Safeway Reviews

Pros

The benefits through the union are the best reason to work at Safeway. The good employee's far outway the bad.

Cons

Management, both store level and up, is hit and miss. Some know what they're doing and others you can run circles around. Corporate has the stores operate in an ideal scenario rather then what the world is actually like. Everyone is overworked and unde rappreciated, yet expected to work with reduced hours.

Pros

If you need a job to kill time, or just to make extra money than it's perfect. Most of the employees are pretty nice.

Cons

They expect you to do so much more than what they pay. I've literally had to scrape the floor OUTSIDE of starbucks in a different department. Why couldn't that departments employees do it? I have other duties to do in my department that they expect done. The customers are the most stuck up people i've ever met. Every single day at work I have to deal with a customer who isn't happy with the bathrooms & when I can't fix it, I get sh*t for it. Ridiculous.

Advice to Senior Management

2 words: HIGHER PAY. Thats it. People wouldn't be so disgruntled if you actually listened to them and their reasons. I'm tired of being used.

Pros

Work-life balance, wellness programs, and nice co-workers.

Cons

A highly political, top-down culture. Open communication, courage and integrity are given lip-service by at least some in upper-management.

Advice to Senior Management

Guard against self-serving smile-up, kick-down leaders and a cover-your-rear culture. Promote true leadership and risk-taking.

Pros

health benefits after working a certain amount of time, flexible hours, new stores

Cons

crazy union dues (as a checker I pay $47 per month(

Advice to Senior Management

you all started out where your employees are now. Show a little appreciation and respect.

Pros

employee discount, comardorie, decent salary, work/life balance, flex work schedule, good training, good equipment to work with, easy access location

Cons

no bonus or salary increases in years. lack of top down communication on company concerns/issues, IT support is lousy, must wear shirt and tie at HQ

Pros

u get paid weekly and flexible schedule and u also get to have a union just incase theres an accident or theres something about safeway u dont like for example noot being fair with work hours

Cons

pushing carts and sometimes having to work late shifts and not being able to move up to be a cashier right away because u have to work at a different department for awhile

Advice to Senior Management

the leadership as safeway is awesome they are relly great

Pros

Great people, respected company, diverse workforce, community giveback, and the opportunity to learn and work in different parts of the company

Cons

Formal dress code and 8 to 5 environment, silo driven, reactive strategy, below par salary, uneven workload from one department to another, titles and salary are not evenly matching up to job responsibilities.

Advice to Senior Management

Stay open minded to gradually change the culture to reflect the social change of the 21st century workforce and also invest in future leaders, technologies, system to become the leader of the industry which will help attract investors, employees, and customers.

Pros

The management is very nice and flexible when it comes to school and work. They are black and white when it comes to rules and performance. There isn't a grey area to them, but they don't try and make you feel bad about any mistakes in stead, they let you know why it is important to do the things you do right the first time. I worked with some companies before where management can have their head up their asses,but the ones I am working with, have done time with the company and understand the daily stresses that come with life and will work with anyone that needs the help.

Cons

The pay is pretty low compared to some other companies. The hours can be a bit long, going to midnight shifts.

Pros

It's a good place to learn and potentially grow. Good for recent college grads.

Cons

Advancement opportuntities and taking risk

Advice to Senior Management

It would be good if people could think of new ideas

Pros

They would hire you on the spot. I got hired at a job fair they had in the store and then I was coming in to work as a courtesy clerk for a while when I was in Art School but they wanted to hire me into Floral instead where I had no experience whatsoever in that field.

Cons

When I got that position I did not receive any training and had no clue about the plants. They lied after working a week in Floral and said they were cutting hours in Floral and put me on the front end for a week for 17 hours all shifts until midnight. Next thing I knew I checked the schedule and I was not on there and had to come in and talk to the manager myself and they said I didn't make the grade in Floral so they had to let me go. It was because I had no knowledge about plants in order to help the customers. They said they could offer me a position in the front end but I never heard back , filed for unemployment and had to start my job search again. It was enough to shake me up since I was never fired from a job prior to that.

Advice to Senior Management

Don't hire people in the first place if they have none or lack of experience in that particular department or hire within. Communicate with the associates about why they are taken off the schedule rather than leaving them in the dark.