Lidl
Lidl Employee Reviews for Retail Sales Associate
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Good pay, unduly stressful
Store Assistant (Former Employee) – Blantyre, South Lanarkshire – 3 June 2018
It's a good place to work if you thrive on fast paced environment and pressure. The pay is good as are the holidays. I did however watch people do 16 hour shifts with only a half hour break because of the pressures that they were put under.
I learned how to work under stress and produce the work that was expected of me.
The hardest part of the job was dealing with deadlines that were impossible to meet.
The best part was getting your pay at the end of the month.
I learned how to work under stress and produce the work that was expected of me.
The hardest part of the job was dealing with deadlines that were impossible to meet.
The best part was getting your pay at the end of the month.
Pros
Good money and progression opportunities.
Cons
Long shifts and extremely stressful.
a good place to work
General store assistant (Former Employee) – Bath – 6 May 2018
Lidl is a very fast paced working environment, you are expected to work at these standards. You get very good pay for retail and a lot of holiday. The balance of work and normal life is not good at all, expect to work extremely early and late every weekend and have unsociable shifts. There is never any variety in what you do, most 10 hour shifts will be spent sat on a till with just one allocated 30 minute break.
Pros
Good pay, a lot of holiday
Cons
Long unsociable hours
Bad Manager
Store Assistant/Cashier (Current Employee) – Nottingham – 15 April 2018
Awful Management, expect the world and never give any praise for the hard work you put in. Pay is great but expect to be treated like a worthless slave for it
Pros
Pay
Cons
Everything else
Worst company to work for, would not recommend
Store Assistant/Cashier (Former Employee) – London, Greater London – 24 March 2018
They tell you lies, they teach you not to respect the customers and the tricks they teach you do not favour the customer, I am surprised they are still in business. I am now at Asda alot better and happier
Pros
staff card
Cons
The Management training, rubbish
fab atmosphere
Store Assistant (Former Employee) – leeds gipton – 19 February 2018
really enjoyed my time at lidl.
learned how to use their tills stock control
and loved interacting with the customers
going in on a morning i always watered flowers after getting my till ready for my shift
during day if store wasn't busy i would help fill up shelves
and clean store before leaving with other staff
learned how to use their tills stock control
and loved interacting with the customers
going in on a morning i always watered flowers after getting my till ready for my shift
during day if store wasn't busy i would help fill up shelves
and clean store before leaving with other staff
Pros
great company
Cons
none
poor training
Store assistant (Former Employee) – Cheltenham – 30 December 2017
Customer service, working in high paste working environment, taking part in all aspects of work of the store (checkouts, shopfloor, backstock, rotating the stock, date checking, bakery and customer services).
Store Assistant
Store Assistant (Former Employee) – Morpeth, Northumberland – 29 December 2017
Just the same as any other store work really, although you work both the shop floor and the tills as well as being the clean up crew too. The deliveries would come in in the morning and you have to stack the shelves as well as running the store, its not a hard place to work but as you have to pull pallets around you need to be able to be active.
Fun workplace
Store Assistant (Former Employee) – Harpurhey – 10 December 2017
It's hard work and the days are long, a lot of variety of tasks to do. It does get busy and stressful at times but great colleagues and good management at shop level make this a fun place to work
Pros
Pay
Cons
long days
fun team to work with, unsociable work hours, physically demanding
Store Assistant (Current Employee) – Halifax, West Yorkshire – 24 November 2017
Depending on when you start your shift 5am starts consist of putting out stock until we open which can be quite strenuous. Late shifts usually consist of being on the tills as it tends to be very busy, if you get off the tills you're de-carding the store. Some late shifts can finish 10pm or later depending on how busy the store was.
I work with a good group of people at Lidl but I am aware some store managers can be quite lazy and unapproachable.
Good rate of pay and flexible with hours, if you need a shift covering (usually) someone will do it for you. Not as easy to get more hours if you want them though.
Very busy, fast paced environment but will be rewarding if you want to progress within the company.
I work with a good group of people at Lidl but I am aware some store managers can be quite lazy and unapproachable.
Good rate of pay and flexible with hours, if you need a shift covering (usually) someone will do it for you. Not as easy to get more hours if you want them though.
Very busy, fast paced environment but will be rewarding if you want to progress within the company.
Pros
10% discount, good team
Cons
5am starts, late finishes, physically demanding
Great staff brilliant company
Store Assistant (Former Employee) – Cardiff, Cardiff – 21 November 2017
I enjoyed it here it was fun and outgoing. Staff are amazing and you learn new things quickly here not just one thing you learn a variety. Good to work for
Pros
Staff discount
Cons
Traveling so far away
I'd work there again
Store Assistant/Non Food coordinator Manager (Former Employee) – Caerphilly – 30 October 2017
Long hours and lots of overtime was available. Couldn't really take my breaks because it was so busy and management didn't really let me take my breaks. Apart from that it was hard work, allot of grafting and I enjoyed it! I love working hard, makes the day go quicker.
Pros
good wage
Cons
Long hours, never get your break, allot of grafting
Good team, terrible management.
Store Assistant (Former Employee) – Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire – 30 October 2017
Read some reviews for Lidl before working for the company. They were not positive to say the least. The job started out fine, when working away at a seperate training site. But once moved in to official building it quickly went down hill. Management were rude, inconsiderate and you were never considered good enough.
Worked to the bone, always understaffed - better than average pay
Store Assistant (Former Employee) – Launceston, Cornwall – 22 October 2017
Worked like a slave.
Always under staffed
The pay is better than average.
Could finish work at midnight and start again at 5am
High turn over of staff, and many require sick on a regular basis.
Always under staffed
The pay is better than average.
Could finish work at midnight and start again at 5am
High turn over of staff, and many require sick on a regular basis.
Pros
Pay is better than most supermarkets
Cons
Worked like a dog
Good pay poor attitude to staff
Store Assistant (Former Employee) – Page Moss – 1 October 2017
Good pay but management constantly belittle staff! Had money taken out of my till and then put back to say this is how a tobber would act and a manager who tried to threaten me but backed off after me standing my ground. Plus after having pertinity leave i recieved my redunsancy leave notice on return to work! Rediculous
Pros
Good pay
Cons
Poor managment
I did enjoy working for lidl
Store Assistant (Former Employee) – Leicester, Leicestershire – 26 September 2017
I enjoyed working for lidl ,working with my peers and meeting people, I worked replenish ing stock ,they were very good to work for,just the hours were long
Pros
Good work colleagues
Cons
Long hours
Stressed Staff.
Store Assistant/Cashier (Former Employee) – Great Torrington – 15 September 2017
under staffed =stressed staff at all levels.always in a hurry to do everything fast,then there is not a lot to do=boredom.............................
Pros
non really
Cons
5am starts 11pm finishes
Fun and productive workplace
Store Assistant (Former Employee) – Norwich, Norfolk – 15 July 2017
The job was very enjoyable, long shifts and always things to do. The average day was very busy, we had a delivery everyday so in the morning we had all the fresh meats, milk, and chilled pallets to work and stok the shelfs and then in the eavening we had the ambient to work.
Hard work but never dull
Store Assistant (Former Employee) – Llanelli – 2 July 2017
Lidl is actually one of the better part time jobs i've had, the staff were friendly and the atmosphere was relaxed as long as you did your job. The pay is also higher than most other supermarkets.
Pros
relatively high pay, flexible rota
Cons
never went home on time