Safeway reviews

3.1

40% would recommend to a friend

(10,563 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 10,563 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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2.0
Jun 12, 2008
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Pros

You are unwilling or unable to think for yourself and prefer when someone else does your thinking for you. Kudos to Safeway for it's Diversity Initiative. Now they have a multi-gender, multi-cultural group of clones in local store management. Paint the puppets any color you wish, they're still puppets.

Cons

Arrogance of upper management towards new thoughts or ideas. The shareholder is king, the customer is an afterthought.

1.0
Jun 12, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

The health benifits are good.

Cons

There are no good reason I could think of to work at Safeway Corporate in Pleasanton, CA. The top management such as the "Senior VP" of a certain division, has no respect for his female employees, you have to get his coffee every morning and put it on his desk along with his morning paper. I have seen him with his shoes off and feet on his desk drinking coffee and reading the paper! If you don't respect him, your out of a job or HR is called in to remote your reputation as an employee. Is this the kind of Management we want in our working environment who make 6 figures a year! I would not recommend working for Safeway Corp. in Pleasanton, CA.

1.0
Jun 12, 2008
Recommend
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Pros

the health benefits are comprehensive. when a store is well run it isn't a bad to place but too often having to deal with the clutter that comes from on high only interferes with getting the job done.

Cons

management pay is horrible at the assistant level. Food clerks average more an hour than an assistant. Employees who work in the depts. make far less than journeymen food clerks. There is only so much work one person can complete but more and more work is added including useless paperwork that must be checked and rechecked and meanwhile hours are cut week after week.

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