Thanks, narrow's it down to approx 500 stores.Let's have a guessing game. Where do you think I work? Clue: Somewhere in the Sydney Metro area.
Ooh you work at Woolies, Roger?Let's have a guessing game. Where do you think I work? Clue: Somewhere in the Sydney Metro area.
Well, I tried to tell the girl on the phone, "You realise that I'm only trained for the front end?" and she said it would be fine.they might desperate enough that they won't care.
TELL ME ABOUT IT! All our stupid Xmas decorations, trees, cards, hats etc were put out a week ago. It's a depressing time!Totally saw Santa hats and those random marshmallow Santas out the back today... Christmas in October anyone?
Wow. That's one big store. My coles is just 9 regular, 4 express and one at the front for smokes, refunds, etcI'm at Camberwell 3221 in Victoria, 4.2. It's the biggest store in Victoria I believe, with 14 big registers, 8 express, 4 self-serve, 3 liquor and 2 smokeshop, with around 1.5 mil+ a week. We're 24 hours and have had the 2010 layout since about July 2008, it looks awesome, only problem is very cramped express lanes.
The Devonport Woolies is massive, isn't it? It does the biggest sales in the whole area.Wow. That's one big store. My coles is just 9 regular, 4 express and one at the front for smokes, refunds, etc
Yeah, the store i shop at is still in that format, as well as the store I'm transferring back to for a bit in Jan.Does anyone remember the store format before the last two. It was a much darker green, probably from the early 90's. I know that Safeway at Highpoint SC in Melbourne is still like it.
Hey guys,
Was just wondering if you could enlighten me on how breaks work. I've worked for the past 3 weeks, and found for my (one) four hour shift I got a fifteen minute break, for my five hour shift I got one fifteen minute, and for my seven hour shift I got one half hour, and one fifteen.
Is this how it's meant to be? Is there a rule for when I get breaks? e.g Every X hours you get fifteen, every Y hours you get a half hour.
Thanks for the help
crap, your shop's huge... :OWe have 6 Express, 16 full, 2 smoke shop, 2 liquor.
Not enough, need more. Weekends = most open and still crazy lines
Today we had staff on EVERY register and it was still busy as damn express alerts lol
What was the failure???Nah you can't. McDonalds has a fantastic online system - Woolies should look at that after the WorkBrain epic fail..
lol, I regularly do 5.5 hour shifts in NonTrade and am expected not to take any breaks at all, let alone sign off for a meal.Ok, this is coming straight from the SDA agreement (the WA one-not sure if you eastern staters have a similar agreement)
more than 4 hours - 10min tea
more than 5 hours - meal break (30min?) & 10min tea
7.5 hours or more - meal break (1 hour?) & 2 x 10min teas
more than 10 hours - 2 meal breaks & 2 x 10min teas
also, meal break has to be taken after at least 2.5 hours of work, and before 5hours.
tea break can not be taken in the first hour of work, or the first hour after a meal break.
I agree with all those Points except for a couple:Ok, here it is: the long-awaited WoWPoS SCO review from me =]
In my opinion the software is really close to being fantastic -
if they can fix up the problems (and do it quickly)
then I think I will be able to safely say that WoWPoS SCO is a
step forwards from NCR - at the moment its not.
You all probably know these problems and have posted them here before but Ill
go over my main problems with it, now that i have used it:
1. the GUI - we all know how damn ugly it is, no debating that, i think the
start & use own bag buttons need to be in a contrasting colour (grey or something)
and perhaps lighten up the background - the dark green is not good! Put a big W/apple
logo or something on there! its so damn boring!
2. signatures - this has to be the most frustrating problem at the moment.
customers have no idea that their signature has worked, and when we eventually do approve it,
there is no processing screen or anything, so the customer thinks you havnt pushed the Yes
button, when in fact you have.
3. Weight issues, I know this will improve over time, but some of the weight issues i had
yesterday were rediculous.
4. the problem as discussed on here previously about produce being placed into the
bagging area in two lots, surely if the machine knows the exact weight from the scale, it
should wait till that exact weight is in the bagging area!
5. The instruction to 'insert coins, then insert notes' is not necessary i believe. some customers
think that they have to give the exact change now, if they cant figure out for themselves
how to minimise the change they get then thats their problem.
6. green bag support - i thought this was supposed to be the main improvement! i very rarely saw
a green bag that worked, even when the customer presses 'own bag' it still says unexpected item, and
exactly the same thing for 'New bag' - something is wrong here!!
7. the way reduced to clear items are displayed on the total - on normal registers when you scan a reduced item
it shows it something like this:
PRICE REDUCTION
2L WW Milk
Original Price - 3.00
________________ 1.50
But on SCO it puts the original price in the same column as the reduced price, so the customer thinks
that they are being charged both prices, it confused the hell out of me, and it got into such a mess that
I couldnt understand what was voided and what wasnt that i voided the transaction and started her again.
Ok the positives:
1. Seperate look up menus! Thank god for those - so much cleaner and easier to find things!
2. The ability to do all our supervisor stuff through the WoWPoS Screen - I really like this.
3. Everyday rewards card screen - no more complaining about forgetting to scan it
Wow, so 7 negatives and 3 positives... Hmm well my opinion is probably pretty biased at this stage, cause
it was only my first shift with it, and it was generally a really frustrating day.
But like I said, if they can fix the above problems, then WoWPoS is an improvement from NCR...
PS. I dont know why you guys thought the voice was too quiet - ours is so loud that someone has taped up one of the speakers on each machine to try and quieten it!
It wouldn't surprise me, I think they have about 11 regular, 8 express (although there are two that are rarely used which are right next to the service desk)The Devonport Woolies is massive, isn't it? It does the biggest sales in the whole area.