"FMurtz" wrote in message
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Broadback wrote:
On 04/01/2018 10:39, tim... wrote:


"stuart noble" wrote in message
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Why do the media insist on calling Aldi a discount store?

because its MO is to sell exclusively no-name "discount" products.

Which is what in Germany is exactly what it does

but here, the UK obsession with "brands" means that they have to stock
some of them

Because it would slow things down, their tills operate at the speed of
light, and with the queues they need to!

They were the first to have barcodes and scanners that worked, Their
barcodes were bigger and longer, things just flew through with no mistakes

Yes.

while other retailers were having to manually enter numbers all the time,

Hardly ever had that. Its a pain to ensure it faces the scanner tho.

now the other retailers have caught up,probably the suppliers gave others
the same size barcodes.

Nope.