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How much does Co-op Food pay retail and sales assistants per hour?
£8.38–9.00 from 125 retail and sales assistants at Co-op Food
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Best thing
Great pay and extra pay for holiday. Always the chance to pick up extra hours.
Worst thing
Sometimes ask to do overtime at short notice
Customer service assistant, November 2020
- £9.00 per hour
- 18–20 years old
- Less than a year experience
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Best thing
Getting paid
Worst thing
It’s hard to have time off
Sales assistant, November 2020
- £8.90 per hour
- Under 18 years old
- 1–3 years experience
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Best thing
The people and the pay
Worst thing
The timings of when the delivery’s arrive
Sales assistant, November 2020
- £9.00 per hour
- Under 18 years old
- Less than a year experience
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Best thing
Getting to give people good customer service and make their day
Worst thing
The lack of teamwork and communication, sometimes some not so pleasant customers. During busy periods till staff are expected to do too much!
CTM, November 2020
- £9.00 per hour
- 21–24 years old
- 1–3 years experience
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Best thing
The team and community, good customers
Worst thing
We get a few bad customers and we sometimes get mixed shifts
CTM, November 2020
- £9.00 per hour
- 18–20 years old
- Less than a year experience
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Best thing
Staff and environment
Worst thing
Amount of work and not enough time
Customer assistant, November 2020
- £9.00 per hour
- 18–20 years old
- Less than a year experience
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Best thing
The people
Worst thing
Unable to plan ahead
Ctm, October 2020
- £9.00 per hour
- 25 or older
- 1–3 years experience
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Best thing
Team members
Worst thing
Not enough hours to do what needs doing
Ctm, October 2020
- £9.00 per hour
- 25 or older
- 1–3 years experience
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Best thing
The pay and customers
Worst thing
Everything else
Customer service assistant, September 2020
- £9.00 per hour
- 25 or older
- More than 3 years experience
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Best thing
team work
Worst thing
stressful of people not doing their job right
Customer service assistant, August 2020
- £8.90 per hour
- 25 or older
- More than 3 years experience
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Best thing
I like doing the opening shift because I get to see the sunrise.
Me and my co-workers have a laugh together
Worst thing
Don't always get my legal breaks
Don't always get enough help
Customer service assistant, July 2020
- £8.74 per hour
- 18–20 years old
- More than 3 years experience
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Best thing
Meeting the customers needs
Worst thing
Rude customers
Customer team member, July 2020
- £9.00 per hour
- 25 or older
- 1–3 years experience
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Best thing
I get paid
Worst thing
Pressure, high pressure environment. No team work, bullies
Customer assistant, July 2020
- £9.00 per hour
- 25 or older
- Less than a year experience
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Best thing
Best team and best manager
Worst thing
Worst is always change new staff and second manager.
They not check to my shift and hour but sometimes they are mistaken in my hours.Customer service, June 2020
- Manages people
- £9.00 per hour
- 21–24 years old
- More than 3 years experience
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Best thing
Good hours
Worst thing
Left do it what you want no work instructions thus some staff do no work
Cashier, June 2020
- £11.80 per hour
- 25 or older
- More than 3 years experience
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Best thing
Can work at your own pace
Worst thing
Customers
Customer team member, April 2020
- £9.00 per hour
- 18–20 years old
- 1–3 years experience
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Best thing
I.m left to get in with it
Worst thing
Heavy lifting too much stock
Customer service assistant, March 2020
- £8.57 per hour
- 25 or older
- More than 3 years experience
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Best thing
Relatively basic work, friendly staff, fair pay
Worst thing
Difficult to get recognised for achievements, takes too long to progress in the roll, last minute changed to the Rota, heavy workloads and understaffing
Customer team member, February 2020
- £8.57 per hour
- 18–20 years old
- 1–3 years experience
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Best thing
Meeting the customers
Worst thing
Too many jobs to do not enough staff to do them
Customer team member, February 2020
- £8.54 per hour
- 45–54 years old
- More than 3 years experience
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Best thing
The people I work with
Worst thing
Manager not realising we know more about our customers needs as most of us live locally than he does
Customer team member, February 2020
- £9.00 per hour
- 55–64 years old
- More than 3 years experience
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Best thing
I work with some great people.
