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ALDI | 2018-03-15 | Administrative Assistant | Current Employee, more than 3 years | Bolton, England, England | 2 | 3 | 1 | null | 2 | 5 | 2 | x | r | v | Administration Assistant : Head Office Role | ALDI salaries are very generous. The office hours are good (08:00-16:30). | There is a real issue, within the head office which I work at, with bullying. Time and time again people are forced to leave over the effects of bullying and the lack of action from Management. Several people are just paid off rather then the issue being dealt with. The issue is very serious as recently one member of staff even attempted suicide over the bullying they were subjected to. The office in which I work at there is only one male member of administration in the entire office. This unusually low level of male colleagues is a breeding ground for bullying and catty behavior. Management deny the issue of bullying and simply state that it cannot be proved therefore there is nothing they can do. This leaves the victims with no choice but to leave. |
ALDI | 2018-03-24 | Customer Assistant | Former Employee, less than 1 year | London, England, England | 3 | null | null | null | null | null | null | o | o | o | Store assistant | Team work,good paid,work with customers | Flexibility all the time,time pressure |
ALDI | 2018-03-26 | Stock Assistant | Current Employee, more than 3 years | Margate, England, England | 2 | 1 | 2 | null | 2 | 1 | 1 | x | x | x | No life outside of Aldi is permitted. | Decent pay - if you get decent hours. | Work like a machine. Don’t have any form of feelings or emotions.
Don’t have a life - they are not prepared to accommodate, not for anything. (No personal relationships either. It will not work)
No progression but they will string you along.
Creepy behaviour towards women, lots of favouritism. |
ALDI | 2018-04-04 | Anonymous Employee | Former Employee, more than 1 year | Coventry, England, England | 4 | null | null | null | null | null | null | o | o | o | Great work ethics | Lots of overtime opportunities meaning extra cash can be earned | Could be quite tiring as you never know when exactly you get to finish work |
ALDI | 2018-04-07 | Deputy Manager | Current Employee, more than 3 years | Leicester, England, England | 4 | 3 | 4 | null | 4 | 5 | 4 | v | v | v | Good if you want long term retail career in staying in store | Good pay
Good teams
Hard work
Efficient working practices | Depends what manager you have depends how your experience is, it can be very bad or good
Repetitive
Basic work |
ALDI | 2018-04-19 | Stock Assistant | Former Employee, more than 1 year | Birmingham, England, England | 3 | 2 | 1 | null | 2 | 3 | 2 | x | r | v | Not a dream job for me | better than average pay for the retail sector | lots of manual work, no opportunities for progression |
ALDI | 2018-04-19 | Store Assistant | Former Employee, less than 1 year | Sheffield, England, England | 4 | 2 | 3 | null | 3 | 3 | 3 | v | r | r | Store Assistant | Nice people to work with
Lots of different jobs to be done to keep you from being bored | Couldnt get enough hours
Sometimes very early starts and very late finishes |
ALDI | 2018-04-25 | Area Manager | Former Employee, more than 1 year | Manchester, England, England | 4 | 1 | 3 | null | 3 | 5 | 2 | x | r | r | Graduate scheme | good pay, good culture, car | long hours, work nights, work weekends |
ALDI | 2018-04-26 | Store Assistant | Current Employee, less than 1 year | London, England, England | 1 | 1 | 1 | null | 1 | 2 | 1 | x | o | r | Don't ..Just Don't. | Maybe the money? But is your health really worth the risk? | Strains on your body physically, strain on your mental health massively. Customers are rude often and all your given for advice is, ~"you need to be strong and put on a strong front, don't let it get you" ... Wow yeah great advice..
If you're seen resting for a millisecond you will be demanded to explain/go into the meeting room or you'll be given a job to complete in a ridiculous time period.
One day off and its marked, two days and you'll be brought into the meeting room and spoken too.
Ridiculous shift patterns. 5am (up at 3) or you "finish" at 10.30pm when in reality its more like 12am on-wards.
If you have any kind of health issues or conditions, (back problems, diabetic, etc) DON'T and i repeat, DO NOT apply.
Worst decision i ever made. Yes you get £10.20, but i have never felt so down trodden and exhausted mentally physically and emotionally. |
ALDI | 2018-04-27 | Store Associate | Current Employee, less than 1 year | Debden, England, England | 1 | 1 | 5 | null | 2 | 1 | 1 | x | x | o | Health and safety | Staff nice, and I can't say more, becouse there's not. Actually I can add that even your brake is in rush, no health amd safety clothing offered | They ask you tp sign health&safety without be8ng trained, so they are covered in case of accident. Climb the shelves to store products, big pallets to do within 30-40 minuit on your own(3 m) |
ALDI | 2018-05-18 | Store Assistant | Former Employee, more than 1 year | Birmingham, England, England | 2 | 4 | 3 | null | 1 | 3 | 1 | x | x | v | Atrocious exit process | Great team spirit
Good people
Good pay
Hard work
Good benefits
Made friends for life in my 2 years there | Awful management
Low hours in slower times of the year (summer)
Company record profits not passed down to employees
Atrocious exit process
Poor career progression
Favouritism |
ALDI | 2018-05-20 | Assistant Store Manager | Current Employee, more than 3 years | Chelmsford, England, England | 3 | 1 | 3 | null | 3 | 3 | 1 | x | r | v | If you don't brown nose you won't progress | Great team spirit, great pay, chance to move around the country and take your job with you. | If your face doesn't fit and you don't conform to brown nosing then you have nearly no chance at progressing in this business. If you work all the hours under the sun to prove yourself it will still go unnoticed. You can't trust any senior manager as they will divulge everything upwards, downwards and sideways. Get given false hope of progression for it never to materialise. |
ALDI | 2018-05-22 | Assistant Manager | Former Employee, more than 1 year | Bradford, Yorkshire and the Humber, England, England | 1 | 1 | 1 | null | 1 | 5 | 1 | x | r | v | Shocking | Good salary, that's all really. Growing business | No work life balance, long hours, poor area managers - graduates with no experience |
ALDI | 2018-05-31 | Retail Assistant | Former Employee | Roxburgh, Scotland, Scotland | 4 | 1 | 4 | null | 4 | 5 | 3 | v | v | v | Good pay but understaffed | About Average Pay
Great co workers and managers | Understaffed, shop worked with 2 staff members during the opening.
