You will be worked to death - Store Manager ALDI Employee Review

1.0
Oct 3, 2025
Recommend
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Pros

Pay is the only good part.

Cons

Absolutely no work life balance. The district managers don't know how the programs work and when the store managers ask for help to run the impossible programs we are told to figure it out. Above the store level is so out of touch. They want us to only be physical 2 hours a day but the scheduling program schedules labor to finish working truck by 11 at the earliest. This already exceeds the two hours we are suppose to be physical. Then we are told we are failures for working too much freight, even though that's the way Aldi has it set up. Outside of pay there is nothing here but corporate greed and lack of caring for anyone at store level.

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5.0
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Pros

Fast paced. Work with good people

Cons

micromanagement. Unrealistic expectations sometimes. Overal ok

5.0
Oct 5, 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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