Since when did retail stores offer apprenticeships?

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A well known shop on the high street is offering apprenticeships at £6 an hour.

They are boasting about offering a customer service practitioner skill level 2 or retail diploma level 2

Since when did people need these sort of skills in the work place?

Are they just trying to cheap out on wages?

@fairylightsandwaxmelts

Yeah well as I said, we do pay our apprentices fairly and it's obviously all changed since you were on the job

They are taught so much more. As I said. And all of ours so far have moved into leadership roles with 2 moving to head office

[quote SaxendaSummer]@fairylightsandwaxmelts

Yeah well as I said, we do pay our apprentices fairly and it's obviously all changed since you were on the job

They are taught so much more. As I said. And all of ours so far have moved into leadership roles with 2 moving to head office [/quote]
I only left two years ago, not 20, lol.

Unless your company is paying their apprentices minimum wage (highly unlikely) then they are doing it to get cheap labour. You can train people up on the job and pay them fairly if you want them to go into management - no need to pay them peanuts.

I was trained up into management roles twice and didn't need to be paid peanuts as an apprentice to get experience and skills. I learnt on the job and was paid a proper full-time wage for doing so.

@Bedsheets4knickers

OP you are coming across very rude .

Yeah you don’t want to see me when I really am being rude if you’re think I’m rude here.

There are management apprenticeships- you’re not usually paid peanuts though. You tend to be already working in an organisation as an aspiring or actual manager and the apprenticeship course is just attached to your job role and you come out with a recognised management qualification instead of going to night school for it.

i hate the attitude that 'anyone can work in a shop, no skills needed'. Look at all the threads on here about poor customer service.

I've been in retail over 40 years - of course skills are needed, to be a good salesperson. Not everyone is suited to work in the retail environment. There have been retail training schemes for years.

@Ragwort

i hate the attitude that 'anyone can work in a shop, no skills needed'. Look at all the threads on here about poor customer service.

I've been in retail over 40 years - of course skills are needed, to be a good salesperson. Not everyone is suited to work in the retail environment. There have been retail training schemes for years.

Of course not everyone can work in a shop. I don't think anyone is saying that.

But that doesn't mean you need to take a apprenticeship to do so - you can learn on the job. I mean, isn't that what probationary periods are for? To train staff and to figure out whether they're right for the job or not?

There's no need to "hire" apprentices on £4-5 an hour to train them. You can hire them on a proper wage and train them properly, not cheap out and pay half wages because they're in "training".