ALDI — Local services in Cullman

I worked at this place for several years as a manager. The work environment for this place is terrible. This company wants ALDI to be your #1 priority at all times. I left on good terms on my own, so I don't leave this review because I feel some sort of vengence for them. However, I feel like people who are trying to apply for this job should know what it entails. I'm not quite sure why I went years letting them convince me that their way was the correct way to run a grocery store, but it is not. They con you into thinking they pay well, but run everything off of production so cut hours weekly and some weeks daily. They only allow AT THE MOST 4 people per shift, and have everyone running at full speed to try and keep up with everything in the store plus customer needs. You get griped out for getting out late but also get griped out if anything is left over from the day before and will only schedule 2 people closing and sometimes only have a manager closing and their associate leaves at 8. The store is in a constant mess. You just can't keep up with all the missing signs, out of date product, out of stocks, plus everything else they are adding for you to do that's extra in a day while expecting you to run the register and throw a whole entire truck with two openers and have it all done BY 10:00 am when their employees come in at 7. That's 3 hours. I stood by idly while I watched several employees get mistreated and get their hours cut over spite and I couldn't take it any more. I would not recommend this job to anyone that doesn't want to put everything and then some into a gorcery store. I was lied to for a long time convinced that to run a store with "lower" prices, you had to have your whole staff sacrifice and work harder to be able to keep the prices lower as part of their budgeting.. Yet, their prices consistently keep climbing and most of their product is the same price as other local grocery stores. They make their shift managers come in and open the store at manager pay, doing all manager duties, then when the store manager gets there they switch your manager pay to associate pay and you are still expected to do all of the managerial duties. So they make you work at $16+/hr down to $12 something/hr. So do not give into the advertisment that Aldi managers make 16+/hr because they do not. I took a pay cut just to get out of that store and am making 14 at my job now with guaranteed 40 hrs a week and I make just as much as I did there because I am making the same wage all the time as a manager, where at ALDI my pay was switched every day. The store that I work at now is a local store, not a chain, making less in sales and are still able to pay their employees right, schedule a functioning amount of people every day in specific departments, treats their employees well and runs very smoothly. ALDI is a lie and it will get you sucked in and have you thinking that you are trapped for years. Their turnover rate is awful and I use to think that it was because people didn't want to work, but now I know its because grocery stores are not supposed to function like that. This is not to bash anyone that is employed there because I still speak to several and became close to a lot. But I did want to expose how it is on the inside to anyone who is considering getting a job there or making...

Just to let the handicap people in Cullman county know that the Assistant Manager of Aldis in Cullman, James, doesn't care about the handicapped individuals in Cullman. He flat out refused to call the person parked in this spot illegally to move their car or to call Cullman city Police to come out and ticket an illegally parked vehicle that was parked in a handicap parking spot without a tag and no hang tag on the rear view mirror. He even said, "Nothing can be done about it anyway." I have to wonder if he would feel so lackadaisical about it if he had mobility problems? It would have been a different story if the parking spaces had been taken up by people that actually had properly displayed handicapped tags, but no, this was not and is not the case and it is terrible when people with mobility issues and proper, legal handicap tags have to park so far away from the store due to the handicap parking laws and parking spaces being disregarded by able bodied drivers and uncaring store mangers. THANKS JAMES, my shopping experience was so bad that I went to a local grocery and paid almost $8.00 for my dozen eggs. I also hope your manager and the corporate office sees this, because I can't be the only person fed up with your kind...

I love Aldi and do most of my grocery shopping there but the Manager at this location was so rude. Blocking aisles with empty boxes and acted put out when I said "excuse me" trying to get around him. Then as I was in the milk section he came up, opened the door next to me and started throwing empty boxes and milk carts into the floor behind him...blocking the aisle again and then stepped directly in front of me with a mumbled excuse me and started throwing empty boxes out onto the floor. That is ridiculous and there was absolutely no reason he could not have waited for me to make my selection and move on before he started...I was the only customer there at the moment. Then I get up to the register and unfortunately the cashier apparently needed cash in the middle of checking my items out...so they spend several moments talking about what she should be doing...instead of checking me out. I was the only one in line at the time...not really in a hurry....but I found that so Disrespectful and Rude!! I am not a "Karen" and kept my mouth shut but COME...