Great pay and potentially a great job, undone by incredibly poor management and brutal expectations. - Retail Sales Associate ALDI Employee Review

2.0
Oct 20, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

Really good pay in comparison to other grocery stores.

Cons

Management mishandles schedules, routinely understaffs shifts, and expects employees to do close to inhuman tasks, such as for cashiers to hit 45 items per minute as a goal while also being accurate, to break down 3 pallets an hour as a goal, among others. In a recent meeting, we were given the reason why we haven't received more staff, and the long and short of it is, we aren't efficient enough with the number of people we have on a given shift (we should have more,) therefore we aren't allowed to get more people, shouldn't it be the exact opposite? If you can deal with the anxiety of always worrying if you're going fast enough and constantly having to juggle a million things at once, then this is the job for you, and if it is, God bless you.

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5.0
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Pros

Good pay great people to work with

Cons

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5.0
Oct 5, 2016
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Pros

+ industry leading wages Associates - $12/hr, Shift Mgr - $16/hr, SMT - $23/hr, Store Manager - $75,000+/yr + great work environment + excellent training + health, dental, vision, life insurance, 401k + 40-50 hr/wk with paid overtime Very fast paced so work hours fly by. I loved working at Aldi. The pay was great! Benefits great! Was training to be a store manager so a lot was expected of me but I was totally up for it. My store manager loved my work, associates loved my fairness, customers loved me.

Cons

+ work/life balance + walked 28,000 steps/day!!! Never thought I would be fired for clocking in only minutes late!!

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