Asda

WestieFan

The ties I mean are the heavy-duty plastic ones (can't remember the proper name for them).

I used to use them to tie hub-caps on to car wheels and they they certainly couldn't be broken by pushing the handles as I always had to use very strong scissors or pliers to cut them. In any case, there were at least two of them being used on each door.

skintscotsman

WestieFan wrote:

The ties I mean are the heavy-duty plastic ones (can't remember the proper name for them).

I used to use them to tie hub-caps on to car wheels and they they certainly couldn't be broken by pushing the handles as I always had to use very strong scissors or pliers to cut them. In any case, there were at least two of them being used on each door.

think they're called cable-ties. and you'd struggle to bust through them.

WestieFan

That's the ones!!!
Thanks, I've been going nuts trying to remember.......... maybe past my bedtime.........

scheming_gypsy

hjb123 wrote:

Hey if you think that one is bad you want to pop up the motorway to the one at Morecambe! That is worse! When we go to Preston we often pop to the Asda at Fulwood - we always say it is so much quieter, easier to get round, better stocked, easier to park!!

H

but an absolute nightmare for people like me who work in the building opposite to get out of work at 5pm since they moved the car park entrance !!!

wobbley

WestieFan wrote:

I was in there last week buying a few groceries. Waiting in the queue at checkout, I noticed a sign on a fire door, saying something like "please do not block this exit, as you may need it one day".

Fair enough, but for the fact that someone had tied the handles together using those plastic garden tie things. On checking, every single fire exit door was tied up the same way.

:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

This is extremely serious and should be reported to the local Fire Station straight away. They could be fined very heavily for it.
And Surfcat, normal cable-ties / plastic ties are not easily broken, even the smaller sizes. I use a lot of these at work and always use a knife or cutters to break them, never my bare hands. I'm 6'3" and 17st and can't break them, imagine a pensioner or young child trying to escape a fire.

roswell

I think you will find the cable ties are there to stop the shop lifters running out :-) and if you think 2 metal bars tied together moving in oposite directions ... cable ties will give way before the doors, our local tesco parks there trolloies at one fire exit on a night time and there padlocked .... id rather risk the cable ties in a fire than jumping over trollies and fighting with a padlock.

Busybody

Sorry but is`nt that what a job is all about! I would say that sorting the shelves out is a reasonable task to be asked to do.
And the whole point of places like Lidl is to keep the turnover of stock going, therefore keeping prices down. Yes the big supermarkets have full shelves but that is a lot of money tied up!

billycasper_2

I just happened to bump into this thread and couldn't resist a post. I work for asda and have to agree with everything thats been said about empty shelves and poor quality rubbish. It stems from wal mart that big american giant who bought asda some time back. At first everything was ok but slowly but surely things started to become more american. The stupid bright and brash uniform, the cutting of staff, new contracts called thirld world sorry "new world" where you would get "a few pence extra" on your hourly rate if you gave up your right not to work bank holidays and give up double time on these days and had overtime paid at normal time....all new starters are on these contracts and a lot of the old collegues have left in disgust at pressure tactics aimed at ridding asda of "dead wood" . even the managers are treat poorly, loads of redundancies in areas where minimum wage collegues now do the same job. Staff turnover is high with loads of temps. The general rule now is that most of the filling is done in the night. go into an asda late on and you wont be able to move for the pallets and comps on the shopfloor. if you go shopping in the evening just before the fill up time you havn't got a prayer of finding all your shopping because all the fill up staff will start at the same time, Trust me when i tell you its probably all in the warehouse waiting there for the evening/night team. If you see someone scanning empty shelves late on he's doing a picking list for the night team. it will tell him if the stock is in the warehouse or not. Its normally there, waiting with no-one to put it on. In the end collegues are that overworked they just dont bother trying to maintain good stock levels. The other day, (this is true). The general store manager wanted to know why a certain product wasn.t on, the trainee manager(still on minimum wage) was honest and said there isn't anybody to fill because someone was on holiday and he'd ranted at him earlier for being overspent on wages and couldn't cover hoildays. the general manager said "well it needs filling Can't you clock out and go back and fill it"....The said disgruntled trainee manager is now actively looking for other employment
Times are rough at asda the americans are squeezing the life out of us, moral is low and even with the discount i get, i dont shop at asda what does that tell you.
rant over.
thank you

dazco

That is not a rant, it is a sad story.

I am sorry to hear that you and many others are being pressured and under-valued so much.

NOWSE

Adsa don't seem to care about what their cusomers think. I have e-mailed them twice in the last year to complain about the yards of empty shelves in their Rochdale store. They have not even acknowledged the e-mails, let alone answered them.