One new site will be in the city centre, in a unit on the ground floor of SevenCapital’s Broadway development in the Five Ways area. Previously the whole ground floor was taken up by Tesco, but they relinquished the space in 2016. 

 

The other new site, which still needs to have planning permission approved, is for a new store at a 5.5-acre site in Erdington which was acquired from Sainsbury’s in late 2017. This will include 120 additional car parking spaces. Construction should be completed within 12 months if the planning is agreed. 

 

Ed Purcell from Creative Retail, who acted on behalf of SevenCapital for the leases, said: "The securing of Lidl for Broadway and Erdington is fantastic news. The collaborative approach between SevenCapital, Lidl, Colmore Tang and Creative Retail has worked well in securing new leases in a retail market which is currently challenging in parts and evolving quickly.

 

"The letting of the former Tesco supermarket at Broadway is particularly pleasing as this former supermarket had a difficult configuration and has showed that a collaborative approach will lead to success."

 

Phil Carlin, managing director at SevenCapital, the property investors who bought the Erdington site from Sainsbury’s, said: "These are two major deals for both sites in Birmingham. Lidl has firmly positioned itself at the forefront of today’s shoppers thought process as a trusted retailer offering a quality product.

 

"These sites are perfectly suited for their continued growth strategy and are a welcome catalyst for further regeneration within Birmingham.

 

"For SevenCapital this adds to a growing list of achievements in working with institutional occupiers and successful delivery of town centre redevelopment and regeneration projects. We are pleased to form this new relationship with LIDL and look forward to delivering these two new stores."

 

Source: Insider Media Midlands

 

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Supermarkets need a large number of staff, including night shifts and part-time staff in all areas from warehouse staff to cashiers and shelf stackers. 

Very often, supermarkets like Lidl are still relying on paper timesheets to monitor attendance and calculate hours for payroll for all of these employees.

 

These are generally handed in by the workers at the end of the week or month, which of course means that many people will only fill them in as the deadline approaches! 

 

Retrospectively recording hours worked like this is not only wide open to fraud and mistakes, it also makes room for human error further up the chain. The poor staff who have to type the handwritten timings into Excel or straight into payroll software just need to make one minor typo and that can turn into an error in the final payslip. 

 

There are more problems with this old-fashioned method than just inaccuracy and lack of attention. What if employees forget to hand them in? Or managers misplace them? This is particularly a problem with weekly timesheets, as the amount of paper generated is gigantic and individual papers can easily be replaced.  

 

Whoever need to transcribe the sheets in order to input hours worked into the payroll program is likely to fall victim to employees’ bad handwriting and forgetfulness. 

 

Thankfully there’s an easy solution. When employees clock in using our clocking terminals, the information is recorded by the software and can be exported straight to your payroll software.