Stamford gets a new Aldi

Proposals for a new Aldi supermarket on Uffington Road, Stamford, have been approved. The development will create 40 full-time roles., and will represent a £5m investment.

The land available for development was formerly owned by FH Gilman which ran a large plant hire business until 2014.

The supermarket site will also provide 141 car parking spaces.

A council document published ahead of the meeting said: “The proposal would involve the regeneration of a contaminated previously developed brownfield site and there is a synergy with delivering sustainable objectives.

“The creation of an additional out of town retail offer will not have an adverse impact upon Stamford town centre or any planned growth within the town.

“This has been confirmed by an independent assessor who is firmly of the view that the scheme is not contrary to the relevant policy in the Local Plan and national guidance.”

Supermarkets all of kinds, including discount supermarkets such as Lidl, need a large number of staff, including night shifts and part-time staff in all areas from warehouse staff to cashiers and shelf stackers.

Very often, supermarkets still rely on paper timesheets, handed in by their workers at the end of the week or month. The more staff the supermarkets have, the more this inefficient pile of paper will mount up.

Getting employees to retrospectively record their hours worked directly onto paper is not only open to fraud and mistakes, it also makes room for human error further up the chain.

What if employees forget to hand them in? Or managers misplace them? This is particularly a problem with weekly timesheets, as the amount of paper generated is gigantic.

Whoever need to transcribe the sheets in order to input hours worked into the payroll program is likely to fall victim to employees’ bad handwriting and forgetfulness.

Thankfully there’s an easy solution. When employees clock in using our clocking terminals (these accept smartcard or biometric data) the information is recorded by the powerful WinTA software and can be exported straight to your payroll software or made into reports.

The timings can also be reviewed by supervisors to check for possible mistake or fraud – this is protected information and you can restrict who views it in the software settings.

Please get in touch today to improve your attendance efficiency.