Overworked underpaid - Associate Buyer ALDI Employee Review

4.0
9 Feb 2025
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Pros

Good job if it’s your first/ second job because you’ll have a ton of experience to add to your resume. Work from home 3 days a week. Samplings are fun.

Cons

Workload is unmanageable. AB’s are workhorses. Management doesn’t help you because they don’t know how. Everything, and I mean everything, is put on the AB’s. If there is a new task that needs to be done and they don’t know which team to give it to, it’ll be added to the AB to-do list. That is not an exaggeration. If it’s your first or second job, you will learn a lot because you will do everything and you’ll have a ton to add to your resume. If you’re established in your second or third job and looking to grow, go elsewhere.

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5.0
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Pros

Good pay great people to work with

Cons

Can't get your full 40 hours

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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