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Job cuts including nights Pharmacy workers night workers.

Started by Bobmay, 31-01-23, 11:33AM

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General Thorn

Quote from: Hammer10 on 01-02-23, 06:03AMWhat I was saying I go round different store in a course of a week and see so much more that could be done to benefit the customer like fill more shelves once the dot com has decimated them if more staff were employed to fill those shelves more money could be taken you look on the faces of customers who want something but it's not there also not enough staff on shop floor to do the customer service or put off the shop lifting that is rife now granted it may cost a little bit more but it would be outweighed by the takings and I am not talking about alot of staff just enough to top shelves up from lunchtime onwards for about 4 hours so the customer can get what they want.

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barafear

Quote from: randomworker on 01-02-23, 08:19AMVery simplistic solutions to a problem that can never be fixed. Free market competition between all the supermarkets will keep prices low and thus put a squeeze on profit margins which are low margin to begin with.

Labour is the biggest drag on the supermarkets and the last thing they will do is throw more bodies at it. Though what Tesco can do and is doing is learning from Aldi and lidli on getting more out of their employees


Free Competition = Lower Prices?
Did you not read the update from Kantar yesterday showing year on year grocery inflation of nearly 17%?

As we've seen on other threads here, "lower prices/better value" etc. are all just a marketing ploy.

The figures (17% inflation) do not lie.

Even Aldi prices are increasing at this level -




barafear

Quote from: General Thorn on 01-02-23, 01:00PM
Quote from: Hammer10 on 01-02-23, 06:03AMWhat I was saying I go round different store in a course of a week and see so much more that could be done to benefit the customer like fill more shelves once the dot com has decimated them if more staff were employed to fill those shelves more money could be taken you look on the faces of customers who want something but it's not there also not enough staff on shop floor to do the customer service or put off the shop lifting that is rife now granted it may cost a little bit more but it would be outweighed by the takings and I am not talking about a lot of staff just enough to top shelves up from lunchtime onwards for about 4 hours so the customer can get what they want.

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I don't know the numbers but I guess there are a number of things to critique:

Dot com = fewer customers coming into store = fewer staff required in store to "serve" such customers. I don't mean just on the tills, I mean to answer questions around the shop etc.
Of course, those customers still need their products, therefore someone still needs to fill the shelves unless we start doing dot com straight from the warehouse!

Cost of Living crisis = in theory this means customers are buying less - so even those that do come in are buying less - and although they might be frustrated by lack of products, they are not as bothered as before because in theory it probably helps to keep them within budget if there are things that they cannot buy!!

Finally I guess that in theory the new ways of working from Oct should mean there are sufficient staff to fill the shelves?

Mickymouse1962

I would have taken redundancy in a flash if offered security are small department in my store just 1 security 1 manager

Doggiedoodle

Does anyone know which 12 stores are affected by moving nights to days?

Duff McKagan

Yesterday I was informed that our night team was safe, I then learned that the 12 stores losing nights haven't yet been informed so I approached my manager and asked how he can say we are safe when the stores haven't been informed....he couldn't answer.

So is it a case that the 12 stores haven't been named or is it that they haven't even been told yet, in which case there are no safe stores as of yet.

It's wrong to give a false sense of security and say we're safe when we might well not be. Some people in my store are quite anxious about potential redundancy so prematurely telling them they're safe, only to find out in a few weeks that we aren't is a bit cruel, would have been better to just be honest and say I don't know.

Brez

If your store has already had meetings with the night managers around losing the lead, moving to a 4 day work week & recruiting shift leaders then your night shift will be safe.

If it's been radio silence then the writing is on the wall.

Pretty easy to deduce if your store is safe from losing the night crew.

Bobmay

Quote from: Mickymouse1962 on 01-02-23, 02:14PMI would have taken redundancy in a flash if offered security are small department in my store just 1 security 1 manager

Guarantee you will be getting removed soon especially if your contract isn't part of the new contract.

