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Asda is a supermarket chain in the UK.

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Asda job reviews

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  • Best thing

    Colleagues

    Worst thing

    No duty of care

    1.8

    Asda Till operator, September 2023

  • Worst thing

    No bonuses no incentive to do better no time n half or above for going over hours constantly being asked to go home as management over spends and constantly running out of essentials like tills rolls bags etc

    1.5

    Asda Retail assistant, September 2023

  • Best thing

    Flexible hours, working evenings and days. Always overtime.

    Worst thing

    Equipment never gets replaced when broken. Not getting paid breaks when to busy to have a break, also when working a long shift (12 hours+) they take 1.5 hours off as break.

    9.1

    Asda Home delivery driver, September 2023

  • Best thing

    None

    Worst thing

    Too many jobs not enough people

    2.8

    Asda Employee, September 2023

  • Best thing

    Discounts
    Working with people who do and don’t know
    Free hot drinks machine
    Basic staff room

    Worst thing

    Rude and disrespectful managers and section leaders apart from one person at the store
    Overtime bans
    Lack of hours overtime hours available
    They take away hours from people like
    Contracted hours and cancel booked overtime
    The managers keep stopping people about pick speed and keep saying they’re slow even if the store is busy. They seem to care about keeping money rather than helping.
    Unpaid breaks
    Not enough training given
    Keep stopping store assistants and having a go at them for slowing down
    Managers and section leaders have a go at people for talking
    Unorganised store

    1.2

    Asda Employee, September 2023

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  • Best thing

    Morale between colleagues. They are the true hero’s. Unrealistic expectations put upon them by clueless management who don’t see or choose not to see the reality of the business day in day out, and yet the colleagues still deliver to the best of their ability.

    Worst thing

    Power trip management who are only interested in their own careers at any cost.

    Stress that comes with the job not considered important to management.

    Unrealistic expectations.

    Lack of colleagues to fulfil the customers needs.

    Cuts to hours in every quarter due to “ the needs of the business” yet “the business” has just bought 100+ Co-Op stores!??

    Nepotism within the business.

    If your face fits!!!!!

    1.0

    Asda Employee, September 2023

  • Best thing

    Supporting local charities and good causes in my local community

    Worst thing

    Having to work on the shop floor when delivery has been left

    3.9

    Asda Employee, August 2023

  • Best thing

    Good laugh with colleagues
    Hours are good

    Worst thing

    Management doesn't cater to needs
    Wanted to move location wouldn't let me
    Let them know I feel stressed doesn't help at all

    4.6

    Asda Customer assistant, August 2023

  • Best thing

    Good pay

    Worst thing

    Too much politics

    3.7

    Asda Delivery driver, August 2023

  • Best thing

    The colleagues and minority of nice cusotmers

    Worst thing

    Lack of respect from management and health and safety risks, like no anti fatigue mats (even though we were told they’d been ordered-they hadn’t), too many jobs for 1 person to do but they don’t care.

    6.0

    Asda Host, July 2023

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  • Best thing

    Enough hours
    Unlimited discount

    Worst thing

    No team players
    Stressful
    Always taken for other departments
    Unrealistic expectations
    Poor planning
    No work ethic

    7.6

    Asda Section leader, July 2023

  • Best thing

    early shifts, finished work at 12pm so still have the whole day

    Worst thing

    management are very judgemental and have no understanding to issues relating mental health or physical health for that matter.
    management discuss colleagues to and infront of other colleagues.
    always short of staff yet still expected to keep up same pace.
    store manager likes to take picks on certain people.
    very difficult to book holidays even if you try to do so months in advance.
    over all a very stressful and miserable place to work.

    2.0

    Asda Store assistant, July 2023

  • Best thing

    Being on the road without management looking over your shoulder

    Worst thing

    Management

    2.6

    Asda Delivery driver, July 2023

  • Best thing

    None

    Worst thing

    Rude customer, poor management's, over working

    5.0

    Asda Customer service assistant, July 2023

  • Best thing

    The team I work with

    Worst thing

    Managers are so disrespectful, and you are expected to work miracles

    3.4

    Asda Retail assistant, July 2023

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  • Best thing

    Socialising & team work

    Worst thing

    Pressure, stress, unrealistic manager expectations, not enough breaks and too high targets. Your body never recovers physically!

    9.2

    Asda Warehouse operative, July 2023

  • Best thing

    Working with a close team, clearly defined role

    Worst thing

    Hours, pay, schedule, not set shifts

    7.3

    Asda Employee, July 2023

  • Best thing

    I enjoy my job, people are decent

    Worst thing

    I need to work nights for childcare reasons but I don't like working nights

    9.9

    Asda HGV driver, July 2023

  • Best thing

    Nothing

    Worst thing

    Horrible, rude customers
    Bad break rules
    Understaffed all the time

    4.5

    Asda Checkout operator, July 2023

  • Best thing

    going home

    Worst thing

    being ridiculed by customers , other team members and managers constantly. My manager is a blatant narcissist

    1.6

    Asda Team member, July 2023

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  • Best thing

    - On the road most of the shift, so outside of the politics of the store.
    - Easy and enjoyable job role, with little hassle.
    - Easy Money!

