Most stores are understaffed. After letting go peak temps and many more staff, we are left with the bare minimum of people. Understandable from business point of view, but difficult to try and keep people happy and engaged when you have redundancies flying left right and centre.
It's impossible to get cover for holidays and sicknesses, which means lots of lone working and stress when juggling customers and couriers on your own.
It's expected the store managers and assistant managers will put in extra hours (and days) but with the pay borderline average (especially for London) it's hard to find the motivation.