Awful - avoid at all costs - Area Manager ALDI Employee Review

1.0
Dec 24, 2025
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Pros

Salary seems high initially but for the hours you have to do (70/80 at minimum per week) it works out at less than minimum wage some weeks - if you’re able to work for a while and save up then it’s fine but if your situation or goals isn’t this then I don’t recommend

Cons

I was there for 8 months - my whole cohort “resigned” (forced to resign and told that if they don’t then they will be fired anyway and will lose their opportunity to get good references) - all for different reasons, one being told they weren’t “Aldi enough”. I worked a particularly long week after my last standing new starter colleague left and decided to actually resign as it wasn’t worth the stress I was going through.

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Cons

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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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