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Primark is a retailer. They sell homeware, beauty products, and fashion for women, men and children.

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Primark job reviews

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  • Best thing

    The other staff

    Worst thing

    Some managers are awful

    8.0

    Primark Sales assistant, September 2023

  • Best thing

    Old contract dont work weekends

    Worst thing

    Underpaid for length of service

    5.5

    Primark Employee, September 2023

  • Best thing

    My colleagues

    Worst thing

    Customers, repetitive nature of the work which leads to it being tedious

    7.3

    Primark Sales assistant, September 2023

  • Best thing

    Being a full timer you get a lot of responsibility which can be good. You get regular breaks if working 9 hours

    Worst thing

    Store manager can be overbearing and is not a people person.

    5.5

    Primark Retail assistant, August 2023

  • Best thing

    I work weekends so it’s basically all students and we all talk to each other and are really friendly. Primark’s the type of place where you never know what happens so it’s always something new every day

    Worst thing

    Customers are sometimes rude. Customers are crazy here

    9.8

    Primark Retail assistant, August 2023

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  • Best thing

    There is plenty of space for progression if you are willing to learn and sacrifice some of your free time

    Worst thing

    As a retail store the number of theft rising drastically, including instances of physical violence.
    Other would be lack of respect from the side of customers. They act different while shopping in Primark vs different brands.

    3.5

    Primark Employee, August 2023

  • Best thing

    The best things are the people, and a few friendly managers at the store. You get 15% discount too.

    Worst thing

    Some managers can be overbearing and nitpick. Sometimes you get put on a zone that no one has been on for the whole day so it is a complete mess and you are expected to clear it on your own. Sometimes you get assigned more than one zone which is impossible to keep tidy alone.

    9.4

    Primark Retail assistant, August 2023

  • Best thing

    Meeting the really nice customers and having nice and fun chats with managers.

    Worst thing

    Being on my feet all day.

    9.0

    Primark Retail assistant, July 2023

  • Best thing

    Easy money

    Worst thing

    Managers can ask to much of one person

    7.3

    Primark Retail assistant, July 2023

  • Best thing

    the people and the pay. very generous breaks

    Worst thing

    the lighting in there and how loud it is makes me always have a headache and feel sick every single shift. i only received training for tills, when i'm doing anything else i feel lost and embarrassed. you aren't allowed to email in sick you have to call, and it needs to be an hour before your shift- a real nightmare when i was in hospital and just wanted to sleep all day

    7.3

    Primark Retail assistant, July 2023

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  • Best thing

    Deliveries, tills, returns

    Worst thing

    Tidying the store, dealing with unhappy customers, had to stay in work for up to 15 mins or such when my shift ends

    8.7

    Primark Retail assistant, July 2023

  • Best thing

    Ive made a lot of friends

    Worst thing

    Managers have favourite workers

    4.2

    Primark Retail assistant, June 2023

  • Best thing

    work friends, pay, easy for students

    Worst thing

    hard to get holidays, managers

    3.7

    Primark Retail assistant, June 2023

  • Best thing

    The wage is mid

    Worst thing

    Pressure, no air conditioning, rude staff and customers. Just not treated right sometimes

    3.4

    Primark Retail assistant, June 2023

  • Best thing

    The money and the overtime available

    Worst thing

    management

    6.0

    Primark Retail assistant, June 2023

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  • Best thing

    Good pay
    Friendly colleagues

    Worst thing

    Managers clearly have favourites

    8.9

    Primark Retail assistant, May 2023

  • Best thing

    interacting with new people each day

    Worst thing

    Managers and rude and hard to approach

    2.8

    Primark Retail assistant, May 2023

  • Best thing

    The job itself

    Worst thing

    The pay and management

    2.8

    Primark Visual merchandiser, May 2023

  • Best thing

    Decent pay and friendly discount

    Worst thing

    Rude and disrespectful managers and alot racist people

    5.5

    Primark Employee, May 2023

  • Best thing

    Get good amounts of breaks

    Worst thing

    Bad Managment, they don’t care about your concerns

    6.4

    Primark Customer assistant, May 2023

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  • Best thing

    Good team

    Worst thing

    Awful physical conditions, make you take 1.5 hours of unpaid breaks per 9 hr shift (so you only get paid for 7.5 hours)

    5.5

    Primark Sales assistant, May 2023

  • Best thing

    It's pretty good pay for what it is

    Worst thing

    Crappy managers who will never move you off tills

    7.1

    Primark Retail assistant, May 2023

  • Best thing

    The people

    Worst thing

    How long the days are

    7.3

    Primark Team manager, April 2023

  • Best thing

    Pay isn’t too bad

    Worst thing

    Rude staff, rude customers, hard working in the environment. Overtime house are bad. Can’t really go up in the ranks

