Obviously, with Tesco failing to track the price changes, the stores have had to set-up their own trackers – the concern is that no-where near the expected quantity of labels had been sent,  many departments have completed some price verification routines today on affected areas,  we have recieved faxes of paperwork showing PV routines showing price discrepancies of more than 67% on one mod alone! – i.e over half of  all price labels on one area alone is incorrect!!,  Compliance managers are concerned that Tesco’s Head Office have managed to pass the problem to stores and that all the flak will be directed at the PI departments rather than the H/O staff responsible for this farce!!

“Traders are required to display clearly their prices inclusive of VAT. For a period up to 14 days, they are permitted under the Price Marking Order 2004 (SI 2004/102) to let consumers know, by way of a general notice, that an adjustment in price, to take account of the VAT change, will be made at the till.”

The Order was amended in December to give 28 days for price changes.”

THIS DOES NOT GIVE TESCO’s THE RIGHT TO OVERCHARGE DUE TO POOR PRICE INTEGRITY HEAD OFFICE POLICIES.

We look forward to recieving more details from you all in the next week!!

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Personel Managers may hold the key to blowing the sharp practices, present in most Tesco Stores wide open.  Among the most interesting are the changes in Managers reviews,  all of a sudden more and more managers are recieving Red or Amber reviews, this results in the managers concerned, not recieving the full pay increase.  Which matches perfectly Tescos usually underhanded methods – they can announce the pay increases, in the knowledge that unfair reviews will ensure that many managers will not recieve them.

Tesco’s own policy is to offer support as soon as anything other than a green review is recieved…..this should include day to day coaching, constant feedback and clear, tangible targets.  We know that this is not happening but would love to hear from Personel Managers with some more clear examples.

Additionally, only Senior Team managers with Green reviews are eligible for applying for the Deputy positions, effectively ensuring Tescos have already picked many of the Deputies, and condemming some senior team, who have recieved a amber or red (some whom have never got anything but a green before, and were shocked to get anything else!) in their last review, to a 10K pay decrease and forcing them to step down or move to the express format.

Yet still the mainstream media refuses to acknowledge this whole affair……  proof that money really does talk!!

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In a sweeping move, Tesco have decided to move away from have specific Trading Managers  for different areas, such a Fresh Food Trading Manager, Non-Food Trading Manager  etc,  and replace this with a single Deputy Manager.  Existing Trading managers will be assessed against the new Deputy Role and those who do not make the grade will be demoted to the next level below – Line Managers.  In the majority of stores affected there are at least three Trading Managers, all of whom will be competing against each other to avoid demotion.  In what is, an already fraught and dog-eat-dog environment, this is guaranteed to make for a very unhappy summer at the retailers.

There seems to be considerable anger at this move, particularly from newly appointed trading managers, whom have spent the past twelve months training to become a Trading Manager (including up to three months in some cases actually fulfilling the role without the extra pay, good for development apparently!) only to find that the role is now defunct.  Why Tesco’s decided to do this to its developing management population is  somewhat a mystery, as this move was first floated 4 years ago – the feeling is, once again, that the executives either simply are not even bothering to pretend to care about their Managers anymore or they simply do not know what they are doing on a month upon month basis.  Neither of which are instilling their store teams with any confidence.

Additionally, not content with destroying the faint presence of morale amongst the Trading Managers, the Line Managers themselves were also told today that Managers responsible for the Fresh Food Deli Counters would no longer have a job, again these managers are facing sideways movements into roles they do not want or, if they recieved a poor review at the end of last year, demotion to the lower level of Team Leader.  Once again, some of these manager have only just been appointed to these roles and feel used and abused.

So this is the response to being trounced by its competitors after the first quarter, its 3.7% growth being declared as “solid” by the board despite being the lowest of all the Supermarket chains. Once again it is the UK staff which are made to suffer.

More to follow tommorow, when we have more information.

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