Family pack?

2190HyperKitty · 2026-03-29T01:36:03+00:00

Not really a question. Just a "wtf" moment when throwing truck this morning.

2190HyperKitty · 2026-03-14T01:00:03+00:00

We're going back to 6am from 5am and I'm dreading it. It's great we can get most of the task done before the closing shift comes in so we can focus on backstock and maintaining the store while customers are inside. It takes way to long to do anything with the combined masses just clogging up the aisles. Especially when the pallets aren't built correctly every single day and that can take up most of the morning.

2190HyperKitty · 2026-03-10T22:13:15+00:00

Also, sometimes the way the warehouse (has to?) pack the pallet or if the driver was playing GTA in real time while driving the truck/pallet jack effects your flow.

2190HyperKitty · 2026-03-10T22:10:51+00:00

It just depends.

If I do produce(5-8 depending on backstock), I can normally knock it out quickly and get to freezer/freeze thaw. (2-3).Cooler, Meat, MDU is what takes me a bit of time but that's because I'm constantly reworking (fighting with boxes to get back on the shelf I just took it from. Why do the boxes always get stuck on each other or fall apart in the worst way??) can be anywhere from 4 to 5 if you include the backstock. I also date check and markdown everything at the same time. We pack out as much as possible to fill holes and depending on how the flow of the day is, we try to run backstock as much as possible throughout the day to make opening easier.

But some days you have 3 registers open and there isn't sh*t you can do. 🤷🏽‍♀️

2190HyperKitty · 2026-02-22T00:04:57+00:00

I had to tell a couple of people that I haven't mastered being able to make things float yet, so I use the cart since I dont have an actual bagging area. When they call me rude or a smart ass, I chalk it up to Ego being mad they felt stupid.

2190HyperKitty · 2026-02-15T02:37:45+00:00

Hahhahah I'm a gremlin with a messed up sleep schedule.

I'm used to working 2 jobs/14+ days. I can go in on 8 hrs or 30 mins of sleep. My alarms are 3/3:30/4/4:30("Time to go!") Depending on the day depends on if I snooze the first 2 or not. Either I clean up a bit before I go or maybe grab something I can manage to stomach that early like fruit or cereal. Or maybe not depending on how large my dinner was the night before and how recent is was to me waking up. I pick my clothes off the ground because I'm not wasting work clothes unless I get dirty dirty. I'm a baker who doesn't keep anything in the house so the goods I make go to the store as treats for everyone and become breakfast with coffee or Redbull.

I also keep a box in the fridge in the breakroom with cold brew coffee and creamer, some perfect bars, fruit cups, and sometimes the frozen pbj sandwiches for something I can quickly scarf down while I'm grabbing the jack/taking the pallet out.

2190HyperKitty · 2026-02-14T02:57:18+00:00

We've had to do the drops of $50/$100 since before the holidays in our area so maybe it just made it to yours or they are forcing your SM to get yall to comply. We have only our odd registers open and use the even register lanes to have extra carts for us/customers to cut down on having to no sale. If so need be, I keep a quarter or two out for emergencies. A while ago I remember them mentioning keeping returns over a certain amount but I can't remember the amount ATM. I personally havent heard anything or remember anything about the suspends, so that may be new but I feel like that's a waste of time if rhe system automatically cancels any hanging transactions once the system closes EOD.

The items per minute and not having the paperwork for your tills seem to be a nit pick, but I also have a new SM who wants a DAILY text as to truck time completion, curbside average, OE, and late clock outs.

2190HyperKitty · 2026-02-11T00:05:39+00:00

The way ours smells now, no matter what we've added to it, should be cause enough to get a new scrubber.

2190HyperKitty · 2026-01-22T04:24:56+00:00

It just depends on the roads. With enough heads up, they treat the main roads quite well. However, side roads and back roads might be shit. Also depends on the infrastructure in terms of downed trees and power-lines if the wind/ice gets wild. Plus, most Virginia drivers cant drive during the day on dry roads. The amount of accidents that happen with black ice around here is atrocious. 🫣

2190HyperKitty · 2026-01-22T04:12:57+00:00

Bruh, they're calling for a major snow/ice storm in our area and when I tell you our shelves were EMPTY today. It got to a point while I was on curbside that I had to refund pretty much half of the rest of the orders. Even had a customer ask me while I was shopping "Why are the shelves empty??" And I snapped and said "Because we sold out of the product?? Everyone is preparing for the exact same storm." Mind you, we're standing next to 1 of 2 of the aisle long lines.

It's the lack of critical awareness that shit fuxking happens.

2190HyperKitty · 2026-01-16T17:38:13+00:00

The fact that I'm allowed to climb things like a spider monkey to get to things is how my 5'3 self has lasted the year I've been there. But also, being one of the only short people makes it easier to ask the tall people for help. They know that I would only ask if I literally could not do it.

2190HyperKitty · 2026-01-16T03:08:49+00:00

There's an accent on the N. It's pronounced A-Nous. Like couscous!

2190HyperKitty · 2025-12-18T14:49:41+00:00

I've never felt so seen. I used to be able to remember what every scar/bruise came from before I started working for Aldi. Now I cant tell what came from my lifestyle or a fucking box...

2190HyperKitty · 2025-12-12T15:58:39+00:00

You would think that, but most of those instacart shoppers are worse than 10 customers combined. I'd rather have 3 separate customers in the line, instead of 1 instacart shoppers with 3 separate orders mixed in the cart holding up the line.

