The relocation will enable the store to take on 5 extra staff members. 

 

The report prepared for councillors reads: "After careful examination of the site, together with the representations received to date, the proposed development is considered to be acceptable and in compliance with the key policy and sustainability objectives of the authority’s adopted local development plan as well as those of National Planning Policy.

 

It adds that the proposal will provide a beneficial commercial use for a vacant and underused brownfield site within the town and its design, scale and layout will be in keeping with and complement the character and appearance of the surrounding area.

 

Lidl was said to have demonstrated that there are "no sequentially preferred sites that could realistically accommodate the proposed development".

While the site is located outside the town centre as defined in the local development plan, the report highlights that it is "nevertheless contiguous with the same and closer to the primary retail area of the town than the existing store".

 

"Its location will encourage linked trips to the town while also being accessible by a range of sustainable transport modes including walking, cycling and public transport.

 

"In addition, the proposal will result in the creation of additional employment opportunities in the town while also providing a new retail opportunity in the town centre in the existing store."

 

Source: Insider Media Wales

 

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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 are still relying on paper timesheets, handed in by their workers at the end of the week or month. The more staff the supermarkets have, the more this inefficient pile of paper will mount up.

 

Getting employees to retrospectively record their hours worked directly onto paper is not only open to fraud and mistakes, it also makes room for human error further up the chain. 

 

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. 

 

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 (these accept smartcard or biometric data) the information is recorded by the software and can be exported straight to your payroll software.