Safeway reviews

3.1

40% would recommend to a friend

(10,559 total reviews)
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Susan Morris

23% 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
Sep 29, 2021

No Help

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Pros

Pay is good and not as busy compare to other retails

Cons

No help.. most of the time the pharmacist works alone without a technician, even if it wasn't that busy it can get pretty crazy when you're just by yourself, and no time to use the restroom. Poor management.

1.0
Jul 13, 2021

Ridiculous

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Pros

Night shift position ... uh

Cons

They had expected me to run an entire bakery by myself after 3 days of training and yes that including making all the bread, frying donuts, making bagels, prepping everything for the day shift crew and that includes making everything fresh and putting it all out for the day which involves a bunch of paper work having to even mark down how many I throw away fo what things specifically, using walk in proof machines, dishes, sorting through the huge walk in freezers that were horribly organized and unlabeled open boxes and little containers of unlabeled cheeses like its some huge guessing game like whhaatttt, YALL theres is SOOO MUCH that entails and the guy who was trying train me had clearly never trained anyone before me he could not explain to me how things were done he just did them infront of me saying nothing and expected me to remember without any communication I just never showed up on the 4th day because I knew I couldn't do it all myself when he was going to be gone for the next week......

2.0
Jul 9, 2021

Safeway needs better culture

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Pros

Working for company operated Starbucks is way better for several reasons including culture and benefits.

Cons

Poor culture. The leadership above Store Directors consistently disrespect employees in more ways than one. You demonstrate you don’t care. The only surveys you have do, do not have open ended responses so we can actually give an answer, you just give us multiple choice answers based on what you want to hear. You don’t invest in your employees. You have terrible fringe benefits… products are over priced and you only give us a 5% discount for national brands. (Seriously?), you don’t pay your staff enough or guarantee them enough hours to pay their bills and shop in your stores. (How many employees have I checked out, that are dependent on food stamps?) You’re not willing to negotiate wages, even with people overqualified for some of those roles. You actually have the audacity to require people to consistently live with split days off!

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Safeway Response
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Thank you so much for sharing your feedback. I will share this with my team. My email address is kelly.brown@albertsons.com if you would like to connect and chat more about what you think can be improved. Have a wonderful day!
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