Aldi announces wage increases up to $23 an hour; hiring thousands of employees
Last week Aldi announced that it would be hiring 13,000 new workers and raising minimum wages across the company.
And, the cashiers can sit down. Which makes sense.
cashiers aren't allowed to sit in usa?
Cashier stations with chairs are VERY rare, yes. The general trope is that managers/owners think it makes workers appear lazy.
In California, companies are required by law to provide them seating and let them sit down, but most everywhere else they are expected to stand.
Corporations make that decision. And our country allows (if not encourages) it.
Yes, seriously. Same goes with drinking water behind the counter.
Other than Aldi, pretty much no.
We don't have it in Australia either apart from Aldi.
Cashier stations with chairs are VERY rare, yes. The general trope is that managers/owners think it makes workers appear lazy.
cashiers aren’t allowed to sit in USA?
Not in any stores I have seen in my city.
"up to $23 an hour".... Doing a whole lotta heavy lifting in this headline.
How is it sane to list the maximum you can make, vs what to expect day 1?!
It reads like the minimum went from $18 to $23. So the minimum is up from $18, to $23.
Aldi announced that it it looking to hire thousands of new workers, as well as increasing their minimum wage to $18 and $23 an hour.
My read on this, is that they are discussing the minimum for two separate positions. Potentially cashier and team leader. Would make sense as they don't have many employees on shift at a time.
Minimum does not mean "up to".
That's just being read wrong, it's not written like a "save up to $10" kind of line. The "up" just describes the change (i.e. 'the starting wage is going up; becoming $X'). Within the article, it's completely unambiguous:
The national average starting wages for Aldi workers will be set at $18 an hour and $23 an hour for warehouse workers.
The article says that those are the starting wages, for store and warehouse, respectively.
It is telling that Aldi is successfully expanding in the USA while keeping the same model that made it big in its home market of Germany and the rest of Europe.
When Walmart tried to gain a foothold in Germany, it hemorrhaged billions before giving up. The managers responsible covered their asses with bullshit about cultural differences or unions, but the truth is that they just couldn't offer competitive prices. Looks like, even in the US, shoppers favor low prices over wasteful frills like greeters.
Greeters are literally a charitable expense (that they've mostly replaced with security goons) the wasteful frills in Walmart are executive compensation and benefits.
hahahah right? I was like 'uh...I don't think that's where all the money's disappearing to my guy...'
You think the managers at Aldi work for the satisfying feeling of serving their community or what? Aldi cut costs in any way possible and greeters are simply a very visible way.
Aldi isn't really a direct competitor of Walmart. There are other more similar (hypermarket) chains in Germany that directly offered the same as Walmart. For its attempt to enter the german market, Walmart bought up a bankrupt chain of such hypermarkets. The stores were in worse locations than those of their competitors. Basically, it was unwanted left-overs. The Walmart, closest to me, was right next to its competitors but on the far side. It was just a little less convenient. If they had been able to offer better prices or quality, that might have made it worth it. But they couldn't. There were only greeters and packagers.
Yes please, we need more competition on groceries in rural Texas and also Arkansas as an extra special sort of fuck you to Walmart.
Their biz must be booming during this era of price gouging clown corpos
We shop at Aldi a lot and, anecdotally, they seem to be the most reasonably priced by a pretty hefty margin.
That's because ALDI doesn't cushion cost increases or sell loss leaders. If eggs shoot up in price 400% they immediately raise the price to match. Most grocery stores will try to eat at least some of that cost for some time hoping it will go down before they have to raise even further. That kind of pricing model means they need much larger margins on all their other products to afford that. Same way they sell milk and rotisserie chickens at a loss to get people in the store.
ALDI does not play those games and keeps their margins more consistent but their prices are more susceptible to spikes in costs.
Did not know Aldi were in the States?
Aldi Nord controlled stores in the US are Trader Joes, Aldi Sud stores in the US are just Aldi
Got one in my redneck suburb. We almost exclusively shop there.
We have both Aldi here but they're differently named. One is just Aldi, the other is Trader Joe's.
It's our super low cost grocer, that has in recent years become more high quality. When I was a kid (80s-90s) it was like "never buy fresh anything there because it's all crap" but these days it's all pretty decent quality stuff. Not like farmstand good, but better than Walmart.
I've noticed refrigerated stuff and produce from Aldi tends to go bad pretty fast, but as long as you use it up within a few days it's fine
Yeah, they've been in Texas at least 20 years. Looks like they are in most of the states in the eastern half of the continental US and the states along the southern border.
We have some in the Midwest as well
Look at ALDIs locations: https://stores.aldi.us/
Yes, they're not the most common but they're in most places here. Lidl too but there's far less of them (apparently only in the northeast)
They have been here in the US for a long time, I think their first american store opened in the 70s. Personally I love Aldi I shop at my local one here in Missouri at least once a week. Their price on extra firm tofu just can't be beat its at least 1/3 the price it is at my other local supermarkets.
LONG LIVE ALDI
Damn. What's next, quality fresh foods with less harmful ingredients?
I mean it is a german company, they might just standardize EU standards through out their company. At least this is a small pipe-dream I have had about them.
Great, now that they have bought winn-dixie, and are moving in places, mostly, where there are failed/failing regional chains, we will have even less competition.
Remember, despite saying Aldi does not discriminate based on union/desire to unionize, A LOT of their ex-management say they were straight up told to fire anyone who mentions it, and they would rather get sued for it, than allow it.
meanwhile Lidl keeps laying people off because they went too crazy trying to expand in the US.
I don't know much about Aldi, but anything is better than Walmart.
Aldi is awesome, I wish we had them here in Canada
That's more than I make and I'm a teaching assistant at a public elementary school. Good for them though!
That doesn't sound sustainable tbh.
If workers like their job and feel appreciated, they work harder. The job also likely attracts better people.
They might be able to hire less people as a result
I did night fill at a supermarket here in Australia once. And there are so many useless people working at them. There was never any incentive to work beyond the minimum standard
Here in Australia at least, supermarkets are making record profits, so it would simply be less money for shareholders
I'm not talking about the pay rate, I'm talking about rapidly expanding into a market and hiring thousands of people.
This is exactly what companies like Google and Amazon due to keep a continuous cycle of growth and layoffs going for optics on share value.
