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Anyone sick and tired of this submission? What are they afraid of militant Buddhists? LIDL AIRBRUSHES CHRISTIAN CROSS FROM CHURCH PICTURED ON ITS GREEK FOOD RANGE BECAUSE THE SUPERMARKET CHAIN ‘DOES NOT WISH TO EXCLUDE ANY RELIGIOUS BELIEFS’ The supermarket chain has come under fire for altering its new ‘Eridanous’ rangeShoppers say the Anastasis Church had its cross removed from packagingCustomers have taken to social media to vent their frustration at Lidl By Charlie Bayliss For Mailonline, 4 September 2017: Lidl has defended its decision to airbrush Christian symbols from its packaging, claiming the supermarket wants to remain ‘religiously...

German discount supermarket chain Lidl is set to open its first set of U.S. stores this summer, raising the stakes for American grocery chain operators who have been caught in an intense price war. Lidl said in February it planned to open its first 20 U.S. stores in North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia, with 80 more to follow in the United States within the first year. Lidl's entry comes at a time when Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT.N) is running price tests in 11 states, pushing vendors to undercut rivals by 15 percent. The world's biggest retailer is expected to...

MEBANE – Lidl, a German grocery chain building stores in Eden and Danville, Va., will hold a public hiring event for its state-of-the-art, Alamance County regional headquarters and distribution center next week. The event will be held from 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Thursday, April 20 at Lid’ls newly constructed, $125 million facility, which will become operational later this year. The Lidl Distribution Center is located at 3815 Senator Ralph Scott Parkway, Mebane. Up to 150 logistics positions will become available at the site this year. Salaries for logistics associates will be up to $20 per hour, plus benefits, which can include...

Aldi and Lidl, Germany’s toughest discount food retailers, are invading the US. Both operate small, efficient no frill self serve supermarkets with a strong non-food assortment, and very low prices. Both have permanently changed the competitive landscape wherever they have gone. Lidl is about to open its U.S. headquarter in Arlington, Virginia and a distribution center in Alamance County, North Carolina. These are early steps in its U.S. invasion by this formidable company that operates about 11,000 stores in 26 countries throughout Europe. I am told that the company has already selected 80 locations in the Greater Washington, D.C. area...

The supermarket chain Lidl has been accused of using methods reminiscent of the Stasi secret police to spy on employees in Germany. The company, which has more than 400 stores in Britain, reportedly monitored details of intimate conversations and personal relationships. Surveillance teams would arrive early on Monday mornings to install between five and 10 miniature cameras in Lidl stores, according to the German news magazine Stern. The retail chain insisted that the cameras were not to spy on staff but for "the identification of possible misconduct" adding that "details and observations do not apply to casual conversation". But in...

FRANKFURT, July 28 (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT.N: Quote, Profile, Research), the world's biggest retailer, is selling its underperforming German stores to the country's leading retail chain Metro (MEOG.DE: Quote, Profile, Research), a major retreat that will cost it about $1 billion. Wal-Mart, which operates 85 hypermarkets across Germany, said on Friday it would incur the roughly $1 billion pretax loss on the deal in the second quarter of its fiscal 2007 year. Wal-Mart entered Germany in 1997 but has been unable to capture market share, hurt by cut-throat competition from rivals such as Metro or discounters like Aldi....

Black-red want to stop price wars, Union and SPD consider measures against preisdumping with Discounters such as Aldi and Lidl. The future government wants to forbid the ruinous discount battle in the trade by law. Berlin - which coalition working group under line of the designate federal consumer protection Minister refuge Seehofer (CSU) and the Federal Secretary of Justice on appropriate measures informed itself Brigitte Zypries (SPD), reports the "citizens of Berlin newspaper". Therefore the Koalitionaere wants to forbid the sales of food under cost price in the future in principle. In the course of a novella of the trust...