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Albertsons Companies

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grocery peon - Courtesy Clerk/Bagger Albertsons Companies Employee Review

1.0
Aug 19, 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

There are no pro's to this company. They went bankrupt before and a private investment firm saved them from completely disappearing. Now, the investment firm is trying to unload....... Not a great idea working for a sinking ship.

Cons

they like to threaten you and work you until you either quit or go on disability. Corporate is the worse. If you go to the union, they will do everything they can to fire you. Prepare to work in constant fear that someone is going to try and fire you. If you want to move up the corporate ladder its pretty easy, get everyone else around you fired first. If you complain, you will be fired. DIstrict managers advise the store managers to cook their books to make their stores look more profitable, so the investment firm can try to unload this chain. Store manager's will do it because they fear losing their jobs, which is ironic b/c after Hagens fiasco, Albertson's will lay them off anyways. They won't be around in 10 years. Don't work for this company. They are the worst of the worst in grocery chains. They do some illegal, shady and unethical things to the very same people who work for them. Also, they will hire you and you think you will be full time, but you will find out later that they will change your time punches to 39.5, so you can't collect fulltime benefits. The kicker is you wont find out until you are sick or need to see a doctor, because you don't qualify. Management is hired based on who you know, not what you know. So expect a lot of people delegating and no one really working or have any problem solving skills whatsoever.

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5.0
May 30, 2026
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Pros

Good discounts, a free item every week through the app, hardship fund if approved, option for stocks

Cons

Not enough hours/pay to pay bills, odd hours makes it almost impossible to work a 2nd job

2.0
Mar 17, 2026
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CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

good pay rate, associate discount on groceries, mostly good techs

Cons

Zero work life balance, unless you live to work. "Training" screams of "I don't care". They brag about how GREAT their pharmacist training is, but that was 20 years ago, today their 4 week great training has been shoved into ONE week of on-the-job training with zero follow up or concern that you can't possibly learn all you need in that time, then they shove you out the door. Training during a cyberattack that has nothing working? That's fine, you don't get any extra time despite the fact that you can't learn on a non-working system. Management BS is deep, such as "we want our employees to know why decisions are made" then no way to ask and none of the low level managers has any freaking clue as to why changing an address in the database was changed from just overtyping it to a 5 minute process of logging into a poorly written website to update - and you thought we were bad about it before! And they ask for feedback an entire ONCE a year, with no way of providing it before.

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