It's great to be a customer rather than an employee - Shop Assistant Lidl Employee Review

3.0
20 Jan 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Pays a living wage . I personally found promotion opportunities as few people are willing to step up. Training is provided along every career-development phase. Great for graduates schemes especially in high level jobs.

Cons

Too much physical and mental pressure. In my case I found in theory they said they were customer oriented but in my 5 years there I hardly found any evidenc of that.If/when they come with any ideas it is only going to make your job much harder with less time to do it. Hardly get weekend as a day off. They hardly keep their manager for long within same store so even if manager does try his/her best ,they won't last long and any problems/employee attitude fixed returns again and the new manager has to go through same process only to be replaced by another. Work-life balance only exits in theory.

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Lidl Response
10mo
We really appreciate you being open with us and sharing your feedback. You’ve brought up some important points—especially your advice to management. We’d love to discuss them with you further if you’ve got the time, so please don’t hesitate to drop us a line at careers.sm@lidl.co.uk. Thanks again for all your hard work, and we wish you all the best in the next step of your career.

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