Ahold USA Reviews

Former Employee – worked at Ahold USA part-time for more than a year

Pros – Ability to learn new tasks, be with a variety of individuals, some are career workers

Cons – Prefer not to mention any. Thank you. Good overall company. More products offered at
various locations. I am still a customer, after being an employee.

Advice to Senior Management – Keep diversity as one of your key elements for hiring.

Former Employee – worked at Ahold USA full-time for more than 3 years

Pros – Benefits are above average, pretty much a recession proof company, room to grow if you are willing to re-locate to Carlisle.

Cons – Since the re-organization under the Ahold USA banner things have been in disarray and show little sign of improving any time soon. Pay is below average, overtime is kept to a minimum, pay raises are laughable at best. Job security is a concern at times.

Advice to Senior Management – Get a clue, hire help desk associates with at least some computer literacy or train the ones you do have. Pay people what they are worth, give raises that are on par with the cost of living.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Ahold USA full-time for more than a year

Pros – Great benefits to the employees. Ahold provides many events to show appreciation to their staff including free lunches throughout the year, GM sales where everything is $.50 as well as monthly free Store brand item

Cons – The PTO and Vacation offered is behind in times compared to other companies. I only had to sick days after my 90 days and vacation starts after a year and is only a week. Therefore hourly associates basically have to be on their death bed to take off work. The company promotes work/life balance but some managers do not care about what is happening in your personal life. Therefore if you have a sick kid, it is a problem.

The pay does not match up to the cost of living. Therefore the company should restructure their pay grades as some people cannot live off of the pay they are making.

Advice to Senior Management – Better Pay Structure. More training for managers on how to deal with personnel issues such as people pointing out that a certain employee is constantly making mistakes and may need additional training. A manage needs to react to this issue not let it continue because they do not like conflict.

Current Employee – been working at Ahold USA full-time for more than a year

Pros – great pay, Sunday pay, market leader

Cons – culture of fear, no district support, long hours,

Advice to Senior Management – support your managers and dont beat them down

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend – I'm not optimistic about the outlook for this company

Current Employee – been working at Ahold USA

Pros – Come and Go as you please.

flex schedule.

easy as cake

Cons – Move up? HAHAHAHAHAHA!

 F.T pay is a laugh. My pay is just 100 bucks less then what a lead clerk makes. Worth moving up?

Advice to Senior Management – You should have your Store Managers be able to single out who would make great exempts.\

lose your specialist they are useless drones.

Current Employee – been working at Ahold USA

Pros – Decent benefits and close to home.

Cons – Lack of trained help due to labor cost cutting. /Policies not followed with consistency.

Advice to Senior Management – Say thank you for a job well done, raise pay so we can keep better employees.

Current Employee – been working at Ahold USA

Pros – It's a job that help paying bills and that you have a place to go to everyday.

Cons – Poor communication. Self serve executives. Lack of support to employees and people development skills. Poor compensation. Full of untalented people who find their way to work around the system and management tends to ignore this problem. A very stressful environment to work in especially after everything moves to Carlisle. A company with no directions and no talents acquisition and retaining skills.

Advice to Senior Management – Wake up to the real world and value the people you have. Start treating people fairly and make this a better place for employees to work and grow with.

No, I would not recommend this company to a friend

Current Employee – been working at Ahold USA

Pros – People stay a long time because the company treats them well
Reasonably good benefits
Salary is ok, I suppose
People are friendly

Cons – Everything moved to Carlisle, PA
Very short vacation
Management is old fashioned
Horrible technology - very oudated
Unclear how to get ahead

Advice to Senior Management – Get out more. Management acts as if Ahold is the only place to work, and have old fashioned ways of operating. Hire some new people who aren't lifers from within the company or the industry.

Current Employee – been working at Ahold USA

Pros – The interns are treated well and allowed to do real projects. Questions are encouraged.

Cons – The internship program is new so they are still working out the kinks and experimenting to see what works best

Advice to Senior Management – Be more forward looking.

Current Employee – been working at Ahold USA

Pros – Pay isn't bad, especially for location and education/certification "required". To be honest, everybody from the director level down has been largely in the same boat as far as job security. The people left are pretty competent, and I can count on most people to do their job efficiently and with a level of personal interest.

Cons – Since late 2002 we've been in a cycle of down-sizing IT staff, and the future never feels certain. Career advancement has been non-existent, and the training budget (specifically for travel) has suffered. We have lost a lot of good people to outsourcing and an unsteady future, and I know we can't provide the service we used to prior to outsourcing.

Advice to Senior Management – Realize that we will find out and notice things going on; transparency will foster a "we" environment, instead of the current "us and them" environment. We don't have to know everything, just don't act like nothing is going on when we all know there is.