ALDI Foods Company Review By Employees
ALDI Foods
Southgate,
MI
www.aldifoods.com
Company Grade: D (47%)
Rate This EmployerAldi is an international retailer specializing in a limited assortment of private label, high-quality products at the lowest possible prices. Their unique way of operating makes it almost impossible for competitors to match their comb ... Go To ALDI Foods's Full Company Description
The ALDI Foods has an Overall Look Before You Leap grade of: D (47%) by 12 of it’s current and/or past employees. The current and/or previous employee(s) rated ALDI Foods on it’s business ethics, management, culture, pay, benefits, and training.
12 Total Employee Reviews of ALDI Foods
| Past Employee's Review | |
| Date Reviewed: | December 09, 2011 |
|---|---|
| Years of Employment: | 2007 - 2010 |
| Overall Grade: | C- (54%) |
| Comments: | As a former Area Manager with ALDI, I would strongly discourage anyone with a university degree from going for the Area Manager role with ALDI. The typical people you will be working with in these roles are obnoxious, aggressive and over confident. This is the ALDI type they are after. They only want people with uni degrees because it shows you can achieve something. You won’t be using anything you’ve learnt at uni, so it seems such a waste of all that study. The role is basically running their supermarkets, a job which people without a uni degree could also manage easily. They will work you to the bone for 2-3 years and then replace you with new grads. There are very limited opportunities to progress above Area Manager, as the number of Director roles is limited and everyone is competing for them, and the existing Directors won’t leave their current roles so they don’t come up often. The progression from Area Manager is to Store Operations Director, Buying Director, Property Director or Warehouse Director. Given the existing directors have nowhere else to go, besides Managing Director, there are limited opportunities for progression. Each region can only have 1 or 2 Store Operations Directors etc., there is only 1 Managing Director. So the number of people in the Director roles is small. Most people working for ALDI develop very specific skills in overseeing supermarkets, and there are limited opportunities to move into other retail companies with the ALDI experience. Other retailers would rather promote their existing staff into management, and so if you leave the company you will find it difficult to gain employment elsewhere with the ALDI background as your experience. I would strongly discourage anyone from pursuing an opportunity with them, as they are a ruthless company and will use you until they can replace you. ALDI only operates for the profit of the German owners. ALDI don’t hesitate to replace people they don’t like, and their staff turnover is very high. Uni graduates would be better advised to work in roles where they can utilize the degree they’ve studied, which in the long term will give them a lot more opportunities than ALDI can offer. Whilst other companies offer a lower starting salary for graduates, you will quickly catch up, and in the long term be in a much better position with a career that actually makes you attractive to many firms. Whilst the ALDI starting salary is high, it doesn’t go up much further once you are in the company. It is a bait to attract lots of applicants to apply, and then you get stuck. I really regret working for ALDI and would have been better off starting off in a career oriented firm where I was using my uni degree. |
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| Past Employee's Review | |
| Date Reviewed: | July 19, 2011 |
| Years of Employment: | 2008 - 2011 |
| Overall Grade: | F (34%) |
| Comments: | Never have I been treated so poorly by an employer...never |
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| Past Employee's Review | |
| Date Reviewed: | July 07, 2011 |
| Years of Employment: | 2004 - 2011 |
| Overall Grade: | D (48%) |
| Comments: | Store management is ok but upper level corporate management is not. District managers and Directors of Operations don't care about employees or stores, only their own advancement. |
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| Past Employee's Review | |
| Date Reviewed: | February 15, 2011 |
| Years of Employment: | 2008 - 2010 |
| Overall Grade: | F (38%) |
| Comments: | if you can handle alot of the BS to this job, hardly any breaks, eat a meal before you go to work, chances are you will not have a chance to eat at all. be prepared to get hurt, alot!! it is very physically demanding, also you will get no praise for your hard work, but will be sure to be criticized for whatever you do wrong. it pays well, but you are earning every single penny! and will feel underpaid even then. You are always alone! and will have to deal with many things by yourself. |
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| Current Employee's Review | |
| Date Reviewed: | December 11, 2010 |
| Years of Employment: | 2003 - Present |
| Overall Grade: | F (24%) |
| Comments: | Wondering why, after all this time, FLSA enforcers, fair labor groups, etc..as well as FDA, food safety reviewers have not paid attention to Aldi HORRID practices.... |
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| Current Employee's Review | |
| Date Reviewed: | November 09, 2010 |
| Years of Employment: | 2009 - Present |
| Overall Grade: | D (44%) |
| Comments: | While working for Aldi you will NEVER: 1. Get to eat lunch 2. Have a set schedule 3. Have time for your family 4. Get treated like a human being |
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| Current Employee's Review | |
| Date Reviewed: | March 27, 2010 |
| Years of Employment: | 2010 - Present |
| Overall Grade: | A+ (100%) |
| Comments: | I am truly blessed to be an employee for ALDI. |
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| Current Employee's Review | |
| Date Reviewed: | February 20, 2010 |
| Years of Employment: | 2006 - Present |
| Overall Grade: | D (43%) |
| Comments: | i have worked for them for few years now,i loved the work even though it can be challenging. been told good enough for protion, promised promotion twice and both times been let down as either the power tripping area manager prefers to hire someone completly new and retrain them or they decide they dont have a possition available anymore.when its them comin to you and offering promotion i dont think its on to mess people about. not just me its happened too.avoid |
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| Past Employee's Review | |
| Date Reviewed: | April 13, 2009 |
| Years of Employment: | 2001 - 2008 |
| Overall Grade: | F (31%) |
| Comments: | Thumbs down. The pay was REALLY good but its getting worse every year. Their business ethics resemble the nazis. District managers are like vendictive highschool cheerleaders (and about the same age and qualifications). Trust me, take a job paying less. YES, I am a former disgruntled employee. If you take a job with aldi's you will be too! |
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| Current Employee's Review | |
| Date Reviewed: | January 27, 2009 |
| Years of Employment: | 2007 - Present |
| Overall Grade: | C+ (74%) |
| Comments: | Good, hard, demanding work that is well compensated. |
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| Current Employee's Review | |
| Date Reviewed: | June 11, 2008 |
| Years of Employment: | 2004 - Present |
| Overall Grade: | F (35%) |
| Comments: | This is the worst company that anyone could work for. Aldi thinks because they pay you a little more than other co's they can treat you like a slave. |
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| Current Employee's Review | |
| Date Reviewed: | April 06, 2004 |
| Years of Employment: | 2002 - Present |
| Overall Grade: | F (40%) |
| Comments: | The company is ok if you don't mind working like a slave. Just remember not to complain or you could be replaced at any time. |
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