Morrisons, morrisons, morrisons...
Now it's not just lack of stock, but shocking attitudes and DANGER DANGER DANGER!
Here goes:
I finished shopping and noticed a smashed jar of tomato puree on the floor just by one of the cashdesks. Gunk everywhere (unpleasant, so what) along with broken glass including 2 or 3 large bits with pointy ends sticking straight up. In a proper supermarket this would be available for looking at for about 30 seconds max before getting whisked away to tom.puree heaven. Not in Morrisons.
After 2-3 mins of watching staff member after staff member walk past, I asked one of the cash takers who said she had told someone.
After another 2 minutes I shouted across the store to whichever morrison-bot was behind the desk: "There's loads of broken glass on the floor!"
Nothing doing.
A minute later I went to the desk and told the bloke loitering behind it - "Can't leave the money," he said, pointing to what may have been a bag of money on the desk.
Then Simon arrived - the manager who's been with the shop for several years now.
He took action by coming with me to see the lethal mess, then - without actually doing anythibng - said he'd get it sorted out.
So he went away - didn't ask someone to stand there as a warning, didn't cover it with anything, just left it - for a minute or two during which time I - yes, dear reader, chorlton.web's finest - covered the glass with a few shopping baskets.
There was another shopper sharing my annoyance - he said the glass had been there for 10 minutes, and then left, tripping over a couple of cardboard boxes that had been left by his checkout.
Honestly - not only does the shop barely carry any stock after 5pm, not only do the increasingly-surly staff stand around chatting loudly, but now HEALTH and SAFETY are ignored completely even when warnings are given.
BOYCOTT BOYCOTT BOYCOTT
I never thought I'd say bring back Safeways, I never thought I'd say that I'd prefer more souless flats instead of Morrisons, but...well, I'm not saying either of those things, but, currently, the branch of Morrisons at Chorlton is a complete shambles.
posted by Mark Sanders @ 9:15 PM
20 Comments:
Thought for a moment I had risen in sleep and written this.........
Can I defend Morrisons for a moment, it's a fine, new, modern and clean shop with full shelves and one of the best fishmongers I've come across. Unfortunately that's the one in Eccles, where the staff are great and always glad to help.
When I moved to Chorlton from Eccles a few months ago I was glad to see a near by Morrisons. Unfortunately the Chorlton branch does not even begin to live upto the expectations I had.
Is it too hard to recruit shelf stackers and till staff in an affluent area like Chorlton? Or don't enough people shop there to make it economically viable to have more than 3 checkout staff working at 6pm.
People of Chorlton Abandon Your Trendy Organic Markets and Local Shops
Maybe then Morrisons will invest some money and bring it's store into line with what's expected.
:O Don't pay any attention to the above place, Chorlton has become a haven for local shops and the like, I agree, Morrisons is so shoddy, why couldnt it be a tesco's or sainsbury's?
Yep, totally agree. The shop is awful. This is the shop that didn't have Marmite until recently, and yep - The shelves are always empty in the evening. It maybe a revamped store, but it's still the same staff and they really don't seem to give a s**t.
WHY, OH WHY, OH WHY, could Sainsburys or Waitrose not have bought Safeways!!!!!
Oh wow, a Morrisons sufferers' support group, how fab! Vegetables that are individually plastic-wrapped make me want to scream. I do not buy over-packaged goods. But does anyone there realise or care?
Morrisons have just laid more staff off.The problems are getting worse.More management,than shopfloor workers.It,s a joke...
Every Friday evening I go to Morrisons just to buy jobs North West and they never have it out, the staff just grunt at me. Getting the paper usually involves a 20 minute magazine browse. On many occassions they've just brought the one for me! I summise I must be the only person in Chorlton who's currently job hunting.. Given up food shopping there as they never have my favourite veg broccoli or anything else for that matter...
You bunch of bloody snobs - the staff in morrisons get paid a pittance to serve a bunch of whining middle english "young proffessional" types like those that frequent this blog. No wonder they can't be bothered. Best get yerself down to Uniconr for yer rabbit food if it ain't good enough for you and leave the staff alone. You want to blame anyone then contact Morrisons head office rather than whinging about lowly paid, justifiably apathetic staff!
