Delhaize reviews

3.5

64% would recommend to a friend

(288 total reviews)
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Frans Muller

56% approve of CEO

48% positive business outlook

Delhaize has an employee rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars, based on 288 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Delhaize employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Ventas al mayoreo y al menudeo industry (3.5 stars).

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288 reviews
3.0
Nov 29, 2014
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Pros

I think there were plenty of opportunities for advancement as long as you are actively pursuing them. I think their benefits package is about average, maybe slightly above average (as far as PTO/401k is concerned, cannot speak for health insurance as I never used the company health insurance)

Cons

Leadership was lacking, not very motivating. Seemed to me that things were constantly being changed just for the sake of change, and not because it was what was best for the company, felt like they would not fully commit to a change and abandon it or just let it fade away.

2.0
Oct 17, 2014

Nice but

Anonymous employee
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Pros

They are improving their stores with new systems and upgraded looks. The board members, I think, have finally realized that you have to have a maintenance budget in IT to replace equipment and upgrade systems on a regular basis. A lot of their private label food stuff is pretty darn good. I found out that the company who supplies some of their private label cookies also contract to produce some of the Girl Scout cookies. There is a version of the Thin mint in their private label. Tastes better than the GS cookie. They have comfortable offices with walls that are 4 foot high. Not quite the dreaded open office system but it seems they are moving in that direction. The people are what I consider southern friendly.

Cons

The company is very lean. Their philosophy is to outsource as much as possible. This causes a lot of bottlenecks. If you happen to be an employee of the company the only way to move is if somebody quits the company. If you need training...good luck. There is none. Criticism is called coaching in some departments. They have Sharepoint in the company but nobody I have met fully utilizes it. In fact most people don't even use it. Sharing of documents and collaboration is hard to come by. They do not have any formalized project management in house. The company wants to manage projects but if you can't track hours and people who worked on it how in the world are you going to figure out what works and what doesn't. The headquarters is located in BFE. If you are not very conservative be very careful what you say. Did I mention there is no training....not even the basic CBT stuff for ethics, diversity and safety. I had to gently inform a few people that the LGBT community deserves as much respect as the heterosexuals and where they could find some useful information. There is no anonymous HR input form. If you have a question or concern and you want to inquire to HR about it....good luck, even finding a non-anonymous way to contact them is very difficult to do. IT hasn't learned yet that the business side of the house pays their salary. They do not like discussing or revealing their processes to the business side. There as yet is no transparency or active collaboration between departments. There are a lot of people with Manager in their title who manage nobody. The people are what I consider southern friendly.

1.0
Aug 16, 2014

Antiquated company with non-visionary leaders

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Nice "worker bees" but leadership is bad

Cons

Sporadic leadership, inconsistency and no true direction

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