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
4.0
Feb 11, 2019

Are you ready to run?

Recommend
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Pros

My coworkers are great. My store director is great. However I left a store that was the total opposite. We as leaders need to set the tone.

Cons

Of course hours. That's it. They gave me 12 hours to deep clean my whole dept. It would take 3X that the get it done.

1.0
Nov 8, 2018

Difficult place

Recommend
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Pros

Some of the employees were good People to work with.

Cons

Management integrity was not where it needed to be.

1.0
Aug 28, 2018
Recommend
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Pros

None actually come to mind at present. The stores are geared to operate with the least number of employees as possible, and with Albertsons calling the shots these days, the plan is to work the old-time higher paid employees into quitting or retiring, so they can be replaced with lower paid virtually untrained new people. They do offer discounts on products, and some stores in union areas have halfway decent benefits, but the future is much brighter somewhere else.

Cons

Erratic and unpredictable scheduling, understaffing is the model going forward, the parent company is not financially healthy, up to their eyeballs in debt, not well situated to fend off growing competition, and is just Albertsons in a cheap disguise. They make unreasonable demands on employees, manage by fear, coercion and intimidation, and from a corporate perspective, don't care a bit about their employees. Having worked there for many years, it is very sad to see what this company has become, and just how far they've fallen.

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