[Gav Camm lammy 283]

who's losing stores

[darren clarke]

an other chain gone national?

[Gav Camm lammy 283]

could well be lol

[james44]

I seen that comming

[Gav Camm lammy 283]

shoulda gone to spec savers 

[Smudgeoff Cleaning Services]

Lol very good Gav 

[Rob Knapman]

Sadly this is getting more and more common with big stores, Ive lost a few recently to national contractors and have noticed the standard of cleaning with them isnt great :. Apparently for them it cheaper/easier to pay just one contactor, but what is happening is they are losing the personal touch............Pay peanuts....Get monkeys

[darren clarke]

Sadly this is getting more and more common with big stores, Ive lost a few recently to national contractors and have noticed the standard of cleaning with them isnt great :. Apparently for them it cheaper/easier to pay just one contactor, but what is happening is they are losing the personal touch............Pay peanuts....Get monkeys

yea but they aint bothered,  u get some one who quotes something like £12 per store then tries to sub them out for £6

[Llaaww]

Sadly this is getting more and more common with big stores, Ive lost a few recently to national contractors and have noticed the standard of cleaning with them isnt great :. Apparently for them it cheaper/easier to pay just one contactor, but what is happening is they are losing the personal touch............Pay peanuts....Get monkeys
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To say that the standard of cleaning isn't great is an understatement. Many of these national contracts have the most snot ridden filthy scum holes on their books. In the past I have gone as far a sending photos to regional managers showing just how filthy the place is. The stock answer is that they are being done on a national contract basis and that is that.
The only way to pick up individual stores is if you find a manager with some balls who will make the decision to spend out of his own budget, even then they are a bit shakey as the regional boss tends to visit on a regular basis, and will happily p on everybodys chips.
These so called national contractors should be ashamed of themselves, they routinely invoice for work that has simply not been done, and the work that has been done is often shoddy.  It makes me angry when I see potential jobs and revenue lost to some greedy toe rag that sits back and counts the money without actually doing the work.

rant over

[darren clarke]

Sadly this is getting more and more common with big stores, Ive lost a few recently to national contractors and have noticed the standard of cleaning with them isnt great :. Apparently for them it cheaper/easier to pay just one contactor, but what is happening is they are losing the personal touch............Pay peanuts....Get monkeys
[/quot

To say that the standard of cleaning isn't great is an understatement. Many of these national contracts have the most snot ridden filthy scum holes on their books. In the past I have gone as far a sending photos to regional managers showing just how filthy the place is. The stock answer is that they are being done on a national contract basis and that is that.
The only way to pick up individual stores is if you find a manager with some balls who will make the decision to spend out of his own budget, even then they are a bit shakey as the regional boss tends to visit on a regular basis, and will happily p on everybodys chips.
These so called national contractors should be ashamed of themselves, they routinely invoice for work that has simply not been done, and the work that has been done is often shoddy. It makes me angry when I see potential jobs and revenue lost to some greedy toe rag that sits back and counts the money without actually doing the work.

rant over

there is a wc near me, whos lads dont even do frames on the hotels they do,  just the glass and that is it

[mlscontractcleaner]

We have the same problem with our local Coop; Mitie Clean have the cleaning contract and the amount of times the manageress has asked to clean the windows because the shop was due a visit from head office is amazing.

Mitie are meant to clean her windows every fortnight - yeah right; they must have a different calandar to the rest of us.

She said she'd love to just hand us the whole cleaning contract but her hands are tied - criminal I think

[JSMC]

We have the same problem with our local Coop; Mitie Clean have the cleaning contract and the amount of times the manageress has asked to clean the windows because the shop was due a visit from head office is amazing.

Mitie are meant to clean her windows every fortnight - yeah right; they must have a different calandar to the rest of us.

She said she'd love to just hand us the whole cleaning contract but her hands are tied - criminal I think

i'm hoping ye dont do them. Explain to her she will understand. Lost a good few jobs lately to big companies

[darren clarke]

a lot arnt big companys, they just get hold of the man in charge and put a stupid price in   then worry about it alter

[landy2]

this is the future for a lot of chain stores and even small stores they are paying half the price in a few years most commercial will be done by the big companys less overheads and only one invoice they even safe money on there own paper work

let face it its better for them we know its not for us but you have to move with the times thats why people are moving into domestic thats were the money is for small one man bands thats something the big boys are not into it would not work for them

[darren clarke]

the problem u have with that is when they lose all there commercial  they try to get as much domestic as poss and if they under cut so what

[DaveG]

We have the same problem with our local Coop; Mitie Clean have the cleaning contract and the amount of times the manageress has asked to clean the windows because the shop was due a visit from head office is amazing.

Mitie are meant to clean her windows every fortnight - yeah right; they must have a different calandar to the rest of us.

She said she'd love to just hand us the whole cleaning contract but her hands are tied - criminal I think

 Dave Morris has got the contract for Co op

[landy2]

floor brite got morrisons tescos

[darren clarke]

We have the same problem with our local Coop; Mitie Clean have the cleaning contract and the amount of times the manageress has asked to clean the windows because the shop was due a visit from head office is amazing.

Mitie are meant to clean her windows every fortnight - yeah right; they must have a different calandar to the rest of us.

She said she'd love to just hand us the whole cleaning contract but her hands are tied - criminal I think

 Dave Morris has got the contract for Co op

thought he lost it,  i know he got m and s   becasue the coop near me is still mitie

[mlscontractcleaner]

Mitie does my local coop; I know this cause I watch the old git who cleans every day; it's the window cleaners who don't turn up

[DaveG]

We have the same problem with our local Coop; Mitie Clean have the cleaning contract and the amount of times the manageress has asked to clean the windows because the shop was due a visit from head office is amazing.

Mitie are meant to clean her windows every fortnight - yeah right; they must have a different calandar to the rest of us.

She said she'd love to just hand us the whole cleaning contract but her hands are tied - criminal I think

 Dave Morris has got the contract for Co op

thought he lost it, i know he got m and s becasue the coop near me is still mitie

Oh right ok, that might explain why he stopped me doing the ones around here