Screwfix about to go belly up?

In message , Bob Mannix writes

More info here:

Great screws. I get mine from Jewsons

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That is crying out for some uncouth reply or other ! :~)

Got too excited too soon. On checking the order I found that half of it was missing! :>(

They have moved to a new larger premise .... and tried to hack their system to cope, but gave up and have taken syatem off-line and stopped orders to month end to give them time to get it sorted.

Now I bet the IT manager or whoever project managed this is getting an earful.

Rick

In message , Rick Hughes writes

Except they are taking orders again, but limiting them so as not to overload the system.

It seems that they haven't yet got enough staff at their new warehouse.

I wouldn't be at all suprised to find out that the IT manager thought it wouldn't work in the first place and was told to shut up by some PHB ...

And they are delivering orders (eventually). Mine cam yesterday (ordered

And then sacked afterwards as still being his fault.

Or at the very least, blamed and told to get it fixed.

I bet they had a firm of management consultants in the mix as well so that the senior managers could blame them if things went pear shaped.

.andy

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Welcome to Totally Cynical World!

Even so, I bet the head of Screwfix is s***ing himself. Kingfisher don't tolerate failure for too long.

In message , G&M writes

Indeed, it's a bit of major c*ck up. There was a claim on the UK_Selfbuild list that they are only paying the minimum wage for warehouse staff, maybe they need to offer more?

Wonder what they were paying before, maybe they moved partly to reduce their wage bill.

cheers, Pete.

Who knows, but considering that warehouses are becoming increasingly automated, wages for humans working in them are bound to decline.

.andy

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Surely the opposite. It costs a lot more to get a technician to repair the robot than pay a human robot to pick boxes off a shelf.

Christian.

The robot breaks down each time it picks something? Then Screwfix are definitely fooked.