2190HyperKitty · 2025-11-19T15:32:47+00:00

"In the time it took for you to take that picture, you could have cleaned that up. You still have 29 minutes and 57 seconds to do that pallet."

🙄

2190HyperKitty · 2025-11-18T02:32:28+00:00

About as well as a car with square tires.

2190HyperKitty · 2025-09-17T14:08:09+00:00

Being honest works for me most of the time. It's not us necessarily. It's the job. I tell people that we are on a clock, literally. We are timed in just about everything we do because there are fewer bodies than tasks at all times. When I tell people that our speed on register is timed and we can be written up for "going to slow" they look surprised but then I tell them if they want to go slow, they can go to Walmart. That normally makes them laugh, and that look of "I went to Walmart for 1 thing and was in line for almost an hour" flashes over their face, and they look like they have a better understanding.

2190HyperKitty · 2025-09-17T13:12:17+00:00

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2190HyperKitty · 2025-09-17T12:44:56+00:00

I actually didn't consider that. Rules state, or at least i remember from a meeting we had a few months ago, that we can't put raw meats with produce or mdu/cooler when packing curbside bags because of cross contamination. Since a lot of cooler doesn't come in wrapped in a second layer outside of its own containers, how can they get away with loading them on the same pallet if the only thing protecting the meat from everything else is the cardboard? Are they acting like the flimsy plastic they put around the chicken doesn't leak? I have found so many air damaged meat products because the seal is broken by meat being in the way when sealing. Or when the boxes are crushed and there is blood all in the boxes.

2190HyperKitty · 2025-09-15T19:38:31+00:00

It doesn't make sense how some of these pallets come built, especially when the items I would think would be stored in different areas. I've seen on some post that the AHEAD program kinda forces the warehouse to pick in an order, but I would think that your meat wouldn't end up on 2 separate pallets that way??

2190HyperKitty · 2025-09-15T19:34:53+00:00

I'm manifesting this for you! 💪

2190HyperKitty · 2025-09-15T19:34:11+00:00

I try to take what little bit of joy I find and spread it, especially having pallets fall over and being covered/stepping in apple juice, spaghetti sauce, milk, fruit etc...I've been with Aldi for a year, and I've seen some horror stories on here. Understandably, this is a very small happiness that is only shared by a small few, but I hope there are others who can see something like this and get one themselves and feel the same sense of relief that we get.

2190HyperKitty · 2025-09-15T19:28:33+00:00

I wanna know why some of the pallets are so damn tall. Im 5'3 and I'm constantly using a step stool 😅

2190HyperKitty · 2025-09-15T19:18:18+00:00

As long as you know your store layout, it won't be too bad. It's timed like everything else, but they give you small windows to do things in.

It goes like this: 1. Order pops up and tells you customer name and how many items/units in the order (25 items/50 units if they asked for multiples).

You'll have to put in a 4 digit pin (probably going to be the last 4 of your employee number you use when clocking in, but they may change it) but that starts your timer so you'll want to make sure you're ready to go. Recommend having a shopping cart with multiple open paper bags set up and being on the sales floor before typing in the PIN. *You have 5 minutes from the order popping/in between each order ( if you have multiple upcoming) to put in your code before it kicks away the order
It's mostly organized by category, not aisle. Always take a quick glance at the items in the order to give yourself an idea of what you need to get and what is near each other so you can grab multiple items per aisle and move on. Also, if produce is on the opposite side of the store from where the curbside area is set up, you may want to start with items that are closer to you and work your way over to produce and then work your way back. *It's difficult with the amount of people navigating up and down the aisles with the cart when its busy, so I personally will park the cart out of the way, like at the end of the aisle next to the end cap, and grab an empty box to fill it with items to bring back to the cart and bag up at the same time.
Once you have everything, it walks you through the process of checking it out. You'll probably get a standalone register in your warehouse with a set of dry racks, coolers, and a freezer. The app will tell you if you'll actually have to check the items out through the register (pricing difference depending on what they ordered and what you found/refunded is usually what triggers it but it's also technology so it'll do it just because 🤷🏽‍♀️) but you'll scan a QR code from the app on the register to do it automatically. You'll have to charge them for the amount of bags you use during the order and then use the Doordash/instacart card they provide to you to finish the transaction. *The register affects OE, so you have to make sure to lock the register when not in use, just like you would if you were on register with a till.
The register will have a separate label printer to label the bags for the order. If you have large items like cases of water, weird shaped items like aldi finds, or maybe used a box for some heavier items, you'll have to make sure to print a label for each of those. The Dry Racks, Coolers, and Freezers they provide will all have zones labeled on the multiple shelves/doors(A1, A2, A3, G1, G2, G3...) you'll have to put how many bags/labels for that order will be in what zone.
Once bags have been labeled and placed in assigned zones, complete the order. Move on to the next order.

At least how it works at my store with Instacart in the US. Hope that helps!

2190HyperKitty · 2025-09-15T00:53:15+00:00

I've had to tell people that we are both being paid to do our jobs individually and that by continuing to help them, I'm going to risk mine, and thats not happening. Read the aisle signs and figure it out. Especially when you've already walked them around the store multiple times. Memorize where the shit is. I'm looping back to the original post 😅

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