Scotmid Reviews

3.2

48% would recommend to a friend

(187 total reviews)
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John R. Brodie

56% approve of CEO

42% positive business outlook

Scotmid has an employee rating of 3.2 out of 5 stars, based on 187 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Scotmid employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail and wholesale industry (3.6 stars).

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187 reviews
1.0
7 Dec 2024
Recommend
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Pros

None. There are no benefits to working at a Scotmid that other similar stores don't also offer.

Cons

You often don't know your working hours as they change on a week to week basis with no consistency and you often don't get told until the day before the weeks rota starts. Payed minimum wage for a single job despite the fact we have to work the tills, and stock the shelves, and work in a mail room, and work in a kitchen, and we aren't given the resources to do any of them. Permanently understaffed, often requiring the only two workers to be behind the tills most of the day, despite the fact there's 20 jobs to be done each day. The bare "legal" minimum time for breaks, even in the late shifts when the workers have to have their dinner, they still only get given 20 minutes. No progression for most of the staff and there's no benefit to progression anyway since they pay barely increases but the jobs do. People being forced to get promotions in order to increase their hours since we're chronically underpaid, in fact we're the lowest paid convenience store employees in the country. Nepotism, the store suffers from sever nepotism as a quarter of the employees are related to other employees at the same store. And those staff members get preferential treatment.

1.0
6 Oct 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Staff discount scheme. That's it

Cons

Bullied by management into 16 hour shifts and unpaid overtime. Unreasonable workload. Illegal shifts. Union committee is made up of people who are favoured at head office. Staffing levels terrible. Wage terrible. If you practically want to throw your life away then this is for you

2.0
11 Apr 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Once you get to management you will likely be guaranteed at least 24 hours work per week...that's about it? HR are too scared to let managers fire anyone incase it comes back on them. If you want some time off, just cry mental health and you'll get all the time you need.

Cons

Rock bottom wages, if they could pay you less, they would. Supervisors get the worst deal, 40p above minimum wage to run the store and keep the store trading safely and legally. Constantly cutting budget hours from stores, while introducing more work. Introducing new Food To Go ranges which go from the packaging into the bin, via the oven, complete waste of time and money. All stores have a bakery, some stores also have a Post Office, which leads to bakery managers, Post Office managers and regional managers emailing or visiting and demanding attention and all claiming to be the number 1 priority.

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