me? I like my supermarket to have a Charcuterie
But, nonetheless, needs must, and I have had occasion twice recently to call in at the big Tesco's on my route to work. To say that it's not helped my impression is an understatement.
Last week, a member of staff putting some chewing gum on the shelf was unable to tell me if they sold Wrigley's Extra (which I presumed they did) and if so, where I'd find it. Then, today, I was assured (by a smartly dressed and apparently important employee) that I could buy stamps from the normal till, and not just from the Tobacco counter but found when I got there that he was wrong. So, having paid for my milk I had to queue up again.
I'm also wondering how their "helping you spend less" slogan is in any way honest. Firstly, to get to my milk (an everyday item) I had to walk past miles of presumably tempting and irrelevant offers and then, having found it, it cost me 40p for a pint. That's substantially more than I paid in the centre of leafy Bath. In Waitrose. Even the recent price rises across the board can't have made that much of a difference.
Anyway, you know what I think now. I've never bought anything from the Charcuterie, but it's nice to know that in the classier places it's there. And that the 'newspapers and magazines' section is just that and not 'news and mags'. Which really grates, even without being said in the Essex accent which suits it so well.
Meanwhile, hello again Dave. Nice to hear from you. I'll respond to your comment when I'm home and have the facility to do so.
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In defense of Tesco... Shocking. They do pay their staff more than any other Supermarket I believe, or perhaps they might be second behind Sainsbury's. I know this because I work for the supermarket that pays the least.
This in turn believe it or not, keeps your taxes down. Several large corporations are backhandedly supported by government. Government knows that full-time on minimum wage isn't enough for a single person to live in a house. So they get money from the state. Essentially this is the same as the state subsidising the company. If there was no minimum wage, this would have to happen more. This isn't even a left/right issue. The government should just up the minimum wage and stop giving money to rich companies surely?
Also, can you supply any evidence to back up your 'subsidy' claim?
I.e. they are subsidising them. And the taxpayer, rather than the supermarket, bears the cost.
You say this JP, and to an extent I'd agree... In a career where a degree is required for example, annual salary is likely to be in excess of £30,000, other benefits and flexible working time are desirable aspects. But, most people don't have these types of jobs. Most people earn barely over minimum wage, and when you have children to support the difference between £5.50 per hour and £6.50 per hour is monumental.
I thought lefties were meant to be the idealists. Yeesh.
Quite - but when you have children to support I'm guessing that you don't want to be forced to work long and inflexible hours so that you can maybe see them once in a while. One of the bad things I have heard about the way Tesco treats their staff is the pressure put on them in this way.
Obviously I am commenting on one or two isolated cases known to me, but it wouldn't surprise me if this was a general trend across the board.
And the other point is, of course, that the population is always growing in two ways: immigration and birth. So, you know, as the years pass - as they tend to do - a new generation of unskilled labour is always rising or arriving.
And I thought the lefties believed themselves to be the clever ones.
Yeeesh.
Oh well.
I'm glad I don't know you. You seem an awesome twat.
Back on topic, I popped in to Tesco's again today. I needed some eye drops, but it took three members of staff to tell me where they were. The first ignorantly pointed me down the wrong aisle, and the second didn't even know if they sold them.
If Tesco sacked all those who are clearly not up to scratch they could pay the remainder a lot more money. Though my experience so far leads me to wonder if there would actually be anyone left.