So then which supermarket pays the best???
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Just wondering how supermarket pay differs across the major retailers.
I am temporarily working for Sainsbury's @ £6.53 an hour.
I am curious to what the others pay - i am told Waitrose pay the most but there's none near me (hence why i am in Sainsbury's) and apparantly Tesco pay the least but no idea if thats true or not?
I am temporarily working for Sainsbury's @ £6.53 an hour.
I am curious to what the others pay - i am told Waitrose pay the most but there's none near me (hence why i am in Sainsbury's) and apparantly Tesco pay the least but no idea if thats true or not?
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At Asda I (and, I believe, all other uniform staff regardless of job or status) get £5.88. I believe Tesco get about £6.10.
My breaks at Asda are, however, paid for, and I know they aren't at Tesco.
Are there differences between checkout operators, shelf packers and specialist counter staff, etc?
Not at Asda. C/Os, shelf-stackers, admin and supervisors are all paid the same.
I would have thought that supervisors and admin would be on a higher rate?
They were on a different rate at my local Asda's but again this was 2 years ago !
I don't see why (actually I held an argument at work during the annual staff survey when someone else suggested so).
C/Os have responsibility for money - if tills are short, we get the blame.
Shelf-stackers have the most physically challenging job - I did it over Xmas and it was hard work.
Admin staff have to be well versed in computer systems and how the shop works, but get plenty of time to sit on their arse doing sweet fa.
Managers, on the other hand, do f all, and get paid 2-3 times as much for their troubles.
I assume you're talking about department managers. Would store managers/assistant managers be on a higher scale than this?
Also, what's the chain of command from the checkouts? Beyond your supervisor, do you answer to a department manager or does it go right to the top?
Well, at mine (which has about 450 staff) there are about ten-fifteen 'runners' (Walmart speak for supervisors) one of whom is 'running' at any time aswell as a spare or two (usually) for anything else that needs doing, and two department managers plus one trainee manager.
They keep it quiet.
I would've thought Aldi payed their staff in bags of rice and bottles of cooking oil.
Checkout staff at Asda don't get their breaks paid. They work three hour shifts, have 30 minutes unpaid break and then work another three hour shift. In effect they work split shifts.
If you're doing an eight hour shift at asda, you get a half hour unpaid break and a fifteen minute paid. At tesco all breaks are unpaid.
However, I only do weekends and am under 16, and have been doing the job only two months.
My mum told me that ages ago... apparently they get almost £10 ph... they are the best payed supermarket.
My little brother is a delivery driver for Asda, just part time while he puts himself through uni... He gets payed £7 something per hour... which I suppose is alright for a 20 year old!
Nah, he gets £5.88. Trust me
Lol, wee sh*t... he told me he was on over £7!
He actually spends more time visiting pals and at home between deliveries... so the wage reflects the work imo!
But what do I care, I'm a student anyway.:)