[danny mckim]

Anybody lost any aldi stores in Scotland recently? My dad lost 2, was told one company is going to do them all. Done one of these for 13 years, 3 times a week and never missed a clean. Shows us loyalty only goes one way.

[daz1977]

custy have no loyalty,  they go for the cheapest,   

[macmac]

Probably the company which was on dragons den, UK CLEANING or something! They're from newcastle & said on the program that they were expanding into scotland!!!!!

We need to fight back!

[daz1977]

i started a thread about them a few weeks aog about them taking over the big contracts, and basically got told they wouldnt   i personnaly think this is just the start if it is them, take a few years but you will have a few of there vans in every city

[JSMC]

yip feck them. i just hope they have licence in scotand because i am on contact with local mp and councillors now about these companies.

[daz1977]

these licence in scotland is it per person, or company

[weetot]

I wouldnt want any aldi stores, used to do one, price was as cheap as chips and they still wouldnt pay!

 

[JSMC]

these licence in scotland is it per person, or company

per person. rumlour ha sit the guys cleaning my local cop station dont even have a licence and also the scottish parliament

[macmac]

Do councils take the licsence seriously or have they "got better things to do"?

[JSMC]

they take yer cash seriosuly. it's up to the localpolice to enforce it. However they have loads of other things to do also. i am losing work to the larger companies and so is her dad. It's getting beyond a joke now and yet feck all is getting done form what i see. These comapnies roll in too our small town tkaing all our work with no licence and then disappear again.

if a taxi wa soperating without a licence ye can bet the police would be interested big time but hey ho it's only a guy with a bucket

[weetot]

Theres no licences in Northumberland, and we still get them coming in and leaving, doing work we used to do. its competition and it always has been, doesnt matter what your occupation is.

[sgibsoncleaning]

when i saw thier pitch on dragons den, it was obvious on how they intended to operate.
hit hard and cheap, cut price on quotes, use cheap labour. do one good clean in six method.
the problem then becomes, no one can compete with them.
you cannot quote the same if you intend to clean 100% each visit.
so companies get a bench mark on how much they are willing to pay.
i know a pub chain that are unhappy with thier cleaners but they cannot get anyone to match the price they pay, so they keep the bad cleaners

[stfc]

its not dragons den guys i can say that

[daz1977]

i think they seriously take your money then have better things to do,  if the odd one slips throught what do they care, they still got the money off all the other lot

[tacky]

i used to do 6 in south wales up untill 8 months ago .done them for 5 yrs .out of the blue they tell me nation wide company taking over .ps ur sacked 

[macmac]

Theres no licences in Northumberland, and we still get them coming in and leaving, doing work we used to do. its competition and it always has been, doesnt matter what your occupation is.

Where abouts in northumberland are you?

[the gedi]

what a shame the unlicenced guy that cleans the one in the town i work in will lose it to another unlicenced w/c
W/c in scotland check out the slwcn.org for more info

[weetot]

Theres no licences in Northumberland, and we still get them coming in and leaving, doing work we used to do. its competition and it always has been, doesnt matter what your occupation is.

Where abouts in northumberland are you?

Morpeth, Bedlington,Blyth,Ashington. 

[macmac]

Theres no licences in Northumberland, and we still get them coming in and leaving, doing work we used to do. its competition and it always has been, doesnt matter what your occupation is.

Where abouts in northumberland are you?

Morpeth, Bedlington,Blyth,Ashington. 

Nice, I'll remember that, I'm up the road near berwick, I've been asked to go to alnwick before but it's too far & I haven't got time to be honest.

[weetot]

No bother my friend.