Farmfoods Reviews

Pros

Great team Flexible when dealing with personal problems Hours to suit and always extra hours if you wanted Helping customers and delivering good customer service. Management care for all employees Career advancement available

Cons

I havnt come across any

Advice to Management

Great job

Pros

Pay is above average for area There will be new working conditions There is a clear rota system so you know when you are working and is fair for everyone although does include weekends

Cons

No annual leave at christmas at all. even though booked prior to starting, is for family reasons and I would normally take all my leave in February/march which is normally quietest time for them. seemed like shooting themselves in the foot

Advice to Management

have a bit of flexibility in leave system

Pros

set shifts, friendly staff, room for working up

Cons

bad management, long hours, low pay

Pros

good working hours discount given

Cons

Minimum wage No chairs to sit on

Advice to Management

increase the wages

Pros

15% discount on top of deals, Sunday evenings off

Cons

Applied for retail assistant, was given supervisor and thought great! How was I WRONG. The first week I was there I was praised for my hard work but after that all I was was shot down by my manager about all the things I didn’t do yet I wasn’t told on how to improve so had to work it out for myself. Was constantly criticised, slagged off and looked at weird, even though at the beginning when I first got the job the... manager said that everyone was honest and truthful to each other. Typical day here if I got in at 3pm and closed the shop is: accept delivery, work all pallets of delivery (1 chilled, 3-4 frozen, 8+ dry on average), cash up, face up the ENTIRE store, check that meat is rotated, check for any out of dates, count the bread, tidy the warehouse, print off any new labels of price changes, count the items that we had of the new labels, make sure the checkout is tidy, all bulk stacks are refilled, do at least 3 defrosts and also check to make sure the retail assistant has done all of their jobs properly. The targets are unrealistic; the shop takes £70k a week and 5 days a week you’re expected to do all of the things above standards of the manager that are higher than Bob Marley. I can’t come into work and be at the same standard every day it’s impossible, we are not robots! Horrendously understaffed but still expected to be doing your job and more twice as fast, however if you don't then supposedly the area manager will cut hours/staff members to teach you a lesson!! Go figure!! Was told that the retail assistants only work as fast as the manager on delivery and if I’m slow they’re slow! Oh and they always need praise to make them work better! Sorry but I’m not praising staff for simply doing their job. They're paid to do their job properly and as management I cannot have eyes in the back of my head all the time. Job is extremely repetitive and nowhere near as customer focused as it should be. You’re told to be fast serving customers at the checkouts so don’t expect to have a decent conversation with them. It’s a case of “here’s your shopping, pay £xx.xx and go away”. You feel like you’re working delivery and facing up the store for no reason whatsoever. Got told to go faster so I do, then I get told to slow down because I'm going too fast! Working here actually killed my brain cells; not to mention working with male teenagers who just want to mess about all the time yet they get away with everything because the manager brown noses the ones that (somehow, god know why) have stayed longer than 6 months Never in my life has a job reduced me to tears and made me feel so worthless and mentally drained, I thought I wasn’t capable but now I realise it’s not me but the other lazy staff members, abysmal management and the company policies. DO. NOT. APPLY. HERE!

Advice to Management

stop expecting the lower staff to do all the work while you chain smoke and sit on the phone all day complaining about how nobody supposedly does the job, you’re the reason there’s such a high turnover of staff.

Pros

None

Cons

Long hours, overworked and unrealistic targets

Pros

Nice food and uniform and discount

Cons

Supermarket is always cold because of the freezers

Pros

15% discount on staff purchases

Cons

Low pay but expected to work harder than other companies. Be prepared to lose your social life, you could end up working every saturday night till at least 10pm