Food Lion Reviews

Pros

I'm not sure that many people would describe this kind of retail job as fun, but speaking to my particular store I found the environment to be friendly among the employees.

Cons

Again the store location is of prime importance, but working in a grocery store in a low income neighborhood exposes you to some of the greediest, entitled and worthless people alive.

Advice to Senior Management

Food lion seems like a fine company and many of my gripes probably involve an oversized ego. I felt like the work I did was worth a higher wage. I deftly handled customer complaints. One particular issue that came up, in my opinion far too often, was a situation where following procedure would result in the customer requesting a manager and inevitably management would throw the assistant under a bus with the comment "just do what they want."

Pros

Well it is close to home. Friendly customers, and friendly staff for the most part. Fun place to work, and isn't very demanding. Plus asking for days off in advance is usually met with an approval.

Cons

The pay is PITIFUL unless you're a store manager or higher up. Raises are pretty much nonexistent and a forbidden work to speak of. Some management at store level feel that they are greatly above you, in a demeaning manor.

Advice to Senior Management

Get back to the old Foodlion ways. All this new change and taking away of bonuses and raises does nothing but make the work place a headache. Also maybe try actually training your employees for the job they need to do.

Pros

friendly, fair,relable and secure place to work.

Cons

not very flexible, average pay

Advice to Senior Management

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Pros

Room to advancement, good profit sharing plan

Cons

low pay, long hours, multiple times had to work double shifts

Pros

The benefits and pay are competitive. The managers that you work with are very knowledgeable. Good job security with good benefits.

Cons

Have very tight labor scheduling model.

Pros

Flexibility in work hours. Friendly staff.

Cons

Boring and tedious work throughout shift.

Pros

I had hour lunch, I noticed that you moved up quickly in a position. Food Lion gives you a chance to work in diffrent departments. They train pretty good, training involved you sitting at a computer for 1 hour or two training. Sometimes training would last all day which wasn't bad I still got paid.

Cons

Pay could have been better.

Advice to Senior Management

Less computer training more one on one interacton

Pros

It is an easy job.

Cons

Very low and unfair pay.
Training was poor.

Advice to Senior Management

Training should be better.

Pros

It was close to my home, and not very stressful. I was just glad to find a job over the summer near my home.

Cons

The pay was low and the work was always busy, but it was never too difficult or anything like that.

Advice to Senior Management

Offer more options to people with food allergies and dietary restrictions such as lactose intolerance, veganism, gluten allergy, and just more options in general.

Pros

The people you work with..

Cons

low pay , food lion standard practice is enforced in some locations but not all . Each district manager
run his or her own program....not one thank you from DM who should be the leader...
negative is what they look for, no ballance

Advice to Senior Management

creat a training program ..it would make your job much easier in the long term..and say good job once a while to motivate your employees to even do a better job next time..