ALDI reviews

3.4

55% would recommend to a friend

(14,632 total reviews)
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52% approve of CEO

50% positive business outlook

ALDI has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 14,632 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
May 17, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

opportunity to strengthen your resume

Cons

You will never fully succeed at this job. There is a preponderance of perpetual issues that upper mgmt brings to your attention daily. There is no work/life balance/ more realistically it is all work and no other life total imbalance and yet you still cannot succeed.

2.0
May 17, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

The pay is good, better than most retail stores. My sm works with us on our flexibility due to life changes. You end up having a good management team.

Cons

If you're looking to work at aldi be sure to know more about how things are ran. No fixed schedules, You either open or close the store and some times you may do a clopen. If the closing asm calls out, be ready to run a double .A lot of pressure from the DM to complete kpis and goals, continously asking sm to cut hours to hit a metrict called "efficiency" which does not help us at all having to send someone home early running the store with 3-4 ppl including yourself. Management has a lot of pressure and the workload and expectations keep increasing, you do multiple functions all while trying to achieve your manager duties. It's very physical, hard, heavy work. Curbside is a killer forcing you to run your shift even more tighter, 3 people working one as a cashier, one running curbside and you being the back up cashier and if the lines gets too long well.... unfortunately we can't do much about it and have to make people wait longer than usual.

1.0
Jul 19, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Best benefits any retail store has to offer, Holiday Pay, Vacation time, closes early on holidays

Cons

Exhausting, back breaking work. Management restructure during a pandemic that lead to shift managers taking a large paycut, after record breaking sales and putting our lives on the line being called "heroes". District managers play favorites and would rather hire people off the street than internally promote willing leaders who want their weekly pay to be the same before the pandemic. You will be expected to help train these new managers while making $4 to $5 less per hour than them. If they quit (and most do because they are not expecting the amount of labor in the job), you will be expected to do their job (without getting their payrate) while District Managers look for another fresh hire to replace them.

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