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The first Aldi branch is now even shortening its opening times
Created: 07/28/2022, 04:50
By: Stella Henrich
An Aldi Nord branch in Potsdam closes at 6:30 p.m.
The reason: lack of staff.
Now the discounter is looking for new employees.
Potsdam - Usually it's quick at the checkout.
The shelves are full and chilled meat and well-tempered fish are presented to the consumer in the chests for sale.
Aldi Nord on Berliner Strasse in Potsdam offers this service from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. – normally.
But at the moment the discounter has significantly reduced its opening hours.
This is reported by the
Berliner Zeitung.
The Aldi Nord branch opens later and closes earlier.
The reason here too: lack of staff.
Most recently, a lack of staff at airlines, for example, led to flight chaos across Europe.
Train connections also fail again and again and the catering trade complains about a lack of employees.
Now Aldi is also affected - at least in one branch.
To look after the customers.
Because they can only shop at their discounter between 9 a.m. and 6.30 p.m. until August 6, the newspaper continues.
The discounter is already looking for new staff for the warehouse, in the sales room and at the checkout on its website.
The sellers therefore get up to 20.04 euros hourly wage.
That is well above the legal minimum wage.
This is 10.45 euros and is to be raised to 12 euros on October 1st.
Aldi Nord in Potsdam: Reasons for the lack of staff
“Some of our employees are currently on their well-deserved summer vacation.
Unfortunately, there were also some unforeseen illness-related absences in this branch," Aldi Nord explained to the
Berliner Zeitung
.
Since many customers also like to shop in the branch in the evening hours, the discounter is now desperately looking for friendly staff with "power" to fill fruit and vegetable crates, check the freshness and best-before dates of the baked goods, for quick checkout and for storage and cleaning work Completed training in retail and also with professional experience.
The Aldi branch on Berliner Strasse in Potsdam even has a jetty for jetties.
© Jürgen Ritter/imago
In return, the retailer offers not only an attractive hourly wage, but also a travel allowance, holiday pay and a full Christmas salary with a 5-day week.
If that's not enough incentive, it might be tempting that RTL ratings favorite Günther Jauch drops by the branch every now and then to hand in his returnable bottles.
Aldi Nord in Potsdam: people are looking for work in the catchment area
Since around 2.36 million people are currently looking for a job in Germany, according to the Federal Employment Agency, it should not be a problem to quickly resolve this bottleneck in the Potsdam catchment area.
According to the regional directorate of the employment agency, around 176,000 people were unemployed in Berlin and Brandenburg in June.
Young people are still looking for an apprenticeship in Potsdam.
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Consumers who want longer opening hours now have the opportunity to shop online.
The competitors Lidl, Rewe and Co. also offer their goods in digital sales.
In a Rewe Mini branch in the Bavarian municipality of Pettstadt, consumers can not only shop 24 hours a day, but can even shop on Sundays and public holidays.
However, not always to the delight of customers, as a Lidl example shows, which has led to numerous complaints on social media.
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