Assistant store manager - Assistant Store Manager ALDI Employee Review

2.0
16 Apr 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Reasonable pay compared to other supermarkets. Monthly bonuses available if you hit your productivity target which can vary depending on how your store did.

Cons

Very poor structure to your working day. Due to the way the company runs its productivity, you are constantly firefighting all day to get the job done. Also the amount of special buys continually coming in to the warehouse and blocking it up makes the day to day job very difficult. At Christmas fresh food deliveries were put on the shop floor for customers to try and get by pallets of stock. Chilled products were not put into the chiller as there is not enough room. No breaks really you just eat when you can and crack on! When it is busy all the staff are on the tills leaving the shop floor to look like a pigsty and then you are forever playing catchup! You all have to chase shoplifters out of the shop and do whatever it takes to get them back in the shop. Come in for meetings on you day off!

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Pros

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Cons

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5.0
5 Oct 2016
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Pros

+ industry leading wages Associates - $12/hr, Shift Mgr - $16/hr, SMT - $23/hr, Store Manager - $75,000+/yr + great work environment + excellent training + health, dental, vision, life insurance, 401k + 40-50 hr/wk with paid overtime Very fast paced so work hours fly by. I loved working at Aldi. The pay was great! Benefits great! Was training to be a store manager so a lot was expected of me but I was totally up for it. My store manager loved my work, associates loved my fairness, customers loved me.

Cons

+ work/life balance + walked 28,000 steps/day!!! Never thought I would be fired for clocking in only minutes late!!

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