Morrisons to employ 5000 more staff this year.

Snooze

I like Morrisons too and they always get my business even though I've an Asda George round the corner and a Tesco a little bit further. My nearest Morrisons is 4 miles away but I love their stuff.

For example, Morrisons own fresh made strawberry jam filled doughnuts are quite possibly the best thing in the whole world and are at least 100 times the quality of Asda's and Tesco's ones. :T

Their fresh sausage rolls from the food-to-go are excellent quality too, unlike Asda/Tesco, and I find a lot of their own branded stuff is at least on par or better than the brand name stuff, for example Morrisons own Skipjack tuna steak is far superior to the much more expensive John West or Princes ones. It is meat in a tin, not mush like you get with Asda/Tesco's own.

And the last thing that I love about them is that the manager's know how to pick fine looking young ladies to work the tills and it's also very rare that you have to queue for a till, unlike Tesco/Asda which have queues to the back of the store unless you go at 3am in the morning.

Thumbs up for Morries from me! :T

Rob

dad-of-4

jenner wrote: »

its not possible for supermarkets to compete on 'exactly' the same basis as say waterstones or boots or virgin or whatever, because the choice that supermarkets give in things like household items, books, music, toiletries and perfume can never be as big as the choice that there actually is. for example, my favourite perfume is acqua di parma 'nobile iris' (or iris nobile, i can never remember), its really hard to find in shops, the other one i like is escada sport, 'country weekend', again, another one you cant find easily in shops. a supermarket will never sell this sort of stuff. the other day i was looking to get some older albums of santana, i also bought a book called 'austerity britain', none of the above is ever going to be available in a supermarket. and to top the lot, im a 'plus size', their clothes dont fit me and i dont like their shoes, so they're not going to get my pound there either.

but that is cos they're not interested in that kind of custom, they want the lowest common denominator media led consumers, the popular majority if you like.

they dont want to waste money and time, coming around to our way of thinking, they want to bring us round to their way of thinking.

dad-of-4

Snooze wrote: »

I like Morrisons too and they always get my business even though I've an Asda George round the corner and a Tesco a little bit further. My nearest Morrisons is 4 miles away but I love their stuff.

For example, Morrisons own fresh made strawberry jam filled doughnuts are quite possibly the thing in the whole world and are at least 100 times the quality of Asda's and Tesco's ones. :T

Their fresh sausage rolls from the food-to-go are excellent quality too, unlike Asda/Tesco, and I find a lot of their own branded stuff is at least on par or better than the brand name stuff, for example Morrisons own Skipjack tuna steak is far superior to the much more expensive John West or Princes ones. It is meat in a tin, not mush like you get with Asda/Tesco's own.

And the last thing that I love about them is that the manager's know how to pick fine looking young ladies to work the tills and it's also very rare that you have to queue for a till, unlike Tesco/Asda which have queues to the back of the store unless you go at 3am in the morning.

Thumbs up for Morries from me! :T

Rob

your right about the donuts, no body seems to be able to make a cheap jam donut that comes anywhere near close to being as good, but you have to wonder, is that a good thing.

jd23_3

Hello, I bought an own label Greek Yogurt 500g Pot at Morrisons in Cardiff Bay over the weekend and when opening it this morning it looked a bit empty (I don't usually shop at Morrisons and thought initially it was over packaging as most companies seem to do to get you to think you're buying more than you actualy do). On a whim I decided to weigh the pot and was shocked and dismayed to find that Morrisons had short changed me 100g as the whole pot weighed 400g (defenetly advetrised as 500g on the packaging). Can anyone inform me who is the regulator to the supermarkets? Who can I complain too? Looks like the company's finding ways to keep their profits high. What an underhand thing to do.

setmefree2

Really2 wrote: »

At last some good news.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5gbF9Xl80WoPBySCRjVlCr_krnVjA

I think Sainsburys are creating 4000 more jobs and Tesco 10,000 too. Not sure it will make up for the jobs lost, however:o.

cogito

jd23 wrote: »

Hello, I bought an own label Greek Yogurt 500g Pot at Morrisons in Cardiff Bay over the weekend and when opening it this morning it looked a bit empty (I don't usually shop at Morrisons and thought initially it was over packaging as most companies seem to do to get you to think you're buying more than you actualy do). On a whim I decided to weigh the pot and was shocked and dismayed to find that Morrisons had short changed me 100g as the whole pot weighed 400g (defenetly advetrised as 500g on the packaging). Can anyone inform me who is the regulator to the supermarkets? Who can I complain too? Looks like the company's finding ways to keep their profits high. What an underhand thing to do.

Obviously a fault at the packing stage of one of Morrison's suppliers. Take it back to the store and they'll replace it.

x.x.x.

it wont be 5000 new staff...they are buying out a load of somerfield stores, including mine, and are taking on all the existing staff...so thats gonna be a good couple of thousand already taken.....?

Cleaver

jd23 wrote: »

Hello, I bought an own label Greek Yogurt 500g Pot at Morrisons in Cardiff Bay over the weekend and when opening it this morning it looked a bit empty (I don't usually shop at Morrisons and thought initially it was over packaging as most companies seem to do to get you to think you're buying more than you actualy do). On a whim I decided to weigh the pot and was shocked and dismayed to find that Morrisons had short changed me 100g as the whole pot weighed 400g (defenetly advetrised as 500g on the packaging). Can anyone inform me who is the regulator to the supermarkets? Who can I complain too?

I'd write straight to the Chief Executive with something that important.

uzubairu

Really2 wrote: »

Belive it or not. Not every job can be degree level (some quality jobs as you put it will be created)

I think people need to get used to the fact that even though 2/3rds of people go to university there are no where near as many jobs requiring one.

Just a thought but why do so many in this country push education above achivement. There will be hundreds of thousands of graduates in employment that does not warrant a degree at a great cost to the tax payer and themselves.
Uni now seems to be more for the social experiance, one last big blow out before the reallity of real life sets in.

So true.

I work in retail and there are several graduates who have returned after graduating or are still working with us as they have still not found 'proper' jobs a year later.

But they are still able to pay their bills which is what really matters to them.

whathavewedone

It is good news. A lot of people will keep their heads above water in this recession by taking any job they can or by taking on more than one minimum wage job.

If my house was under threat I'd take any job I could, either me or my oh would also work nights if we could.