I work in the Hinckley, Leicestershire Morrisons store. The upkeep and maintenance of this store is not great and has been reported many times. This is a shame as this store has a large car park and popular cafe and usually busy. It's not unknown to have all 8 staffed tills and 18 self service ones open and still queues at busy times.
I think the Wimbledon one is your nearest, then?
My local Morrisons has a broken freezer for months with clearly defrosting products.
I thought daily checks had to be made of fridge/freezer temperatures? Unless of course the thermometer is also faulty...
Sweating the assets, quite likely?
Indeed these firms asset strip. They do not see a business providing a service BUT just see the value of the assets not the ongoing profit they could/should provide.They got taken over by some private equity firm which has, as often happens in this instance, been stripped down and have already reported big losses this year:
Morrisons posts £1bn loss as debt payments soar
Morrisons, which was bought by Clayton Dubilier & Rice for £7bn in October 2021 after a fierce bidding war, has found life as a private company hard.www.thisismoney.co.uk
If/when they collapse I hope there is a serious discussion about the role this business venture plays and whether it should be outlawed/tightly regulated.
Wimbledon is probably next nearest - that is apart from my very local Croydon one. My search started because I used to go to the Sutton branch if there was an offer that might still be in stock over there or I was over that way anyway. My research started bacause I heard that there were for sale/lease signs up on the Sutton site.
I think that is correct. Certainly in food catering. More likely than a faulty thermometer is a lack of training or motivation to do it properly.
Our Croydon branch was supposed to loose all its fresh counters. That rumour was doing the rounds about a year ago and makes sense as asset stripping means getting rid of the expensive nice to haves.
Yes, that is the one.
Co-Op is owned by its members, who are also the customers.
Our store was refurbished about 18 months ago.
I'm perhaps being cynical, but that screams "senior management visit today"!
I've always thought they've been overpriced but the quality has been poor.
I must admit, I'm more sad knowing that, these days I just assume any brand that I've heard of is part of some massive conglomorate.
Its been that way for a couple of years, buying direct from Royal Mail is cheaper than the Post Office. Royal Mail made the change before Post Office started partnering with DPD and Evri. For some Royal Mail products that you can't buy at the Post Office like Tracked 24/48 you had to pay an extra fee to drop off at Post Office even, but that has recently ended.
Royal Mail seem to be doing all they can to stop you using the Post Office. Buying online is cheaper and while you can drop it off at the Post Office, Royal Mail put that option way down the list. At the moment they seem to be pushing Collect+ shops - originally a scheme set up by Yodel!
if you have an understanding of the 'burger' end of the market the product Five guys offers is completely different to the product that McD / Burger King offer ( and the chickan products analogous at KFC etc )
altough the former CWS 'The co-operative group ' who combine the former CWS group purchasing functiosn and the managmenet of a stores of a number of the former local co-ops seems to be rather remote from the membership compared to the remaining Local co-ops which have not been assimilated by the centre - with Mid Counties , Central co-op , and Lincolnshire being quite clear in their branding and public facing communication that they are not the former CWS Co-op even if they use it as a buying group ( as the vastest majority of co-oips did when they were still locally owned and run )
Pizza Hut is trying to raise finances in light of budget tax increases that will hit them:
UK Pizza Hut to raise funds after Budget tax hikes
The money could come from a sale of part of the business, or new investment from existing shareholders.www.bbc.co.uk
As someone who is a recurring customer, while I've not had too many issues with them, it's been a very long time since I walked into one of their restaurants and found it at more than half capacity, while their restaurant count has slowly been declining in the last decade (including a few I visited more than once but now no longer exist). Delivery/collection service also seems rather quiet from multiple venues I've used before. Therefore, I imagine they've got wider financial issues that pre-date any tax implications they've got to consider.
The buffet lunches have historically been a selling point, not common elsewhere and more affordable than most of the remainder of the menu. However by closing more restaurants they make this option harder to find. The only restaurant in the West Country appears to be in Yeovil, but they definitely used to have them in Bristol, Exeter and Torquay (having eaten in them in the past 10 years). In Kent, the Dartford and Bexleyheath ones nearest to Crayford don't exist anymore either.
Plymouth has one on the Barbican retail park.
Yes I've just seen, thanks for confirming. Google Maps wasn't working properly the first time it seems.
