ALDI reviews

3.4

54% would recommend to a friend

(14,640 total reviews)
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51% approve of CEO

50% positive business outlook

ALDI has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 14,640 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The ALDI employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Einzel- & Großhandel industry (3.5 stars).

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15K reviews
1.0
Dec 14, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Some of the store and stock assistants were nice. Other than that the only good thing was the reduction we got on dominoes pizza nearby. Which says it all really.

Cons

Managers didn't care one bit about you unless you'd been in the job a couple of years. Some would sometimes not even say hello at the start of a day. Were made to work ridiculously hard as if you were a robot. No team spirit or personality in the store I worked. A number of workers would grass you in for wrong doing rather than take the blame themselves.

1.0
Dec 13, 2014

keeping prices low by not paying employees

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

cheap shopping before or after work

Cons

-you start 15 minutes before you get paid -you often finish 30-90 minutes later than you're supposed to - sometimes this time gets lost in administration and you don't have access to the company records to check - you have to do the math 1-1.5 months later, when you get your payslip (I'm pretty sure I'm the only one who actually does that at our store) so probably the company owes hundreds of £ to my colleagues -you are told several times during your training that your till is your responsibility alone - however, you never get to count the till after your shift, your till difference is 'declared' by a manager who can easily miscalculate the total - also, sometimes you're given a till with misplaced coins so the coin scale gives you a mistaken figure -your till speed is measured each day and you have to meet a pretty high standard - however, some customers intentionally delay you and managers often don't show up for a long time when you bell them - but you're the one to be pressured with the final result at the end of the day -shifts often last 7.5 hours so you can only take a 20-minute break - however, if you stay longer and your shift is actually 8 hours long, you still get only your 20-minute break unless you explicitly point out that you're entitled to a full 30-min one -most managers act like you're born knowing all the procedures of the company - they tell you what you should have done only when it's too late in the presence of other employees/customers and you're made feel guilty for things you can't possibly know

4.0
Dec 13, 2014

Great

Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good pay Overtime Good office Good team Good benefits

Cons

No ability to be a free thinker Lack of training Lack of consistency amongst other divisions

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