Over here in Romania Lidl pays some of the best salaries in the retail market, the worst are the likes of Carrefour, Cora and I think Auchan, too. They also have an IT division in here, not sure what their relative pay is.

A close friend of mine works for the local Lidl division, she is part of the team that does internal communication and as such she has been directly involved in "marketing" compensation-related stuff and related perks to the company's employees and such. To me it does seem that Lidl, the company, tries to treat its employees as humanly as possible, which is saying something when it comes to the retail market.