Aldi DC Center Valley, PA

What is up with that place?

To start, I showed up there today. First time at any Aldi, and the guard shack is closed during normal business hours.
There was a sign that read "use phone and call receiver after 9am"
Well I did just that but the thing just rang and rang and rang and Rang! I called dispatch and they were lost in the sauce. Said another driver is coming behind me and he has been there before. Well ####. I got 2 1/2 hours to get in and get to the customer an 1 1/2 away in rush hour traffic and still make it home.

Well after that conversation I tried the phone again and just started pushing random numbers and finally reached the dc's supervisor. He explained what I had to do.

So I go in the warehouse, it's even more lonely inside than outside. Super said the lady I need is in the middle of the warehouse at a desk. Well I just started walking towards what I thought would be the middle. Past tons and tons of palletized food waiting for trucks. No soul to be found.

Eventually I ended up at the supers office. He said go back to the stairs and walk straight till you see a desk. So I did as told and wouldn't you know it. A huge desk the size of a small office with a black head of hair popping up from the top. So I stroll over and find the "lady" finally. Hand her my paperwork and my beard ends up resting on the desk. It was a high side. Like 4 1/2 feet tall. Well that felt awkward.

The lady tells me go look in door 72 and see if the trlr is loaded. If it's not then a full one is out on the lot. So I did just that. Walk over to door 72 passing more and more food with a destination just no trlr yet.

So I'm at door 72, the ramp is closed and the door was up so I peak inside, half full. ####! Gotta go search the lot now.

Well after finding and hooking my load it's time to leave. But to do so you have to scale yourself each set of axles at a time, write down the weights on a paper they give you. Add them up and total it. Fold the paper and stick it in the phone box where you hope the guard gets it on second shift before a mischievous truck driver does.

I'm not complaining. I was just like, uhh what the fudge. Not many places I've had an expereince like this where I gotta be the guard, shipper, scale master, and the truck driver.

But for an Aldi Dc below Allentown, the place was dead. Inside and out.