Pros
- Staff discount at Argos, Habitat and Sainsburys. - Colleagues were friendly and helpful. - Role diversity - in smaller Sainsburys stores you can go from working on the till to handling deliveries and putting away products in the stockroom. - Uniform of a good quality - looks modern and smart. - Improved personal and social skills. - Good job for those still in school / something to get by when you're young as the hours are flexible and it's not too demanding.
Cons
- Weekly rota - struggled to make plans outside of work because we didn't receive our rota for the next week sometimes as little as four days before the first day of the rota week. - Pay is very poor - why is there a separate under-21 wage? I also have expenses e.g. car insurance, fuel, shopping. - Often the store can get incredibly dead which leaves you standing on the tills doing absolutely nothing for hours on end. Time drags by incredibly slowly. - Incredible emphasis on selling product care and argos cards. Doesn't matter if you make 65 sales in under a minute, putaway four cages by yourself, or encourage someone to not instead go to a rival retailer as if you're not lucky and don't sell enough care / cards, you're the first to hear it from your manager. - Handling a huge putaway by yourself or serving a customer with five others in the queue is stressful enough, added to only by managers / team leaders hiding away in the aisles on their phones. They're getting paid for that!? - Terminals are still not contactless enabled. One of the only retailers who haven't caught up in 2019.