Smart & Final Reviews

3.1

38% would recommend to a friend

(771 total reviews)
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David G. Hirz

36% approve of CEO

25% positive business outlook

Smart & Final has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 771 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Smart & Final employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail and wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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771 reviews
1.0
19 Oct 2022
Recommend
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Pros

You get a 10% employee discount on items in the store when buying them.

Cons

Pay is not good. You begin at minimum wage and get no raises ever unless you move into a management position. Schedule is often completely random. Can work closing one day and then morning or afternoon next day. The scheduling is done terribly. You will get scheduled a later shift and leave the store around 10PM and then have to be clocked back in at work at 6AM the next day for a opening shift. This should be illegal there needs to be laws passed against this. It is deeply wrong to do this to employees. There needs to be more time given to employees between shifts. Scheduling a closing and then opening shift back to back is wrong. Since this is retail and you're dealing with the public you will occasionally run into awful customers. Favoritism is a massive problem among management. People who are manager's favorites get much better treatment from management. Everyone understands that there is going to be people everyone will prefer working with, but as a manager you need to be professional and try to treat your staff as equally as possible. Stores are so understaffed that if one person in a department calls out the entire store falls apart. Staff the stores better so this kind of situation does not happen.

5.0
15 Dec 2022

good knowledge

Recommend
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Pros

good environment good team good culture

Cons

no cons to this company.

2.0
24 Aug 2022

Good

Recommend
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Pros

Good company happy and lively

Cons

No con found as of now

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