Checkers
Cape Town,
South Africa
http://www.checkers.co.za
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Since Shoprite Holdings, Africa's largest food retailer which operates 1421 corporate and 400 franchise outlets in 17 countries across Africa bought the Checkers supermarket chain in 1991, Checkers has now become a regular shopping destination. With over 197 stores across South Africa – including Checkers Hypers – and a few in Namibia, Checkers has grown rapidly over the years. Checkers strives to give customers an all-round better shopping experience – from ease of shopping, greater variety and innovative products to competitive prices and regular promotions. Checkers offers customers better value, better quality and better services. Its offers a wide range of quality products. It also provides services in-store to allow customers to get more done, faster. for example at MoneyMarket counters , customers can pay bills, buy electricity, book Computicket tickets, flights and more and with MediRite pharmacies, customers can collect their prescriptions before they even pay for their groceries. Checkers believes there is always room for improvement which is why they will continue searching for new and innovative ways to bring customers the products they want, at the prices they want.
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"ignorance"
Added 08 Sep 2016 by a current employee
I did the Shoprite Checkers learnership and from there, I was lucky enough to get a permanent position as a perishable general assistance. Believe me, my schedule was horrible. I worked 11 to 8 everyday and also work every weekend. The store manager will always be on my neck, telling me that he hired me only because of the learnership and that I should resign. I ended up just sitting home not going to work. Even today, I'm sure he's very happy that I didn't even resign I just disappeared.
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"Checkers Lydenburg"
Added 04 May 2015 by a current employee
checkers as a whole is a good stable well established company to work for. I just think that the top people must do some serious under cover work in the stores to sort out staffing problems, customer service etc.
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"HR"
Added 01 May 2015 by a current employee
I also have five years in receiving using triceps scanner, picking and packing and pick balancing as checker. Some of my key strengths include. Language skills, written communication persuading, Commercial awareness, influencing and negotiating skills, leadership skills including a leadership styles exercise skills, computing skills, creative and enjoys generating new idea, outgoing team player, fast learner, attention to detail and self-starter or dependent ability to work without supervision.
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"checkers review "
Added 29 Apr 2015 by a current employee
From an in-store point of view working for Checkers wasn't always easy due to long hours, small wages/salaries and sometimes abusive managers. Training isn't offered and would doing your job much easier as most of the things you learn there is from other staff members. Its is however faster to work your way to management positions then other companies I know of but you have to be willing to give up a lot of personal time to get there.
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"Mr"
Added 29 Apr 2015 by a current employee
Hi; According my experience having worked for various companies before checkers is the worst in regards with human capital investment..Training; development; support; poor remuneration poor working conditions and lack of professionalism; poor leadership skills; working excessive illegal hours...in a nutshell to be an employee for checkers is a disaster...will never work for that company ever again..serving my resignation notice as week..
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"Checkers"
Added 29 Apr 2015 by a current employee
Checkers really is a good company with friendly staff always ready to assist you in any which way. The prices of some of their prices are sometimes a bit too expensive unnecessarily. otherwise Checkers is a very high quality company and always give back to the communities. However, I would appreciate it if the company not only gives back to the town/city the company is situated in, but also the surrounding areas.
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"Checkers"
Added 29 Apr 2015 by a current employee
Its a company that does not care about its workers. The working hours are horrible. They pay is very little.
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"BAD WORSE WORST CHECKERS"
Added 15 Oct 2014 by a current employee
Nothing matters, especially People. you can give the company your heart and soul and yet, nothing will come from that. Hard work is life and so is long hours. The company is still stuck in the 70's as far as people management and development. The company is being run with an iron fist with no room for initiative. In today's world I would seriously not recommend checkers as a career choice. The company does not offer competitive salary packages. Woollies and PnP is far more serious and in touch with today's economy and their staff. Far from being BEE compliant. If you're a serious investor, woollies and PnP would be my choice as they are companies of repute.
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"pick and pay frenchise"
Added 30 Jul 2013 by a current employee
Ok, so it's not a big company, but they do make a lot of money.Sometimes it's hard to work with customers and treat them properly, because some of them are rude and don't give you the chance to be nice to them, but I have to say that our bosses try their best to encourage us to do our best. They are strict at times, but it's only because they are trying to keep their business running. To them it's important to keep the customers happy, because it's a long-term thing. These people come to the shop daily to do their shopping and who is going to go back to a shop where you feel uncomfortable and get bad service? So I don't blame them for being strict like any other company. We all have our ups and downs.
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