Very stressful |
ALDI | 2018-06-04 | Store Assistant | Current Employee, less than 1 year | Manchester, England, England | 3 | 3 | 2 | null | 4 | 5 | 3 | x | o | r | Store Assistant for just short of a year. | Work/life balance. Working as a close-knit team. Management value your option. 2-3 weeks of paid training. Friendly staff. 28 days of paid holiday. Frequent individual and group meetings to discuss any issues or concerns. You can choose which shift patterns you prefer to work and on average how many hours you'd like (if they're available). | Working very late or very early hours. Working weekends. Hard work that includes labour intensive activities. Everything is timed so there is pressure to get tasks done in a very short time limit. |
ALDI | 2018-06-04 | Store Assistant | Current Employee, more than 1 year | Long Eaton, England, England | 5 | 2 | 3 | null | 5 | 4 | 2 | v | v | v | Really good job so fun people are nice | I enjoy the people and customer but I enjoyed talking to them the most | Just wish I could see my family more |
ALDI | 2018-06-07 | Stock Assistant | Former Employee | Didcot, England, England | 1 | 1 | 1 | null | 2 | 2 | 1 | x | r | x | Understaffed and overworked | The pay was above average for a supermarket | Poorly managed, never enough staff on the tills or to replenish stock effectively or help customers. Managers did not coordinate staff well. |
ALDI | 2018-06-11 | Store Assistant | Former Employee, less than 1 year | Chichester, England, England | 4 | 3 | 4 | null | 4 | 4 | 4 | v | r | r | Good and bad... | The hours fly past as you work; no two days the same; good rotation of tasks; good mix of shifts; good prospects for progression. | Expected to stay late beyond contracted shifts, extremely difficult targets, management standoffish, occasionally unsociable hours, very corporate atmosphere. |
ALDI | 2018-06-20 | Picker | Current Employee, more than 1 year | Mitchel Troy, Wales, Wales | 2 | 2 | 1 | null | 2 | 3 | 1 | x | r | r | Picker | Good pay and hour to work | Favorising own country felas by the management |
ALDI | 2018-07-09 | Store Assistant | Current Employee, more than 1 year | Manchester, England, England | 2 | 2 | 1 | null | 1 | 4 | 2 | x | r | r | Awful Structure & Long Hours | Flexibility in shifts
Great for hard workers
Above average industry pay | Soul destroying work
Poor treatment from managers
Little to no chance of progression |
ALDI | 2018-07-12 | Area Manager | Former Employee, less than 1 year | London, England, England | 4 | 2 | 5 | null | 5 | 5 | 5 | v | r | v | Hard work but well paid | Well paid, company car, efficient business. | Incredibly hard work, unrewarding, spinning plates and no thanks. |
ALDI | 2018-07-13 | Management | Current Employee, less than 1 year | Swindon, Wiltshire, South West England, England, England | 5 | 1 | 4 | null | 5 | 5 | 4 | v | v | v | Aldi IP | responsibility, challenge difficult but very enjoyable | hours worked, social life balance |
ALDI | 2018-07-13 | Selecror | Current Employee, more than 1 year | Cardiff, Wales, Wales | 5 | 5 | 5 | null | 5 | 5 | 5 | v | o | v | Brilliant place to.work | Great team great pay very flexible | Every things going well so far |
ALDI | 2018-07-18 | Store Manager | Former Employee, more than 10 years | Norwich, England, England | 2 | 1 | 2 | null | 2 | 5 | 1 | x | x | x | 18 years a successful store manager then pushed aside | Great pay and benefits great staff | 48hr week once you add in driving time was about 65hrs a week. Area Managers with no people skills and given far to much power which goes to their heads and they think we should all worship the ground they walk on. |
ALDI | 2018-07-20 | Store Assistant | Former Employee, more than 1 year | Didsbury, England, England | 1 | 1 | 1 | null | 1 | 2 | 1 | x | x | x | Culture of FEAR | Provided me with employment on completing my degree. | Expected to work 11 hours with just a 30 minute break. Use fear to stop colleagues speaking about incorrect processes. I wouldn't give them the time of your day. you're expected to do one job then another persons job if they don't complete it. |
ALDI | 2018-07-26 | Deputy Store Manager | Current Employee, more than 5 years | Manchester, England, England | 3 | 2 | 3 | null | 2 | 4 | 3 | x | o | x | Not a career | Good pay and benefits, Good work colleagues | Treated poorly, career progression opportunities massively reduced over recent years, ALDI comes before home life and poor work home life balance |
ALDI | 2018-07-26 | Store Assistant | Former Employee, less than 1 year | Bolton, England, England | 5 | 3 | 5 | null | 5 | null | 5 | v | v | v | Great place to work! | Excellent pay, training and hours available | Not great work life balance as required to work weekends |
ALDI | 2018-08-01 | Deputy Manager | Current Employee, more than 3 years | Birmingham, England, England | 4 | 2 | 5 | null | 3 | 2 | 3 | v | v | v | Not bad | Fast paced so days go quick | Not enough staff to keep prices down |
ALDI | 2018-08-01 | Store Manager | Former Employee, more than 1 year | London, England, England | 4 | 3 | 3 | null | 5 | 2 | 3 | o | o | o | as a workplace | Competetive salary
opportunity to thrive
very fast paced | slow to change
productivity focused |
ALDI | 2018-08-09 | Deputy Manager | Current Employee, more than 3 years | Workington, England, England | 2 | 1 | 1 | null | 1 | 1 | 1 | x | x | x | Deputy Manager | People with no or little education have the opportunity to make better money than minimum wage. | Very challenging work, very fast paced environment, exhausting work hours and tiring shifts every day. |
ALDI | 2018-08-10 | ALDI Area Manager | Former Employee, more than 5 years | Atherstone, England, England | 4 | 3 | 3 | null | 2 | 5 | 3 | v | r | v | Area Manager | Excellent salary, and decent benefits. | Narrow development scope, and limited opportunities for professional development beyond the day job.
