well i went to woolies in newhaven to buy a couple of barbie dolls and they had just what i needed
they werent for me right?
they werent for me right?
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Woolies - feckin USELESS again
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Ah...I wondered about that. He was just Trevor Bish at school.
I reckon he earns every penny of his salary trying to turn Woolies around.
dougdeep
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I tried to buy a CD the other day in Woolworths in Seaford. After taking them the case, the kid who was on his own spent 10 minutes going through the racks before telling me he would have to order it. The queue behind me weren't impressed.
Guy Fawkes
The voice of treason
- Sep 29, 2007
- 8,297
I used to work for Woolies years ago, (started as an xmas temp and got stuck there for a couple of years) I worked at 4 different branches while there (through promotions).
The problems with Woolies is always a lack of staff numbers, one store i worked in had days when just 3 people were working, how can you properly assist customers if these staff there have to Man 2 different till areas, stack shelves, walk the shop floor, competing returns, cover breaks, change arround displays / promotions, help customers with questions / looking for items etc....
At the time the staff there were very worried about if the store will be closed down completely as the rent on the store ran out soon (about a year after i left) and most remember the days when there were enough people to actually run the store properly and help customers fully, rather than now when you felt guilty (not sure if right word) spending any time helping one customer when there was so many demands on your time.
They also had the problems with being able to stock up properly, Kids clothes for example, the new full priced stock arrives, but the store hasn't the staff to be able to sort and display the new stuff which are very profitable to the company, instead most ends up sat there until reduced and sold at a loss to clear space and create money to be able to buy the naxt batch of ccrap that they sell, normally Pyrex
Since the minimum wage was introduced into this country, the staff have had 0% pay increases as the manamegent / union (useless w*nk*rs) always claim that there was no money in the company to be able to pay any increase.
Shit company, after they split, they have been desperate to find someone to buy them out, one company was looking and Woolies exec's decided that the company should clear the stocks it had in the stockrooms, usually at big loses, then they could open the books to this company and show that they "appear" to be doing well. The company , when they saw this, backed out thinking something was odd, and stated that if they had such a large excess of cash, they should give it to the shareholders!! - Woolies were always right up to their bank borrowing limits of £250 million, and had to keep clearing stock, (usually break even prices at best) just to generate cash to buy in the next batch of stock, and much to the const6ant annoyance of those who worked on the entertainments counter, this meant large returns instructions every 3 weeks after all their promotions finished at once, only to receive the same stock back a fortnight later for the next promotion, meaning yet again they had to remove the contents, and file them.
btw - your wrong some Woolies stores do have cameras. All bar 1 in worked in did, and the one that didn't, they were looking to get cameras installed asap.
The problems with Woolies is always a lack of staff numbers, one store i worked in had days when just 3 people were working, how can you properly assist customers if these staff there have to Man 2 different till areas, stack shelves, walk the shop floor, competing returns, cover breaks, change arround displays / promotions, help customers with questions / looking for items etc....
At the time the staff there were very worried about if the store will be closed down completely as the rent on the store ran out soon (about a year after i left) and most remember the days when there were enough people to actually run the store properly and help customers fully, rather than now when you felt guilty (not sure if right word) spending any time helping one customer when there was so many demands on your time.
They also had the problems with being able to stock up properly, Kids clothes for example, the new full priced stock arrives, but the store hasn't the staff to be able to sort and display the new stuff which are very profitable to the company, instead most ends up sat there until reduced and sold at a loss to clear space and create money to be able to buy the naxt batch of ccrap that they sell, normally Pyrex
Since the minimum wage was introduced into this country, the staff have had 0% pay increases as the manamegent / union (useless w*nk*rs) always claim that there was no money in the company to be able to pay any increase.
Shit company, after they split, they have been desperate to find someone to buy them out, one company was looking and Woolies exec's decided that the company should clear the stocks it had in the stockrooms, usually at big loses, then they could open the books to this company and show that they "appear" to be doing well. The company , when they saw this, backed out thinking something was odd, and stated that if they had such a large excess of cash, they should give it to the shareholders!! - Woolies were always right up to their bank borrowing limits of £250 million, and had to keep clearing stock, (usually break even prices at best) just to generate cash to buy in the next batch of stock, and much to the const6ant annoyance of those who worked on the entertainments counter, this meant large returns instructions every 3 weeks after all their promotions finished at once, only to receive the same stock back a fortnight later for the next promotion, meaning yet again they had to remove the contents, and file them.
btw - your wrong some Woolies stores do have cameras. All bar 1 in worked in did, and the one that didn't, they were looking to get cameras installed asap.
Tom Hark Preston Park
Will Post For Cash
- Jul 6, 2003
- 72,359
I've boycotted buying barbie dolls from woolies ever since they tried to ridiculously overcharge me when I was trying to buy one for me daughter. They had air hostess barbie and policewoman barbie, both at a tenner. But me daughter had both of those already. So I went for the only other option available in woolies depleted barbie stock: divorcee barbie. Went to give them a tenner but was duly informed that divorcee barbie cost a stonking twenty five quid. When I queried this ridiculous overcharging, the store claimed that divorcee barbie came complete with ken's house and ken's car.
Guy Fawkes
The voice of treason
- Sep 29, 2007
- 8,297
why buy anything from Woolies apart from pic and mix?
I wouldn't buy pick n mix from anywhere, we had to throw away a very large quantity once at one of the store i worked at due to being infested with Weevils. hate to think how much we had sold before anyone noticed + most sweets in pick and mix are unwrapped, and you don't want to think about how many grubby hands touch them / pick em up off counters or floors and put them back (customers not staff) before you then eat them.