Shaw's Reviews

Pros

above average pay. If your union than benefits compensation and general outlook allows one to rise from the ashes of the dismal managment style and continue working there.

Cons

managment usually finds a way to pound you in to the ground. As the years goes on it gets worse. the good ole' days are gone.

Advice to Senior Management

As crashing your car on a daily basis is no way drive to work, so sloppy managment is no way to drive sales, run a buisiness or to bring in customers. I was glad to get out of the company while I did before it goes supernova!

Pros

Easy work
Pay is satisfactory
People are generally friendly to work with
It's pretty easy to get time off if you have a good reason

Cons

Senior management has little competence
Work gets slow/hours get cut in the slow season (Jan.-April)
Lay-offs have become frequent in the last few years

Advice to Senior Management

The store needs to lower prices across the board, before it becomes the next Stop and Shop and closes down too many stores.

Pros

Shaw's was my first retail job and I hated it at the time, but I've since held other similar positions and this was by far the best.

-Management is realistic and usually helpful
-Training is satisfactory
-The pay is quite good for retail- I was making $9.50 ($12/hr on Sundays and holidays) from the start
-Advancement opportunities are pretty decent if you want to move up in the company (which I didn't)
-Good recognition of hard work
-Acceptable benefits
-Reasonable hours and pretty good flexibility for time off and schedule change requests

Cons

Well... it's retail. Rude customers and mindless, repetitive tasks come with the territory. It's not a fun job, but it's really not bad for its type.

Advice to Senior Management

I think the management is doing a pretty good job. Micromanaging is not excessive, and I feel that Shaw's has a passable support system within the company.

Pros

union
long breaks
laid back yet legit atmospere
comfortable working environment
I had worked at another grovery store immediately beforehand (Market Basket) and Shaw's was a cut head and shoulders above.

Cons

grocery store
working registers during extremely busy situations
always hungry
Not too many, although it seemed that to move to a different department one would have to ask management about the possibility of doing so, rather than have management tell an employee about potential openings of opportunities.

Advice to Senior Management

Provide better insight towards potential department moves. Honestly, I was very satisfied working here, even as just a cashier. This was during my junior year of high school. Great gig.

Pros

You can get decent benifits from the union, such as health insurance, dental, and vacation time. You also can get a discount on own brand products.

Cons

The pay level is unfair, people with a couple of years make nearly as much as the employees ten plus years with the company. Employees are also not aloud to talk with each other. The manager of this store is a bafoon with a Napolean Complex. The managment never takes any ideas from their employees. It is my belief that the company is purposly trying to go under, I can't figure out why, but it seems that way. For example despite more competition and a bad economy they keep raising their prices. No one wants to work hard their because the way the manager treats everyone.

Advice to Senior Management

Respect your emplyees, use some of their ideas, they have a higher IQ than you, most of them are college students, and management is a bunch of people who went nowhere in life.

Pros

Great Benefits, including insurance and pay. Great people inside the store. Mostly understanding management personel who would work with you when needed.

Cons

Company layed off and demoted a number of people a year before I left, and that left a bitter taste in my mouth. Instead of doing layoffs based on performance, they were done based on who was with the company by store. It should have been either by senority by market area or performance based layoffs. Doing it the way they did really lowered morale throughout the company.

Advice to Senior Management

The damage was done in March 2010. The only thing I would say is to learn from the debockle and move forward positively.

Pros

great people (non management) who work there
made some good friendships

Cons

ok where to start..
i spent 6 years as a grocery clerk there and was un satisfied
managers micor manage and treat you like your an idiot
pay is horrible.. i was full time and got paid just enough to get by..
raises stopped after 2 years of working there
managers only care about themselves and making their selves look good
mangers and upper management favor females more than males
i should have one associate of the year but was beat out by a woman who did NOTHING all day and sat on the computer.. .. and the company allowed that
too many lazy people

Advice to Senior Management

treat your employees as equals
re train people
provide better pay and your associates will be more satisfied
make sure your department managers are working and not taking the easy road

Pros

flexibility
great co workers
 not stuck in an office all day

Cons

nobody cares
negative atmosphere
all associates are unhappy

Advice to Senior Management

lower prices and offer better customer service

Pros

Less tight deadlines and pressure.
Great co-workers.
Laid back working environment.
Flexible work environment.
Easy commute if you live in South Shore.

Cons

Pay range is lower compared to others.
Opportunities of advancement are less.
I don't think there are lot of other cons to work at Shaw's

Advice to Senior Management

Provide more opportunities for current employees.
Increase pay range to attract better talent.
Overall you are doing a great job.

Pros

Start off with decent pay
25 cent raise every year
co-workers can be nice
depending on the location of the store, it can be very convenient

Cons

the hours
the management
can be VERY judgmental
holidays/hurricanes/snow storms are always busy
they want everything to be perfect
lack of communication

Advice to Senior Management

You expect too much from one person, and if you don't have anyone else to cover a shift, hire more people instead of scrambling around