Secretive nature of company results in limited room for innovation and industry / sector collaboration. |
ALDI | 2018-08-11 | Store Assistant | Current Employee, more than 1 year | Birmingham, England, England | 2 | null | 1 | null | 1 | 1 | 1 | x | r | r | Apply at your own peril! | - Decent hourly wage.
- Great people to work with (dependent on the store you work at)
- Paid break (but there is a downside to that too!)
- Company benefits such as discounts on some places. | Where do I begin:
- The time to unload pallets of new stock is incredibly unrealistic and you are often stopped by customers to help them with their enquiries.
- If you're working a delivery shift, the delivery is sometimes late meaning you won't get out on time and have to find other work to occupy yourself. Even if you still don't get the delivery finished on time despite it not being your fault that it's late, expect a written conversation.
- Maximum of 30 minutes break, even if you are working a 10 hour shift which is not enough in my opinion when working in a fast paced environment like Aldi, where one easily become burned out.
- Some shifts you are stuck on till all day, even up to 10 hours.
- Shoplifting; the store that I work at has had an increase in shoplifting. There are no security guards employed to protect staff and customers from people who will harm you if you dare to get in their way.
- Be expected to work like a robot!
- The work life balance is terrible and barely given any thought; my social life has suffered because a lot of my time is taken up by working!
- High staff turnover.
- Never enough staff around to get the job done; if the store is really busy, most of the staff in store will be busy working away on tills. Which means you sometimes might end up collecting all of the empty cardboard boxes off the shelves after the store is closed, so in other words don't expect to finish your shift on time!
- Sometimes asked to come into work on days off at the drop of a hat.
- Rotas are changed often, meaning that you have to abandon all the plans you have made on your free time to come in to work.
- Don't expect to get given a party at Christmas.
- No staff discount. |
ALDI | 2018-08-28 | Deputy Manager | Former Employee, more than 3 years | Edinburgh, Scotland, Scotland | 1 | 1 | 1 | null | 1 | 1 | 1 | x | x | x | "Real life Shawshank Redemption" | Only pro is the extra pound an hour | Theres never enough time to complete tasks and no room for any curve balls. Work scehdule is unbelievable, one week it's 6am starts and the next it's evening starts and this rotates weekly. Work life balance is destroyed, it's bad enough the place is under staff, you're expected to do the work of two. You're having to come into work sleep deprieved aswell, this takes it's toll. Expect wrinkles fast if that's not off putting then also a lower life expectency.
Management is full of bitter aggressers, bit like the guards in Shawshank. Feel as if the title gives them license to do and say whatever to those without. And that there are superior to those below them and it's stems from the top. But this is odd as it's a job that requires little to no education to enter, hard to understand where the superiority comes from even Area managers simply need a undergrade degree of any discipline to enter. Perhaps it's the lack of knowledge that creates this higher status mentality within management steming from the top.
Area managers are younglings straight out of Uni with no life experience, this is again to get the most out of them working 60-100 hours weekly, as they don't know any better and have no other commitments at that age. Bit like the stock trading sector in London however the ones Aldi employ tend to be entitled narcissists with type A personalities, that only require a degree in any profession to enter the position and it's as they tend blame their "training" for any and all errors and mistreatment of stuff and their own personalities. So they tend to struggle to relate to staff members of any age and also behave in sicklical ways. Much like children, they will engage in wars with individuals whether it be store assistants or managers. This stems from the belief that I have this title so you must see as this way and act this way, my behaviour may resemble that of a 12 year old and I may seem 300 miles away from what an area manager should be but you must act as if I am warden and address me as such.
The worst of it is nothing can be disputed, their word is law these kids are not watched but left alone with thier magnifying glass. It's deeply demoralizing for the people working around them, recieving constant feedback on trivial matters, passive aggressive tactics and no oppurtunity to explain yourself as anything like that is viewed as back chat and the penality is cold shoulders and a loss in the oppertunity to progress in the company. To top it off there is no way to change this as these kids are the way makers and get away with acting like Jeff Bezos from his early days at Amazon and are more obtuse than the Warden out of Shawshank, the staff have no option but to take it on the chin like a man(because thats how men should be) and quickly lose their mental state for an extra pound over other retailers. There are no possible ways to speak to someone to solve this problem even the area managers themselves can't be reasoned with, you are classed as nothing but low income earning trash by a Sports Science graduate recovering from his 21st.