Worst thing
Not enough staff to run store properly.
Customer team member, February 2020
- £8.46 per hour
- 45–54 years old
- More than 3 years experience
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Best thing
Colleagues
Worst thing
Working weekends and late nights
Customer assistant, February 2020
- £8.53 per hour
- 45–54 years old
- More than 3 years experience
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Best thing
Being multi skilled
Worst thing
Hours /availability
Customer team member, February 2020
- £8.57 per hour
- 45–54 years old
- More than 3 years experience
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Best thing
People I work with and meeting customers
Worst thing
Less staff and no change in work load
Customer service assistant, February 2020
- £8.21 per hour
- 45–54 years old
- More than 3 years experience
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Best thing
Doing cash
Worst thing
Dealing with the public
Customer team member, February 2020
- £14,500 per year, working a 32 hour week
- 55–64 years old
- More than 3 years experience
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Best thing
The team I work with and slot of the customers
Worst thing
Pay
ThievesCustomer team member, February 2020
- £8.57 per hour
- 45–54 years old
- More than 3 years experience
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Worst thing
Bullying, whispers, often shouted at for no reason or when a manager is stressed talked to like dirt
Customer team member, February 2020
- £8.60 per hour
- 18–20 years old
- 1–3 years experience
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Best thing
Colleagues
Worst thing
Expected to do more than one job at a time
Cashier, February 2020
- £8.57 per hour
- 45–54 years old
- 1–3 years experience
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Best thing
Meeting people
Worst thing
Safety and shoplifters
Customer team member, February 2020
- £8.78 per hour
- 45–54 years old
- More than 3 years experience
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Best thing
Decent level of pay. Shifts are reasonable (no super late or super early shifts, between 6am and 10pm)
Worst thing
Unreasonable customers
Not enough staff or hours to complete tasks to a good standard (1 person doing the workload of 2). Can be very stressful since you are given more work than what is realistically achievable. Especially around Christmas.Customer team member, February 2020
- £9.00 per hour
- 21–24 years old
- 1–3 years experience
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Best thing
Relatively stress free
Worst thing
Sometimes boring
Customer team member, January 2020
- £8.38 per hour
- 18–20 years old
- Less than a year experience
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Best thing
Working with the boys
Worst thing
The customers
Customer team member, January 2020
- £8.75 per hour
- 18–20 years old
- 1–3 years experience
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Best thing
The team spirit and how funny they are
Worst thing
Some of the customer and how much we have to do at night to get the shop ready for the next day
Customer assistant, January 2020
- £8.38 per hour
- 18–20 years old
- Less than a year experience
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Best thing
The people I work with.
Customer team member, January 2020
- £8.36 per hour
- 25–34 years old
- Less than a year experience
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Best thing
Colleague discount
Worst thing
Lack of hours. We are contracted to 16 but average 25 however when everyone wants more hours, instead of giving them they just hire another person. Give staff the option to increase contracts before they employ more
Customer team member, November 2019
- £8.38 per hour
- 21–24 years old
- Less than a year experience
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Best thing
The people
Worst thing
Can be hard work
Customer team member, November 2019
- £8.57 per hour
- 21–24 years old
- Less than a year experience
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Best thing
Being social and meeting new people
Worst thing
Being understaffed in an evening and not much holiday as a student I need time off for uni, so when I take holiday for uni trips etc, I don’t have any more holiday to use for myself.
Customer team member, September 2019
- £8.57 per hour
- 21–24 years old
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Worst thing
Staff at risk all the time
Customer team member, September 2019
- £8.71 per hour
- 21–24 years old
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Best thing
Social contact
Worst thing
Working 1 on 1 shifts
Customer team member, September 2019
- £7.68 per hour
- 55–64 years old
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Best thing
most of the customers
Worst thing
not enough hours in the day to do your job
Customer team member, September 2019
- £8.57 per hour
- 55–64 years old
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Best thing
Staff and customers
Worst thing
Some rude customers and not enough staff
Customer team member, September 2019
- £8.15 per hour
- 25 or older
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Best thing
Some of our customers
Worst thing
Some off the people I work with
Customer team member, September 2019
- £8.67 per hour
- 25 or older
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Best thing
Meeting and helping people
Worst thing
Management.
