I thought Trader Joe’s was Aldi? (Edit: I remembered correctly)
Also, don’t let yourself be deceived by the low prices, they are made on the backs of mistreated employees (making the Albrecht family billionaires and some of the richest people in Germany and the world).
Edit2: ah. Not that it makes any difference to non-Germans, but Aldi Nord has Trader Joe’s, this is Aldi Süd.
Edit3: do buy your food there if you can’t afford anything else, I’m not telling you to starve. Just to be aware.
I have been truly deceived then because I can buy food there without worrying I may not be able to also afford gas and almost all the employees I have interacted with seem OK working there.
Just out of curiosity, where do you get your food ensuring the employees are not mistreated?
I did not say don’t shop there if you can’t afford anything else. What I’m saying is don’t think of them as the good guys. I absolutely get that some (many) people are in that situation.
I get my groceries at a local German chain that I at least haven’t heard anything egregious about in terms of employee treatment.
I have to eat, man. It’s literally double the price for food everywhere else. I’m not exaggerating, on average anything you find at any other grocery store will be twice the price as the equivalent at Aldi. I’m not in a food desert and I’m not shopping at high end stores, grocery stores just started putting the squeeze on during COVID and haven’t stopped.
They’re also the only store I’ve ever seen that will let cashiers sit instead of forcing them to stand for 8 hours. By American standards those are good jobs.
I thought Trader Joe’s was Aldi? (Edit: I remembered correctly)
Also, don’t let yourself be deceived by the low prices, they are made on the backs of mistreated employees (making the Albrecht family billionaires and some of the richest people in Germany and the world).
Edit2: ah. Not that it makes any difference to non-Germans, but Aldi Nord has Trader Joe’s, this is Aldi Süd.
Edit3: do buy your food there if you can’t afford anything else, I’m not telling you to starve. Just to be aware.
I have been truly deceived then because I can buy food there without worrying I may not be able to also afford gas and almost all the employees I have interacted with seem OK working there.
Just out of curiosity, where do you get your food ensuring the employees are not mistreated?
Also, I can imagine Aldi’s practices being about on par with what US Americans are used to, sadly.
I did not say don’t shop there if you can’t afford anything else. What I’m saying is don’t think of them as the good guys. I absolutely get that some (many) people are in that situation.
I get my groceries at a local German chain that I at least haven’t heard anything egregious about in terms of employee treatment.
I have to eat, man. It’s literally double the price for food everywhere else. I’m not exaggerating, on average anything you find at any other grocery store will be twice the price as the equivalent at Aldi. I’m not in a food desert and I’m not shopping at high end stores, grocery stores just started putting the squeeze on during COVID and haven’t stopped.
They’re also the only store I’ve ever seen that will let cashiers sit instead of forcing them to stand for 8 hours. By American standards those are good jobs.
I get it, absolutely, sometimes there’s simply no way to consume (perfectly) ethically.
It’s a least of evils thing in addition to the cost.
In Europe, Aldi has always paid their staff way more than other supermarkets.
True. That’s not the only metric for the quality of treatment of employees.
It is. They bought it