This is an interesting article about Aldi and their now infamous anti trade union stance. The common argument you hear when you tell people about Aldi's basic lack of workers per store and absence of any significant trade union is that Aldi employees are paid loads and if you look at it from that standpoint, its true, they receive a greater financial reward than your average Tesco or Morrison's employee. In fact, they earn on average 20% more than workers in other supermarkets! Fantastic, you might say, well done Aldi for fostering a sense of employee loyalty through such a progressive pay scheme!
However, this ignores the fact that for every 600 metre square store, Aldi employs only 3 workers on a shift. That's three workers to man the checkouts, sort out the produce, stack the shelves, take in deliveries, clean up spillages, help with customers and all the other thousand and one myriad jobs that come up in a supermarket.
Anyway, the article outlines it in more detail. It's got quite a partisan tone but, hell, objectivity is for newspapers and the Beeb, not us on teh interwebz.
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