Look for something else unless you are don't want to deal with all that, not an isolated incident happening in many of these stores. Have worked with company for 4 years been in 9 stores in 4 regions, it's same everywhere. But if you wanna feel anxious at work everyday maybe it's for you, I was gonna call this WORST RETAIL JOB OUT THERE but I think "Real life Shawshank redemption" is more fitting, creates a more fitting portrayal of Aldi life. |
ALDI | 2018-09-03 | ALDI Area Manager | Current Employee, more than 1 year | Wrexham, Wales, Wales | 4 | 3 | 4 | null | 4 | 4 | 4 | v | v | v | Aldi Area Manager | Good place to work . Great wage. company car | A lot of work although very rewarding after completion. |
ALDI | 2018-09-03 | Area Manager | Former Employee, more than 1 year | Neston, North West England, England, England | 3 | 1 | 3 | null | 4 | 3 | 3 | o | o | o | Intense and fast paced, but old fasioned | Great learning experience, thrown in at the deep end from day 1. | Focus on small details, e.g. tie colour rather than interactions with people. HR strucutre is awful with no regard for mental or physical health as hours very rigid and inflexible. |
ALDI | 2018-09-13 | Former Employee, more than 1 year | Birmingham, England, England | 1 | 1 | 1 | null | 1 | 1 | 1 | o | o | o | poor | pay is sort of ok | treat staff poorly and rig monthly pay so that you never receive overtime |
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ALDI | 2018-09-13 | Buying Director | Current Employee, more than 3 years | Atherstone, England, England | 5 | 5 | 5 | null | 5 | 5 | 5 | o | o | o | Buying Director | Excellent place to work with exciting, intense and challenging environment. Would recommend to anyone who is a Buying Manager or above. | Very process driven which can often get in the way of intelligent commercial decisions. Otherwise nothing I report. |
ALDI | 2018-09-15 | Retail Store Assistant | Current Employee, more than 1 year | London, England, England | 5 | 4 | 5 | null | 5 | 5 | 4 | v | v | v | Best job I've had in years! | I left the restaurant business for a career with Aldi. I knew it would quite literally mean blood, sweat, and tears. But it's nothing compared to the job satisfaction I get from knowing I've made a customer smile or laugh. I love the fact that managers will say "please" and "thankyou", and actively recognise your hard work.
It's all worth it, if you're willing to be a team player.
The company structure means a pay-rise twice a year. What other industry or employer can guarantee that!? | I won't lie, it is HARD WORK, and those who are afraid of that would, and should be put off by it. The rest of us don't mind, because we don't mind getting up at stupid o'clock to ensure that produce, chiller, bread and freezer look amazing.
Ultimately, it is about teamwork. Future employees need to understand that if you don't put in the effort, you will never get the rewards. |
ALDI | 2018-09-17 | Deputy Store Manager | Current Employee, more than 1 year | Pitsea, England, England | 4 | 1 | 3 | null | 4 | 3 | 3 | v | r | v | Fast paced environment | Very good pay , one of the highest in retail industry | Too much of workload
Lacking customer experience focus, given unrecheable productivity targets
Not enough recognition for hard working colleagues. |
ALDI | 2018-09-20 | Store Associate | Current Employee, more than 1 year | Bournemouth, England, England | 2 | 1 | 2 | null | 4 | 3 | 1 | x | x | r | Work life balance | good pay if you are a student
Career progression
great benefits | long hours
transferring to other stores takes forever |
ALDI | 2018-09-25 | Administrative Assistant | Former Employee, more than 3 years | Darlington, North East England, England, England | 5 | 5 | 4 | null | 3 | 4 | 4 | v | o | v | Aldi administration assistant | Great pay. Shallow structure, managed directly - assistant to directors | Relatively strict with corporate values |
ALDI | 2018-10-01 | Part Time Store Assistant | Current Employee, more than 5 years | Stafford, England, England | 3 | 1 | 1 | null | 1 | 1 | 1 | x | x | x | Ok | Pay is good for retail, can be flexible if you have children | Boring scanning people’s shopping all day everyday, management push for like Aldi tell Aldi when there isn’t any incentives for it, no one wants to go home and fill out surveys waste of time! No progression at all especially if you’re face doesn’t fit and you don’t suck up the management, Not aloud to be in union just swept under carpet if you have a problem and it’s mainly coming from manegment speaking to you like crap |
ALDI | 2018-10-08 | Store Associate | Current Employee, less than 1 year | Manchester, England, England | 4 | 1 | 4 | null | 3 | 4 | 3 | v | r | r | Very difficult | Very fast paced with difficult tasks all the way through the shift, very well paid as well. easy job to get. | very challenging and stressful if you have a bad sense of direction. Expect very little training as you are thrown in the deep end. |
ALDI | 2018-10-10 | Store Associate | Former Employee, less than 1 year | Chelmsford, England, England | 4 | 2 | 3 | null | 5 | 2 | 4 | v | v | v | Aldi customer assistant | Good rate of pay for retail with good advancement opportunities. flexible working hours if part time. | expected to come in for team meetings once a month on a Sunday even if your are not due to work that day. Bad work/life balance. |
ALDI | 2018-10-23 | Part Time Store Assistant | Current Employee, more than 1 year | Edinburgh, Scotland, Scotland | 4 | 2 | 3 | null | 3 | 4 | 3 | o | o | o | Hard going | Great team environment. Hard work but decent enough pay for supermarket job | Long shifts and weekend work regularly |
ALDI | 2018-10-30 | Stock Assistant | Former Employee | Newcastle upon Tyne, England, England | 4 | 1 | 3 | null | 2 | 2 | 4 | x | o | o | Aldi stockie | Decent staff who help each other
Good wage
Hard graft for those who are looking for it | Alot of management are up their own backsides and look down on you.
