Source: Head Topics Supermarket giant Aldi has been accused of deliberately underpaying more than 20,000 current and former workers more than $150 million through unpaid work. over six years by requiring its store employees to work up to 30 minutes before their shift without pay.A court last year found Aldi [...]
By Emily Crowe Source: Progressive Grocer With the news of ALDI’s proposed acquisition of Winn-Dixie and Harveys Supermarket, the industry is taking a closer look at the retailer’s effects on the U.S. market. A new report from dunnhumby details how the tie-up could change the retail landscape for shoppers and [...]
Source: UFCW Today, the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW), which represents 1.3 million essential workers in grocery, meatpacking, retail, and other essential industries across North America, released the following statement following the announcement of a merger between southeastern retail grocers, Aldi, Winn-Dixie, and Harveys Supermarket. UFCW International [...]
By Gabriela Barkho Source: Modern Retail As it expands across the U.S., Aldi wants to be the go-to affordable grocery chain. The German chain has been in the midst of a multi-year growth strategy in the United States, where it first entered back in 1976. Today, the company has over [...]
By Sam Silverstein Source: Grocery Dive Aldi was the fastest-growing grocery chain in the United States in 2021 in terms of both the number of new stores it opened and the square footage those locations took up, according to data published last week by Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL), a professional [...]
A growing number of large US chains are offering their workers incentives to get Covid-19 vaccines. Grocery chain Aldi said Tuesday that it will provide its hourly workers with two hours of pay for each vaccine dose they receive, giving workers up to four hours total of paid time off. [...]