Bobmay

The nights that are going in my opinion are small store like ex metro stores that still have nights and superstores.Those two will be majority of the ones that will remove nights.Espcially the metro stores that espress stores. The remaining will be extra.Also many stores have already been informed if they are removing nights. One person who works espress store former metro has confirmed they are removing night from his store. It makes sense for Tesco to save money by going from filling in night in small stores to filling in morning and evening. For example I work night shift in espress store former metro.I get nearly 14 pound an hour  15.60 an hour right now on Saturday. The store I work at was extremely busy now a days in very quiet I will going into work on friday so will find out wether my store is keeping night or removing them. Good luck to everyone remember to take the redundancy and not look back you will get better elsewhere.

Preacherpauly

Looks like the higher ups aren't making enough millions.

Doggiedoodle

Quote from: Duff McKagan on 02-02-23, 06:36AMYesterday I was informed that our night team was safe, I then learned that the 12 stores losing nights haven't yet been informed so I approached my manager and asked how he can say we are safe when the stores haven't been informed....he couldn't answer.

So is it a case that the 12 stores haven't been named or is it that they haven't even been told yet, in which case there are no safe stores as of yet.

It's wrong to give a false sense of security and say we're safe when we might well not be. Some people in my store are quite anxious about potential redundancy so prematurely telling them they're safe, only to find out in a few weeks that we aren't is a bit cruel, would have been better to just be honest and say I don't know.

why can't they just let the affected people know instead of leaving them in limbo! Typical Tesco no thought for staff just bothered about profit 😡

rockley200

Why are .com managers not in the management cull? It's a joke, in our store they are the most LAZY!!

kaled78

Same with ours, she just sits in the office all day and loves to invent extra paperwork/routines that the company does not even say need doing.

forrestgimp

Quote from: Bobmay on 02-02-23, 09:29AM
Quote from: Mickymouse1962 on 01-02-23, 02:14PMI would have taken redundancy in a flash if offered security are small department in my store just 1 security 1 manager

Guarantee you will be getting removed soon especially if your contract isn't part of the new contract.

You cant guarantee anything......

filling-machine

Quote from: Brez on 02-02-23, 08:00AMIf your store has already had meetings with the night managers around losing the lead, moving to a 4 day work week & recruiting shift leaders then your night shift will be safe.

If it's been radio silence then the writing is on the wall.

Pretty easy to deduce if your store is safe from losing the night crew.

All we were told in the briefing is that night managers will be given the "option" to work 4 nights, which seems to suggest there may be a "price" to pay for taking the option. Maybe 20% cut in night premium? Tesco wouldn't be doing it unless there was a benefit to the bottom line.

Ducking Hell

Aren't nights going all together ... I heard a rumour

Nomad

@Ducking Hell, I think this forum has been down that road on more than one occasion.

Have a read around the forum.
Nomad ( Forum Admin )
It's better to be up in arms than down on your knees.

T.C.1

As they have just sorted out the structure for night managers I shouldn't think so but with Tesco you never know.

kaled78

also I have known stores to have appointed roles only for them to be axed 3 months later,so never assume everyone is 100% safe

chris9997

Personally when the app starts allocating roles to all staff and the serve pick and fill is fully operational ,then we may see night staff targeted

Himynameus

It's going to start allocating on the app in week 8 for week 11 for it to start moving people round as you find out 3 week before

Redshoes

Quote from: chris9997 on 09-03-23, 09:43PMPersonally when the app starts allocating roles to all staff and the serve pick and fill is fully operational ,then we may see night staff targeted


This is correct but there is a bit of a difference between stores advertising to fill a vacancy and the company rolling out a structure change. Stores should not have advance knowledge to structure changes so should carry on as normal.

Hammer10

The shift leader role is too big for little money can't see it working in big stores .

madness

Quote from: Himynameus on 10-03-23, 12:33AMIt's going to start allocating on the app in week 8 for week 11 for it to start moving people round as you find out 3 week before
Can't wait for that poop show to start.

kaled78

we have a lot of staff that don't even have mobile phones,yet alone use the app,I guess unless the new shift leaders tell them different,they will just work on their existing deptartments as usual

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