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I posted this in another review, however I thought that this should be placed in its own topic and expanded upon!

I worked for them as a manager for a year, and in several stores as I was a floating manager from florida to nc and back!

95% of the opening managers DO NOT rotate the produce in the morning, they throw fresh on top, so more often than not there is rotten produce under the fresh produce.

You ever see those stickers $1 $2 off meat? If its put over the date the meat is dated and they are trying to sell dated meat (trust me I was there and I know how angry district managers get at the store manager for throwing out meat)

Freezer and cooler loads when they come in do not stay in the cooler and freezer! More often than not what happens is the loads come in 3-4 pallets, the pallets that are not being worked are pulled into the back room YES THE BACKROOM where there is no NO refrigeration at all, I have seen several stores working a freezer load for 1-3 hours with the freezer pallets sitting in the back room, same thing with the cooler! Why does this happen? Aldi cuts costs everywhere and instead of giving you a walkin you can work in they give you this skinny little room where you can't work each of the pallets!

Aldi does not give their employees proper breaks either, in the year or so I was there I NEVER ONCE took a 30 min lunch break paid or unpaid, yet they instruct their employees to punch a time for break so they don't get sued!

Aldi also does not rotate floor stock properly, for example In florida (st pete store) I went to cover some vacations, and found 6 cases of cereal which were outdated, among other things on the shelves that were dated and placed for sale!

If the store is not to grand opening standards at the end of the night EVERYONE is expected to stay no matter how late after your shift it is and get it fixed! Then the next day they ream the cashiers/managers for staying late because aldi refuses to give more than 1-2 cashiers and a manager in a store that does 2-5 thousand dollars an hour...

I could go on and on and on, needless to say after working there and seeing the things (including several instances of vermin in the back room where you would get yelled at for calling the bug guy) I will never EVER shop there, yes the prices are low, but you do not see what goes on in the back rooms, especially here in florida!

As for the cashiers, they are treated like garbage! They have to meet a certain ring speed (which is why they throw the groceries) or they get fired. If their drawer is off slightly FIRED, if they are more than 10 min late to work FIRED, The cashiers are lucky if they are smokers and their manager is a smoker because in an 8-10 hour shift they may get one break for a smoke, if you get anymore than that you are really lucky.

The floors of the coolers and freezers are never cleaned, I have seen SEVERAL stores in Florida with dried milk (from where it leaked) that upon going back to the store 2 weeks later and after telling management there it is still there. The only major time that they do any major cleaning is when one of the big wigs are coming, other than that you are lucky if you get a scrubber through that place at night.

There have been several times in my bouncing from store to store that they are selling dated bread and when calling out the manager who was there about this, they state "our dm is psycho I can't throw out that bread I have to sell it"

The dates are rarely if ever checked on many items and on many of my shifts I would find dated items in the cooler (milk, sour cream, cheese, lunch meats etc...) and upon taking them out to throw them away got yelled at for creating inventory problems.

As for pay, yes they do pay you a lot and there are good benefits, however you can rarely use them since you are working 40-70 hours a week if you are the manager. If you are salaried, your life is Aldi, if your stores sales arent up enough for the month, they force you to send cashiers home and work the cashier shifts even if you haven't had a day off in 2 weeks. When we opened here I did not have a day off for a month straight!

As for any of you wanting to get in touch with aldi, good luck, a DIRECTOR OF STORE OPERATIONS has stated "we don't have phone numbers published because we aren't going to pay someone to sit on the phone to listen to people ***** about things that we do wrong, if they really need to get a hold of us they can write a letter, until then its not that important" This is the mentality about customers at aldi.

If the levels of the canned goods or other items are really low DO NOT BUY THEM as they are likely close to going out of date and the store manager isn't ordering new because new stock goes directly on top of old in the dry grocery section. They have monthly rotations and spot freezer checklists but THOSE NEVER GET FOLLOWED!

