Safeway reviews

3.1

41% would recommend to a friend

(10,559 total reviews)
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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
Jun 19, 2013

Job satisfaction

Recommend
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Pros

Never are short of challenges, many opportunities to develop skills in training, creating processes, process improvements, team building. Teams welcome leaders who are fair.

Cons

Very difficult union environment, seniority trumps skill set, technical abilities need improved, more cohesive environment is needed

3.0
May 26, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Fun people to work with, not overly serious. I was able to get 40 hours a week because my manager was a cool guy, but it's not the norm for new hires.

Cons

Doing the work of 2 people due to shortage of hours. Unable to get a raise after almost a year of doing great. People consistently call out sick because they aren't paid enough to care.

1.0
May 1, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Some co-workers are nice, such as store managers and assistant managers, others, not so much.

Cons

The employees and the management are horrible, when I first started, nothing was taught to me, I was expected to know everything before even came in. Co-workers were very mean to me, whenever I wanted to ask them questions or needed their help, they gave me cold shoulders as if I was wasting their precious time. If you didn't ask them and did something wrong, they would yell at you, but the thing is, if you didn't tell me in advance, how am I supposed to know? I guess the root of the problem is that because of the high turnover rate, they knew that you are going to quit at some point of the future, so they have no intension of making friends with you or teaching you anything, any effort they spend on you now is going to be a waste.

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