Thrifty Foods Careers and Employment

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Work wellbeing score is Average, 69 out of 100

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Below average

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Average

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Average

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Average

About the company

Founded
1977
Company size
Hidden by employer
Revenue
Hidden by employer
Industry
Catering & Food Service Contractors
Headquarters
Victoria, BC

Thrifty Foods is a chain of supermarkets located in British Columbia, Canada. It was founded by Alec Campbell and Ernie Skinner in 1977 when the first store was opened in Victoria's Fairfield neighbourhood. As of June 2014, the chain operates 27 stores on Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland. It is the largest supermarket chain on Vancouver Island. In 2007 it became a division of Sobeys Inc. which operates independently of the larger company.

Thrifty Foods, since 2004, has operated an on-lin...

Thrifty Foods, since 2004, has operated an on-line grocery service on Vancouver Island. The online ordering system extends into the Metro Vancouver area.

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Floral Clerk in Victoria, BC

on 21 November 2023

Fun for the most part but hard to advance

I didn’t have much floral experience before obtaining this job, but I was told I would learn everything as I go. For the most part that was true, but the department manager and the assistant manager had polar opposite ways of training and that made the job frustrating. The department manager had a gentle approach on how to help me retain the knowledge of how to treat each flower and the names of e...

Department Manager in Victoria, BC

on 29 November 2023

Poor Leadership from top down

A Sobeys joint with a different name. Person running the company has no clue about the business just follow what's being told from the higher up's from the East.TF lost its essence with this person at the helm.TF just became one expensive place to shop and nothing else.

Meat supervisor in Courtenay, BC

on 15 November 2023

Poor management

Really enjoyed my first two weeks, was hired a meat supervisor and was the only certified meat cutter there. After two weeks of people telling me I was killing it, the manager felt my skills were most needed standing around doing the service case. $24 an hour to stand around while less skilled cutters failed to fill the shelf. I quit through their online portal and gave my reason for leaving but ...

Cashier in Victoria, BC

on 25 October 2023

It's customer Service

It's a customer service job, where you stand for 4-8 hours a shift. Pay needs to vastly increase. You need to be able to sit down as a cashier. Customers can suck

Cashier in Port Moody, BC

on 25 October 2023

Fun workplace

Staff is demanding and not good with time off. They force you into bagging customers reusable bags that are filthy and smell absolutely disgusting.

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