Just finished a twilight shift, started walking from the colleague door and you see that the locals have had some harmless fun.
Yes. That is a trolley in every car parking space.

Should fix it. But clocked out so definitely a morning problem.

I was at the self-checkout when an employee stopped me. He removed chicken livers that were £1.82 (£3.40/kg) from the self-checkout and added an item with £3.40, saying that was the real price. I told him that he was mistaken, and he said that he would check - but he came back insisting that his price was correct.

I stood my ground and walked to the shelf with him, where the price was clearly mentioned as £3.40/kg. But he kept saying that it was the real unit price, even when I showed him that both the per-kg price and unit price were on the packet.

At this point I was losing patience. I showed him a lamb leg that was £13/kg but £28 total, and asked him if I could have it for £13 following his logic. But somehow, the price of that was £28 according to him. I lost my cool and asked him to use his common sense.

Eventually he agreed to ask a colleague, who obviously agreed that £1.82 was the unit price. The first employee then walked with me to the self-checkout and made the correction, but didn't even say sorry for the infuriating waste of ten minutes of my life.

I have worked there for 2 weeks as a temp and it's genuinely been one of the worst things I've done, 10pm-6am has genuinely messed up my physical and mental health and today I called in sick 4 hours before my shift because I had such bad food poisoning I couldn't leave bed except to get to the toilet and then I was called back 10 minutes later and was pretty much berated by my manager while suffering with such a headache, 'You know you're a temp! You'll be finished for this!', Like Okay?

And then he said, 'you need to work Monday now to make this up to me!', I told him 2 weeks ago when I first started I have plans on that exact Monday, finishing my Christmas shopping for my parents and then going back to my family's house and hour away (which is a lot more important) and won't be able to make it and this mf goes, "nope you have to!", Bro I don't 'have to' do ANYTHING!

You're right! I am I temp and I quit, good luck trying to find someone else to do that!

I'm genuinely impressed how the workers do it and I applaud you all

Edit: For all the bootlickers , I have worked since I was 14, I was a manager in a customer service job for over 2 years and yes I used to work 4pm-4am I know what the real world is like and I know that I'm worth more than getting shouted at for being ill, this is genuinely one of the worst things I've done

Asda’s just essentials chocolate has gone from 100g, 28% minimum cocoa solids and palm oil free to 90g, 20% minimum cocoa solids and with palm oil in the ingredients.

So disappointing because I really liked this chocolate and now it has worse quality ingredients and a smaller size for 75p when it only used to be like 55p!

My bar I bought a few weeks ago has the exact same best before as the bar I bought today so it must be a recent change.

All this shrinkflation and enshittification happening to everything, it’s just another thing showing the state of the UK/ world today. (asda PLEASE change the ingredients back🥲)

I was working on the self-scan when a gent had a stroke and collapsed.

I tried and tried to get help to shut the tills but nobody was 'free'.

Customers were stepping over him and ignoring me when I was telling them they couldn't come in as someone had collapsed.

People were shouting me to help them on the self-scans. I have never been so stressed in my life.

Eventually the manager caught on and closed up the tills. I was immediately sent off to the customer service desk to serve more customers without any down time and when I asked how the customer was she told me it 'wasn't any of my business'.

I only found out he had survived because he came in a few months later to give us a gift for helping him.

I almost broke down there and then, it had been playing on my mind the whole time.

We weren't allowed to accept his gift...

£145 spent. 0 reward.

0 incentive to further shop at Asda (Even though I work there LOL).

Didn't realise it was this shite. I only usually buy lunch.

Had this delivery today to a top floor flat (3 Flights of stairs)

Am I in the wrong for refusing this?

Before I go any further - I’m not an Asda employee but a Team Leader at my local smallish Co-op but I can’t find a co-op Reddit to post this in. I was on a 2-10 shift tonight and a customer collapsed and died…..poor man came in for a pint of milk and never went home….it was only myself and my CTM on duty, we gave him CPR and mouth to mouth until the paramedics arrived and took over but there was nothing they could do and he died on our shop floor….i had emptied the shop before the paramedics arrived and while they were working on the poor man I phoned my boss who phoned their boss and then their boss told me to shut the shop for the rest of the night…..my boss told me to do nothing more that night (reductions, wastage, papers etc) and lock up as soon as the undertakers had been and the police were satisfied and that’s what I’m feeling most guilty about tonight tbh, knowing that the early shift is going into a shitshow tomorrow….😖

Years ago I worked at an Asda. Over about a year and eight months, there were three separate occasions where someone shat in the aisles. Just in the shop itself. They were spaced out fairly evenly over that time. One was accidental but the other two were full on pants down, crouch and shit operations.

