Food Lion reviews

3.3

48% would recommend to a friend

(6,370 total reviews)
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Greg Finchum

47% approve of CEO

43% positive business outlook

Food Lion has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 6,370 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Food Lion employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Retail & Wholesale industry (3.5 stars).

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6K reviews
2.0
Dec 21, 2009

It's an o.k, place to work.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

You have friendly co-workers for the most part. The hours are usually flexible and you can trade shifts if you can't work on your scheduled hours.

Cons

The store is rather disorganized. The meats they sell are old. The managers have a low educational level. Management favors certain people.

2.0
Oct 30, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Holiday bonus but it could be gone any year no warning. Vacaton pay economic stability everybody has go to eat.

Cons

The waste of money that is not given to front line employees . "meetings out of town for a select few cronies ' golf outings " bonuses for store managers and district managers who do none of the work that got the sales or gross profits. Making positions for soon to be wives of regional directors. then making employees go to her meetings to justfy her new job . The promotions of individuals all in the name of diversity not because of merit or job performance. STOP MICROMANAGEING us we have been doing it longer than you have and it is not Brain surgery.

2.0
Oct 28, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

I like cutting meat, it's a place I can do it. It's steady employment at a time when my wife is laid off and I was laid off from the job I had in my degree field.

Cons

I like working hard but at Food Lion there is no end. It's been this way every since I started there in college in 2000. Hours are constantly cut, management asks for more and more to get done with less and less time to do it. For the good employees like myself who work very hard and want very much to do a great job, it runs us ragged. Just this Monday I worked a 13 hour day with 11 minutes off the clock during the day, that's all I had time for. I sat down three times all day for a grand total of about 20 minutes. One person to tend to the fresh meat case, on a truck day no less, is not enough in a market that's doing $45k a week.

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