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
1.0
Mar 12, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Co workers and most management very pleasant and hard working. Flexible scheduling was good. and store level communication was encouraged.

Cons

Lack of concern for employees and customers evident when Safeway closed the Dominicks stores in Chicago area. It was admitted the bottom line was the shareholders, with a very cold attitude toward everyone else.

2.0
Mar 10, 2014

Good co-workers, but they keep disappearing

Recommend
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Pros

Good work/life balance, decent starting pay. Co-workers are fun to work with. My manager does a great job of establishing expectations and providing an appropriate amount of work to do.

Cons

They don't seem to understand that shareholder value does not provide a lot of motivation to employees. They do not work to retain talented employees and working on projects or with groups is a never-ending rotation of new faces. People leave just as soon as they get up to speed. Health benefits are below standard. Frequent back office layoffs have created a general unease and a culture of uncertainty. Nobody knows if they'll have a job in a year. Are we next? The pending merger does not do anything to quell those feelings.

1.0
Mar 8, 2014

Terrible

Recommend
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Pros

Provide a decent professional wage

Cons

Worst place I have worked in my 33 year work history. They expect one person to do the job of three, never give time to complete tasks. Corporate is very arrogant.

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