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, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Pay and benefits thats it

Cons

Absolutely zero work/life balance-they say they have it but it's a lie...upper mgmt wants puppets and yes-men running stores...asking questions about common practices will get u labeled as "negative"...since the last brother passed the people in charge are changing daily practices and making them highly inefficient...u can't trust anyone...and the worst thing they do is strictly hire district managers straight out of college with many of them never working prior to getting hired...they struggle with maturity and understanding what hard work is and the importance of family

2.0
Apr 13, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Decent salary with regular pay increases. Interesting brand. Usually able to leave on time. Free fruit.

Cons

Extremely corporate environment. Odd dynamic between management and ‘assistants’. Depressing atmosphere with negativity on a daily basis from staff who feel undervalued by the business. Micro-management and unnecessary rules that seem to be enforced for discipline’s sake. Lack of progression.

2.0
Oct 28, 2018

sounds better than it really is...

Recommend
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Pros

the pay is decent for a grocery store. the health benefits are affordable. the 401k end of year matching is great (if you can afford to put any sort of percentage of your check to it).

Cons

physically demanding and there is no true chance to alleviate the strain on your body. you’re not ever going to meet their standards. the closing staff is seen as lesser than the opening staff and is treated as if they don’t meet standards. if you have any sort of restrictions on availability you won’t get hired and then they discourage it after the fact. they promote and promise to give you a work life balance but there really isn’t one. the pressure for ring speeds and speed in general is unreal. the computer calculates a ring speed but it doesn’t account for real life situations. the simplicity of the register hinders your ability to cancel things like a mistakenly hit card instead of cash (until it times itself out and lowers your ring speed). and the till drawer is set up in a way that is hard to not get messy.

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