ALDI reviews

You will work some weekends, some early mornings, and some late nights. You can, however, make up for those odd hours by starting late that day, taking a day off during the week, etc. It is a 50-60 hour per week job. It can cause some stress.

Zero work life balance as you must be prepared to make Aldi your #1, #2, and #3 priorities in life. No questions asked. Pay is a pro, but at some point you debate whether it is worth the stress. The strain on store managers is ignored by district managers who only care about their numbers. Typical for most retail jobs, but magnified here. District managers mostly right out of college with no prior experience managing people so they are modeled as robots who are all fighting for a single promotion. If you are off and the store is not in 100% shape that day you are required to come in and fix it. Store managers rarely leave on time as district managers usually show up to evaluate the store a half hour before you are to leave. Required 50 hours per week, but reality is more like 60-80 hours per week. Associates are run through 2 weeks of wasted training at a training center, and must endure more on the job training because they rarely understand the job after training and store managers must perform this training without being removed from their normal duties. Store managers work at least 10 hours a day, and there is no time for lunch EVER. There is so much work by the time you are ready to take lunch a district manager comes in and gives you hours worth of work on your plate. They tell you to delegate it, which you do, then when that person does not complete the task you need to follow-up and do it yourself. District managers are more like the real store manager and store managers are highly paid, over-worked, assistant managers.