Ventajas
I have worked for Asda for almost three years, whilst I have been in University and afterwards. I was able to work around my timetable for university and also pick up quite a bit of overtime along the way. Although I didn't want to progress in the store whilst being in eduation there was a lot of progress within and many of my colleagues progressed to shift leaders and management. I progressed myself within store and was able to gain experience from all areas in the store, however this may have been because i was working in a small supermarket. When leaving University I also was able to pick up hours and move to cash office instead of checkouts.
Desventajas
As said in the title the job does get tedious especially on checkouts, but that is to be expected consdering it is quite a repetitive job. Also there was alot of times when we were without a superviser and left to work on our own. Also within supermarkets colleagues are expected to have knowledge in all areas of the store and have to deal with problems themselves. There were also many occasions where there is a high shortage in staff i believe this is due to limits on hours able to give to staff by management.