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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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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."

Head Cashier

"Was a good place to work overall."

What do you like about working at Food Lion?

"My job responsibilities."

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

"The hours worked."

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."

Bagger

"Good place for high school students looking for extra cash."

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."

Cashier

"It was a good job for me back then."

What do you like about working at Food Lion?

"People, interacting with them."

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

"Be yourself and relax."

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

"Clean the bathroom."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"They were a good management team to me."

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."

Customer Relations Representative

"The company that takes care of their associates and customers."

What do you like about working at Food Lion?

"There's a lot of room to grow in the company. They value their associates and customers. They will try to please the customers."

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

"I did not like the way they set up the system of the Customer Service Dept. They have placed more than 500 codes that reps can use. Most of the codes are almost the same and sometimes contradict each other. They are also very strict on code errors. They should train the reps a lot more on the codes and minimize the number of codes to use to code the calls that are coming in."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"They should train the reps a lot more on the codes and minimize the number of codes to use to code the calls that are coming in."

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."

Dealer Cost Manager

What do you like about working at Food Lion?

"Very challenging."

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

"Micro-managing."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Provide the tools needed to accomplish the task."

Specialty Merchandise Associate

"Good place to get some customer service experience."

What do you like about working at Food Lion?

"Ability to work in different departments (cross-training)."

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

"They do a lot of cutting hours, raises are hard to get and when you do get them, they do not compare to the competition."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Be more open to questions and discuss issues with employees."

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."

Food Lion Employee

"I've been with Food Lion since 2015 and the company is not what it used to be. The store in Rolesville has drastically declined, especially when the new CSM Brittany took over she is rude and nasty, and has very poor skills when it comes to treating employees with respect, I'd you have to work for food lion I would avoid the Rolesville store #0669"

Person You Work For 1 / 5 People You Work With 2 / 5 Work Setting 1 / 5
Support You Get 1 / 5 Rewards You Receive 1 / 5 Growth Opportunities 1 / 5
Company Culture 1 / 5 Way You Work 1 / 5
Dairy Clerk

What do you like about working at Food Lion?

"I can't think of anything I like about Food Lion."

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

"Don't do it. The company is not growing. In fact, they are closing stores."

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

"No room for advancement, less than decent pay, poor store level management."

What suggestions do you have for management?

"Make employees wasting time in the break room go home to waste time there."

Person You Work For 1 / 5 People You Work With 3 / 5 Work Setting 4 / 5
Support You Get 3 / 5 Rewards You Receive 2 / 5 Growth Opportunities 1 / 5
Company Culture 1 / 5 Way You Work 1 / 5
Sales Associate
Person You Work For 4 / 5 People You Work With 1 / 5 Work Setting 1 / 5

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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