Customer service assistant, September 2019
- £8.38 per hour
- 25 or older
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Best thing
Working with the team
Worst thing
Grumpy customers
Customer team member, September 2019
- £8.38 per hour
- 18–20 years old
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Best thing
I work hard and I get along with my coleagues
Worst thing
There is too much to do like putting papers out/magazines sorting bread making sure its date rotated putting and facing up cakes and sorting and putting out tobacco and cigarettes while having to serve customers on the tills and where constantly running back and forth between jobs
Customer team member, September 2019
- £8.50 per hour
- 21–24 years old
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Best thing
Meeting different people
Worst thing
Not enough people to do jobs involved day to day
Customer advisor, September 2019
- £8.50 per hour
- 25 or older
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Best thing
Customers are lovely
Worst thing
Not enough hours
Customer team member, September 2019
- £8.58 per hour
- 21–24 years old
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Best thing
The customers and the store team
Worst thing
Shop lifting and abusive customers although the company is doing all they can to protect the staff
Customer team member, September 2019
- £9.30 per hour
- 25 or older
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Best thing
Lots to do, passes time
Worst thing
No support
Customer team member, September 2019
- £8.38 per hour
- Under 18 years old
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Worst thing
Unfairness with allocation of jobs
Customer team member, September 2019
- £8.38 per hour
- 25 or older
Current Co-op Food retail or sales assistant jobs
Co-op Food currently has 354 jobs in:
- Aberdeenshire (2 vacancies)
- Argyll and Bute (6 vacancies)
- Ayrshire and Arran (2 vacancies)
- Banffshire (1 vacancies)
- Bedfordshire (5 vacancies)
- Belfast (2 vacancies)
- Berkshire (1 vacancies)
- Bristol (4 vacancies)
- Buckinghamshire (9 vacancies)
- Cambridgeshire (8 vacancies)
- Cheshire (16 vacancies)
- City of Aberdeen (1 vacancies)
- City of Glasgow (2 vacancies)
- Clwyd (3 vacancies)
- Cornwall (10 vacancies)
- Cumbria (5 vacancies)
- Derbyshire (2 vacancies)
- Devon (9 vacancies)
- Dorset (7 vacancies)
- Dumfries (2 vacancies)
- Dunbartonshire (1 vacancies)
- Durham (10 vacancies)
- Dyfed (1 vacancies)
- East Lothian (1 vacancies)
- East Riding of Yorkshire (2 vacancies)
- East Sussex (2 vacancies)
- Essex (7 vacancies)
- Fife (3 vacancies)
- Gloucestershire (1 vacancies)
- Greater London (16 vacancies)
- Greater Manchester (32 vacancies)
- Gwent (2 vacancies)
- Gwynedd (1 vacancies)
- Hampshire (13 vacancies)
- Herefordshire (2 vacancies)
- Hertfordshire (3 vacancies)
- Inverness (5 vacancies)
- Kent (4 vacancies)
- Lanarkshire (5 vacancies)
- Lancashire (8 vacancies)
- Lincolnshire (2 vacancies)
- Merseyside (5 vacancies)
- Norfolk (1 vacancies)
- North Yorkshire (13 vacancies)
- Northamptonshire (4 vacancies)
- Northumberland (11 vacancies)
- Nottinghamshire (7 vacancies)
- Oxfordshire (2 vacancies)
- Perth and Kinross (1 vacancies)
- Powys (3 vacancies)
- Renfrewshire (1 vacancies)
- Roxburgh, Ettrick and Lauderdale (2 vacancies)
- Shropshire (5 vacancies)
- Somerset (4 vacancies)
- South Glamorgan (1 vacancies)
- South Yorkshire (10 vacancies)
- Staffordshire (3 vacancies)
- Stirling and Falkirk (1 vacancies)
- Suffolk (3 vacancies)
- Surrey (5 vacancies)
- Tyne & Wear (4 vacancies)
- Warwickshire (3 vacancies)
- West Glamorgan (1 vacancies)
- West Lothian (3 vacancies)
- West Midlands (2 vacancies)
- West Sussex (2 vacancies)
- West Yorkshire (7 vacancies)
- Western Isles (2 vacancies)
- Wiltshire (10 vacancies)
- Worcestershire (2 vacancies)
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