Comment on Aldi announces wage increases up to $23 an hour; hiring thousands of employees

• PP_BOY_@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  No but the CEO had to cut down to just one new AMG Merc per year. It’s a doggy dog world out there

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  • svammy@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s “dog eat dog world”

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    • berryjam@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I would much prefer to live in a doggy dog world than a dog eat dog one, but such is life

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  • damnedfurry@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Allow me to play doubles advocate here for a moment. For all intensive purposes I think you are wrong. In an age where false morels are a diamond dozen, true virtues are a blessing in the skies. We often put our false morality on a petal stool like a bunch of pre-Madonnas, but you all seem to be taking something very valuable for granite. So I ask of you to mustard up all the strength you can because it is a doggy dog world out there. Although there is some merit to what you are saying it seems like you have a huge ship on your shoulder. In your argument you seem to throw everything in but the kids Nsync, and even though you are having a feel day with this I am here to bring you back into reality. I have a six cents when it comes to these types of things. It is almost spooky, because I cannot turn a blonde eye to these glaring flaws in your rhetoric. I have zero taller ants when it comes to people spouting out hate in the name of moral righteousness. You just need to remember what comes around is all around, and when supply and command fails you will be the first to go. Make my words, when you get down to brass stacks it doesn’t take rocket appliances to get two birds stoned at once. It’s clear who makes the pants in this relationship, and sometimes you just have to swallow your prize and accept the fax. You might have to come to this conclusion through denial and error but I swear on my mother’s mating name that when you put the petal to the medal you will pass with flying carpets like it’s a peach of cake.

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    • Hagenman@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      This is beautiful.

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  • aard@kyu.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You’re joking, but quite possibly he’d not even want to buy the one.

    The owner family is very reclusive after a kidnapping in the 70s - but we know at least that the founders were living relatively frugal.

    Ownership of Aldi is by a handful of “stiftungen” - and one of the more recent judicial squabbles in the family were of one side accusing the other trying to pull more money out of Aldi than necessary to live a non frugal livestyle.

    Don’t get me wrong - they’re billonaires, though probably quite limited liquid assets. But based on their behaviour they have a good chance to survive the revolution.

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    • HATEFISH@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Do the Albrechts still own the company? The current ceo is unrelated from what I can tell.

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      • aard@kyu.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I think only one is currently still working in the company - but they do own it via a bunch of “Stiftungen”. IIRC that construct was selected back then to make sure that spoiled brats can’t fuck it up eventually.

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  • otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m weeping having learned this

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