Safeway reviews

3.1

40% would recommend to a friend

(10,571 total reviews)
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22% approve of CEO

31% positive business outlook

Safeway has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 10,571 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
Oct 27, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

Easy work, good pay, nice environment, constant raises, lots of team work, scheduling made easy, discount on groceries, meeting new people everyday.

Cons

Union dues, power trip managers, great managers leaving and awful manager replacing them, weird uniforms, strict rules, angry customers, dealing with dripping meat.

2.0
Oct 26, 2010

The pay is the only thing that was decent.

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Pay rate is decent, they will work around your school schedule.

Cons

Mindless work, no rewards for doing well, favortism, co workers are unhappy with themselves and bring it too work. Doing a bad job is the only way to get out of doing something you don't like

3.0
Oct 26, 2010

Very political

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The majorty of people that work at Safeway are hard working bright individuals and the people is the stores and the office are mostly awesome Good place if you are in retail management

Cons

Outdated technology Way too political and too much cronyism - but with the right sponsor you can go far in your career here Executive Management does not value diversity of thought Very old school regarding dress code

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