ALDI reviews

- Work/Life balance. It's always something that is discussed in meetings, but once the meeting is over so is that train of thought. - Sometimes the physical aspect of the job can be overwhelming. If your store is struggling, be prepared to spend a lot of time (hopefully in store clothes and not in a suit) helping out. - It's retail, so there will be odd hours at times. Overnights, weekends worked, early mornings and late nights. While only the weekend work is mandatory (one Saturday and one Sunday a month), the others are infrequent, but can be frustrating at times. - Changed districts roughly twice a year. It was great to be able to work with so many different managers, each with their own style, but it was difficult to establish a rhythm in a store. Once you had a store where you wanted it to be and could begin to really dig in to fine tuning it, districts would change and it would happen all over again. - Also very frustrating to turn a store around and invest time in it to make it productive, only to hand off your hard work to someone else.

Sometimes management expects a lot even though certain things overlap in weird ways. For example, I need to keep the line down and keep my "items per hour" numbers high, but I also need to provide excellent customer service that may result in not giving these customers enough time and patience from my end. If I have to average in 30 seconds per customer, they're just going to think I'm rushing them. They keep the stores low-staffed to save on labor and increase productivity, but it is just impossible for two-three people to close a store when we've made over 20000. I'd get out at 11, 12 at night, it's ridiculous