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Aldi, the German discounter
On 04/01/2018 16:02, tim... wrote:
"charles" wrote in message
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Â* whisky-dave wrote:
On Thursday, 4 January 2018 12:06:00 UTC, Bob EagerÂ* wrote:
On Thu, 04 Jan 2018 03:49:09 -0800, whisky-dave wrote:
On Thursday, 4 January 2018 11:36:32 UTC, charlesÂ* 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
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.
The idea that there might be conveyers twice as long is staggering
(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.Â* They have this fear that you will
steal it
tim
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from KT24 in Surrey, England
I remember those wire baskets being converted to hanging baskets full of
flowers
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