Mounts Bay Trading Co

Reviews

• Calm down.

  OK, I am simply writing to defend Maggie's name here slightly. I worked for her for a year after finishing university. I had worked in various retail outlets outside of Cornwall, where the conditions are much worse and much more is demanded of you, and I thoroughly enjoyed working for Maggie. Yes, she is a bit of a tyrant, yes she is demanding, but ultimately that is because she knows what she wants and how to get things done. Her shops do a great trade, and in a place with as little funding and a dilapidated market as Cornwall, she must be doing something right. Wages were always good for the area, good for lots of other areas too to be honest, the staff were fun, easy going and treated me like family. It has been a long time since I have been back in there, it has been a long time since I have been back to Cornwall, but I will definitely drop in and see who is around next time I visit. People, you really do need to calm down or get something more in your lives. Fishing perhaps, or embroidery.

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  Anonymous B.
  Review Date: 31/10/2011 Report review
• I CLEANED THE GUTTERS IN PENZANCE

  My first job on a youth training scheme for £25 a week was at mounts bay trading in penzance. One day I was sent on the roof to clean guttering!! I waited on tables in the Bay Tree restaurant at the back after workiing all day in the shop. I was sent out for lettuces because they were so disorganised. She sacked me in the end because I took a cheque that was not signed...a mistake, I had to pay 10p to the shop for the cheque to be photocopied and returned. I have great pleasure now as I shop in Rock Bottom which has replaced the restaurant. The prices are much less than the rip off prices in the shop and believe you me there is one hell of a mark up. I saw Maggie in there not long ago and said to her' I thought you would have returned to canada by now' she didnt know what to say..she always has been a vile woman with no life but the shops but hey...imagine being one of her sons or worse still husband. We will have to see if the shop survives in the future because Penzance is becoming like a ghost town.

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  Jane S.
  Review Date: 17/06/2008 Report review
• Never work there!!!

  I used to work at the barnstaple store a few years ago for three years, which were some of the worst of my life! The owner, maggie Fisher is one of the nastiest, mean spirited individuals I ever had the misfortune to cross paths with. Whilst to be fair the selection of stock is second to none. The stores are all exceptionally overcrowded and in extremely poor states of repair. I don't know if staff morale has improved, but during my time many quit on the spot, due to Mrs Fisher's general treatment of her staff, as her own personal stress toys. However, the worst feature is undoubtedly the returns policy, which is, you can't. However if you can be persistent, shout loudly and repeatedly threaten (mrs fisher personally)with trading standards, theh by all means go ahead!

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  Dave C.
  Review Date: 30/10/2007 Report review