Raley's Reviews in Sacramento, CA Area

Pros

Fast- paced job. Always busy. Decent Benefits. Opportunity to move up.

Cons

Depending on location hours can be limited. High turnover. Random schedule.

Pros

Nice people to work with and the work itself is not difficult or challenging (if that is important to you).

Cons

Not as family oriented as I would have preferred. Work was not challenging (which was important to me.)

Advice to Senior Management

Continue to make business decisions based on economic factors.

Pros

Labor contract , good and very fine products, and also very good attitude of employees toward the customer. Good prices for the household and always there for the customer ! Prices of goods are way within the compettive edge of other supermarkets. A fair and balanced approach to consumer needs.The wages at present and medical benifits are quite good . To preserve a good Quality brand name and in the interest of all the employees, they must sustain the good living wage that they have always provided their loyal employees.

Cons

The company is a retail establishment, in which the daily hours of operation, are quite varied . The employee must work many differrent , work shifts , diferrent days off ........every week.Diferrent hours on a weekly basis , never the same as the week before ! They have quite a lattitude in making work schedules which only favors the Supermarket. If they could only , consider the needs of certain people , (the woman with children, senoir clerks (old age hurts ) and the young & robust youths, who will be our new generation in the trenches of the labor movement.

Advice to Senior Management

To Suceed you must listen to the lowest level of your of your organized employees as they see no reason to lie or fabricate lies They will only be able to see what is going on in front of their eyes. Also if you would , only take the time to "Really" talk to your many , many ............Employees, they would do for you what !!!! .................You ..........will not ever do what the person in the front lines, do for you and the company........... And that is Satisfy .................. the customer ! Ha !...as you are not there , for every transaction $$$$$$$$$$$ and therefore ...........you are the people in upper Mangement who always .....................Go to ...............hey our labor cost are to high $
B.S. !!! To do for the Company you all must share in the financial and human aspect of your benificial benifit. To put it in a nutshell............as i"m sure you have heard this Before .................... But you do not see what is happpening , in our new "world" People are now ready to say what is on thier minds. ]
                                                  take care of your empolyees

Pros

Great pay and benefits and they treat you well.

Cons

walmart might run them out buisness soon. I don't know if they will be around much longer.

Advice to Senior Management

I don't know what I would if I was Mike Teel. The man that created Raley's is dead and he has some big shoes to fill. In order to survive in the new age of grocery he will need to be creative, cutting employee wages will only help his bank account a little bit for a little while so I hope he fills Tom Raley's shoes better than that.

Pros

Great people in stores and in the main office. The stores are best in their markets for product quality and selection.

Cons

Salary slippage is a big concern for management employees. Hourly have continued to see wage advanced.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep your focus sharp and drive hard for the results you need to see from business units.

Pros

- Great co-workers
- Easy work
- Decent benefits
- Easy to get time off

Cons

- Horrible communication
- No pay increase in almost 4 years
- No encouragement to advance -- if you're good at a job they want to keep you there
- Pay is not based on how hard you work or how good you are at your job

Advice to Senior Management

Work harder to retain your best employees. If you're telling them that you know their pay is unfair, but not doing anything to remedy the issue, they will walk out the door

Pros

It has become just a job

Cons

IF your in IT then currently your career is limited, company is heading down the path of outsourcing IT. Raley's e-mail platform is getting migrated to Google Mail, they are outsourcing hardware support to texas. They are aiming to be innovative, however they refuse to implement innovative ideas. They are technologically decades behind, no central pharmacy, no mail order pharmacy, no descent online ordering applicications. IT management has made outsourcing appealing by only buying top of line hardware, and over building it's infrastructure, but they never get around to applying the finishing layers.

Advice to Senior Management

Hurry up and close the doors.

Pros

Good benefits
Work around school schedule

Cons

Low pay
not enough hours

Advice to Senior Management

More hours are needed to be able to live

Pros

If you're a student, they will usually work around your schedule. You are usually given the days off that you request. Great way to make new friends with customers.

Cons

There are cliques. If management "likes" you, you will be treated great. If they don't, be prepared to work terrible shifts and less hours.
New work schedules come out only 3 days before the new week starts. Makes it very hard to plan anything.
Pay scale is terrible. Must work 1040 hours before a raise and it's usually less than 50 cents at a time.

Advice to Senior Management

Treat hard working employees like you treat your "favorites."

Pros

Good pay, clean enviornment, most employees were very friendly and for the most part management made you feel proud of the work that you did. During periods of company growth there were plenty of opportunities for advancement.

Cons

Unfortunately, lately the company doesn't seem to be in a period of growth. Rather they seem to be contracting. So there is little room fro advancement.

Advice to Senior Management

Ride out this current recession and be careful not to make any drastic changes that will have long-term negetive effects once the economy recovers.