- A new round of corporate meetings occurred only 4 months after the last one
- Employees find the frequency of these meetings disturbing
- 120 job losses confirmed
- 10 employees were terminated immediately
- The remaining 110 will lose their jobs effective October 2025
- Layoffs are tied to outsourcing data entry work to Genpact
- Employees being laid off will receive a 60-day notice
- Remote work was mandated on the day of the announcement
- Remote mandates during layoffs are often used to avoid in-office disruptions
- Some roles may be transitioning to the German office under Global Sourcing
- Batavia corporate office is reopening in October, aligning with layoff timing
- Several teams received “follow-up” meeting invites, similar to past layoff waves
- Employees say this mirrors a similar situation that happened in the UK earlier this year
- Management said this scale of layoffs “had to happen,” causing employee frustration
- Criticism is directed at leadership’s handling of the situation and communication
- Workers are demoralized seeing coworkers laid off while being asked to “stay positive”
- Store employees voiced concerns about excessive unsold Aldi Finds (AF) inventory
- Physical labor staff feel they are overworked and undervalued
- Executives continue to be promoted while staff and store operations are cut
- Some employees believe other “redundant” or “overhead” departments may be next
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@cg I work at Aldi. Imagine having 20 shelves in your store for limited time only items, and every week you get 8 to 10 pallets. The planogram says you only need 7 bays (seven 3 tiered shelves) for the new product.
The problem? You still have 90% of last week's Aldi Finds items, and 80% from the week before, and 70% from the week before that. Oh, and those pallets have enough product that they can fill up 12 whole bays, but you can't leave product in the back because of how ridiculously small the backroom is.
Oh, and you're not allowed to discount product until it's been on the shelf for at least 6 weeks.
So now you have 4 open bays for a dozen bays worth of product, and your District Manager is throwing a hissy fit at the Store Manager because you had to slot pallets of product on the sales floor, and put bread trays at the unused end caps and stack product there as well.
And the cherry on top? You have to slot all this cr-p while the store is open, with customers getting in the way and getting pissy because you don't have the prices of 90 brand new items memorized.
Upper management is disillusioned about what normal people want, which is cheap groceries. Instead they're pushing for us to be a glorified Whole Foods meets CostCo, with $20 cured meats, $10 novelty cheeses, $300 air conditioners, $200 egg chairs, $100 outdoor 30 gallon boxes, and so on.
30 roles being removed in National Customer Interaction in England. As soon as September.
@cg I think this person pulled that from the reddit thread. some store employee mentioned that.
"Store employees voiced concerns about excessive unsold Aldi Finds (AF) inventory" can anyone elaborate more on this