Safeway reviews

3.1

41% would recommend to a friend

(10,559 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 10,559 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
Jul 13, 2016

Going way downhill

Recommend
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Pros

The benefits are incredible. Best I've found available anywhere. Literally the main reason I stayed as long as I did.

Cons

The company went from caring about customers and employees a little bit, to not at all.

1.0
Jun 1, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Good place to start if you are an entry level employee...but only just barely. You start as courtesy clerk and even other courtesy clerks can boss a new hire.

Cons

Claims to be inclusive but can punish high functioning autistics just for being autistic High turnover rate for courtesy clerks. You can burn out easily. Can be hostile if you're disabled. Was told to clean women's room, but was always taught not to go into women's room or you're a pervert/sex offender. Autistic black and white worldview caused me to freeze up when unable to reconcile instructions and I was punished for it. In particular I was told to clean "all black plastic in the store." Since it was also made of black plastic, this included cleaning the baseboard on my hands and knees. I would wind up taking three to four hours to do the perimeter only to have to do it again shortly after.

3.0
Jan 26, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

There is a really great focus on work life balance, really great people,

Cons

Lack of direction at time, still waiting for things to settle after the merger, lots of politics, lack of full PMO support and process

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