Albertsons Companies Reviews

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Like most grocery stores they do not shut down ever, so expect to work some holidays. It's rare but it does happen when the volume is slow, they will start to ask employees to work less to meet goals.

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• Lackluster and ineffective in-store management • Toxic company culture (abuse of employees is commonplace (mental and physical on occasion) and many perceived to different in some way are frequently targeted by management at many times bordering or crossing the line into title 6 discrimination) • Health Violations (This place was crawling with rats and was shut down by the Virginia department of health on multiple occasions during my 18 months employment there, not to mention food would be left to rot on cases and in carts in the back) and produce management refused to rotate produce out and insisted on selling it presumably to make their dept numbers/volume look better within the store. • No actual breaks for part timers • Lazy people everywhere • Theft

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I’ve been “training” to be the Assistant Front End Manager for nearly a year now and they haven’t even gotten me an interview, even though I currently have some of my shifts scheduled as front end manager. Not even assistant, but just the actual manager of the front end. I also do all of the hiring duties. Yet, I’m still getting paid the same amount of money as everyone else. Also, multiple coworkers had put in a sexual harassment complaint against one specific customer, but management did nothing about it. Also, one of the managers uses slurs daily, both the r-slur, as well as the n-word (hard R, and she is white). I feel like the company as a whole couldn’t care less about their employees. It makes it worse that this is a minimum wage job. I would be fine with a minimum wage, if it weren’t for all of the issues that came with working here. I definitely don’t recommend working at any of the Albertsons company stores, or at least not at Safeway. And, I’m not even going to go into detail about the deli department. Let’s just say that every new candidate that I hire for Deli, genuinely does not last a week.

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System was a mess on training

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Some departments have toxic leadership and awful communication

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Question about future of company since it's in the process of being sold to Kroger. If it's not sold to Kroger, it will likely be split up and sold to another company.

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-Policies for Drive Up&Go department were weird and contradictory, would ask employees to ignore what customer wants for the sake of good metrics. This resulted in customers yelling at us over the phone and in person for getting substitutions even though they didn’t want any, among other things corporate told us to do. -Pay was not worth the amount of work required at times, and salary was only increased by the amount of hours you work (for me, 600 hours before a 25 cent increase) - They tend to overwork their best workers, and don’t always officially promote people even when they start working at a higher paying position (resulting in people not getting properly paid for the work they do, this would happen to everyone including managers and supervisors) -Upper Management was not always great, often would forget important things and not properly deal with problems. -Hope you get along with your dept manager, because if you don’t your work life will be hell, they will take retribution against you if you do something they don’t like

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Difficult to hire pharmacy technicians due to challenging workload.

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Less pay than I would like considering living and rent expenses in the city

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General confusion as to who does what, poor pay and compensation packages, poor decision making