Sainsbury's To Cut Thousands Of Store Jobs

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-42791079

First it was Tesco....now its Sainsburys. I feel very sorry for all the workers losing their jobs in retail these .

[naomi24]

Blame people who shop on-line - or in cheap supermarkets. In order to survive any business has to be competitive.

[youngmafbog]

Sainsburies are over priced, I also dont go in there unless i have to because they were lefties.

Most companies shed jobs every so often, its the only way to shift the dead wood and move forward. If they dont keep restructuring they will got the way of Woolworth etc and then everyone looses their jobs.

[youngmafbog]

Do you go in there Mickey to support their workers jobs or do you shop in the German Lidl?

[mikey4444]

YMB....Sainsburys are "lefties"

Really ?

Extraordinary thing to say....any evidence ?

I had a £100 gift card given me by Sainsburys, for switching my water and gas over to them. They also stock a type of ground coffee that I can't anywhere else.

[Mamyalynne]

//The posts will be replaced by fewer, but mostly better paid, new management roles in each store.
Employees have the choice of either applying for these new roles or accepting a more junior position if unsuccessful. Otherwise they face redundancy.

Simon Roberts, retail and operations director of Sainsbury's, said: "We're proposing a store management structure that will deliver best in class leadership and, in many cases, will offer an improved reward package for new management roles.
"The proposals will introduce a more efficient and effective structure, designed to meet the challenges of today's retail environment. They will deliver cost savings to be invested in our customer offer and in our colleagues as they continue to provide the very best service for our customers.
"Our intention is not to reduce overall headcount as a result of these proposals".//

Let's hope that is largely true.

There has to be changes in retail due to the high rate of online shopping, sad though it is.

[Islay]

Thought you loved lidl's - surely you are part of the problem?
Its after Christmas and the sales they aways cull staff then

[mikey4444]

mamy...yes I agree...its competition, but its still sad for the 1000's of staff.

[Islay]

Mikey - support your British stores then

[Bazile]

//The changes involve axing a number of managerial posts in its supermarket and convenience stores across the UK.

Sainsbury's would not confirm the number of employees affected by the move but said it was "in the thousands".//

How many managerial jobs are in each store for them to be cutting thousands ?
Sounds as if they are top heavy to start with

[Mamyalynne]

If you read the full article, thousands should not be heading off to sign on - changes yes and difficult times for some I grant you.

[youngmafbog]

It's here Mickey:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jun/23/uks-biggest-political-donor-lord-sainsbury-to-end-his-contributions

Interestingly he is to end it as they dont agree with Corbyn !!!!!!!!

Bet you wished you never asked. I now await the spin.

[mikey4444]

YMB....But your link says ::::

"UK's biggest political donor, Lord Sainsbury, to end his contributions"

So, doesn't that rather say that Lord Sainsbury is no longer quite as keen on the labour Party as he once was ?

Also, he is no longer Chairman on Sainsburys plc, having resigned.

So how can the Supermarket called Sainsburys, that is the subject of this thread, be called "leftie" ?

[Deskdiary]

We haven't done a big shop in a supermarket for years - We were fairly early adopters of having supermarket deliveries which we vary between Tesco and Sainsbury's, and given the number of vans of each that I see where we live, I'd be interested to know how much of their sales are now by way of delivery - as this must have a significant effect on footfall in their stores.

I also find that a nice unintended consequence of shopping online is we buy what we need/is on the shopping list, whereas we used to find that when we were pushing a trolley round we'd end up buying loads of things that took our fancy there and then. By not making these impulse purchases, we found the cost of our weekly shop when we started having deliveries reduced by a decent amount. So I wonder whether this has a meaningful effect as well.

[youngmafbog]

Mickey, like just about everything else you read you dont actually note what was written, just what you want to see.

"unless i have to because they WERE lefties. "

See you have skirted the fact he is stopping because he does not like Corbyns views. Any answer to that?

[mikey4444]

YMB....you did indeed use the word "were" which I had missed, so apologies for that !

But whatever they might have been, they aren't now.

[youngmafbog]

No, but years of habits are difficult to break.

My point was really more that I consider it daft for anyone in business to show any political allegiance and certainly not donate or you risk alienating a portion of your clientele.

We ran a shop once and kept all politics or anything divisive at bay. Foolish to do otherwise.

[Bazile]

Why has political donations and 'lefties' being brought , into a thread about the uncertainty of thousands of people's jobs ?

[youngmafbog]

//Why has political donations and 'lefties' being brought , into a thread about the uncertainty of thousands of people's jobs ? //

Read the post above yours.

[emmie]

you can't blame anyone other than those who shop online, people like me, though i find it difficult to get out and then the nearest store to me isn't sainsburys.

[Old_Geezer]

Sad to hear.
Sainsbury's issues aren't to do with price or political leanings. Number one is the lack of one basket tills, and number two is the utterly crepe ads they inflict.