Now yes the quality of the food is good for the most part, however there are so many things wrong with the operations and not taking care of items which have gone bad that I will never shop there again, speaking about things that go bad, it was not uncommon for the produce/meat that was dated or spoiled to sit in the back room in a buggy (yes a buggy that you use in the store) rotting for days! Sneak a walk into your local Aldi back room here in florida if you don't believe me, I guarantee you will never shop there again.

As for cashiers, they are also almost forbidden to have conversations with customers as this kills their productivity, if a customer asks something they are trained to be short, curt, and to the point to get the customer out of their line and move along to the next customer. They are TRAINED to throw the items into the carts like that, and if someone gets mad they call the manager and the manager is TRAINED to say whatever to the customer to get them out of the store.

All in all the aldi up north are great (NY, PA etc) but here in Florida, I wouldnt shop one if you gave me a $50 dollar gift card!

Good luck and happy shopping at publix or hannaford!

Location: Palm Harbor, Florida

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Guest

this looks like an article about Aldi Florida, writers says PA and NY are fine. Must be a personal beef with management.

Guest

My Goodness!

Guest

The ones in PA suck as well. Same things happen, expired food, produce that looks like animals at the zoo wouldn't even touch it. Definitely Buyer Beware.

Courtlynn Crt
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Okay

Guest

I had walked in to drop off my resume and was talking to the cashier about the things the manager has talked about above, and she repeated 1/2 of the things the manager from Florida said. I applied for a job up north and as I said she warned me about (1) not legally having breaks and lunches (2) being monitored for scanning rates for cashiers (3) the front end where the registers are where customers can see looks like a garbage dump site (4) there are employees yelling all over the place.

Trust me Im not going to take any crap from anyone that's there.

Walking into the place I was the only male there. And there is no FN way your going to get me to clean a bathroom!

Guest

As a customer, I can tell you that both of my interactions with the cashiers was extremely rude but ironically they both told neverโ€Aldi really takes care of their employees over customersโ€ this makes me laugh so hard. Clearly no one is getting cared for.

Guest

Thank to the area manager in Palm Harbor in giving a true picture of Aldi stores.

Guest

Thank YOu!

Guest

aldi uses bait and switch to get you in the store i went to the chula vista ca store looking for a product that was in the aldi finds ad i asked the cashier and she said we dont have that at this store so i asked what store has it she said i dont know so i asked her is there someone that does she said no so then i asked her is that just in there to get people in the store she said i dont know maybe. im not a lawyer but i think thats fraud.

Julene Did

I went to Aldi Doncaster East on the 8/8/2020. At 1130 am.

The gentleman at teller was not practising infection control and 1.5 distance with the customers , very disappointed.. This is why the virus is spreading

Guest

I worked in Aldi in Australia - SAME THING!!! They treat their staff like slaves!!

I injured my back due to a RIDICULOUS load they expected me to have done in 2 and a half hours. We were ALWAYS short staffed. I worked with approximately 40 different people in the 4 years I was there and only a handful of them did not get injured.

They run their stores like the Military!! I know as I am an ex Vet!!

Guest

Aldi is amazing in California

Guest

I have also worked for Aldi for 1 1/2 as a shift manager...I was recently FIRED for excessive markdowns that the STORE MANAGER told me to mark down items that were not selling or damaged to make room for new items! I can also verify selling out of date bread or bread so close to expiration when the bread should be pulled 5 days of the date it has on it.

I have seen the produce with fuzz growing on it, rotten, gnats flying around and pallets come in with maggots all over cans! I have also seen ants in the boxes of items out in the floor on aisle 1. They do not care about their employees at all. Sadly I was not the only one fired..1 other girl, an associate..but the rest of the staff was able to keep their jobs and we were ALL told to mark old items down.

Yes the pay is good and benefits are good but they work you to death with only 2 people in the store..the cashier and shift manager! I also have worked many many days straight without a day off and repeatedly having work close when open back to back. The Aldi DM never cared to listen about any issues the employees had concerning work environment, they don't care about the constant theft from customers on a daily basis yet they spend so much effort in watching employees on the cameras. Yes they will FIRE you for your ring speed being slower and yes they expect the cashiers to throw groceries into the basket because it is all about speed there..being fored was a blessing in disguise and yes I will be reporting everything I saw while working there...they constanrly change the schedule once it has already been posted without telling people and then call and ale why people are late for shifts when they had No Idea their hours had been changed ..we had to hang magnetic signs to the ceiling by using a pallet jack!

