You will always have something to do! Never standing around. It’s a very fast paced go!go!go! Environment. But also heavily focussed on customer care and being polite and approachable.

Pros

Discount card

Cons

Strict team leaders

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Ability to learn new things
Energising work tasks

Enjoyable and easy-going workplace

Supermarket assistant (Current Employee) - Milton Keynes - 7 December 2019

Working in Waitrose is very enjoyable and fun. There I variety of tasks that can be given to you from simply stacking shelves to serving customers in the café. Satisfactory training is given depending on where in the shop you will be working and there will always be other colleagues to support you.

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Wonderful Workplace

Warehouse Operative (Former Employee) - Milton Keynes - 7 April 2019

It was a cold warehouse and doing night shift in cold places could get you sick with fever, but that didn't stop me from working there and learning new things and collecting great opportunities and gain a lot of experiences in such a big deal warehouse.

Pros

Free stuffs sometimes

Cons

i live 1h from it by public transport

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productive and fun workplace

Sales Assistant/Team Leader (Current Employee) - Milton Keynes, UK - 10 December 2018

Shifts goes quick, loads of duties to do on a day to day basis. Learned to provide high customer service. Tight deadlines to finish a cage. The bonus payout is great.

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Sales Assistant (Former Employee) - Milton Keynes - 31 July 2018

Working with waitrose was a great experience with a good atmosphere. It helped me learn new skills and make friendships. Waitrose is an enjoyable place to work

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good company for to work

Warehouse Operative/Picker (Former Employee) - Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire - 23 April 2018

Couple years ago I worked for agency witch us partner of waitrose , and the environment us very good and good benefits, just left that time because circumstance move different village .

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good job

Picker (Former Employee) - Milton Keynes - 5 March 2018

I was in general a good place to work except a Saturday shift where there was never enough people on shift to complete in time without rushing to finish

Pros

good pay

Cons

night shift hours

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Good benefits but poor management

Sales Assistant (Former Employee) - Milton Keynes - 27 February 2018

Friendly place to work however manager was inconsiderate and expected me to work a lot more hours than I was contracted and able to. Benefits such as the bonus were nice

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good

Warehouse Operative (Current Employee) - Milton Keynes - 31 October 2017

Good place of work,still working here at the moment,not enough hours to be honest but still brings some money,i want more ours and more work,overall very good

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Overall a good company to work for

Distribution services co-ordinator (Current Employee) - Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire - 27 October 2017

I have enjoyed working for Waitrose and have worked in many roles in the shop and now for distribution. I also enjoy going to meetings where we as partners can be included in decisions.

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Good part-time job

Shop Floor Assistant (Former Employee) - Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire - 18 September 2017

Very nice colleagues and good management. Hard work and sometimes long hours. Sometimes get rude customers but not the companies fault, just the way it is.

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Productive and great company to work for

Warehouse Operative (Former Employee) - Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire - 27 July 2017

It is a big company to work for and sometimes challenging. Although it was great to learn new skills and experience different setting of a work place.

Pros

Times went quick

Cons

Further from home

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Fun workplace

Picker (Current Employee) - Milton Keynes - 17 July 2017

A very friendly and engaging workplace. Meet a lot of helpfull staff. Overall a nice place to work in. Meeting new challenges day by day and give the chance to improve.

Pros

Good breaks

Cons

A bit far from home

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Fun workplace

Warehouse operative-team leader (Former Employee) - Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire - 14 July 2017

Great people in there, very clean warehouse. I ve learned how to work with at least 1000 people every day. A good management, funny people at leading.

Pros

Free Gym, pool table, parking

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Good all rounder

Administrative Coordinator (Former Employee) - Milton Keynes, UK - 7 June 2017

Whether you're looking for a longstanding career or for some extra cash at the weekend, Waitrose offers a pleasant atmosphere to work with many opportunities.

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Hard work

Warehouse Operative (Former Employee) - Milton Keynes - 12 March 2017

Picking on lolop heavy stuff is realy tiring. Makes back problems. 3 chambers like ambient, +5 and fridge. workplace is not so frendly. People working there are hardworkers

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Productive and supportive and fun workplace

Sales Assistant (Work Experience) (Former Employee) - Milton Keynes - 25 July 2016

Friendly supportive staff. Challenging and enjoyable. I was there only short period of time there made me feel really welcome I was very much part of the team and learnt a lot of new skills.

Pros

Free lunches, fun and learnt a lot

Cons

None

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Professional team - workers and managers

Warehouse Operative (Former Employee) - Milton Keynes - 7 March 2016

It was a perfect job: correct informations, training on specific jobs, good athmosphere for work. The hardest part was the informatic system. As a picker I had hard times to improve my performance due to the difficulties of the system that had several errors.

Pros

Christmas cards

Cons

low temperature

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Great Place to work

Operations Assistant (Current Employee) - Milton Keynes, ENG - 16 July 2015

Waitrose are a great company to work for. Their pay is very reasonable - better than most places. Management are always supportive and fellow partners were lovely. Have loved my time working with Waitrose

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waitrose

shelf stocker (Former Employee) - milton keynes city centre - 3 September 2014

duties included: rolling cages,stacking shelvs,stock rotation and dealing with online shopping requests from shoppers online. what i learnt: developing my people skills, how to comunicate with new customers and setting myslef tasks to complete threw ought the day.

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