Mediocre - Retail Assistant Farmfoods Employee Review

3.0
18 Feb 2016
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Pros

- Staff Discount is good if you're older and would be doing shopping there frequently. - Flexible; the store I work in would be willing to change any shift to fit a specific schedule e.g. college, other job commitments and general social plans if you give them more than one days notice. - The staff; in my store are all young and lovely to be around. Overall they have a good attitude towards work which is difficult in such a dull job. - Weekly pay - Lovely customers overall - Training process is solid

Cons

Generally the company is a mess. Understaffed, staff are always leaving which means there are commonly periods of which we are extremely understaffed. Management is difficult to come by - I've worked in the company for about 7 months and when i started there were no managers, just 4 supervisors who all didn't care about the job. We then got a manager who was awful and caused the store to go downhill. Since then we've not had a manager. - I've worked so many hours unpaid. Every week I stay late and do not get paid for it. - The pay is a joke. £4.30 an hour. I question why I get out of bed every morning to work for so little.

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
9 Sept 2025
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Pros

15% discount Nothing else is a pro

Cons

Micro management I’ve never experienced in 10 years of retail management. They’re living in the stone ages in terms of technology. Hourly staff get paid to 15 mins so upper management will try and shaft your pay in the name of prod, no clock in/out machine so you’re reliant on managers clocking you accurately. Everything they do is just weird and backwards. They don’t believe in employee law, 11 hour rest period being the big one.

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