Vantaggi
Safeway has a great benefits package. They also have a 401k and stock options if you choose to exercise them. Safeway is one of the best jobs to have during a recession, beacause everyone needs to eat, so it is recession proof. If you are a good reliable employee they can be very flexible. They are good about flexability in the work schedual for childcare issues doctors appointments or sickness and or an injury. There is a lot of potential for advancement in the company depending how many hours that you are willing to work in the middle of night or during the day or both.
Svantaggi
Too many different programs. Not enough hours in the store or hours in the day to accomplish tasks. Senior management has no idea what can ideally be accomplished in an 8 hour period with no overtime. Persons from outside the store that work for corporate that come into the stores and find something out of place and make phone calls, just to cause unneccesary problems. Department managers in the stores should be better compensated for the amount of work that needs to be completed each day, and for spending the whole day trying to tranlate Spanish into English. This can be very exhausting for only $1.00 more an hour. Department managers should be non-Union.