Expected to live for the company.
Only know your shifts 3weeks in advance so can't plan a life. |
ALDI | 2018-11-01 | Anonymous Employee | Current Employee, more than 1 year | Boston, England, England | 5 | 4 | 4 | null | 4 | 4 | 4 | o | o | o | Employment | Friendly staff, fast and good services | Always helping and give advice when needed |
ALDI | 2018-11-02 | Assistant Store Manager | Current Employee, more than 1 year | London, England, England | 1 | 1 | 1 | null | 1 | 1 | 1 | x | x | v | Think twice if you want to work there | None except sallary which is excellent but you get to work for it | Long hours
Area managers younger than your kids and with no experience whatsoever
Will work you to the ground |
ALDI | 2018-11-07 | Assistant Store Manager | Current Employee, more than 10 years | London, England, England | 5 | 5 | 5 | null | 5 | 5 | 5 | v | v | v | Reality check | Industry-leading pay package.
5 weeks holiday a year.
Flexibility for time off and holidays.
48 hour week contract with excess hours paid in time in lieu. (Days off) | There are no coins to any post in Aldi. It is hard work and we do expect commitment, flexibility, professionalism and even under immense pressure great customer service at all times. |
ALDI | 2018-11-09 | Cheshire | Current Employee, more than 5 years | Sandbach, England, England | 4 | 2 | 4 | null | 2 | 4 | 3 | v | o | v | Good place | Money is good
Fun place to work | Hard work
Get rid of your social life |
ALDI | 2018-11-09 | Deputy Store Manager | Current Employee, more than 3 years | Crawley, West Sussex, South East England, England, England | 4 | 1 | 3 | null | 4 | 4 | 3 | o | o | o | Aldi | Good money,Good environment, chance to progress | Crazy hours,physically demanding,difficult warehouses |
ALDI | 2018-11-17 | Store Associate | Former Employee, more than 1 year | Birmingham, England, England | 4 | 3 | 3 | null | 4 | 5 | 3 | v | r | v | I had a great time | Great pay
Sick pay
Friendly people to work with | I Can’t think of any |
ALDI | 2018-11-22 | Assistant Store Manager | Former Employee, more than 1 year | London, England, England | 3 | 1 | 1 | null | 2 | 4 | 2 | v | x | x | Assistant store manager | Pay is competitive, good team. | Long hours,
Not much support from Area Managers, who are also Human Resources.
Little to no work life balance. |
ALDI | 2018-11-28 | Deputy Manager | Current Employee, more than 5 years | Whitehaven, England, England | 2 | 3 | 1 | null | 1 | 2 | 1 | x | x | r | Don't care about staff | Good hourly rate of pay | Impossible targets, bad management and mistreatment of staff |
ALDI | 2018-12-06 | Administrative Assistant | Current Employee, more than 5 years | Bolton, England, England | 5 | 5 | 5 | null | 5 | 5 | 5 | v | v | v | Aldi | Fast paced environment, high level of responsibility, great benefits and working hours. Positive office environment, hard working colleagues and atmosphere. | No cons to working for Aldi, the level of responsibility is high, it is very fast paced and essential you are hard working but is worth it. |
ALDI | 2018-12-10 | Assistant Store | Former Employee, less than 1 year | Wolverhampton, England, England | 3 | 2 | null | null | null | 4 | null | o | o | o | Good money but no work life balance | Good Salary and Good colleagues | You have to work like a Robot. Only get 30 minutes break in 10 hours shift |
ALDI | 2018-12-12 | Anonymous Employee | Former Employee, more than 3 years | Bristol, England, England | 2 | 1 | 2 | null | 2 | 2 | 2 | x | x | x | no life | good money, good training and development | no life, working like a dog.... |
ALDI | 2018-12-13 | Picker | Former Employee, more than 1 year | Manchester, England, England | 4 | 3 | 3 | null | 2 | 4 | 3 | v | o | v | Good money, no life | Good pay and can be flexible if you know how to play the game. Also met a good bunch of lads | No progression, Unless you are a lickarse. Lack of organisation at times and over disciplined. Always threatened with you're jobs for making small mistakes. |
ALDI | 2018-12-18 | Store Assistant | Current Employee | London, England, England | 1 | 1 | 1 | null | 2 | 1 | 1 | x | r | x | Modern slavery | No pros, people use to say good pay but you more than work that money | If you want to experience modern slavery get a job at Aldi. You will do what 3 people are supposed to do, being bounced from the shop floor to the till for 8 or more hours with 30 min break if you work 8 hours or 20 min if you work less than 8 hrs...and if you work 10 hrs? still 30 min my friend! No proper rotation, sometimes you have to work at chillers or freezers for 4 5 days in a row and you get ill easily. Moreover be ready for back pains due to the numbers of daiky lifting. No gloves provided, if you want some you have to buy them otherwise enjoy the paper cuts from the cartons or the pallets. No staff discounts even if for a snack that you buy at work during your break. Stay away, they deserve unions to be involved. |
