FIFTEEN NEW JOBS
The new Lidl on Logie Green Road will open in October.
The timing emerged as Lidl confirmed that the Broughton outlet will have a sales area of 1,171 sq.m. and state-of-the-art facilities including a bakery, 8 tills and 48 parking spaces.
Spurtle learned the news yesterday as the cut-price supermarket chain announced that it was looking to recruit 15 new staff members for this its 92nd shop in Scotland.
To apply for a full-time customer assistant post (£8.25–£9.64 per hour), visit here.
‘It is wonderful for us to be able to create more jobs and investment opportunities in the area,’ commented Gordon Rafferty, the UK Head of Property for Scotland. ‘We can’t wait to open the doors to this new store and serve our multi-award winning products to the community’.
Lidl is keen to point out that it was the first supermarket to adopt the Living Wage Foundation’s recommendation and adopt ‘the real living wage’. This gave its employees ‘an average wage increase of £1,200 per year, with 53 per cent of Lidl UK’s 18,000 workforce and all age brackets benefiting from the rise.’
Lidl arrived in the UK from Germany in 1994 and now has over 630 shops between Kirkwall and the Isle of Wight.
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Paul Burgess That's taken a while.
Neale Gilhooley Hope it does not generate too much traffic exactly where shoppers exit the Tesco car park, it's already a queue to get out.
Paul Foley Traffic chaos is in the post
Michael Traill Good news, Lidl is very popular in Edinburgh, their existing stores are always currently pretty busy. Im sure this will be welcomed by many people in the City.
Alan Young about time! How long have they been building it?
Broughton Spurtle Process started in 2013. See http://www.broughtonspurtle.org.uk/.../Spurtle%20222.pdf and http://www.broughtonspurtle.org.uk/.../logie-green-plans...
Corneilius Bell Fantastic.
Jo Mathieson Lady Rottweiler At last!
@theSpurtle Any word on the weird bricked up windows?
@N_G_Jones You won't see the bricks for the vinyls.
Woo hoo !
Katie McWilliam Soane Yay! Just in time for the lovely Christmas food.
Rachel Bell Whoop!
Janet Marsten I'll never understand how those managing a new, purpose built structure, with a Lidl retail outlet on the ground floor planned from day 1, could manage to construct a loading bay that trucks couldn't use. I am guessing they knew all along that it was unusable but rather than go to the council and ask for planning permission to change the pavement at the planning stages, they threw the thing up so people could move into the flats -- then they asked for retrospective planning permission to change the pavement. Having said that, I love Lidl, especially since Tesco removed most of their Value range from Broughton Road as the area is deemed "upmarket."
Douglas Forrester Been hearing about it for ages so should be interesting. My bro's family use an Aldi and say it is good. Think Lidl is the same concept so I will certainly try it.
Abby Davidson Jamie Chalmers it's actually happening. BEST. DAY.EVER
Jamie Chalmers Pistachios and protein rolls all day
Jacquie Wallace-Martinez Can't wait!
Maggie Holland I wonder if Tesco tried to obstruct this.....
Jo Mathieson Hurrahhhhhhhhhhh!! About time too!!!!
Lorraine Moore So when the 1-6 Canonmills bridge building (where earthy is) is demolished next year and the planned monstrosity is built - we will no doubt get another supermarket built on the ground floor - then traffic will be totally horrendous! Oh well that's a fight for another day