How to Get Your Pay Stub From Safeway

If you no longer work there

Safeway does not run a separate alumni system; it uses the Albertsons Companies employee record, and that record is tied to an active employee ID. Once payroll closes it the sign-in stops working, so assume self-service has gone rather than hunting for a login page that will let you back in. The route that does work runs through the store: go back to the one you worked at, ask for the store director or the people lead, and ask them to pass a payroll records request to division HR, which is where store-level employment records sit. Take your employee ID, store number, dates worked and the specific pay dates you need - a request naming exact dates is the one that gets actioned, and a request for "my old pay stubs" is the one that stalls in somebody's inbox. If you have already come off the schedule and the store is unhelpful, ask them for the division HR or employee service centre contact by name rather than accepting a dead end, then repeat the request in writing so there is a record of it. Ignore the old Safeway addresses still circulating online: direct2hr.safeway.com, ess.safeway.com and myaci.safeway.com have all been taken down and none of them will ever load. And treat the W-2 as a separate request - it reports a whole tax year, not a pay period, so it will not satisfy a landlord or lender who asked specifically for a stub.

Addresses that no longer work

• Direct2HR Safeway (direct2hr.safeway.com) — Removed, not redirected. The address no longer exists, so a browser reports that it cannot be found instead of forwarding you to myACI. Safeway's shopping site answers normally on the same check, and an address made up on the spot behaves exactly like this one - which is what marks it out as a deliberate retirement rather than an outage on Safeway's side or a fault on yours.
• Safeway ESS (ess.safeway.com) — Gone the same way: the old employee self-service address does not exist any more, and nothing was put in its place to forward you. It is still printed in plenty of third-party guides next to the Direct2HR address. Both were retired together, so a guide that still lists either one has not been rechecked since before the change - which is a reasonable signal about the rest of what it tells you.
• myaci.safeway.com — Not a real address, and there has never been a banner-specific one, however often it is guessed at or published. myACI is an Albertsons Companies system shared across Safeway, Vons, Albertsons and the rest, so the Safeway-flavoured spelling produces a site-not-found error every time.

Safeway's own employee addresses versus the parent's system

Safeway kept its brand but not its HR infrastructure. direct2hr.safeway.com, ess.safeway.com and myaci.safeway.com were all rechecked against public lookup services on 17 September 2026, and every one comes back as an address that does not exist, while Safeway's shopping site answers normally on the same checks. An address invented on the spot for the test behaves identically to the three, which rules out a lookup quirk: these were removed deliberately, not broken accidentally. Two Safeway employee addresses do still answer - myschedule.safeway.com and identity.safeway.com - but both sit behind a security filter that refused every request made here with an access-denied response. Neither page could be opened, so neither can be described: do not assume either one holds your pay history. Payroll statements belong to Albertsons Companies' myACI, shared across every banner.