Food Lion reviews

3.3

48% would recommend to a friend

(6,382 total reviews)
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Greg Finchum

47% approve of CEO

44% positive business outlook

Food Lion has an employee rating of 3.3 out of 5 stars, based on 6,382 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
3.0
Sep 21, 2015

Assistant store manager

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Training, job opportunities and development

Cons

Bad managers and not following company policy

4.0
Sep 6, 2015

Fun but Annoying

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Friendly, helpful staff. None of the managers are strangers, and regularly talk to you.

Cons

The blame game is played heavy sometimes, both between managers, and onto the workers directly below the managers.

1.0
Aug 30, 2015

Becareful!

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

If you enjoy customers you'll like working here. They just adjusted the pay scale for full time associates so you wont be a slave with low wages ... just mediocre wages and still a slave they do not drug test they do not check your education experience they do not call previous employers so you can lie about everything really

Cons

its a big joke... if you have an opinion and express it you will get fired.. maybe not immediately but it will happen. You will work at least 60 hours a week even though you get paid for 45 hours. They do not have drug testing, and allow associates to do whatever they want really with no outcome especially I you work in AltaVista va. HR is for the store manager not the associates. ( since they are not a union) If you have any kind of criminal background then they will not hire you, they wont tell you that's why.. but If you even put it on your application they wont call you, and if you do get called in and you tell them they will let you know that they chose someone more qualified.. EOE is a load of crap ive wanted to hire someone before that had a charge for possession 15years ago and HR told me to let them know I found someone more qualified even though I HADNT. The store managers are usually incompetent half of them were demoted during the restructuring of the company and were stuck back in the store... the one in AltaVista she comes to work late, no one likes her , and she uses drugs but that does not matter because the upper management does not take anything seriously. Its all about who you know and what you do for them that gets you anywhere

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