Stores suffer poor staffing

TOM Richmond’s column (Yorkshire Post, June 16) on the Morrisons annual meeting and Sir Ken Morrison’s criticisms. refers to the store opening longer hours but with less staff. This is apparent at their two stores in York. There are often insufficient checkouts open and the “baskets only” checkout unmanned.

I use the small store at Acomb frequently and find it aggravating, with only a few items, to have to queue behind trolley-loads of goods because the “baskets only” check-out is not operating.

I believe that this is deliberate policy to make customers use the self-service checkouts so that they can dispense with staff altogether.

Story surprise

From: Bill Marsh, Beadle Garth, Copmanthorpe, York.

I CAN’T be the only one perplexed by the constant media attention given to Aung San Suu Kyi. A brave lady, no doubt, but she is fighting to overcome problems in Burma, not Bradford. I suspect many people couldn’t even tell you where Burma is, let alone what she’s fighting for, but that doesn’t stop the blanket coverage of her visit to the UK.

Name day

From: Canon Ronald Marchant, Scarborough.

WITH reference to your article on name calling in schools (Yorkshire Post, June 19), I am sure that few children had their nickname given to them by their headmaster. One day, sitting next to him at meal time, he called me The Bishop. Ever after almost everybody called me by a shortened form “Bish”.

Leaders lacking

From: David Quarrie, Lynden Way, Holgate, York.

TIMES are very tough now for very many people, and they will get worse, but most of our leaders appear to be utterly hopeless, as regards coming up with any realistic answers or solutions. What has happened to leadership? Where is it?