Morrison, (WM) Supermarkets > Reviews

Advantages: Ok-ish pay
Disadvantages: All the rest

I started working on the checkouts in morrisons a few months ago, and at first i quite liked it. The induction day was so long I can't remember most of it. I was scheduled for a lot of training in my first few weeks and although it seemed like a lot, the first time that I actually learnt how to use a till was when I was actually serving customers. Everything was fine apart from a few minor problems. For one, I'm 17 so have to ask someone over ... Read review

Advantages: Excellent customer service; lovely staff; good benefits; and great products
Disadvantages: Sick day management and rough customers (lack of security)

I decided to write a review in response to this one: http://www.ciao.co.uk/Comments-on-ReviewMorrisonWMSupermarkets55 59754 And also because of the comments concerning it. The training at Morrison's is excellent, very good quality with plenty of follow up. I started work in a Morrison's store in February this year and in response to Gemimz69's comment about the induction... mine took place over 2 days!!! From 9 till 5 on Saturday and 9 ... Read review

Advantages: Hardly any
Disadvantages: Lots

Morrisons is certainly not an 8/10 in my eyes. I got called for an interview at my local Morrisons and the next day I was contacted to go to an induction day but I couldn't make the arranged date. There was one the week after to which I'd said I'd go to. During the 2 week period up to the induction day I got a letter from Morrisons saying I'd failed the interview despite the phone call. Turned out they'd given my job over to someone else in the ... Read review

Advantages: you don't need an experience.
Disadvantages: not a friendly atmosphere

...Morrison,father of current chairman, Ken Morrison, founded the company in 1899. In the 1960s, Morrisons was at the forefront of supermarket development, opening is first store, "Victoria", in Bradford in 1961. In 1967, Morrisons became a public company and was more than 174 times over-subscribed as over 80,000 investors tried to purchase shares. There are 126 Morrisons supermarkets in England. 109 sites have petrol filling stations and 113 stores ... Read review

Advantages: Usual Supermarket Job Benefits
Disadvantages: Run like an army boot camp, but lacking resources.

I had worked at supermarkets before and always found them to be reasonable jobs. This all changed when i got a job at Morrisons in Paisley , Falside road, Scotland. Good points of being an employee at Morrisons were adequate training and a staff canteen which was subsidised. Bad Points of being an employee at Morrisons were numerous. We did not get proper rest periods inbetween shifts. They would have us working till ten pm at night and back ... Read review

Advantages: struggling to think of any
Disadvantages: Alot of stress!

I started working at my Morrisons store in October 2004 when it was a Safeway. It was only supposed to be a 'stop-gap' job until I found something better as I had just got made redundant. I opted for the night shift basically for the extra bit of pay.. I just couldn't survive on the basic rate. Back at the beginning sure it was a good laugh, good bunch of people to work with and I hate to admit it I enjoyed working there. Oh boy how things changed. ... Read review

Advantages: None
Disadvantages: Many

I dont know how CIAO can rank Morissons 8/10. More like 1/10. Working in the distribution side of the business is hard work. Staff morale is low as we are often required to stay late for 'requirements of the business" which if Morissons were better organised would not happen. A general shift in Morissons is to say the very least, hell. From the start of the shift, just walking through the door you obtain a sense of how the shift is going to ... Read review

Advantages: none anymore
Disadvantages: too many to write

I started work at Morrison's four years ago. I started packing bread, then moved to the cake shop, it was a little corner stuck at the back of the bakery, not a real cake shop, a makeshift cakeshop as it was a conversion from a safeway store. 3 staff members and it was full!!! The supervisor at the time had had enough, her stress levels had all about gone, she was asked to step down, along came another supervisor direct from Oven fresh, she was ... Read review

Advantages: errr....
Disadvantages: grab a brew and we'll have a chat...

i work at morrisons currently and it is by far the worst place i could imagine to be employed. senior management are surly and rude, but on bad days they are generally worse. the store is usually understaffed, the reason for which will become apparent soon after you commence work there... there is an air of superiority over the shop floor staff by some management and i cannot for the life of me work out why... i don't think they realise that some ... Read review

I work for morrisons. Its like a total nightmare. I feel like I've died and gone to hell. Theres a manager who can't talk without shouting. I can hear his voice above the noise in the whole shop. He shouted in my face the other day, in front of customers and one went to complain but nothing was done. I'm looking for another job, I'm desperate to leave.

Advantages: make some good friends
Disadvantages: too many to write

i also worked in morrisons, in fact i left there only last week for a new job, i was working in the hawick store in the petrol station and agree tottally with everything you say, i used to have to work till quarter past 10 at night and back in at quarter to six in the morning, legally there is supposed to be 2 people in the petrol station at all times for security reasons but i cant count the number of times i was left on my own as we were severley ... Read review

I do not know about morrisons but in my life in retail, i haveworked with a lot of retail co. I think they all have a negative and dictator management style which we all need to help to change.