A:Press 1 at the first menu, next press 6.Our free phone can also navigate phone menus to get a live human at Food Lion for you.
Q:
Does Food Lion offer 24 hour customer service?
A:Not at this number; hours here are Mon-Fri 9am-5pm EST.The least busy day is Tuesday, and the most busy day is Wednesday.If the call center is closed, you can schedule a call.
Q:
How long will I wait on hold?
A:The average hold time is 4 minutes.The longest hold times are on Thursday, and the shortest are on Tuesday.You can skip the hold time for free.
How do I get through the phone menu to a live person?
Consider using our free service that calls and talks to customer service for you, then sends you a report. Or use our free service that waits on hold and tells you when a human rep is on the line. But if those options don't appeal to you, our team has also documented the phone menu for Food Lion below.
Our AI powered phone can dial, navigate the phone menu, wait on hold, and even talk to customer service for you, for free. You don't even need to learn about the path through the various phone options.
That same, free GetHuman Phone can call and navigate the menus and wait on hold for you, but you can opt to do all the talking. We notify you when a rep is on the line and ready to talk, so no need to worry about changing menu options and weaving your way through the maze.
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GetHuman researchers routinely call this Food Lion phone number to document the phone system.
Here is how our research team describes the way the Food Lion phone system greets you: Thank you for calling Food Lion so that we can promptly route your call to the appropriate team. Please listen carefully to the following menu options as they have recently changed. Calls may be recorded for quality and training purposes. Thank you for calling Food Lion. To speak to someone in our customer care department, press 1. To speak with a representative about Food Lion To Go, our online shopping service, press 2. If you are an employee and need assistance with a benefit or payroll issue, or if we're calling to verify employment, press 3. If you need assistance regarding a recent decline on a check or return payroll personal check, press 4. For donation and fundraising requests, press 5. If you need assistance with gift card sales, press 6. If you need our corporate headquarters address, press 7.
Here is our latest tip for weaving through the phone menu to get to a real person the fastest:Press 1 at the first menu, next press 6.
Below are some clips we've found from Food Lion's phone menus and tips that help give an idea of what you will encounter when you call. We've highlighted why they are important as well:
Heard when the phone system first answers
"For calling Food Lion. So that we can promptly route your call to the appropriate team, Please listen carefully to the following menu options as they have recently changed.
Calls may be recorded for quality and training purposes.
Thank you for calling Food Lion. To speak to someone in our customer care department, press one.
To speak with a represent thank you for calling customer care.
We may be able to offer a quicker response to your questions without the wait.
Our virtual voice assistant can give you immediate answers to provide your MVP card number.
Update your account information, provide your rewards balance, provide general information around Food Lion to Go.
If your question is not answered, you will still have the opportunity to be connected to one of our customer care representatives."
Excerpt from a call with Food Lion
Friday, January 12, 2024 1:46 PM
The first phone menu
"You for calling Food Lion. So that we can promptly route your call to the appropriate team, Please listen carefully to the following menu options as they have recently changed.
Calls may be recorded for quality and training purposes.
Thank you for calling Food Lion. To speak to someone in our customer care department, press one.
To speak with a representative about Food Lion To Go, our online shopping service, press two."
Excerpt from a call with Food Lion
Friday, June 14, 2024 3:54 PM
After you press 2
"If you are an employee and need assistance if your order ID is fully numeric, press one.
For order IDs containing a letter from a to z, please press two."
Excerpt from a call with Food Lion
Thursday, April 4, 2024 8:40 PM
What are the hours and when should I call?
Food Lion operates the call center for this 800-210-9569 phone number Mon-Fri 9am-5pm ET.The short answer is that you should call on a Tuesday.This observation and the following section are based on analysis of a sample set of 62 calls made in the last 90 days using our free, web-based phone (see above).
When you use our free AI-powered phone to call and talk, wait on hold, or navigate for you, it will automatically wait until the Food Lion call center opens before trying to call. It will ask your permission before it places the call, so you can also further delay that scheduled call until you are ready. But that means you can "set it and forget it" ahead of time.
An important note: busy times vs hold times vs best time to call
When we refer to busy or less busy times, we are talking about the volume of calls. The busiest times are when the most people are calling this Food Lion phone number (least busy times have fewer people calling). This high call volume does not necessarily mean that you will have a long hold time when you call. Companies like Food Lion staff their call centers differently based on the time of day and day of the week, so you may experience a shorter wait on hold at the busiest of times. When we refer to the best time to call, we are referring to the optimal combination of lower call volume and shorter wait times.
The least busy time to call
The least busy day to call Food Lion is Tuesday.The most busy day to call is Wednesday, which averages 380% more phone calls by comparison.Again, this is based on a sample of 62 calls made with our AI-powered, web-based phone in the last 90 days.
Mon
Tue
Quietest
Wed
Busiest
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Fri
The shortest wait on hold
We measured the shortest hold times to be on Tuesday.The longest wait in the queue on average occurs on Thursday.
In summation, the best day to call Food Lion is Tuesday.In this case, it's a no-brainer. Tuesday is not only the least busy day for calling this Food Lion number, but it is also the day with the shortest hold times.
Why Customers Call Food Lion
Below is a sample of recent calls to Food Lion, and their purpose. Are any of these similar to the reason you are trying to call?
Ordering cookies for payroll: "I will order that for payroll."
- From a call lasting 1m 29s , Oct 16, 2024 2:43 PM
Information about why customers call Food Lion is extracted from issues that customers have reported to GetHuman.
Use this link to find customer service help through their website
As a last, sometimes only, resort- Food Lion customer service can be accessed through their website. This can entail digging through help articles before finding a form and "being allowed" to submit a problem to their team, and rarely leads to a real-time conversation, which is why GetHuman does not recommend this unless it's the only way.
Conclusion and closing notes
This is Food Lion's best phone number, the real-time current wait on hold and tools for skipping right through those phone lines to get right to a Food Lion agent. This phone number is Food Lion's best phone number because 168 customers like you used this contact information over the last 18 months and gave us feedback. Common problems addressed by the customer care unit that answers calls to 800-210-9569 include and other customer service issues. Rather than trying to call Food Lion first, consider describing your issue first; from that we may be able to recommend an optimal way to contact them via phone or web. In total, Food Lion has 1 phone number. It's not always clear what is the best way to talk to Food Lion representatives, so we started compiling this information built from suggestions from the customer community. Please keep sharing your experiences so we can continue to improve this free resource.
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