Pros
I've been working with aldi for 2 1/2 years. I work as an associate/cashier. The job has good benefits for those that work full time it comes with medical,vision, and dental and you also have the option to enroll in a 401k plan (also for full time) the starting salary is also really good. The starting salary for my store is $12 an hour for cashiers/ associates , $16 an hour for shift managers and $25 an hour for store managers. The job also gives payee vacations along with personal and sick days. When store associates are not stocking they are ringing at the register and we get to sit down for the amount of time we ring and we don't bag the customers items.
Cons
Aldi doesn't seem to like to hire alot of people. Often we are short staffed. We get timed on the register , they expect the cashiers to get the lines down as fast as they can which makes a lot of customers angry because they say that the cashiers throw their stuff in the cart and a lot of people expect the cashiers to bag their stuff for them. Cashiers do everything in the store from stocking to cleaning to ringing to unloading pallets in the morning. The schedules vary from week to week and usually full time workers don't get the full 40 hours except in the summer full time workers get up to 47 hours per week. Also the associates that come unload the truck are expected to ring and don't have much time to unload the truck and usually are expected to stay past the time they are scheduled to. Cashiers are expected to count their own money drawer and make a deposit before they leave which takes like an extra 20 minutes after the time they are scheduled to. Also they really don't care about how they schedule you the store closes at 9 but employees don't leave until everything is done which can be up to 12am and sometimes the people that close are expected to unload a truck the next day at 6am less than 6 hours of sleep.