Ocado Retail reviews

3.7

69% would recommend to a friend

(331 total reviews)

Hannah Gibson

78% approve of CEO

59% positive business outlook

Ocado Retail has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 331 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Ocado Retail employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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331 reviews
4.0
Nov 5, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good benefits e.g. private medical healthcare

Cons

Not a huge amount of progression and no visibility of pay brackets / development

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Ocado Retail Response
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Thank you for taking the time to share your feedback. We’re really sorry to hear about your experience. Our aim is to provide a positive working environment for all colleagues and also to improve where needed, so please know that we value your feedback.
1.0
Jul 1, 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Learning about new products. Some nice customers. Some nice colleagues and one of the senior agents is really good and genuine. Free foods in kitchen

Cons

Dreary, depressing building - like a workhouse! Repetitive and boring work. The more intelligent you are, the more you will be held back and a complete embargo placed on any kind of development. refund policy. They chuck technology (even when it doesn't work) at every problem and fail to resolve important issues that cost them a fortune. No commercial awareness whatsoever. They make it easy for customers to commit obvious fraud and do not like employees mentioning it. They literally give money away like it's going out of fashion, which is something they cannot afford to do. They then spend millions on stupid TV ads featuring Ocado delivering by boat (something they don't do) and tenuous partnership initiatives with Disney, all of which went down like an excrement sandwich and wasted even more millions they don't have. The customer numbers are bolstered by people taking advantage of over-generous offers and an absurdly lax refund policy. They based their expansion model on inflated custom due to COVID and were surprised when that demand subsided. Quite why they thought it would sustain is anybody's guess! Anyone with the merest modicum of intelligence knows that all pandemics subside. Why would the last one have been any different? So what did they do? They put between 50p and £1 more on pretty much every item apart from a head of broccoli and a small selection of other items, meaning that already-cash-strapped customers could no longer afford the service and left in droves. They then decided to give new customers £25 of their first shop to replace the customers that left, only to find they tend not so stick around when the generous freebies are no longer on the table!

1.0
Jun 20, 2023

Awful people leading

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Salary not terrible. Some lovely people working there and friends made (but sadly treated so badly they end up leaving. ) Free parking.

Cons

Treated and spoken to poorly. Opportunities dangled but not followed through with. Not diverse at all but will spend money to convince everyone we are. Inappropriate comments from senior members including chief of people. One to one meeting to discuss goals just weeks after miscarriage “well we know your 12 month plan, your manager will need to look for a maternity cover” (Just one of the comments while going through 2 emergency operations and a loss)

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