Shaw's reviews

3.3

46% would recommend to a friend

(1,165 total reviews)
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Susan Morris

47% approve of CEO

33% positive business outlook

Shaw's has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 1,165 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Shaw's 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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1K reviews
2.0
Sep 23, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Working with people; potential for advancement; decent pay and benefits; flexible schedule (depending on position);

Cons

A bad time to be in, or go into salaried management. The company has been sold repeatedly over the past 10 years, each new owner stripping the company of any resources, and leaving it to die. Current leadership is demanding ridiculous standards with no labor resources, in essence leaving salaried management to need to work literally 24/7.

2.0
Sep 20, 2013
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

-Good benefit package, but took a long time to receive. -Great co-workers, got some of my best friends from this job. -The work by itself is easy, the workload they give you is not. -Sales have improved in the past year, but we still have stocking and staffing issues.

Cons

-I answer phones all day and cannot have water with me. -One person does carriages for their entire shift. Six hours in 100 degree heat or 20 degree cold is not cool. -You go to CUSTOMER SERVICE and wait in line for ten minutes because there is one clerk working. -I actually started refusing to come in early or stay late because nobody knows how to say thank you, never mind give out those coveted 5.00 cards -I laughed reading the reviews that said it was easy to get time off... ha! Not in my store. I requested to be out by four because I needed to be somewhere a considerable distance away and was told to bring a change of clothes to work because I was needed until five. -I was also told I couldn't have any more saturdays off... yet I closed every saturday night for a year straight, and there are numerous people in my store who aren't even available on saturday. Wasn't aware working in retail meant I had to give up seeing my family. -Price cuts... ha! The tags I put up that say "every day low price" have the same price on them as the previous tags. -One cashier working most weekdays until 10am. -Managers who refuse to go on register or help on the customer service window. The priority, I thought, was the customer, not making the schedule. -I never get a break. Asking for one is like pulling teeth. Sorry I inconvenienced you by wanting a bite to eat and to use the bathroom for 15 minutes. -Store policies enforced at random. I refuse a customer refund for management to come over and not only refund their clearly expired product, but give them a customer appeasement for their troubles. IF management comes over, most times I get a phone call and a curt "give them whatever they want".

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