r/Coop_uk

Why can't Tesco be clear about where it's products come from?

Some products which could come from Israel are labeled as 'could come from Egypt, Morocco, Israel ect ect'

I feel this is to 'muddy the water', so customers don't know where it comes from.

I spend £10K a year with Tesco, I I've used then for all my groceries for more than 10 years.

I've emailed their head office about this, but no reply.

I emailed the general manager about this, no reply.

From today on I will buy from the co op.

It's going to cause me a fair bit of inconvenience, but I don't care.

The merchandise is probably better quality anyway.

Will be a cold day in hell before I use tesc again

If this is true, the co-op has just lost me as a customer.

Probably a silly question, but I didn’t have to resign from my previous job so I just want to know what I’m actually supposed to do.

I started working at the Co-op in July after graduating uni and in August I accepted an offer for a grad role beginning in January. My contract says 4 weeks notice I think. So at the end of November/start of December do I just tell my manager in person or do I have to write a letter? My manager is so nice I feel a bit bad leaving lol, especially because he keeps saying he’s trying to build my experience on shopfloor (I primarily work in bakery) so I can get more hours meanwhile I know I’m not here for much longer.

So I started working CTM just under a month ago, first job I've ever done, around the same time that I started at uni. I'm doing a foundation year, and although I only have in-studio/lectures 3 days a week (Mon, Wed, Fri), I'm commuting 2 hours to London when I do, so total of 4 hours minimum each day, and I technically have self-study/out of studio days the other 2 days (Tue, Thu), which my uni didn't tell me beforehand, and said that it would be good for students with part time jobs because we only have to be in 3 days a week. I'm currently working the 4 days I have (Tue, Thu, Sat, Sun) which adds up to around 31 hours, even though I'm contracted to 16, because my Co-op is really understaffed I guess. I was doing alright with it for some time but I'm starting to suffer a bit, I'm exhausted, getting sick more often and I don't have enough time to work on my schoolwork, and I definitely don't have time to relax/for hobbies and eat or sleep. So my plan was to change/decrease my availability during term time, and then pick up more hours (I could even do up to the 39 max) during holidays because that's not a problem for me and I do really want to work because I'm trying to save something extremely important.

I checked Logile and I can only override my availability at the start of November, which is in another 3 weeks. But tbh, I'm really struggling to understand how to use Logile to do this, and also to ask for time off for a couple days in November for a family thing (do I have to wait until they give me my hours to select which ones I want off?)

If someone, anyone, has any advice, I would really really appreciate it, and please be nice, I'm really just trying to work things out over here.

Thank you !!

I have my in person interview coming up and was wondering if anyone has any tips for the day and how the math and English test is like also this is a part time job but would it be weird to bring it up in my interview that I would love more hours ??
Thanks

I was attacked in work couple weeks ago I'm off work due to this i have not worked with the company that long but i have received a letter for a meeting at work due to the person who attacked me has put a complaint i think this is due to the police getting the CCTV and finding the person

The person was asked to leave the store and they attacked me i didn't fight back with the person because i didn't want a full fight in the store or worse

what questions do i need to ask? and answers do i need off the company?
all information appreciated

Had a chat about new contracts that are being offered as a voluntary agreement for the customer facing roles. From what I’ve read about the one I was suggested as the “best fit” it seems a load of bollocks.

For “full time availability”

- Minimum 24 hour contract 6 days a week guaranteed, so you’re doing 4 hour shifts BARE MINIMUM (pointless I already do 30-35 hours across 5 days on a similar base contract why should I do 6 days a week instead if I agreed)

Yes you may get overtime but if your store has unavailable hours to spare you will essentially be stuck being a part time full timer.

- Have to give around 200-250% extra availability against your contact hours so about 80-90ish hours you must be available to be scheduled to work across those 6 days

- Every week may be different shift patters so you’ll have no predictable social life and you may as well sack your weekends off 🤣

- Involuntary overtime, there’s potential you will be scheduled in for overtime as and when the business needs you particularly in busy periods eg Christmas but I feel this will be abused to make people cover sickness/leave etc without questioning first. It says overtime isn’t guaranteed but you’ll basically get given it when it suits.

BUT if you do regular overtime and do it for 16 out of 18 weeks continuously they will offer you a extension for your weekly contracted hours

- The contract also states management can change the details within the agreement AFTER you’ve signed within a 3 month period

Am I right in thinking that this is complete and utter bollocks or am I looking too far in-between the lines?

This is purely voluntary but I don’t think I’ll be accepting anything to be honest and see how it develops into next year, I know some other places have already experienced these proposals and the reception wasn’t brilliant due to locking availability in blocks for open mid and close hours so there was more concern about that with parents, child care etc.