Lidl 'spied on staff in Germany

Surveillance teams would arrive early on Monday mornings to install between five and 10 miniature cameras in Lidl stores, according to the German news magazine Stern.

The retail chain insisted that the
cameras were not to spy on staff but for "the identification of
possible misconduct" adding that "details and observations
do not apply to casual conversation".

But in several hundred pages of
transcripts quoted by Stern, details of employees' personal
appearance, the length of lavatory breaks, their capabilities and
extracts from personal conversations are all monitored and recorded.