    Worst thing

    - Adverse weather some of the time
    - Some of the sights we see

    9.8

    Asda Home delivery driver, July 2023

  • Best thing

    The people and the pay

    Worst thing

    The rules and the hours

    6.8

    Asda Front of house, July 2023

  • Worst thing

    You get treated with little to no respect. Management do not care about your health or mental health. You have to book your holidays a year in advance.

    2.3

    Asda Cleaner, July 2023

  • Best thing

    Driving in the summer sunshine delivering food to hungry people. Countryside driving.

    Worst thing

    Winter evenings, ice cold conditions and holidays being almost impossible to obtain.

    7.0

    Asda Home delivery driver, June 2023

  • Best thing

    Nothing but the pay

    Worst thing

    Everything

    3.9

    Asda Employee, June 2023

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  • Best thing

    Flexibility, People

    Worst thing

    Lack of overtime, lack of communication, unpaid breaks, no bonus scheme, not enough section leader benefits.

    6.4

    Asda Section leader, June 2023

  • Best thing

    Some colleagues and the customers

    Worst thing

    No enough staff

    5.5

    Asda Employee, June 2023

  • Best thing

    easy to have holiday and a good team

    Worst thing

    always trying to cut hours so shifts are sometimes taken away last minute

    7.8

    Asda Employee, June 2023

  • Best thing

    Nothing.

    Worst thing

    Overworked. Hours and staff have been cut on all departments but the work load has more than doubled making life very stressful. People going off sick due to physical conditions caused by having to do jobs that are dangerously heavy with little or no assistance.
    Pallets of delivery stacked too high to work safely

    2.1

    Asda Section leader, June 2023

  • Best thing

    the pay is great, you also get paid 4 weekly. the people i work with are amazing, i feel very comfortable.

    Worst thing

    the customers like any other job, where my Asda is located it’s in quite a rough area so we get robbed quite a lot.

    9.5

    Asda Store assistant, June 2023

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  • Best thing

    Colleagues

    Worst thing

    Lack of essential equipment and training

    3.0

    Asda Employee, June 2023

  • Best thing

    On own as driver

    Worst thing

    Not paid breaks
    No lone worker policy
    Place is filthy so is vans
    Breaks on road very hard to take due to timescales and road conditions

    2.4

    Asda Driver, June 2023

  • Best thing

    Local. School hours.

    Worst thing

    Managers taking our team members for other debts even when we are already short. Customers can be violent. Managers don't care.

    4.2

    Asda Employee, June 2023

  • Best thing

    Challenges each day

    Worst thing

    The lack of commitment from some staff

    4.7

    Asda Section leader, June 2023

  • Best thing

    Some of Customers and some time the people I work with okay but not always

    Worst thing

    How people get away with thing and don't get in any trouble but if I did it I properly would

    1.9

    Asda Cafe assistant, June 2023

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  • Best thing

    Getting to meet people new people who are working at the same level. Pay is good, holiday pay, free tea and coffee from the machine in the canteen, discounts.

    Worst thing

    The whole organisation workplace has gone downhill cuz of Less staff and more pressure to get lots of work done. Rude, disrespectful, Ignorant, arrogant, careless managers and the majority of the section leaders who don't care about your situation and will keep having attacking people verbally for slowing down at the shop floor and have multiple unnecessary meetings about your progress. I had 4 managers and 3 section leaders attack me and colleagues within the 4 hour shift. They treat you badly, expect you to be motivated and say that you can talk at work, in reality they have ago at you for talking and say "it's getting annoying" when you only talked once after your shift has finished. They take situations as excuses and all this stuff I wouldn't do if I was a manager or a section leader.

    They say they are struggling with hours, get rid of people and the next minute they employ 2 new managers and employ more people in the same department (fire and rehire scheme). Overtime Bans, not enough hours available though they said there was plenty of hours, previous work benefits that were there are gone, miscommunication between all the management and team leaders, haven't responded to any feedback and still ignoring it.

    1.7

    Asda Employee, June 2023

  • Best thing

    Uniform provided, pay, working with people, discounts, free hot drinks like tea or coffee.

    Worst thing

    Not certainty when you lose your job if contract is temporary. Managers and Section leaders are bad, really don’t care about what’s happening and state that valid reasons are just excuses. Unpaid breaks, overtime ban, facilities are not clean most of the time, annoying, boring and repetitive same old music played all the time, you don’t get enough hours when you want them, old technology still being used that isn’t reliable at times.

    1.2

    Asda Employee, June 2023

  • Best thing

    Discounts, working with people, Free tea/coffee machine. Uniform provided.

    Worst thing

    Managers are disrespectful, rude, impatient and put people under pressure without understanding their situation. Like my friend had 5 managers and 3 team leaders saying he was slow just as he started his shift. Stock left lying around the floor at times is annoying as it’s difficult to get passed, overtime Ban, unpaid breaks, not enough hours available though they said there before recruiting.