ALDI | 2019-01-13 | Store Manager | Current Employee, more than 5 years | Stourbridge, England, England | 4 | 2 | 5 | null | 4 | 3 | 4 | v | v | v | Long hours , decent pay | Salary is excellent , | Hours are long and Unsociable |
ALDI | 2019-01-15 | Assistant Store | Current Employee, more than 1 year | Wirral, England, England | 1 | 1 | 1 | null | 1 | 1 | 1 | x | x | v | Job from Hell, The Real Aldi !! | None, even the famous ‘generous wage’ has took a downgrade, with new contracts only giving £8.50 an hour to new employees and for the job (jobs) you are expected to do it is undoubtedly not sufficient pay! | Firstly you are worked like a horse and if anything that is an understatement, you are tasked with a workload great enough for 2 and sometimes 3 people and don’t even think about falling short as there will be consequences and your name will then be tarnished for the foreseeable future. Like many others I joined with the intention to work my way up to the ‘Aldi dream’ of a company car and travel to the promised land, this is nothing but false hope.... unless you do the graduation scheme straight out of university there is no such thing to work towards. In turn this means the highest rank you can work up to is assistant store manager which would typically take 3-5 years, not bad right? Think again. This role will only ever be offered to you through working like a slave week in week out with utter consistency for the full duration. You will consequently dedicate your life and sacrifice in some cases family and any hobby’s you have to reach this role. Once obtained your life will then be Aldi, Aldi, Aldi, you will be on a salary and work a minimum of 48 hours a week with one day off. Throughout an Aldi career you will also be subject to critical judgement and there will be no praise for doing something great however do something bad/unsatisfactory and you will be shouted at and in some cases punished with a warning. In conclusion a job at Aldi is a life sentence of dedication and sacrifice as you serve a prejudicial hierarchy, I am left asking, how can a job as simple as stacking shelves and serving customers become so glorified and yet behind the scenes resemble slave labour? |
ALDI | 2019-01-16 | Assistant Store | Current Employee, more than 1 year | Mansfield, England, England | 4 | 3 | 4 | null | 5 | 2 | 4 | v | r | v | Nice place to work | Feel apart of a team | Hours are not nice but what do you expect if you work in retail |
ALDI | 2019-01-18 | Deputy Store Manager | Current Employee, more than 3 years | Bedford, England, England | 5 | 4 | 4 | null | 4 | 3 | 4 | v | v | v | Fast developing organisation | Busy and well paid environment | None for me personally |
ALDI | 2019-01-18 | Logistics | Former Employee, more than 3 years | Chelmsford, England, England | 2 | 1 | 2 | null | 2 | 2 | 1 | v | o | v | One to avoid | Big brand - not likely to disappear so regular work. It's financially secure for the times we are seemingly in, Free uniform & safety shoes, some incredibly decent people at all levels. | Company wants its pound of flesh for what they pay.
NO overtime rate paid considering, low hourly contracts offered.
Brown nosers making life difficult for others.
Lack of flexibility in choosing days/ times/ hours worked.
Low possible progression for staff who are not related to management.
High turnover of graduates taken on who after initial period are let go – as company wants continuous fresh talent & ideas!
Inadequate ride on trucks to do job, constant pressure to load and go leads to stress hanging around to get to store in time!
Disgusting toilets facilities in the RDC. Insufficient facilities for the very high staff on site.
Massive trailers of food waste binned which could be redirected to homeless or those in need. Very small % is actually given
Lack of maintenance inside & out i.e. loading bays not working/ out of order for ages, pathetic red pieces of card used hung on inside bay doors to indicate a bay is in use implemented by management to prevent significant numbers injured loading HGV’s where driver driven off and staff fall from height!
Crap safety procedures to limit accidents happening.
Pickers occasionally collapsing at work in the aisles.
Back breaking work-repeatedly lifting.
