls on days off to come in -Ridiculous script to follow with customers now rivals some used car dealers -Company hires "spies" to nitpick your performance

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