Sterge
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I know some who tread these boards have been or are employed by these companies, what are they like as employers?
Started at Coles in year 10 and worked their in total about 10 years through 2 stints. Ending as Grocery Manager
I started when it was coles myer and witnessed the takeover and general change in attitude that came with the Wesfarmers purchase when they began to ship in all their upper management from England.
As employers they were pretty good pay decently for what is essentially unskilled labour, problem is the hours suck which is way a whole heap of the managers are either single or involved with other managers/coles people.
After wesfarmers took over they got very hard on the suppliers knowing because of the market share they could afford to play hard ball speaking to people form head office during my time and they told me they would see grown men crying coming out of meetings because the prices coles demanded just to get on the shelf would put them out of business.
There was a time John west tuna wasn't available from coles because JW wouldn't pay, eventually they came back and greenseas got forced out because coles wanted too much money.
They play very hard at making the public think they care but behind the scenes they are trying to screw suppliers for every dollar they can.