Reduced Counter Rules For Stores Own Staff?

WhatRecovery

Does any body know whether supermarket staff get guidelines/enhanced access to discounted/reduced products, such as those in the chilled reduced cabinets? Our co-op seems to have removed the reduced aisle corner comp;letely, either that or staff/someone is raiding it before we customers get in there in the morning lol Do the managers get proforma every week or is there is individual decision making store by store?

couponqueen123

i dont think its company policy to let staff have all the reduced stuff but at the same time i dnt think they care , as long as it sold , if you email co-op im sure they will inform you of policy , but if i worked in a shop and was allowed to buy reduced food before public then would im lucky where i live there seems to be young staff and they dont want it ,

i do know boots allow there staff to buy before public in there sales thou

bajangal

It could be that there is not a lot of reductions. Retailers are cutting back on excess stock because although you might regard it as a bargain, it flags up on their books as a lost.

daveybea

or maybe they have changed their times when they put out their reductions? stops people coming in just to get their bargains!!

MrsE_2

I would think it a fair perk stsff getting first dibs.

Edwardia

Why shouldn't staff get first choice in preference to say customers who only come in to buy reduced stuff ? The staff work there day in day out.

My mother has a thing about charity shop staff. She thinks it scandalous that elderly people who give up their time unpaid, get first choice of the clothes.

I really don't understand what's so wrong about staff/volunteers getting perks as long as it's legit,

Allowing shop staff to buy reduced food wpuld get rid of the rugby scrums overnight.

System

Just before Christmas, a friend nipped into the Co-op on a large housing estate about a mile from me. She bought some reduced chicken breasts and something else. Went to the till. The lady said to her she cannot have the chicken breasts as she is having them! You do not speak to customers like that and don't act like that!

My friend left the shop and didn't buy the something else and wrote a letter.

I know a few people that work in supermarkets, they don't have priority over reduced items, but if they want to reserve them to buy at the end of their shift, they put them in the back chiller with their name written on a piece of paper.

Sometimes they have reduced items that they cannot sell to customers, One example was some pies a friend's work had earlier last month. They did not have the UB date on them, but the crate that they were delivered in had the date on a sticker on the side. Another example is multipack yoghurts. One was damaged and sold the 5 others for 50p.

katiejones

Staff at Mr T are not allowed to put items away in working hours. Has to be bought at break or before/after shift. No priority, all reduced items are put onto shop floor - first come, first served x

System

In my local co-op the reductions are done at 9PM (shop shut at 10PM) No chilled products are allowed to be be carried over to the next morning. If not sold before 10PM then they must be binned that night.

I questioned this and have been shown the ruling that has come done from on high from the regional manager

mandy47

I work for a major supermarket and staff don't get first chance at anything. We work away watching customers getting all the bargains just hoping there's something left when our shifts over.
This week I've seen customers filling their trolleys with bargain turkeys, gammon and loads of xmas goodies.
I managed a couple of boxes of stuffing at the end of my shift.

WhatRecovery

sorry to hear that - mr t as mentioned above seems to have a fairish system.