    2.3

    Primark Retail assistant, April 2023

  • Best thing

    The people
    The pay

    Worst thing

    The work load
    The very early or late hours

    8.8

    Primark Employee, March 2023

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  • Best thing

    Team
    Good part time job
    Good salary

    Worst thing

    Customers
    No progress in the role

    4.2

    Primark Retail assistant, March 2023

  • Best thing

    The staff I work with

    Worst thing

    Not a enough staff

    8.5

    Primark Sales assistant, March 2023

  • Best thing

    Colleagues are friendly, helpful and easy to get along

    Worst thing

    Rude customers

    9.2

    Primark Retail assistant, March 2023

  • Best thing

    Independence

    Worst thing

    Workload, lack of time for training

    8.4

    Primark Team manager, February 2023

  • Best thing

    Plenty of staff so plenty of opportunity to make friends

    Worst thing

    Can be quite tedious especially if you’re folding clothes

    7.6

    Primark Sales assistant, February 2023

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  • Best thing

    The other retail colleague's.

    Worst thing

    Managers putting to much pressure on us, whilst sitting in the office doing next to nothing

    1.9

    Primark Retail assistant, February 2023

  • Best thing

    Pays alright

    Worst thing

    Managers can be a bit patronising.
    A lot of standing when working at the tills.
    Forcing you to tell customers about some survey.

    5.5

    Primark Retail assistant, February 2023

  • Best thing

    The area is nice
    Colleagues are nice
    Good pay

    Worst thing

    Customers

    6.4

    Primark Sales assistant, February 2023

  • Best thing

    The staff because very friendly and kind

    Worst thing

    When it’s busy you have to rush and you get put everywhere

    9.4

    Primark Retail assistant, January 2023

  • Best thing

    My colleagues

    Worst thing

    Arguing with customers

    9.4

    Primark Retail assistant, January 2023

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  • Best thing

    Breaks with friends

    Worst thing

    Managers and rude customers

    5.0

    Primark Sales assistant, January 2023

  • Best thing

    Colleagues

    Worst thing

    Environmental- no heating, no toilets on shop floor, no rubbish bin, no cleaners

    5.0

    Primark Sales assistant, January 2023

  • Worst thing

    Treated terribly by managers - as if you’re their slave.
    Constantly scheduled for shifts over contract hour and during school hours (student)
    Terrified to ever say anything to management about shifts as they act as though you deserve nothing more in life but to work for them ever waking minute

    1.9

    Primark Shop assistant, January 2023

  • Best thing

    The job is easy and the pay is just above minimum wage and the other people who retail assistant

    Worst thing

    Managers it's that simple they don't treat people with respect don't care about their staff whenever you go to make a complaint they switch it so they don't have to take responsibility and their communication skills are so bad I wonder how they get promoted they are disorganised and lazy and rely on their staff to do their job for them and now Primark has got rid the supervisor role which was payed hourly to a new manager role which is on a salary so in order to pay for more salaries they don't employ more retail assistants so we end up having to work harder why managers don't work and complain why things don't get done in time

    3.0

    Primark Retail assistant, December 2022

  • Best thing

    Early hours, no customers. Left to get on with my job. Relatively little hassle

    Worst thing

    No one dealing with people slacking off. Being asked for personal/private information on shop floor

    8.7

    Primark Employee, December 2022

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  • Best thing

    pay is good. job is fairly easy and staff are friendly apart from managers

    Worst thing

    some managers are extremely disconnected with assistants. they can be extremely rude and if you complain about management nothing gets done. in my case - after i complained and many others the manager ended up getting promoted which shows how they don’t care what us assistants have to say.

    5.5

    Primark Sales assistant, December 2022

  • Best thing

    break scheduling, rotating duty managers with extra managers to help, staff discount of 15%, the pay for my age is good and the overtime is easy to sign up for hour specific

    Worst thing

    on your feet all day, a lot of children frequent and mess up your zone a lot

    9.4

    Primark Retail assistant, December 2022

  • Best thing

    Good pay and busy days so shifts go fast.

    Worst thing

    Unpaid breaks

    4.3

    Primark Retail assistant, December 2022

  • Best thing

    Pay, range of people, good for first job

    Worst thing

    Bad hours, boring, strict managers, takes forever to clock out

    6.6

    Primark Employee, December 2022

  • Best thing

    Get to know a lot people

    Worst thing

    Large workload, manager are rude

    3.7

    Primark Retail assistant, December 2022

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  • Best thing

    My team members are amazing and very social. Definitely a safe place.

    Worst thing

    The occasional disrespect of customers it terms of food dumping and behaviours

    8.2

    Primark Retail assistant, December 2022

  • Best thing

    Flexibility, simple and straight easy job.

    Worst thing

    Big Workload’s and some managers expecting the work to be done in unreasonable amounts of time

    4.9

    Primark Retail assistant, November 2022

  • Best thing

    It’s easy and fun

    Worst thing

    It can get a little boring

    7.3

    Primark Retail assistant, November 2022

  • Best thing

    The people i work with

    Worst thing

    The lack of management, the lack of management skill, unsafe work environments

    3.9

    Primark Retail assistant, November 2022

  • Best thing

    The people

    Worst thing

    The customers and some managers

    3.5

    Primark Employee, November 2022