Blood suckers, cash flow suckers, they will continue to drain money and destroy our company. Safeway will never be the same.

Robert Edwards simply could not run anything, especially a large company. Rob's intent from day one was to quickly sell Safeway and pocket tens of millions of dollars. He quickly let go all people who were loyal to the brand, who worked here for... — read more 

Things are crazy ever since January 2014, it looks like it'll get much worse

Cerberus is pushing for some spinning off - just like we did with Blackhawk Network Holdings and Empire Co. in Canada. Heads will roll

I work in our IT group and I wanted to vent a little bit. The work situation is deteriorating, many folks do not have reasonable project deadline and do not feel appreciated.

Do you know when the layoffs will start. Safeway usually downsizes early in the year, so I'd expect Feb or March of 2014 to be the month.

I still hear things about Safeway corporate and some layoffs that are being planned - I know that we are looking at our IT group and marketing. Nothing firm to confirm but things are being planned...

Anyone aware about major cut plans at Safeway corporate?

get ready, 2014 will be a horrible year

Does anyone have an idea about how people we let go every day, week or month. I think that we lay of thousands of people every year (2014 will be an interesting one) but you cannot find any information about it. I searched for Safeway Layoffs and I... — read more 

I'd appreciate any help.

2013 was a bad year - 2014 will be even worse. safeway is a total failure. steve burd runs things in a way that will destroy the company, safeway will be acquired. whomever does buy the company will turn things around quite a bit and make it so much... — read more 

This is nothing for Safeway, it’s a blip, we close stores all the time, and open stores all the time, we buy companies, we sell companies, we shut them down, we build and destroy at the same time. I also agree that selling Dominic’s would be a better... — read more 

this is going to be more than 6k dominicks workers, it is affecting thousands of suppliers, local little guys, mom and pop stores and small factories. many hoods will lose access to fresh foods. safeway is evil, they should have sold dominicks to... — read more 

Dominick has ~60 stores with 6000 employees in Illinois - Safeway has decided to close the stores, so 6000 jobs lost. You go Safeway, way to run business.

2009 was a bad year, not sure how things will develop in 2014, but we had MANY MANY layoffs in 2014

There were over 1000 people let go in 2008. I left in 2010, are you guys still laying off people at Safeway?