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What is it like to work for Aldi?
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Only special people need apply
Many years ago I was looking for work to tide me over as I was contracting in IT until I had the next contact job lined up. I applied to Lidl and they turned me down. The store was down the road from home, a 2 minute walk. I could not have been a better candidate! Their reason for turning me down was that they felt I was too ambitious and qualified in terms of other work experiences. I don't know what kind pf people they were/are still looking for, but given their staff turnover, they can't really be that far reaching!
Probably because they saw you as a threat. If you're too ambitious then naturally they will feel threatened that you will take over their job, heck you could have been in charge of the interviewers. They want to hire actual brain-dead people who have no real ambition and will work for £7.50 an hour like sheep to generate £70-80 per hour for the CEOs.
Well one such person was referring to an assistant manager which is obviously a higher band.
I believe aldi is second to sainsburys in (major?) supermarket pay for staff.
Sainsburys: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/busines...mps-extra-10m-staff-wages-mp-anger-pay-plans/ £9.20 for staff and £9.80 in london
Aldi: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...above-national-living-wage-lidl-a7510751.html £8.53 and £9.75 in london
Found an interesting site which appears to collect casual information: https://www.payscale.com/research/UK/Employer=Aldi_Foods,_Inc./Salary
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Ok to put it comparatively my wife was paid about an extra 50% on top of what she would have got working in a similar role in Tesco/Sainsbury
The store managers were (not sure now) on a basic salary of around 35k I believe, and they were bonused. a lot of incentives were attached to sales performance and how little they spent on payroll. This is going back 5 years ago but your average store manager with basic and bonus used to pick up around 55k. Comparative to how much your average Aldi turns over it was a good wage.
Your average Tesco Extra Store Manager is on around 80 to 100k, but the turnover there is 1.5 million plus usually.
These figures are accurate in respect of 2015, I used to consult for retailers back then, and one of my clients was Tesco.
Aldi Regional managers do get an A4, a number of years ago it was a graduate role, and it was common knowledge throughout the company that it was nearly impossible to move from Store Manager to Regional. There was a glass ceiling.
I hope a Tesco Extra turns over more than £1.5 million, for the size of those kind of stores I would expect them to be doing that per month let alone in a year.
For context I used to work in a medium sized McDonald’s whiched turned over more than £3million a year.
For context I used to work in a medium sized McDonald’s whiched turned over more than £3million a year.
If you've worked in any other supermarket you'll not like working at Aldi as everywhere else is like a walk in the park compared to Aldi. Yes all the supermarkets are cutting down staff and are expecting more out of their staff but it's still a more relaxed atmosphere.
Also "shelf stacking" is so last century. Everything comes in SRP (shelf ready packaging) these days so if anything it's shelf packing.
Also "shelf stacking" is so last century. Everything comes in SRP (shelf ready packaging) these days so if anything it's shelf packing.
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Probably both, they both have the same model of all staff doing all jobs don't they?My sister was talking about this randomly the other day.
She said the shop staff/cashiers get some of the highest wages of all the supermarkets in her area.
Was it Lidl or Aldi though that's the bit I can't remember
It is the same for all retail now , wife has been store manger for last 18 years and since 2008 all she has moaned about is staff cutbacks but higher sales profits needed with less staff . This is with 5 large high street retailers , of the 4 companies she has worked for since 2008 all have required her to make redundancies but still increase profits.
As for Aldi she had an interview and got to last few and said it looked awful company to work for so she baled
Yes that figure is a month.
Some of the larger beasts used to turnover in excess of 2 million
It's all so the top dogs at head office can reach their multi million pound bonuses and share schemes etc.
When Morrisons announced their last profit increase, it didn't just mean customers were spending more, it meant their costs had reduced as all stores are running on half the staff hours they had 5 years ago.
I didn't state that in the application, but given their high staff turnaround I wouldn't have thought that mattered anyway! I lived literally down the road, would never miss a beat and would be a model employee by any standard!
They and Lidl are horrific; I worked for one many moons ago and whilst they may have changed back then they flogged you to get every penny out of you.
They do pay better than most and they believe because they do so they own you, the hours and the grief you get is insane. I did it for 5 years, made a lot of money and then moved on and it's a pretty regular occurrence with them as, especially with a family, the hours they demand are a killer on a social life. People just burn out.
Young and ambitious and don't mind living the job to make the money, go for it. Older and settled I really wouldn't recommend it.
They do pay better than most and they believe because they do so they own you, the hours and the grief you get is insane. I did it for 5 years, made a lot of money and then moved on and it's a pretty regular occurrence with them as, especially with a family, the hours they demand are a killer on a social life. People just burn out.
Young and ambitious and don't mind living the job to make the money, go for it. Older and settled I really wouldn't recommend it.