Aldi announces wage increases up to $23 an hour; hiring thousands of employees

And, the cashiers can sit down. Which makes sense.

good for them. that's how you get quality workers and reduce turnover

"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?!

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.

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.

Their biz must be booming during this era of price gouging clown corpos

This is just in the USA, correct? Aldi in the EU is unaffected from what I can tell.

Did not know Aldi were in the States?

LONG LIVE ALDI

Damn. What's next, quality fresh foods with less harmful ingredients?

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.

I don't know much about Aldi, but anything is better than Walmart.

meanwhile Lidl keeps laying people off because they went too crazy trying to expand in the US.

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.