Safeway Reviews

Pros

Compensation is good after you have been there a while. Benefits are very nice. Room to move up in certain departments.

Cons

Turnover is ridiculous. Goes to show you how much people enjoy working there. Every day is exactly the same, gets very tedious.

Advice to Senior Management

Don't just promote people because they have been at the company for a very long time. Promote competent individuals capable of performing their duty.

Pros

Pay is good if you make it to journey man food clerk and benefits are great.

Cons

Not much regard for personal life, your expected to work the hours they give you which fluctuate most of the time.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to your employees......you were once in their shoes too.

Pros

At some locations there is good compensation and getting laid off will never happen because the company appears extremely stable. People have to eat so like any utility business model, it is unlikely to evaporate.

Cons

Company focuses on customers over employees. Employees must be happy for guests to be happy. There is no incentive to keep employees motivated.

They are very corporate and make decisions that seem strange, wasteful, or poorly executed

Advice to Senior Management

Improving employee morale at some stores may increase worker productivity

Pros

Health benefits, hour long lunches, great people to work with, works (mostly) with school schedules, free food for the holidays

Cons

Management lacks communication skills, when you need help they're slow to provide or ignore/tell you no, write-ups about ridiculous things (purple shoe laces?! Management needs something better to do), they fire you even if you have no prior infractions over petty things...

Advice to Senior Management

Communicate with each other and your employees - don't tell someone to do something without telling other management what you're having them do. I'd had so many write ups because of this.

Pros

Hot to many pros. If your not about of the old contract then you'll never get any good benefits.so if you want to only work a minimum so you can't pay your bills then work for these guys

Cons

Its all about them!! Work for nothing. If you want to try to make the benefits they cut out off just before the twenty hour minimum.

Advice to Senior Management

Give more to get more

Pros

There are some nice co-workers

Cons

Low pay
Few hours
Clueless managers
Union dues

Advice to Senior Management

Need better pay and more hours to make a living.

Pros

Good benefits. Great safety training in most areas.

Cons

Low wages. They want more work, less people and less hours to do it in for the same wage. Despite managements saying that they care about our families, the bottom line is that my family comes second or maybe even third to their bottom line.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop micromanaging the departments and let the employees care for the customers instead of forcing them to jump through customer service hoops. It comes out sounding fake and insincere.
The leadership of Safeway does not seem to care about the store employees but are only out to make more money, Listen to what the employees who have been there for 10+ years are saying about how we can function better rather than coming up with new forms or gimmicks to get them to do their job. If the management had any clue how these departments function on a daily basis things might change a little. I know that morale would be higher if we thought we were being valued and taken seriously.

Pros

*My coworkers were nice to work with.

Cons

*Low pay. Pay raises are every 500 hours and when you are a part time employee, that is a looooong time.
*Management doesn't respect employees
*Guaranteed 24 hours, but that doesn't always happen.
*Benefits are not very good at all and very basic.
*Want a promotion? Kiss the boss' ass. No promotions based on ability.
*High turnover because nobody likes working for Safeway and will leave as soon as another job comes along.

Advice to Senior Management

Stop treating employees like crap and maybe you might have happy employees.

Pros

Pay, overtime options and physicality of it.

Cons

24 hours a day means skeleton crews sometimes

Advice to Senior Management

Yes its all good

Pros

Great benefits: full medical, full dental, full prescription, 10% off of Safeway brand products, paid vacations, and occasional free samples of new products.
Flexible scheduling: as long as you don't request holiday weeks, you can usually get days off you desire with valid reasoning.

Cons

Safeway's insistence on "diversity" is abused by some managers. If you are a white male trying to get promoted, good luck.
Safeway employees receive no hands-on training. They throw you in the job and expect you to figure it out. This works out fine for introductory level employees, since they can generally learn pretty quickly, but it leads to incompetent management, since managers receive the same sort of "figure it out" training. I've found that a lot of managers at Safeway have no idea what the right way to properly coach people to perform better is. Rather, they rely on indirect threats, intimidation, and setting unreachable standards to get employees to perform at a higher level.
This employers does not care about you, no matter how long you've dedicated to the company.
Safeway's service program is over bearing and over emphasized.
You will never hear about anything good you do, but only what else you can do better.
There is NO reward for hard work. Raises are all set and occur due to hours. No one will get a raise based on performance, unless promoted (which there is no reasonable system for either). It takes forever for pay to be respectable. You can not make a decent living on most jobs Safeway has to offer, until you've worked there at least 5 years.

Advice to Senior Management

Put more emphasis on employee well being. If the employees are happy, then the product will sell much better. The solution is not to bear down on the employees and scare them into performing at a higher level.