Weak department managers who have abused their positions turning long serving staff down repeatedly who asked to transfer depts' from picking to others - then when asked again claim they don't remember although having been asked 3 times.. |
ALDI | 2019-01-22 | Store Associate | Former Employee, less than 1 year | Leicester, England, England | 3 | 1 | 2 | null | 3 | 3 | 2 | x | r | r | Store Assistant | Days go by very quickly as there is always something to do. | -No work/life balance
-Expectations of the staff are too high
-Not very mentally stimulating |
ALDI | 2019-01-27 | Store Assistant | Former Employee, more than 1 year | Nottingham, England, England | 3 | 3 | 2 | null | 1 | 3 | 3 | x | r | v | Good people to work with | Great team to work with | Progression is slow, not enough routes and options. |
ALDI | 2019-01-28 | ASM | Former Employee, more than 5 years | Nottingham, England, England | 1 | 1 | 1 | null | 2 | 5 | 1 | x | r | r | Aldi asm - don't do it! | the pay is great! (although it isnt as high since I left) | no work/life balance, emmense pressure to succeed, no time to do things properly, unrealistic expectations, a great deal of stress, many hours worked go unrecorded to hit 'Prod' targets, bully senior management, |
ALDI | 2019-01-28 | Anonymous Employee | Former Employee | Telford, England, England | 4 | null | null | null | null | null | null | o | o | o | Tester | I was happy to work there | Timing was concern for me |
ALDI | 2019-01-28 | Retail Store Assistant | Former Employee, less than 1 year | Romford, England, England | 4 | 3 | 3 | null | 3 | 3 | 5 | v | o | o | Decent company to work for | Friendly management and team. Decent pay for this type of work | The environment was not a nice one to work in |
ALDI | 2019-01-30 | Anonymous Employee | Current Employee, more than 5 years | Manchester, England, England | 5 | 5 | 5 | null | 5 | 5 | 5 | v | v | v | Admin | great environment and colleagues to work in/with | no cons hard work and worth it |
ALDI | 2019-02-05 | Store Assistant | Former Employee, more than 3 years | Birmingham, England, England | 1 | 2 | 1 | null | 1 | 1 | 1 | x | x | x | Poor. | Pay is good I guess | Hours, breaks, shifts, management, sickness policy |
ALDI | 2019-02-06 | Store Assistant | Current Employee, less than 1 year | Maidstone, England, England | 5 | 5 | 5 | null | 5 | 5 | 5 | v | v | v | Great Company | Very friendly staff and made me feel welcome | Have to work harder than in other supermarkets but personally I prefer being busy |
ALDI | 2019-02-11 | Selector | Former Employee, less than 1 year | Bathgate, Scotland, Scotland | 3 | 3 | 2 | null | null | 4 | 3 | v | o | v | Warehouse | Compatitive salary
Nothing else to say | Sometimes you feel like a robot |
ALDI | 2019-02-20 | Shop Manager | Current Employee, more than 5 years | Rochdale, England, England | 5 | 5 | 4 | null | 5 | 3 | 5 | v | v | v | I am the manager of a homeless charity in Rochdale
I have several volunteers who run it with me | Love helping people that’s the most rewarding | Very hard to keep volunteers as they sadly have to move on |
ALDI | 2019-02-21 | Assistant Store Manager | Current Employee, more than 1 year | Swindon, Wiltshire, South West England, England, England | 2 | 1 | 2 | null | 3 | 4 | 1 | x | r | r | Heavy work load | Pay
Overtime isn’t paid for but can be taken back as holiday | Heavy work load
High expectations
Long hours
No work home balance
First year little holiday
Poor management
No HR or any real knowledge between higher management |
ALDI | 2019-02-24 | Area Manager | Former Employee, less than 1 year | Swindon, Wiltshire, South West England, England, England | 2 | 1 | 3 | null | 5 | 5 | 4 | x | o | v | Aldi Area Manager | Fast training, lots of responsibility from the start | No work life balance, managers are unnecessarily harsh, expectation of going in on days off despite 60 hour week, isolating style of working, unsocial hours (like all retail) |
ALDI | 2019-02-27 | Jobseeker | Former Employee | Chichester, England, England | 1 | null | null | null | 1 | null | null | o | r | o | Jobseeker at aldi | Love the food love the special love to shop at aldi | If your looking for work at aldi be ready to talk to a computer not a recruitment agency as your first steps are with a computer |
ALDI | 2019-03-01 | Anonymous Employee | Current Employee | Norwich, England, England | 3 | 1 | 3 | null | 3 | 5 | 3 | o | o | o | Deputy Manager | Money
Benefits
Coworkers
Christmas vouchers
Paid brakes
Very helpful staff | Management focused on figures only
Risk of back injuries |
ALDI | 2019-03-01 | IT Support | Current Employee, more than 3 years | Atherstone, England, England | 1 | 5 | 1 | null | 1 | 4 | 1 | v | r | x | Good pay but no job satisfaction | If it's for you there is good pay for little work or effort and often poor performance seems to be unnoticed as long as rules are followed. | No job satisfaction and an awful ego led culture looking to continually protect a spot or the staus quo. No progression based on ability or competence.
You won't be treated with respect without a sufficiently important enough title, so expect to be regularly talked down to ignored or insulted by middle & top management.
Business approach is intensively restrictive so prepare to either stop thinking or have any proactive activities cut off or taken over by someone else who is more popular with leadership.
