Safeway reviews

STAY AWAY, FAAAAAR AWAY! Things were good until Albertsons and Safeway merged under Cerebrus (Private Equity Firm.) The pharmacy budget keeps getting cut every quarter, regardless of how high our script count is. We are "rewarded" for higher script counts/more immunizations by getting our hours cut. Our techs, who have 15 years experience, were told they can't work 40 hours anymore. How are they supposed to pay the rent based off that? The three full-time techs quit. Then the manager quit. Then the second manager they hired quit (in two months). Then they hired a fresh pharmacist a few weeks after he got licensed to run the pharmacy. In the meantime, since wages for techs are so low, all the techs were replaced by fresh, inexperienced techs. You know what, there is so much to say here that has already been said. Check out the Pharmacy forum at Student Doctor Network. Everything people there say about working in retail pharmacy is true. Safeway used to be a better place to work than Rite Aid/Walgreens/CVS but that's not true anymore.

Typical retail environment. Overworked, underpaid for the amount of work. Corporate employees have very little knowledge of what goes on at the storefronts, yet dictate how you should work with minimal support. Store directors are hits and misses. Some understand trends and needs of business, most "old-school" directors only have bonuses on their minds and will try to achieve it at the expense of employees.