This company will fail. - Manager Lidl Employee Review

1.0
13 Nov 2017
Recommend
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Pros

The pay is decent for associates. The pay is good for supervisors. The pay is below average for Store Management. The training program that sent people abroad was broken and flawed. All the good managers and district managers have either left for higher paying and respectful jobs, or were forced out/fired because they called Lidl on their bologna. Oh this was pros right?

Cons

Store Management has more experience in their left finger than a vast majority of District Managers, HQ departments, and Distribution employees. The company is being led by inexperienced children at the highest level of responsibility. Supply Chain has gotten better, just like Helen Keller did when she finally learned what water was. Logistics is a joke. Stores are receiving their deliveries halfway through peak hours/days. They preach Availability as a pillar of sale, yet no accountability is being held to those responsible for the stores half empty shelves. News flash: if Americans are shopping in Lidl for the first time and you don’t have an item, they’re most likely never coming back. Selections? Lmao. The only department doing their job and still drowning is Facilities. Too bad they’re being charged with the impossible, I’m sure all the talent in that pool is about to jump ship.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

Benefits are excellent, most people at the peer level are great. Clear performance expectations. Decent cross functional communication

Cons

Company leadership very European and doesn't quite understand the American consumer even after being in the US so long. Unreasonable expectations are the norm. No upward mobility unless you are European or speak fluent German.

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