Out of curiosity more than anything, I started wondering whether that was unusually bad luck, or whether this is just a thing that happens everywhere.

Three incidents over 20 months works out at about 0.15 incidents a month per store.

If you scale that up across the UK, with around 600 big Asda stores (not counting anything below a kind of ‘medium’ Asda, you end up at about 1080 incidents a year.

If my store was anything to go by, and it was in a relatively nice area, this means there’s a public shitting incident in an Asda across the UK evenly spaced at 8 hours 7 minutes apart.

She works on the trolley self checkout. Usually evenings/nights. It has to be one of the worse jobs in the world, people huffing and puffing, machines not working, constantly needing store approval etc. Clearly understaffed and yet…

Whenever I have seen her she is bang on it. She never shows any sign of being grumpy, impatient, etc. she always takes the time to address me and respectfully. She helps me without making me feel as if I’m the problem. She insisted I got the Asda rewards, it was a bit quiet, about 10pm so told me to download it and she’ll set it up for me. Then showed me how to use it. A few days later remembered me and asked me how it was going and when I showed her she showed me how to unlock all the spins etc. added about £5 to my pot within a few days and I’m not one for giving my data away lightly but she sold me and was right. I use it all the time now.

I’m often there with my daughter, we like Amy.

A few days ago I had bought a load of stuff from the reduced section. None of it would ring through, even though I’d put all my other shopping through. The scan machine then crashed so she helped me move to another one and sure enough the items weren’t being read and that also crashed. She said “you’ve been very patient, come with me.” She got someone to cover her and walked me over to the cigarette tills and individually scanned every item for me. Said it was important if I’ve driven as far as I had, we’d been to London and decided to go to Asda instead of shopping off along the way, that I get a service I’m happy with.

Just a general all round good experience whenever she is there.

And I want to reiterate. I have never seen her show any signs of impatience, frustration in what must be a very demanding job.

Just an all round excellent customer facing member of staff.

Found this left at the ‘meet the team!’ table

In December, I put a holiday request in for end of May/start of June as my uncles wedding will be on that week. However my manager has rejected it due to Eid being on that weekend (even tho I told him I’d be back for Eid weekend to cover for people, the comment he left on the holiday rejection was ‘Eid week’). Is this fair? It’s my uncles wedding, I don’t think it’s fair to make me miss it. Is there anything I can do?

Went into my local asda and wheeled over to the customer service desk to ask for the key, I said, hi, the disabled bathroom is locked right now and I need to use it.

She said “aye it’s locked for a reason”

?

Then opens a drawer full of boxes FULL of keys and starts rummaging around, literally sounded like a cutlery drawer while she mumbled something about “someone probably took it home”

She eventually gave up and just kind of shrugged it off and didn’t help me.

Wouldn’t you plan better and let all this food go for less a bit earlier in the day? So that we don’t send food to landfill because of your bad planning? How can you look into Daisy’s eyes and tell her you milked and killed her sisters 2 nights ago and now because nobody wanted to pay your price - it was all for nothing? Sliced Daisy has to go to bin because Mr Manager can’t accept bad planning and let go. Every single night, in thousands of your fridges in the country… non stop

Yesterday, I purchased a single item and although with only one item I could have used a self scan checkout, they were all in use, (the store is only a very small one) and there was a large queue at the customer service kiosk.

The lady at the checkout said I'm closing this one now, but I'll serve you anyway, (there was nobody else waiting behind me).

After I paid, I told her now that's what I call excellent customer service and she seemed to appreciate that.

I know this seems like nothing more than inane waffle, but I just wanted to shine a bit of light on something positive at Asda for a change.

I'm a 40-year-old man, and it shows. I have not aged well. Today, a lady working there demanded I show her my ID when buying kitchenware (a set of knives). I didn't have ID on me, and she took the knives away, no apology or explanation, treating me as if I were a misbehaving 10-year-old, saying I couldn't buy these.

Is this normal?

EDIT: I wasn't drunk, I'm reasonably well dressed (smart casual), and had a shower an hour earlier. So, I'm confused why this bizarre denial of service and demand for an ID.

Both double pay shifts now, our managers have done half the work we need to do before we get in so we can get off early. At first when they said I could leave early, I was happy cuz they never let us leave early, even if u finish ur own work, u have to go out and help another department 🙃. But then as I was reducing stuff I clocked, these guys wanted us to leave early so we wouldn’t get paid as much… they kept pressuring us, asking us what we’ve got left, talking to the other managers saying “yep they’ll definitely be gone early”. These same managers that barely leave their offices usually, I had to pause. Well none of us left early, we all took our god given time and I even took a lucky double pay shit soooo🤭

Company makes a dollar, I make a dime so I shit on company time.