Mice on employees, droppings, rodent corpses in the middle of food: an Aldi supermarket completely infested

L'entrepôt infesté alimente 78 magasins et emploie 748 salariés (photo d'illustration). MAXPPP – Patrice Lefevre

An Aldi supermarket located in Côte d'Or has been ordered to “de-rat” its logistics center due to disastrous hygiene conditions.

“Mice climb on employees, camp in food and defecate there”, denounces the CGT of Aldi Beaune, in Côte d'Or, taken up by 20 minutes notably on February 3, 2025.

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“Nests with little mice”

The union says it has observed, with photos to support it, “nests with little mice everywhere, droppings all over the warehouse and dead mice in the middle of the pallets of food.”

The CGT has alerted the Departmental Directorate for the Protection of Populations (DDPP) about these disastrous hygiene conditions. The DDPP responded, stating that Aldi “must have the cleaning and rodent control carried out professionally using approved products”, also repeating The Telegram.

Cleaning infested areas

< p>Aldi Beaune is a vast warehouse which supplies 78 stores and employs 748 employees. Aldi assured that it had “carried out a very targeted cleaning (…) in order to guarantee the health safety and compliance of our facilities”.

According to the union, “management ordered employees to clean up infested areas”, on January 31, 2025, “without any protection and using brooms even though the Regional Health Agency prohibits it”. 45 employees are said to have exercised their right of withdrawal.