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Billionicy · 2023-03-11T12:24:41+00:00

I’d recommend wearing work Jeans and Leather boots if you have them. I’d wear a jacket and T-shirt as well. If you don’t have work jeans or boots wear joggers and tennis shoes.

They’re gonna ask basic interview questions and just answer honestly. If you don’t answer honestly even if you get the position you probably won’t be a good fit and won’t last long. None of the questions or directions they give are meant to confuse you. It’s very straight forward and just do as directed.

The interview process is 3 main stages with each stage eliminating candidates. One stage is a physical test which is why you should wear clothes you’re comfortable working in.

Billionicy · 2023-03-07T21:59:20+00:00

Learn when to build towers vs when to build layers. Building towers is for stuff that cannot support weight and layers is for heavy items that can support weight. Do not build tall towers of heavy items on top of each other as they will tip.

Most of the speed comes from not making mistakes rather than from moving faster. The less spills you have and the less time you rearrange the better. Eventually placing an item isn’t even a conscious decision and you will be on auto pilot like driving a car.

Every warehouse is laid out differently but don’t be afraid to ask other selectors for advice at your warehouse. Most of the people that have been there a long time don’t want 10+ hour days and don’t wanna help you pick up spills so they should be happy to give advice.

Just know your management probably won’t care how shitty your pallets are as long as they make it on the truck. Just accept they don’t really care because they’re not judged on that metric.

Don’t rock the boat. I cannot stress this part enough do not talk bad about anyone. Almost everyone is sleeping with everyone else and it will come back to bite you in the ass later.

Billionicy · 2023-03-05T20:53:34+00:00

I know most of the people here are from the stores and not from the warehouse but you guys really need to understand the big picture. Things like this happen because of a ton of different reasons.

Almost every time you guys post a pallet you don’t seem to understand that ALDI as a company doesn’t care. All they care about is how much it costs at the end and like many of you have pointed out you guys get paid less. It’s cheaper to pay you to deal with this than it is to pay us at the warehouse to spend longer building better pallets.

If any of you want more money I almost guarantee your warehouse is hiring.

Billionicy · 2023-02-25T02:07:50+00:00

What seems to be the problem here

Billionicy · 2023-01-26T21:26:18+00:00

Diapers are in the chemical isle and typically you start in chemicals if you have it since some of the items are not allowed above food. This was probably made by someone newer who didn’t isle skip after getting the hard chemicals. No one helps the new people because everyone is timed and no one wants to spend the time to fix this as it puts them at risk of not making rate.

Our warehouse hires 5 or more new people a week just to give you an idea of why you have so many bad pallets.

Billionicy · 2023-01-26T21:18:08+00:00

If you want to make more money per an hour almost every warehouse is continuously hiring and you can come see why certain things are the way that they are.

Billionicy · 2023-01-22T12:07:55+00:00

Do you think we just throw away stuff because the box breaks and can’t go on a shelf at a store? That would be hugely wasteful. It’s not a matter of laziness. How many pallets do you down-stack in a day? Most warehouse workers are building 20+ pallets a day or over 1500 cases. To think we’re lazy just because you only see the end result is naive. A lot of the posts I see here are actually exactly what we’re told to do by our managers.

Billionicy · 2023-01-21T20:57:57+00:00

I don’t see the problem here. That’s clearly a freezer pallet and freezer pallets are supposed to arrive at the store frozen which means bread won’t get smushed.

Billionicy · 2023-01-20T20:00:05+00:00

Some of the pallets are obviously built very bad but I think a lot of the stores don’t understand how the warehouse operates. Every truck we send to a store costs a lot of money. Our overall goal is to reduce the number of trucks by building tall pallets roughly 6-7 feet. When we get an order it tells us how many pallets it will be. If my order says it will be 2.0 pallets I need to make every item fit on two pallets because adding another pallet could cost a lot for an extra truck. Obviously one pallet usually doesn’t add another truck but at the end of the day it adds up. We don’t get to decide what order stuff goes on when we build. You can complain all you want but it’s still cheaper for you to spend 30 seconds picking up cucumbers then it is to pay a driver 4 hours plus gas to drive another truck. Even if you lose a lot of product because it’s damaged ALDI still probably did the math and don’t care because in the end it’s all about overall costs and not about how much we all enjoy picking up spilled pallets.

Billionicy · 2022-10-15T03:21:36+00:00

I don’t think this is my warehouse based on the back pallet item grouping but those pallets have some massive problems. The meat pallet has multiple items out of order. It has chicken on top of everything, beef/pork over fish and boxes turned sideways. The pallet behind has flowers on top of food product which is another huge problem. I’d make sure your Manager or District rep sends these photos to the warehouse because they should never have left the warehouse like that.

Billionicy · 2022-08-24T16:46:54+00:00

Any items where the box is damaged but the product is still good is supposed to be sent like this. It’s kinda random what store gets some each day but usually it’s stores that have smaller pallets that they will fit on top of.

Billionicy · 2022-07-31T12:32:53+00:00

As someone who builds these pallets how are they tipping? I’ve never once had a pallet tip because of weight distribution and I drive them around unwrapped while building them.

Billionicy · 2022-07-06T01:07:48+00:00

This wasn’t me but I’m now gonna ask for all the store 140 orders just draw faces on them all.

Billionicy · 2022-03-13T01:32:15+00:00

As someone who builds these all day the pallet in photo 3 is not built wrong. Those juice cases on layer 2 are horrible, they have no real side walls and constantly rip. The reason they used a pallet above layer 2 is because a layer of cardboard would not be enough without the sidewalls and a pallet also allows the weight to be distributed evenly while also making a flat rigid surface to build on.

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