Finally quit after just over 13 months as a CA, I person wouldn’t recommend anyone to work there unless you want to absolutely ruin your sanity and mental health.
Pay used to be good but now it’s barely above minimum wage yet you are expected to do 5x the work as a regular retail worker compared to another company. Expect to never finish on time, yes you will be paid but not be allowed to clock out until 10-20 past your finish time.
Your first few months will be chill.. training and learning the job mornings, evenings ect. It may seem fun at first but after 4-5 months and you are doing the exact same things every day it gets boring fast. If you are like me and good on tills and fast you will 98% of shifts be put on till 1 or 2, you never get a chance to be faster on deliveries because management never gives you the chance to do it.
Dependant on your store the team will be good or bad. In my experience it was mixed but the majority weren’t nice people. Most of my CA colleges were nice but moving to managers was way different.. out of 10+ managers I had over the course of working there.. only 3 were actually good managers, nice kind and fair to all staff with no clear favourites.
If you are on a shift where the shift leader has favourites and you aren’t one of them.. you get you will get the worst jobs all day and you bet they will let them go home 15-30 mins early and not care yet when you try leave on time you are leaving too early? Double standards is non existent.
Bullying culture at lidl is constant and it doesn’t get dealt with seriously. I personally felt bullied on multiple occasions and was essentially persuaded into not making a grievance because ‘nothing will happen’. Makes you not want to turn up on days because you are scared for the confrontation and no job should make you scared to go to work.
I’d say that this job is decent for a first job or for those wanting to build time management skills, being able to work in pressure and develop good customer service skills but I’d never stay longer than a year. I feel sorry for those who work as a CA their whole life and to my co workers who feel trapped as no retail job pays the same but they hate their job.
A word of advice for people especially on sundays or saturday closes, don’t stay late, don’t let managers guilt trip you into doing extra work and staying a hour late, they cannot force you to stay extra. If you do a 7am - 5pm and want to go home at 5pm go home. If managers guilt trip you which they regularly do and say ‘it’s unfair on the team’.. just go home it’s not your job to schedule more staff. You cannot get in trouble for not staying. As soon as you decline that power hungry manager you will indefinitely hurt their ego and they’ll stop expecting you to stay late.
Once you leave you understand how undervalued and little worth you was to the company, no goodbye from the boss just removed from the group chat and told not to come in for your notice after offering to get people to cover the shifts/give them away as hours are low this month.
Every time I go to Lidl now, I always try to look for them but they're never there.They tasted really good and always paired well with cream cheese or some form of cheese. Anyone know if these will ever be back?
Waitrose seem to sell an alternative version to these but they're more expensive. I'm tempted to give them a try though.
Heeft iemand ervaringen met het terugboeken van een retour? Mijn aankoop ging binnen de garantietermijn stuk, ik mocht het apparaat terugsturen en zou het aankoopbedrag €75) binnen een aantal werkdagen teruggestort krijgen op mijn rekening. Inmiddels drie weken verder en nog geen terugboeking. Ook op mailtjes naar de klantenservice wordt niet gereageerd.
Is dit gebruikelijk bij Lidl? Suggesties?
I admit it: I'm addicted to energy drinks.
I’m especially into Monster (sugar-free, preferably).
I do a lot of my shopping at Lidl in France, but their standard sugar-free Kong Strong isn't great, and the other versions are packed with sugar.
I don't have tons of money, but like I said, I'm hooked. So, I keep an eye out for Monster deals and promotions at other stores; I know exactly where to buy them—and where not to—based on the prices in my town.
But anyway, I happened to be in Spain and stumbled upon these. I stocked up a bit. They’re €0.95 a can, compared to the €1.70–€2.50 you pay for Monster.
Why aren't these available in France yet?
I’ve seen that Spain isn't the only country that sells them.
Lidl could have my money. And plenty of other French people's money too, I'm sure.
J'avoue je suis accro aux boissons énergisantes.
J'aime surtout les monster (sans sucre de préférence).
Je fais souvent mes courses à Lidl mais leurs Kong Strong classique sans sucre est pas ouf, et les autres sont pleines de sucre.
J'ai pas des masses de thunes mais comme j'ai dit je suis accro. Du coup je guette les monster et les promo dans les autres magasins, je connais les endroits où les acheter ou pas, en fonction de leurs prix dans ma ville.
Mais voilà. J'ai eu l'occasion de passer en Espagne et de tomber sur ça. J'en ai fait un petit stock. 0,95 € la canette au lieux des 1,70€ à 2,50€ des monster.
Pourquoi en les trouve pas déjà en France ?
J'ai vu que l'Espagne n'est pas le seul pays à les proposer.
Lidl pourrait prendre mon argent. Et celui d'autres personnes j'en suis sûr.
Hi All !
I'm in a dire need of your help. I can't seem to find the hazelnut pillows in Lidls near me. For context I live in France next to Switzerland and have done all of them and even in other regions, but cannot find them for the life of me.
Can someone please confirm they still exist where you are ?
Thank you very much for your help in my quest for a better life in the mornings.
I know they moved the protein bars and things to the health/beauty aisle, but I've been to two different lidls this week and neither had these where they usually are
Can we also talk about the lid which is impossible to open if you don't have access to sharp tools?
Last week our manager bought a pack of ice creams and "forced" all of us working to take a break to eat one. It had been a pretty crappy week due to absence and we were all stressed and overworked and suffering in the heat. The break was not our contracted break and we all covered each other while one by one we went out back to have an ice cream.
What's the nicest thing your manager has done?
Hi all, my partner works for Lidl as a morning cleaner 5-10am and they seem to have a drain fly infestation in the warehouse. She is coming home with bites everyday as has raised the issue multiple times and nothing gets done about them. Does anyone else have this problem?
Thanks!
Does anyone know how pay works after leaving because with the payroll cut off date which i assume runs from the 15th to the 15th assuming you have already worked your monthly contracted hours could you technically just not work your notice and quit with immediate effect - assuming you had no intention of coming back nor getting a reference
Or would any shifts scheduled after the 15th until your notice period ends effect your pay for the next cycle after you’ve already left.
Like say hypothetically every month they pay you a base of 120 hours and between the 15th of august and the 15th of september (or whatever the actual cut off date is) didn’t owe any hours and decided to leave. Notice period of 2 weeks from say the 16th to the 30th. On the next months pay after you quit would you still get the 120 hours minus any hours you owe or would they just pay you any shifts worked from the 15th to the 30th.
Only asking because I quit and can’t be bothered working my notice.. have no intention of coming back ever and don’t care about a reference and already have a way better job lined up but don’t want to be owing money to the company nor them taking my accrued holiday pay out of my pocket
hi so I work at lidl and I either work bake or freezers and meat delivery. ive recently been told by my Dr that I have raynauds syndrome and she recommended I get insulated gloves when working stock. can anyone recommend any for me please. I have gloves for putting the bake delivery away but these are really thick and no good for doing meat
HI
Relatively new start, I’ve been at Lidl for 3 months and I’m wondering if there’s any tips for managing the till 1 and sco’s by myself. Usually for the last 2 hours of shop being open I’ll be between both and running up and down like a yo yo.
Our sco’s are new and keep showing error messages for almost every single customer. Probably the weights with bakery. There’s also products not scanning, alcohol (literally 1 in 3 customers seem to get some).
I usually am mid way serving through a customer and I have to get up and go fix the sco and then run back to my till. As you can imagine this looks ridiculous. Customers usually either pity me and say about how overworked I am, or they cuss me out and complain that I get up and leave them mid way through. Or the sco customers get angry that the system keeps showing an error over and over. It’s a shambles in at my wits end