You can make decent money if you don't mind waiting 15 years to top out. - Various, Manager Food Lion Employee Review

2.0
Jun 26, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

Flexible schedule, benefits, a paycheck

Cons

Will low ball you on starting pay and then you can get a 1% raise each year. Will choose to cut hours regardless of how busy the store is to "make wage." I witnessed unfair raises and promotions given (usually to young males) while other deserving people got pennies. Not a good job if you are the main income for your family because your hours will get cut unexpectedly.

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Cons

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Pros

They (management) can be reasonable at times, such as with your breaks and scheduling.

Cons

My current management isn't giving me enough hours to be even decently sustainable, yet they have open-shifts available that they could assign to anyone, so why not give those hours to people who are severely underscheduled? If you want your workers to work for you, treat them right and compensate them fairly, and stop expecting them to come in everytime you text them just because someone else called out, maybe you need to give the people who constantly call out less hours because they aren't being reliable, and you need to give more hours to the people who do come to work and get things done, because they've proven to be reliable and willing to come in on their assigned days.

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