Culture of lies, no transparency or honesty. |
ALDI | 2019-03-04 | Deputy Manager | Current Employee, more than 3 years | Perth, Scotland, Scotland | 5 | 3 | 5 | null | 5 | 5 | 5 | v | r | v | Great palce to work for. | If you are hard working you will be rewarded for it. The training you recieve is great. you gain a lot of great experience and support from your store manager, even more so if you are hard working and organised. | People get moved a lot since ALDI is constantly growing, very rapidly. So you have to get used to change very quickly. |
ALDI | 2019-03-18 | Assistant Store Manager | Current Employee, more than 5 years | Darlington, North East England, England, England | 4 | 2 | 4 | null | 3 | 3 | 3 | x | r | v | 48 hours per week minimum***** | great people, great customers, no two days are the same | long hours, 48 hours a week expected, not much opportunity for progression |
ALDI | 2019-03-23 | Deputy Manager | Current Employee, more than 3 years | Norwich, England, England | 4 | 3 | 4 | null | 4 | 4 | 3 | x | r | x | Deputy manager | Well money is ok good luck | To mush work to many people don’t now what they do? |
ALDI | 2019-03-24 | Assistant Manager | Former Employee, more than 5 years | London, England, England | 3 | 3 | 5 | null | 5 | 5 | 3 | x | v | x | long hours and hard work | Very good pay , meet some good staff and never the same day. | You Work for two people , long hours and not much communication between managers and staff. |
ALDI | 2019-03-25 | Anonymous Employee | Current Employee, more than 3 years | Manchester, England, England | 5 | 3 | 5 | null | 5 | 5 | 4 | v | r | v | Store assistant | Holiday length and good pay | Poor shift patterns and work life balnce |
ALDI | 2019-04-02 | Anonymous Employee | Former Employee, less than 1 year | Atherstone, England, England | 2 | 1 | 1 | null | 1 | 3 | 2 | x | o | x | Never again | Good payment, in theory good hours shift | Treated like a number by management, never you will know when you finish the shift, only 20 contractual hours a week, sometime you didn't reach the minimal hours a month, big targets, no life balance |
ALDI | 2019-04-02 | Manager | Former Employee, more than 5 years | London, England, England | 4 | 3 | 4 | null | 5 | 5 | 4 | x | r | x | Hard work but good pay | Very good wage, friendly staff | Extreme hard work, long hours and sometimes not nice managers |
ALDI | 2019-04-04 | Assistant Store | Current Employee, more than 5 years | Haverfordwest, Wales, Wales | 4 | 3 | 4 | null | 2 | 2 | 2 | v | r | r | Store assistant | Good pay, long days but less days to work in the week, can be on the move all day if you are good at working stock | Work full weekends more often than necessary, sometimes too much is expected of single employees to get everything done |
ALDI | 2019-04-13 | Marketing | Former Employee | Atherstone, England, England | 2 | 3 | 1 | null | 2 | 4 | 1 | x | r | v | Head office | Decent salary with regular pay increases.
Interesting brand.
Usually able to leave on time.
Free fruit. | 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. |
ALDI | 2019-04-15 | Caretaker | Current Employee, more than 5 years | Hull, England, England | 4 | 4 | 4 | null | 4 | 4 | 4 | v | o | v | Good company | Best retail supermarket 4 years running | Early start in the morning |
ALDI | 2019-04-15 | Deputy Store Manager | Current Employee, more than 3 years | Preston, North West England, England, England | 3 | 1 | 3 | null | 5 | 3 | 3 | x | r | r | Deputy Store Manager | Good money, challenging environment, fast paced | No work life balance, management team changes constantly, some times way too much to do in such little time |
ALDI | 2019-04-16 | Store Assistant | Current Employee, more than 1 year | Guiseley, England, England | 4 | 3 | 4 | null | 4 | 4 | 4 | o | o | v | Store Assistant | Good pay, career progression, efficient, hard work, good team | Pressure, long shifts, weekend & bank holiday work |
ALDI | 2019-04-23 | Hgv Class1 | Former Employee, more than 1 year | Bathgate, Scotland, Scotland | 5 | 3 | 5 | null | 5 | 5 | 5 | v | v | v | Great Place | The management genuinely want the best for the workforce and will spend time listening to concerns | Only one for me and it didn’t suit my family life was the shift pattern in the drivers dept 5 on 3 off |
ALDI | 2019-04-24 | Assistant Store | Former Employee, less than 1 year | Derby, England, England | 3 | null | null | null | null | null | null | o | o | o | store assistant | good pay and enough work to have overtime | bad shift patterns and night shifts too |
ALDI | 2019-05-10 | Advisor | Current Employee | Romford, England, England | 5 | 4 | 5 | null | 5 | 4 | 4 | v | v | r | Advisor | Great store good service | There really isn’t any on my mind |
ALDI | 2019-05-11 | Store Assistant | Former Employee, more than 1 year | Manchester, England, England | 3 | 1 | 4 | null | 4 | 4 | 5 | v | r | r | Fairly good but difficult job | Great integration and interaction between the managers and store assistants
Always work to be completed so it never feels like the shift is dragging
Good training and performance reviews | Small staff numbers on shifts so you can become stretched and stressed if the store gets very busy
Amount of time you get for your break
lots of physical and heavy lifting
Amount of extra hours you sometimes have to work |
ALDI | 2019-05-15 | Assistant | Former Employee, more than 5 years | Atherstone, England, England | 1 | 1 | 1 | null | 1 | 1 | 1 | x | r | x | Bad Management | The best thing was my colleagues who all felt the same as me but are to scared to leave | Absolutely everything about working for Aldi has a downside |
ALDI | 2019-05-18 | Deputy Store Manager | Current Employee, more than 5 years | Cheltenham, England, England | 1 | 1 | 1 | null | 1 | 1 | 1 | x | x | x | Horrific | Absolutely no pros what so ever | Lazy managers with most of their work time spent eating or on their phones. no one over sees management so they can do and do do what ever they want. Very rude and arrogant. |
ALDI | 2019-05-19 | ASM | Current Employee, more than 8 years | Cardiff, Wales, Wales | 4 | 2 | 5 | null | 5 | 5 | 5 | v | r | v | Well paid | Money shifts can match home life | Lates that's it really to be honest |
ALDI | 2019-05-19 | Shop Assistant | Current Employee, more than 1 year | Stevenage, England, England | 2 | 1 | 1 | null | 1 | 2 | 1 | o | o | o | not a nice place to work | not bad hourly pay comparing with other supermarkets | everything from a workload to treatment of non British citizens |
ALDI | 2019-05-23 | Night Stocker | Former Employee, less than 1 year | Loughborough, England, England | 4 | 3 | 3 | null | 3 | 4 | 3 | o | o | o | Nightfill Assistant | Good pay
Flexible hours
Not difficult | Hard to get enough hours |