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On average, employees at Food Lion give their company a 3.9 rating out of 5.0 - which is equal to the average rating for all companies on CareerBliss. The happiest Food Lion employees are Store Managers submitting an average rating of 4.8 and Office Assistants with a rating of 4.7.

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3.9
Average Rating
(based on 52 Food Lion Review Ratings)

Ratings by Category

Company Culture
3.7
Growth Opportunities
3.7
People You Work With
4.3
Person You Work For
4.1
Rewards You Receive
3.7
Support You Get
4.0
Way You Work
4.2
Work Setting
3.8
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Store Manager

What do you like about working at Food Lion?

"As a store manager and then a district manager,I was given the freedom to build the stores as I seen fit. I was able to do this through retraining employees and inventory control. As you can see from my resume this being the second store that I built, the store went from 13000 a week to over 37000 a week in sales."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"When stores build up and show constant improvement, there is no need to shut them down."

Front Desk Sales Associate

What do you like about working at Food Lion?

"I love Food Lion appreciation for its customers and the abilty to maintain a family envirnoment to keep cutomers returning for years to come."

What don't you like about working at Food Lion?

"I do not care for the location that my store is set up at. Its a lower class area, however it gives my a chane to interact with my cusotmers on a first name status because they shop everyday."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"The way Food Lion manages the company, store manager, and department managers are great. They all have a great realationship and appear to have great communication skills because they are always on the same page."

Company-Industry Rating Comparison

3.9
Food Lion (79)

4.6 Highest Rated in this Industry is Lehigh Press (8)
2.7 Lowest Rated in this Industry is Aaron Brothers (16)
3.6 Average of All Companies in this Industry (7,571)
Cashier

What do you like about working at Food Lion?

"I met a lot of people and learned customer service, and maintaining a cash till."

Customer Service Representative

"This was agreat place to work through high school and college."

What do you like about working at Food Lion?

"The ability to be cross trained."

What don't you like about working at Food Lion?

"The schedule never reamained the same."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"They needed to manage inventory to decrease shrink."

Office Assistant

What don't you like about working at Food Lion?

"The company has lost focus on how they want to present themselves, and it's confusing."

Perishable Selector

"Hazardous environment with great pay."

What do you like about working at Food Lion?

"Good pay."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"If you don't mind working in a hazardous environment go for it."

What don't you like about working at Food Lion?

"The working environment."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Keep up the good work."

Produce Buyer

What do you like about working at Food Lion?

"The magnitude and distribution of the products I was buying and the support they gave you to accomplish your 96% availability of product at all times."

Associate

"Ok place to work."

What do you like about working at Food Lion?

"Customer service."

What don't you like about working at Food Lion?

"Janitorial duties."

Assistant Manager

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Have a strong sense of the change you want to make, and implement those changes accordingly. Your employees will respect you more and they will work harder for you."

Meat Cutter

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"It's not a bad place."

What don't you like about working at Food Lion?

"It's not bad."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Be fair."

Cashier

What do you like about working at Food Lion?

"Meeting new people."

What don't you like about working at Food Lion?

"Pay."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Get security."

DSD Receiver

"Food Lion is a decent place to work."

What do you like about working at Food Lion?

"I enjoyed working with the various vendors."

What don't you like about working at Food Lion?

"There is little training in policies or procedures."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Make policies and procedures completely clear to employees."

Engineer

"Food Lion was great, wish I could have stayed."

What do you like about working at Food Lion?

"I could always find something to do."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"It is a great place to work, and a great place to eat."

What don't you like about working at Food Lion?

"They only wanted me to work 40 hours a week."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Do more remodels."

Front End Supervisor

"There are tremendous career opportunities at Food Lion."

What do you like about working at Food Lion?

"There was much opportunity for advancement."

Do you have any tips for others interviewing with this company?

"Focus on customer service skills and demonstrate motivation and a desire for advancement."

What don't you like about working at Food Lion?

"Retail requires working many nights and weekends."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Improvements in the medical/dental benefits."

Field Engineer

What do you like about working at Food Lion?

"The support group and project mgr/leader provided all the tools necessary to correctly do your job."

Food Lion Reviews FAQs

Is Food Lion a good company to work for?

Food Lion has an overall rating of 3.9 Average Rating out of 5, based on over 52 Food Lion Review Ratings left anonymously by Food Lion employees, which is equal to the average rating for all companies on CareerBliss. 88% of employees would recommend working at Food Lion.

Does Food Lion pay their employees well?

Food Lion employees earn $26,000 annually on average, or $13 per hour, which is 61% lower than the national salary average of $66,000 per year. 18 Food Lion employees have shared their salaries on CareerBliss. Find Food Lion Salaries by Job Title.

How satisfied are employees working at Food Lion?

88% of employees would recommend working at Food Lion with the overall rating of 3.9 out of 5. Employees also rated Food Lion 3.7 out of 5 for Company Culture, 3.7 for Rewards You Receive, 3.7 for Growth Opportunities and 4.0 for support you get.

What is the highest paying job at Food Lion?

According to our data, the highest paying job at Food Lion is a Director of Retail Operations at $111,000 annually. Browse Food Lion Salaries by Job Profile.

What is the lowest paying job at Food Lion?

According to our data, the lowest paying job at Food Lion is a Grocery Bagger at $12,000 annually. Browse Food Lion Salaries by Job Profile.

What are the pros and cons of working at Food Lion?

According to reviews on CareerBliss, employees commonly rated the pros of working at Food Lion to be Company Culture, Growth Opportunities, People You Work With and Person You Work For, and no cons.

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