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And, the cashiers can sit down. Which makes sense.
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cashiers aren't allowed to sit in usa?
Only office workers and managers are allowed to sit. If you're in a customer-facing position with a chair, you're supposed to stand up when helping a customer.
And as we all know, middle management does so much work and therefore deserve that right over everyone else.
(sorry I vomited in my mouth a little bit)
When I worked retail, at one of the stores you weren't allowed to drink water where customers could see you. I chose to ignore that rule and only got chewed out when the store owner happened to be nearby
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.
Not at most places. At some point, someone told all the MBAs that it makes the customers mad if the employees look lazy or some shit.
They also tend to make them stand at the beginning of their lane when they don't have customers. Apparently a light signaling that they are available just isn't enough.
Edit: My bad. I've never seen this at Aldi or Lidl. Just other US chains like Food Lion.
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No, and even worse "if you have time to lean, you have time to clean"
Well, turns out I do have PTSD from a decade of working retail and food service. So thanks for that lol
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(to manager in response) "then why the fuck aren't you cleaning all the time, then?"
It’s this bizarre thing. Management want them to “look busy” or some bullshit. Aldi looks busy.
You’ll see this on some factory floors too. No chairs even for the management or QA logging numbers on computers. Chairs are for break time or some such.
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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.
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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...'
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Yes please, we need more competition on groceries in rural Texas and also Arkansas as an extra special sort of fuck you to Walmart.
good for them. that's how you get quality workers and reduce turnover
They're finally catching up with my local burger chain that offers health insurance, tuition, etc. Also in the US.
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"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.
Ah that could be. Either way, $23 isn't the max
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I hope so. It would be a nice change compared to... Well... Everything.
Edit: ahhhh see it now. I read it as "up to" alone, but implied "increased to" instead.
English is hard sometimes.
It really is. The fact "up to" can mean either a maximum value, or an increase to a value, is stupid.
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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.
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This is just in the USA, correct? Aldi in the EU is unaffected from what I can tell.
I don’t mean this in an offensive way or a combative one, but the post title is using $ and the source is USA Today.
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It seems like just the US
One opened in my city, only Aldi within 50 miles. It is always packed and both of the major regional grocers have raised their "now hiring" wages several dollars, run much more aggressive deals, and their parking lots are maybe 4/5ths as full as they were a month ago.
Which is great for me because I've been to several Aldis and realized it just isn't for me. Being one guy with a pretty weak appetite, the actual dollar savings don't really come out to much for me (maybe -$10 versus a major grocer if I'm really stocking up), and the "Aldi Experience" doesn't really mesh with how I buy food. It's still great to have them in the market, though.
Their produce is always super cheap. Same strawberries I'd get at Ralph's (Kroger) for $4.99 I can get at Aldi for around $1.70
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Aldi had me at "we let our cashiers sit down."
And let me guess..."somehow", they haven't had to hack up their prices after raising wages, huh?
No but the CEO had to cut down to just one new AMG Merc per year. It's a doggy dog world out there
It's "dog eat dog world"
I would much prefer to live in a doggy dog world than a dog eat dog one, but such is life
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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.
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
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.
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Got one in my redneck suburb. We almost exclusively shop there.
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LONG LIVE ALDI
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