flexible scheduling, but at what cost - Ft perishable associate Food Lion Employee Review

1.0
Apr 7, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

- generally flexible scheduling - learning opportunity

Cons

- high-stress environments - many managers favor superiors/customers over employees (regardless of validity) - pay does not reflect work load - many managers poorly intervene/never intervene in unfair scenarios - made to feel guilty for requesting time off (the "flexible scheduling" is a bit of a monkey's paw) - many locations operate with a skeleton crew due to poor amount of hours allotted to stores (one person takes time off, everyone feels it). Inversely at locations with more people staffed, you won't get a full 40 hours.

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5.0
Jun 11, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Best place encouraging team you can talk for your role betterment, promotion.

Cons

starting pay could be better competitive limited leadership role

3.0
Jun 12, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Weekly pay. Nice co-workers. Mostly nice customers.

Cons

Hardly got to shop any orders due to (1) there hardly being any and/or (2) a certain manager shopping ALL the orders instead of delegating some, as she should have. Dead times as casheirs was a major downside for me, personally. Despised them. Managers being stupid (some and sometimes)/micromanaging. CSM is not the best at her job (though she is mostly nice) and screws up schedules and other things. They can take away your hours out of nowhere. Newer people WILL get brought on with higher pay than you. Hate the company. Used to treat their workers a lot better, I hear. Give more benefits and bonus's and things. Now you get jack all.

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