    2.1

    Asda Customer service assistant, June 2023

  • Best thing

    Discounts, free coffee from a machine, uniform given, paid on time, pay is good, getting to meet new people.

    Worst thing

    Managers and Section leaders are horrible as they keep picking on people to be fast regardless of their situation. Unorganised place, Items and pallets of the shop are a hazard to anyone who may not be watching as they are left on the floor.

    Overtime ban, unpaid breaks, end of many other benefits that were there, facilities aren’t clean all the time, lack of communication, feedback is stated and not acted on.

    3.0

    Asda Employee, June 2023

  • Best thing

    Being able to work with people who may already know and can meet new people who you can be friends with. Free Tea/Coffee machine, Discounts, TV at the Canteen if you want to watch the news, holiday pay.

    Worst thing

    Constantly being monitored, managers are disrespectful to people and pick on people a lot I.e 4 managers and 3 section leaders picked on me and others as soon as we got a login and started picking items off the shelf within our shift. They said your pick speed is too slow we need to meet the targets of 228 items in an hour. They don’t care about anyone’s valid situation if they have slower progress like they say fasting is an excuse for anything. They don’t seem to understand the operatives situation.

    Unpaid breaks, Overtime Bans, Any tea/coffee from the machine that requires you to pay the taste is horrible, miscommunication between the management, not enough hours available though they said there was before recruiting, they get don’t like people to talk at work. Facilities like the toilets & locker rooms are not clean all the times, same music boring and demotivating type played everyday. Lots of feedback from colleagues voice surveys has been highlighted not acted on for a long time.

    4.6

    Asda Employee, June 2023

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  • Best thing

    The best things about the job:
    get be at work with people who you may know if it's in the same town.
    Staff discount
    Free coffee/tea machine
    Pay is good
    TV is available at the Canteen if you want to watch the news.
    Holiday pay
    you can meet great people

    Worst thing

    Management and Section leaders are disrespectful and most of them keep picking on people if they are slow without understanding their situation yet they do the work slow as they want to. Plus lots of miscommunication within the management. I had 4 managers and 3 Section leaders pick on me in one day within my 4-hour shift which ruined my day. They wanted continue picking on me my shift finished which meant I could go home and move away from place.

    They don't consider Ramadan/fasting to be a reason for slow progress they call that an excuse and they seem to not understand or care about what struggles an operative goes through even if it's there first job.

    Overtime Bans - I and others asked for more contracted hours before I could start, they said there was plenty of overtime available and then they banned it and said work contracted hours.

    Unpaid breaks, same annoying and boring music played every time which demotivates people.

    5.5

    Asda Customer service assistant, June 2023

  • Best thing

    Uniform is supplied, working shifts are standard times so you know where you stand, wages are paid on time.

    Worst thing

    Upper management are not interested in worker issues, you MUST work a weekend shift (even if you are a single parent), wages are below living wage, they are not very understanding of illness, as a driver your shift finishes once you have finished delivering not at you designated sign off time.

    1.1

    Asda Home delivery driver, June 2023

  • Best thing

    The people I when with are amazing

    Worst thing

    The job, the customers, the management

    1.2

    Asda Employee, June 2023

  • Best thing

    Colleagues and interaction with customers

    Worst thing

    Lack of communication from above, not enough equipment, not enough staff, not being supported horrible customers

    2.3

    Asda Checkout operator, June 2023

  • Best thing

    My colleagues.

    Worst thing

    Very over worked, not enough colleagues to do the jobs, under paid, file noted for attemdance for being signed off sick by the Dr.

    1.5

    Asda Customer service, June 2023

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  • Best thing

    - talking and making convo with customers
    - builds confidence

    Worst thing

    - angry customers that dont treat you human
    - lots of walking, I do around 10k steps in a 6 hour shift
    - holiday season
    - become more self checout rather than actual human checkouts

    9.1

    Asda Checkout operator, May 2023

  • Best thing

    The pay is pretty good especially for a full time student under 18 like myself and getting overtime is pretty easy

    Worst thing

    Organisation isn’t good at all, trying to take time off is nearly impossible and they don’t account for the fact that I’m in college eatery day that I don’t work

    6.0

    Asda Retail assistant, May 2023

  • Best thing

    The fact that I have to rely on public transport to get around and they do keep that "somewhat" into account, also my constraints with the hours I can work are also noted.

    Worst thing

    Expect to never really be on your own department, getting an earful about the state of your department because you weren't on it, being given an hour to do everything on my department when i should've had several hours to do it all but were on another department, there are a few other minor inconveniences but that is neither here nor there.

    2.1

    Asda Employee, May 2023

  • Best thing

    Good pay and benefits

    Worst thing

    The toilets

    10

    Asda HGV driver, May 2023

  • Best thing

    The independence

    Worst thing

    The managers are inexperienced

    5.0

    Asda Sales assistant, May 2023