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whisky-dave wrote:
On Thursday, 4 January 2018 12:06:00 UTC, Bob Eager wrote:
On Thu, 04 Jan 2018 03:49:09 -0800, whisky-dave wrote:
On Thursday, 4 January 2018 11:36:32 UTC, charles wrote:
In article , alan_m
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On 04/01/2018 10:18, wrote:
One thing puzzles me about them: why no self-service checkouts?
They are cheaper.
Are they? Possibly only in stores where the check-out staff are
so
inefficient. When I use Tesco/Sainsbury/Asda I find their
checkout
so slow compared to the no nonsense approach of my local
Aldi/Lidl.
Possibly, one reason is that the staff at Lidl/Aldi tend to be
foreign and don't have enough english to indulge in conversation.
But you still get the customer who has to wonder where they've put
their purse - this tends to slow things.
Thye biggest slowdown I:ve foind is the small amount of packing
space
that you get at the end of the till, hardly enough space for one
bag.
The best tills I;ve seen are those where you have a seprators so if
someone is slow at picking up their staff then you juts sent the
next
customers stuff to the other side.
Because you're meant to put it back in the trolley and then pack at
your leisure.
I don]t use a trolly I use a basket as most people do and those that do
use a trolly there's not enough space on the counter to empty the trolly
so you actually need two trollys which take up far to much room.
The stores I use have a conveyor belt which will take the contents of two
trolleys.
I bet that's humongous
It is quite long, but it needs to be for the queue anyway. The queue on
out single aldi open checkout blocks traffic going past the end of the
much longer than normal conveyor at the aldi before they open another.
The guy in front of me before Christmas had a trolley load that he could
not get on the standard conveyer and he was struggling to find space for
the final one third so that the operator could start to scan the items.
We just stack stuff on top of the bigger stuff if that happens and
I've never seen that happen with the very long aldi conveyors.
The idea that there might be conveyers twice as long is staggering
Then you need to get out more. Our aldi conveyors are
at least twice as long as those at the other supermarkets.
(Fortunately whilst I was watching they opened up a new till and I got
pole position)
I must admit that I;ve never noticed anyone queuing with theri shopping
on the belt and carrying an empty basket.
No, you place the basket in the pile at the end of the belt.
They won't let you refill a basket. They have this fear that you will
steal it
They are so afraid of that at ours that there are no baskets at all.
And the trolleys have a coin system so you lose your $2 if you don't return
it.
Havent noticed any of theirs around town, but the aldi is well
out of the main part of town with few houses close to it.