Co-op reviews

Inefficient and poorly run across all areas of the food retail operation. Deliveries of goods are not safe and never easy to unload or work. The size of the stock room and shoofloors are not fit for purpose due to such a large range. Staffing levels and budget of hours is ridiculously low - stores are expected to run with 2 people all day, it is not practical and it is not safe. The experience for the customer is terrible, the prices are too high, the shelves are rarely stocked adequately - especially for promotional items, stores are run down and falling apart, frequent long queue times. Overbloated head office teams who don't even provide a good service to frontline store teams.

As a former manager, I can 100% say it isn't how well you achieve targets, more of "if your face fits" managers are put in the positions based on who will work the most hours for least pay and often promoted based on brown nosing not capability. I was a manager for over 11years. Managers are forced to cover the shifts themselves and if they complain, they are classed as Red managers and performanced out. This then trickles down to staff and managers resorting to scare tatics to save their own jobs. The main reason for this is the "Ops" managers and their own agendas and favourites.