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Albertsons Companies

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Barista - Ex-employee Albertsons Companies Employee Review

1.0
27 Sept 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

I can switch or take over a co-worker's shift, under approval of management.

Cons

Due to the lack of baristas, sometimes I had to work while being sick! When I catch a cold during my shift, I was not allowed to go home. Do you really want a sick person making your customer's drinks? I had to share tips with my co-workers, but the city's customer's do not know how to tip, so my weekly tips were less than $10! (You know which city) Sometimes I have to operate the whole kiosk by myself during rush hours. I was not allowed to leave the kiosk, take a break, get items from the backroom unless there was another barista. Lack of care and communication from management. I felt they did not care about their employees, expecting one person to close by themselves within a certain amount of time is extremely unfair. When you close by yourself, there are numerous of tasks, including cleaning ALL of the equipment, restocking inventory, dumping specific ingredients, throwing away all the trash, and proper storage of items. I never received my employee discount!!! I was told I would get an employee store card during orientation, but it never arrived. So, I spoke to my manager, but he claimed I should call the company line, which is useless too. Apparently, I can use the store app and log in my employee registration info, but it does not recognize my phone number. Odd since they call me when they need another barista for a shift. Hardly any company culture established.

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5.0
30 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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
17 Mar 2026
Recommend
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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