LIDL is already in Turzovka, it has 159 stores in Slovakia – Business
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The newest Lidl grocery store in Slovakia is located in Kysucie, in Turzovka. They welcomed their first guests on Thursday, December 1. Lidl has been operating in Slovakia since September 2004, when it opened 14 stores in 14 cities. After eighteen years, it already has 159 stores and is located in 95 cities. During 2022, six stores were added to the discounter’s portfolio. Before Turzovka, there were two stores in Bratislava at the beginning of the year, one each in Nitra and Trnava in the summer, and one in Púchov in September. Only thanks to the expansion, Lidl created approximately two hundred new jobs in 2022, others were created organically.
“Our goal is to get as close as possible to customers. We are therefore looking for new locations in the cities where we operate and in cities where our stores have not been located so far. , so that everyone has it as close as possible and can buy We wanted quickly and conveniently. We plan to further expand our network and will soon open a new store in Turčianske Teplice. Of course, we also continue to modernize existing stores in order to provide a comfortable shopping experience,” said Karol Krasowski, Lidl Slovak Republic manager responsible for central services.
The new Lidl store is located on Rudolfa Jašík Street in Turzovka. The area of the sales area is approximately 1400 m2 and 22 employees work there. “The construction of a Lidl store in Turzovka is good news not only for thousands of citizens of Turzovka, but also for all residents of the Hornokysucké region. It will bring not only an expansion of services, food and supplement assortment, but also dozens of new jobs. We are glad that a chain is coming to us, which is actively involved in social and charitable life and helps to improve the quality of life of the residents with its projects,” said the Mayor of Turzovka, JUDr. Ľubomír Golis. Lidl employs more than 6,500 people in Slovakia in 159 stores, 3 logistics centers and headquarters. During the previous twelve months, it created almost 00 new jobs, on average for every working day of the year. From January 2022, he invested more than eight million euros in the compensation of his employees, which means an approximately eight percent salary increase for employees of stores and warehouses of logistics centers.
“For a long time, we felt that the people of Turzov would welcome a Lidl store in their town. I’m looking forward to the fact that from now on they don’t have to go to Bytče or Čadka to visit Lidl and shop comfortably directly in Turzovka,” said head of sales Lenka Petríková and added: “We’ve come a long way in Slovakia in eighteen years, but we’re still an honest discounter. The fact that we constantly try to use what you need in high quality and at great prices.” The sale includes original LED lighting technologies, electronic price tags for fruits and vegetables, and photovoltaic panels on the roof. It goes without saying that we have our own bakery, thanks to which we can look forward to fresh pastries throughout the day.
As part of the latest standard, two machines are available for customers to back up returnable packaging. In this store as well, customers have the choice of having the advance paid or using the machines to donate to the organization Upracme Slovensko, and you can do so all the way to the main Slovak countryside. In all Lidl stores, including this one, customers can participate in several socially responsible activities. For every bottle of Saguaro mineral water sold, the discounter donates one cent to a swimming pool and planting trees in the Tatras, and for every pack of diapers sold, 10 cents go to help seriously ill children aged 4 and over as part of the initiative From the Start in Good Hands. Customers can help stop Slovakia’s rivers and water reservoirs as part of the Let’s Not Swim project. Lidl found a food collection in Slovakia Podeľ sa a pože, which has so far brought more than €1,500,000 worth to the needy. Support from this store will be further distributed by the Low Threshold Day Center for Children and Family Turzovka. “We will need this support in the form of food for several clients. They are, for example, families with children. It does not matter at all whether we are talking about single-parent families, divorced families, widows, widowers or single mothers. In addition, we will help seniors, lonely citizens who have a low financial income, large families and, last but not least, families that function with severely disabled children. This means a lot, because I appreciate them very much, that someone remembers them, remembers them, makes me happy and helps even in a bad financial situation,” commented Katarína Prengelová, professional guarantor of the Low Threshold Day Center for Children and Family Turzovka. .
On the occasion of the opening of a new store, Lidl traditionally supports pupils from nearby primary schools. In Turzovka, it is a special elementary school with a kindergarten of St. Jozef and Elementary School Turzovka Stred. The director of the first named school, PaedDr. Viera Vahančíková said about this cooperation: “We educate children with mental and multiple disabilities. We pay great attention to the development of our students’ communication. We work with several educational programs aimed at developing speech, vocabulary and communication skills. The acquired technology will be used precisely in this area.” The amount of support in the purchase project = Great help in influencing you directly, the customers – the discounter donates €1 to the purchase of IT equipment for schools for every purchase worth at least €10. This is how Lidl responds to the demands of schools, which in the previous two years had to deal with distance education.
Lidl is a six-time winner of the prestigious international awards Top Employer Europe and Top Employer Slovakia. For its activities in relation to the acquisition, the chain of stores also received the prestigious Via Bona award and won first place in the competition for the best employer. Based on the vote, Lidl has been nominated for the Retailer of the Year award nine times in a row. For your online store www.lidl-shop.sk the discounter won six awards in the ShopRoku competition.