I am so angry. They are turning my local netto into an asda

DCFC79

Ditzy_Purple wrote: »

I give up. Guess no one saw the please be nice tag.

nothing wrong with the replies you were given, its just 1 of them things, a bigger firm buys out a smaller firm, yes you wont be able to get the same kind of deals as before but maybe wait and see what happens with asda as to what they offer

mcjordi

My local Netto is becoming Iceland.. ( Spennymoor)

who are UGO?

DCFC79

mcjordi wrote: »

My local Netto is becoming Iceland.. ( Spennymoor)

who are UGO?

ugo, with not been in 1 i cant say what they are like but im guessing a discounter on the netto/farmfoods format but just a small number of stores

deanos

DCFC79 wrote: »

ugo, with not been in 1 i cant say what they are like but im guessing a discounter on the netto/farmfoods format but just a small number of stores

The Haldane Group only started 2 years back, they bought the old Somerfields in Tattershall and trade as Haldanes, they bought a few Nettos and trading them as Ugo, the HQ is in Grantham,Lincs

The one in Tattershall cant be doing that well its always full of reduced items that are short of shelf life

somethingsgottogive

I'm an ex Netto employee and my old store's becoming a Morrisons and honestly, it's not a bad thing!

Staff wages are going up
Staff discounts are being introduced (none for Netto employees)
Staff holidays are being increased
Overtime is actually going to be paid time and a half, instead of ignored of forgotten about.
All of the snotty, up themselves 'team' members who treat customers like !!!! and skive off (leaving the tills unmanned at busy times, which it the BIGGEST problem for the customers) will be given the boot
and finally, the best thing will be all of the REDUCED STOCK. Netto currently reduces all of that day's OOD/reached UBD stock in the morning to half price, and then leaves it on display all day. At the end of the day, still at half price mind, if it's not been bought it's just CHUCKED IN THE BIN. Staff are NOT allowed to buy it, or even reduce it further to encourage sales. Morrisons and Asda at least reduce stuff down through out the day and let the staff buy it! Good riddance Netto, with your jumped up, lazy managers, messy shops and (comparatively) appalling treatment of staff.

pmduk

somethingsgottogive wrote: »

All of the snotty, up themselves 'team' members who treat customers like !!!! and skive off (leaving the tills unmanned at busy times, which it the BIGGEST problem for the customers) will be given the boot

Actually, those staff members would fit in very well at my local Morrisons, they'd probably be employee of the month.

Rome99

somethingsgottogive wrote: »

I'm an ex Netto employee and my old store's becoming a Morrisons and honestly, it's not a bad thing!

Staff wages are going up
Staff discounts are being introduced (none for Netto employees)
Staff holidays are being increased
Overtime is actually going to be paid time and a half, instead of ignored of forgotten about.
All of the snotty, up themselves 'team' members who treat customers like !!!! and skive off (leaving the tills unmanned at busy times, which it the BIGGEST problem for the customers) will be given the boot
and finally, the best thing will be all of the REDUCED STOCK. Netto currently reduces all of that day's OOD/reached UBD stock in the morning to half price, and then leaves it on display all day. At the end of the day, still at half price mind, if it's not been bought it's just CHUCKED IN THE BIN. Staff are NOT allowed to buy it, or even reduce it further to encourage sales. Morrisons and Asda at least reduce stuff down through out the day and let the staff buy it! Good riddance Netto, with your jumped up, lazy managers, messy shops and (comparatively) appalling treatment of staff.

Surely if what you say is true then the lazy managers will be staying, just on more money?

s_b

My netto was a disgrace,the dirtiiest shopping baskets i had ever seen,staff moral non existant and to cap it all it started getting infiltrated with teachers with glasses on a string,men in shorts on a wet November afternoon and of course eastern europeans that dont want to believe in manners and just block isles up so us poor plebs were being pushed into sharing our proletariat bargains:D
The prices have been going up very quickly these last 18 months to the point netto became a joke
I only started going to netto after marks and spencers started charging for carrier bags i complained but never got a reply off them so fell into netto by chance
dont like liddle
dont like aldi
never tried uggy
tesco too far
sainsburys too snobby with people who cant really afford to shop there but like the carrier bags


FARMFOODS for me and free carrier bags these days
wife gets meat from local butcher
other bits we get off the market saturdays

gobbo

It's hardly just changing brand , Netto is good quality low price , Asda is mediocre quality very high price , in these tight times who would vote for their food bill to go up 40-50 % , and quality down ? , certainly not me

duchy wrote: »

"Angry" ? "It's a disaster !"

Er it's a food shop .... Wish my life was so stress free that the "disasters" came in the shape of a supermarket changing brand !!! Some people must be short of things to moan about !!

FatAndy

My local Netto has now become an Asda and it's far better now than when it was Netto. Netto was ok for certain items but there wasn't a great deal of choice. One aisle in the middle of store was always full of random crap and there was a barrier on the way in that meant you couldn't get out of the store without buying anything, which was a pain as more often than not there would be queues at the one till that was open.

The new Asda has had a complete refit and there's now far more choice, there's even a little instore bakery at the back. You can easily get out without buying anything and there are a few self service tills to help keep the queues down. All in all it's a vast improvement.