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      Safeway

      Part of Albertsons Companies

      Engaged Employer

      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

      Ratings by demographic groups

      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
      Nov 4, 2011

      Horrible

      Baker
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      under worked and over paid when working in the Portland Division.

      Cons

      transfered to Norcal and lost all seniority rate of pay and vacation, 2 yrs and now considered a new hire.

      3.0
      Aug 16, 2011

      Not enough pay for how many different positions I was holding.

      Courtesy clerk/bookkeeper/flora
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The managers are really understanding about you needing time off for exams and school. Also, the people you work with are very friendly and nice. Customers are on the whole respectful and friendly also. You can hold multiple positions in a short amount of time. I was promoted to Bookkeeper for Friday nights after about 2-3 months of being a courtesy clerk. You learn things like bookkeeping, balancing tills, floral arrangements, flower care, etc.

      Cons

      Even though I was "promoted", because I was a courtesy clerk, my pay didn't raise--still made a courtesy clerk's salary while doing other tasks. As a courtesy clerk, doing carts were terrible because you had to do it for an hour at a time. Also, the store manager then seemed very detached and uninvolved. Lastly, the hours were pretty bad for a college student...I would have a lot of 6-midnight shifts and holidays required a lot of running around and overtime.

      1.0
      Jul 18, 2011

      16 years of regularly thinking, "I've got to try something else."

      Assistant store manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      flexable schedule for college students. good pay if you make it to journeyman. work life balance for backstage employees is good.

      Cons

      only 15% of employees get 40 hrs. In many stores and in upper management, promotion is based on political games instead of skill. Only 20% of stores can reach bonus targets and even then sometimes the target is moved up with most of the year gone. Work life balance for in store management is non existant.

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