Kwik Save

I remember going to Kwik Save for the first time soon after I was married in 1974. The store stocked a narrower range of products than the local Tesco supermarket but all the top names were there and you could reasonably stock up on what you needed and save a little money. In order to achieve those savings there were few staff about and instead of fancy shelves many of the products were still in the transit packaging in which they had arrived at the store. One big difference in those heady days before bar codes and EPOS equipment was that the check-out operators had to remember all the prices of everything they sold and enter them manually into the tills. None ...  Read the complete review

can someone please tell me when the kwiksave store in brierley hill high street opened its doors for the first time.

Kwik Save has been a shambles since the new management took over, they could not run a booze up in a brewery.
Why someone was mad enough to invest in them recently I cannot understand. The shelves are bare and they have no stock, do they really think people are going to shop there?

I worked in the kwik save in rhyl up to afew months ago the companies had it they cant afford stock,the delivery companies ie warburtons wouldnt delivery bread because kwik save couldnt afford to pay for it,even scottish power wasnt getting paid and gonna cut off the electric how mad is that?and all the store got was emails saying that it was an error (think not they just havent got any money).In rhyl they had no beans or black bin bags for about 4 months and no peas,marmite,coca cola,lemonade etc the list goes on.the staff are great,the security lost his job there to coz they couldnt afford him anymore its a shame but the company has had ...  Read the complete review

After working there for five years I must admit I've seen the place plummet pretty hard recently and its been hard to work in an environment where there is no stock to put out and no customers to serve. The reason we have no stock is due to all kwik save stores being sold last feb to a company called BTTF, we were told this company consisted of old kwik save managers commited to taking Kwik Save back to the way it was before Somerfield took over, anyway this company had to start negotiating new contracts with the suppliers, this took a while, meanwhile our shelves started emptying and so to try and make our shelves look fuller we spread out our remaining stock a ...  Read the complete review