I'm with the person above. You stuck up bunch of idiots...you all belong in Chorlton.
only a massive fucking queer would live in chorlton, let alone complain about the standards of the supermarket.
insufferable prigs.
Is there something wrong with complaining about poor standards at a place where thousands of people spend hard-earned money?
To the last commenter: what a sad, sad life you must have. Why don't you go and vandalise something and stop polluting this blog?
Having read and in a case or two reread again, i have to agree with some of the comments that have been published..yes the staff are miserable individuals, but then they have that fat controller dictating :), having said that! in my experience, it is hard to get decent customers, at least with Safeway, one was used to a decent clientel, Morrisons seem to attract all many of refugees, dole wallys, criminally insane, moaning just on day release (as part of the care in the community programme),think shit don't stink, ignorant, and abusive :) and thats just the staff...don't lets talk about the customers :o
Morrisons n chorlton is rubbish, infact, all of chorlton is rubbish!!!
Too many snobs from down south live there, also too many unwashed hippies who buy their rabbit food at the unicorn.
How sad can you get?! A middle aged man like yourself moaning and groaning about the local supermarket. Have you got nothing better to talk about, obviously not. I happen to shop in Morrisons quite reguarly and find the majority of staff to be some of the most polite people in Chorlton. People like you irritate me immensly with your snobbish, better-than-you attitude. I bet you wernt even born in Manchester, let alone Chorlton, just came and infested the place with all the other southerners sending house prices soaring leaving us REAL chorltonians in the shade. Well shame on you for slagging off the Morrisons staff. They slog their guts out for a pittance while the management reap all the rewards in bonuses, and have to put up with idiots like you all day. So if you dont like the place, do yourself and them a favour, DONT SHOP THERE! Better still move out of Chorlton and do us all a favour!
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i think morrisons are absolutly crap u cant find jackshit.why they keep movin things around ill never know plus theres noboby for assistance when u need them its a disgrace....
Blimey!!!! There is a lot of animosity on here, where's the love eh!! I spent one of the best summers in Chorlton (2006), and all I can say is that everyone I met was lovely, maybe a wee bit inebriated at times but no-one ever made me feel unwelcome and I think that's the essence of Chorlton, always a place to go and people to chuckle with! I even wrote a poem about it! And no, I’m not a tree hugging hippy! Here it is, I had to take a few bits out because it was about some of my mates, but you get the idea ;-) ….
The little suburb we live and play, A home we call ‘chorlton-cum-partay’! On the green or in the bar, you always know your friends aren’t far! and when the weekends finally here, we round the troops and grab the beer. Smiles, hugs and fun are plenty, everyone’s welcome from 90 to 20! They say the streets the place to go, well that’s Albany, Keppel and 4 banks row! From house to house we follow the tunes, ‘its back to mine you loony tunes!!’ With one motto we all try to use, ‘remember this, you snooze you loose!’ They say the people make the place, well that’s very true in Chorlton case!.. We’ve all had times when we look around, Thought to ourselves, ‘This place is sound’… So all I can say before I’m gone, Is get ready guys, COME THE F@*K OOOOOON!!
It was only when I moved out of Chorlton and into the 'trendy urban living spaces' of the city centre that I realised how bloody cold and unwelcoming this pretentious way of life could be! give me Chorlton nights any day!!!!
I work for morrison's in wood green staff leave regularly, management do not give a shit about staff or turn over morale there is none staff are poorly trained, abuse from customers is rife, morrison's done away with cleaners, what do you expect, they do not care staff are paid a pittance.
The morrisons in chorlton is poor - I suspect it's the management - I've never had much of a problem with staff - and even if there was again that would be down to the management. I've read all the posts - and I don't think it's being snobby to complain about the standard at the store - I wouldn't blame the staff which deal with the customers - but I do support the idea of complaining to headoffice about this morrisons store - maybe it'll change then??
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