ALDI Reviews

Pros

good pay, simply tasks, easy work, good management, never there to late, fairly easy customers, good organization, clean environment, great co-workers

Cons

extremely fast pace, never enough time in the day to finish all the task given to you, hard to move up in the company.

Pros

The starting pay is awesome! I started at $11.50/ hour. I've been there a month an they are already traing me for a promotion.

Cons

Very fast paced. Cannot ask for certain shifts (morning/evening). Throw a TON of information at you when you start and expect you to remember it all immediately. Shifts are random. 6-2, 7-9, 10-7, 9-8, 8-5, 2-8, 4-8, 12-8.

Advice to Senior Management

Allow some leniency on picking shift times

Pros

High Pay, healthcare for full time workers

Cons

Negative atmosphere, high stress, immature workers

Advice to Senior Management

Treat your cashiers better, and they'll do a better job

Pros

Great pay and benefits. Not much mircro managing.

Cons

Extremely physical labor. Must be able to perform at a high energy level for 8 - 10 hours a day.

Advice to Senior Management

The pay and benefits make you want to stay, the work makes you want to leave almost every day.

Pros

Good pay. I enjoy working with my co-workers.

Cons

Hours are not reliable. One week you get 35, the next you get 15.

Advice to Senior Management

Store managers....Please stop ordering way too much. You are making more work then necessary. It doesn't make sense to order too much, just too throw it away when it all goes bad.

Pros

Health care was great, salary was good for industry standards, great customers and very flexible with hours.

Cons

As a member of management, you are required to work at least 50 hours per week (most of the time i worked 60 - 70, being a salary employee they take advantage of you here), Saturdays and expected to work more than 50hrs a week. Low # of employees at each store so you really rely on your team. Upper-upper management (Directors and VP's) would beat you down like rag dolls if they didn't like you or felt you weren't doing a good job or even if you had too much tenure. They had a way of forcing you out if you cost to much to keep.

Advice to Senior Management

Please keep in mind that every employee has a family that would like to come home and have enough energy to entertain them as well. Quit the gossip and political BS and show your employees that you care instead of complaining every stop you make into the store. Yes, there will be empty boxes and freezer/cooler doors that need cleaning during the day, just remember, there are only a handful of employees working at one given moment. Mark Berstead (VP - Olathe,KS), I actually thought highly of you however, you let other Directors run under your radar for years that abused employees verbally even in front of customers on the sales floor and they were the direct influence on my departure. Actions speak louder than words.

Pros

pay
people
benefits
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thats it

Cons

my store manager is a so called know it all.Was promoted in a year and lacks the experience and knowledge to run a busy store, Yet my dm defends the store manager and my store manager set goals that he or she cant even achieve.

Advice to Senior Management

hire store managers for experience and not looks. looks dont make money at aldi EXPERIENCE do

Pros

pay
opportunities for after you leave Aldi
respectable company

Cons

Workload ( but someone's gotta do it)

Pros

Hourly rate is good, but the you are limited on hours unless you call around to find hours at other stores.

Cons

To keep productivity high, cashiers are forced to stock the shelves AND run the cash register at the same time. Customers are forced to wait to be rung up until the cashier that is stocking notices them standing at the register. No matter how productive your store is, the DM's rarely aknowledge it and only want more. Unless you have a 4 year degree, YOU HAVE NO CHANCE OF ADVANCING PAST STORE MANAGER. The majority of the DM's are in their early 20's, right out of college and have no clue what they're doing. They sound like they are reading from a script. They say the same phrases, like " can I get you anything before I leave"

Advice to Senior Management

This is a grocery store, not the Military. Employees would be much more productive if they weren't so stressed all of the time.

Pros

You are constantly busy and do not get bored. It is very physical work so you stay in shape.

Cons

Very hard work and of course you are dealing with the public.