The store manager said to do it that way!

This place is redicoulous and I strongly urged anyone seeking a job there to reconsider..no wonder they have such a high turnover rate! I could go on and on too and I can VERIFY that the other comments are correct about Aldi as well.

Guest
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My daughter just got fired today as a manager at Aldiโ€™s 2 weeks before Christmas and a single mother of 3. Stuff she had no control over like she would order 3pallets of meat and the warehouse would send 10.

Her small store could not sell that much which went against her and she got in trouble for so much waste!!! They sent so much special buy and had nowhere to put it. One of the other managers in another store told her to stack it cause that is what they told her to do. So she did and what heppened.....written up again but the other manager was not.

DM never had her back but would come in an whisper and joke around with the associates. There was a ton of gossip and DM only having the backs of everyone except the manager. She was so committed and came in on her days off all the time. Gave employees days off they wanted or needed and would buy lunches or bring in treats.

When she got fired she found out that the associate knew it was going to happen and had already told some of the customers. We will never recommend Aldiโ€™s to anyone will tell the truth about them every chance we get. What a waste of someone who wanted to provide a decent life for her children and gave this company everything she had in her.

She never called in sick and would work thru not feeling well and personal grief. If you can get fired with a work ethic like that and right before Christmas.....this company does not care about their employees at all.

Guest

Everything in this article is true. Aldi disrespects every single person who works for them.

I know because I have worked there for over 10 years. They do not care about customers . The cashiers are told to be fast not polite, to not make small talk, to not place things in the cart neatly, and do not wait until the customer is finished unloading the cart. These things would take up valuable time that you will need later to be a janitor, to stock the store,do inventory all with only a total of three people.

You will close at 9 at night , but not punch out until 1 in the morning. Then you get to come back at 6 in the morning with 2 other poor souls to stock 30 pallets of groceries including freezer, cooler and produce plus all the dry grocery. You must be done by 9 if you want any chance to get one 15 minute break, no matter if you will be working a six hour shift or a ten hour plus shift. These cashiers are hard working, tough, and most importantly human beings.

So the next time you are in Aldi's please act like a grown up with manners or at least be indifferent, we are not robots. And remember if you have a complaint the corporate office will act interested and say they will take care of it, but really the cashiers are only following policy.

Guest

I totally agree with every word of this. They treat their employees like slaves.

Expect one person to do the job of 5. No matter the treatment, I loved my job due to the fast pace day and the pay. My coworkers were all amazing for the most part. I was just fired 3 days ago for not having a vehicle.

Said it wasn't business smart for them due to the fact that I couldn't come in at moments notice nor stay as long as they needed even tho you weren't told until 5 minutes before your scheduled time off. My vehicle broke down and I'm a single mom. There were multiple times I would walk to and from work , which was an hour and 20 minute walk. The district manager let me work my entire shift and 5 minutes after closing called me into the office where I was told that if I just resigned then she would promise to give me good referrals.

Why would I quit a job that I rocked at??? I said I would not resign and requested termination papers where she then slid a paper to me and fine, just sign and date here. I asked to read it and when she finally agreed , it was a paper for voluntary resignation.

When I said I refuse to sign this and requestEd a termination letter, she then stated she didn't have to legally give me anything and if I would just sign the resignation form that she would consider bringing me back as an employee in the future. Absolutely appalled by such low down dirty business practices.

Guest
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Good to see I wasnt the only one who went through this ***

Guest

I work at an Aldi in Europe and even as a manager you would have been sacked in less than a week for doing any of those first several things you mentioned. I honestly didn't read any further because it doesn't even come close to working for them here

Guest
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Come to the U.S. it's 100% accurate.

Guest
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I am a current employee in America. ...i have the pictures to prove every statement ive read here. Its the truth

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