I dont know if anyone saw Dispatches last night but it cast the working practices of ALDI in a very shabby light. No clear sell by dates on their produce. Mouldy food on the shelves. Avoidance of Health & Safety practices. Poor staff conditions (expecting them to work 15 minutes a day more before the start of their shifts for no pay for example). Everything is done to drive down costs at the expence of the customer care and good working practices. I have only been in one ALDI store. I went in there twice because I couldnt believe how poor it was the first time. I can see why people shop there. The prices are cheap. They are cheap for a reason though and you get what you pay for. German efficiency? Yep, and take a look at VW.
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Very true, and I suspect not a union in sight.
Havenât ALDI been famously high paying, compared to many of their competitors?
They didnt mention the pay rates last night but they did say that in order to keep staffing numbers down the staff are expected to multi task. Nothing wrong in that but it does seem that they are under a lot of pressure to meet targets and deadlines and morale isnt great. The unions are not happy bunnies.
I think Tescos pay ÂŁ10 and hour to fill shelves which seems quite good to me.
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Just found these figs - Store Assistant average ALDI wage ÂŁ8.08 per hour. Deputy Manager ÂŁ9.85 per hour.
Love Audi, but they do need to make their dates clear and not coded. They also need to rotate their stock. They are under very strict timed jobs, that they do not rotate stock, as that takes time. They throw stuff on shelves. This does not really matter when it comes to some stuff, but I would never by fruit or veg there. Buy other stuff as it is just around the corner from me.
But I will say, you get what you pay for!
Of course they are being shot down, they are taking over as the leading supermarket in the current economy, they are there to be shot down now.
Are LIDL any different? I dont know either outfit really, except both are growing their UK market share at the expense of the bigger names.
Dispatches only focussed on ALDI last night. I suppose the worry is that the âbigâ stores will follow ALDIs lead and start to cut corners in order to compete. It should be a level playing field though and if the majors put easy to read sell by dates on produce then so should ALDI. Dont know what LIDLs practices are.
OK - a few points.
Wages - Lidl already pay above the so-called living wage, Aldi has committed to doing so by February 1st next year. Tesco (and your favourite football club) donât.
Unions - Free to join USDAW.
Working 15 minutes for free - I wonder how many people on this site are expected - especially in salaried jobs - to work way over their proscribed hours. Typically itâs never really stated as such but youâre left in no doubt that if you donât it will severely affect your future prospects.
Fruit & veg - it is not a legal requirement to show sell by dates, indeed how can any retailer, including other supermarkets and traditional greengrocers do so on loose items. It is not rocket science - if it looks a bit iffy donât buy it.
I thought last nightâs programme was a bit biased to say the least, the fact is that millions of people canât be all wrong.
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Never had a problem with either, although dont shop there regularly but happy to use both. ALDI and LIDL run a specific business model to minimise costs and it works. As for no dates on fruit and veg ⌠just go to any decent market in France⌠I donât look at the dates on these things anyway, but use touch etc⌠plenty of rotting fruit in Morrisons and Tescos. In fact Tesco may print dates, but usually only put out stuff that âexpiresâ tomorrow⌠and which will be fine for over a weekâŚjust ecourages waste and folks going back to buy more because they think something needs throwing out.
Also we need to get much better at using stuff and not being freaked into throwing perfectly good food out. eg. Had 8 tomatoes in tehe fridge that had gone squidgy - not much fun in a salad, but I just chop em up, cook for an hour or so and then freeze the homemade passata⌠perfect for pasta sauce etc
Pick it up, feel it, smell it and buy if you want to eat it.
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Originally posted by @Ex-Trader
OK - a few points.
Wages - Lidl already pay above the so-called living wage, Aldi has committed to doing so by February 1st next year. Tesco (and your favourite football club) donât.
Unions - Free to join USDAW.
Working 15 minutes for free - I wonder how many people on this site are expected - especially in salaried jobs - to work way over their proscribed hours. Typically itâs never really stated as such but youâre left in no doubt that if you donât it will severely affect your future prospects.
Fruit & veg - it is not a legal requirement to show sell by dates, indeed how can any retailer, including other supermarkets and traditional greengrocers do so on loose items. It is not rocket science - if it looks a bit iffy donât buy it.
I thought last nightâs programme was a bit biased to say the least, the fact is that millions of people canât be all wrong.
I dont know about millions of people cant be wrong. Look at some of the idiots that we elect in this country and in the USA! But yes, people have choices so fair play.
I quite like Lidl as the food is decent, however the staff are generally terrible (in London anyway, up north seemed to be decent). It is one of the few places staff barge past customers instead of giving way to shoppers and tend to throw your food at you once scanned.
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I can help but feel that this entire thread is naught but a complex setup which ends with sadoldgit ripping off a mask, shouting âIâve been evil all along!â, and then âI shop at Waitrose, pauper Aldi motherfuckers!â
Just me?
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Aldi has the whiff of bear about it.
I have never been to Aldi! Or to Lidls! I save money on my grocery expenses by lightly shoplifting from Sainsburyâs (i.e. I operate a Buy One Get One Free In My Pocket policy, even when i.e. the Sainsburyâs management bros ainât necessarily making this particular offer)
I did go in a Poundshop one time, and found it to be a v.worthwhile experience, because one of the old weird looking grumblies you see shopping there spat in my girlfriendâs mouth + I could hardly breathe for laughing for like 20 minutes!
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Price Pikey Bearsy not shopping in ALDI or LIDL, I donât really believe that is the case.
He only quoted Sainsbury because he wants to appear to be not price pikey, in reality his BOGOFIP policy is practised in ALDI or LIDL.
In fact I heard that Bearsy is so price pikey he wonât pay for toilets in ALDI, instead he pees all over meat counter then, after the meat has been black bagged and thrown out, he visits ALDI bin in middle of night to retreive said black bag from bins.
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Our usrine sexually confused price pikey friend is perhaps being a little loose with the truth, just like when he says he donât shit in the woodsâŚ
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Shopping with Bearsy:
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I am srs! Someone told me one time that they donât have shelves all the food is just in shipping containers & garbage bins and you have to forage around down to the bottom to find what you want and i thought i.e. that is not the sort of thing that I like!
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Do you rly have to pay to go toilet in Aldi, or is i.e. Trip-B i.e. jokes?