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Date: May 20th, 2019 6:21 AM Author: Yapping disgusting nowag native Although it may not be obvious at first glance, Aldi employs several key design details that maximize efficiency at checkout, too. On many of its products, barcodes are either supersized or printed on multiple sides to speed up the scanning process. After groceries are rung up, there’s nowhere for them to linger. The cashier drops them directly into a shopping cart below. Aldi doesn’t waste time bagging groceries. Customers must wheel away their shopping carts to bag their own groceries in a separate section at the front. Since stores don’t offer free bags, customers often scour the store for empty cardboard boxes to use instead.
“Those lines fly. You’re not waiting for people to bag. They’re not messing around there,” said Robicelli. “Once you see that kind of efficiency, it makes going to other supermarkets really annoying and really tedious.” Aldi has other tactics to keep real estate and labor costs down. Size is one factor. A Walmart supercenter averages around 178,000 square feet. Costco warehouses average around 145,000 square feet. Aldi’s small box stores, however, take up just a fraction of that space, at 12,000 square feet on average. And unlike other stores, where there’s a clear division of labor — runners retrieve carts, cashiers ring up customers and clerks stock shelves — Aldi employees are cross-trained to perform every function. Their duties are also streamlined. Aldi displays products in their original cardboard shipping boxes, rather than stacking them individually, to save employees time stocking shelves. Most stores don’t list their phone numbers publicly because Aldi doesn’t want its workers to spend time answering calls.
The result: A single Aldi might have only three to five employees in the store at any given time, and only 15 to 20 on the entire payroll. The company claims to pay its workers above the industry average, but still saves on overall labor costs simply by having fewer people.
All of these cost savings add up and are passed on to customers. Aldi claims its prices are up to 50% cheaper than traditional supermarkets, and independent analysis by Wolfe Research shows its prices are around 15% cheaper than Walmart in markets like Houston and Chicago. https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2019/05/business/aldi-walmart-low-food-prices/index.html |
Date: May 20th, 2019 6:28 AM Author: Crawly principal's office (guy who's never been to costco) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4265247&forum_id=2#38259822) |
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Date: May 20th, 2019 6:38 AM Author: Swashbuckling heaven (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4265247&forum_id=2#38259837) |
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Date: May 20th, 2019 7:29 AM Author: azure alcoholic pisswyrm orchestra pit Costco still has two ppl working each checkout line plus the doofuses at the front who check your receipt (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4265247&forum_id=2#38259897) |
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Date: May 20th, 2019 7:32 AM Author: Smoky Underhanded Stead Aldi is 175, losing points for making you bring a quarter if you want a shopping cart. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4265247&forum_id=2#38259901) |
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Date: May 20th, 2019 7:37 AM Author: Bipolar Pit Headpube They really are 50% cheaper, but they really only carry the basics. You are not going to buy seafood or deli meats there, but for everything else -- they are TCR. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4265247&forum_id=2#38259906) |
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Date: May 20th, 2019 7:37 AM Author: Smoky Underhanded Stead they have frozen seafood (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4265247&forum_id=2#38259907) |
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Date: May 20th, 2019 7:40 AM Author: Yapping disgusting nowag native https://nutritionfacts.org/topics/fish/ (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4265247&forum_id=2#38259910) |
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Date: May 20th, 2019 8:21 AM Author: razzmatazz point nibblets He's back on the Nutrition Facts horse!
Did you and Dr. Greger kiss and make up? |
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Date: May 20th, 2019 7:37 AM Author: Smoky Underhanded Stead Now LIDL, LIDL is the truth (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4265247&forum_id=2#38259908) |
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Date: May 20th, 2019 8:17 AM Author: Provocative Box Office Therapy I like LIDL better because it’s bigger and there aren’t traffic jams nonstop (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4265247&forum_id=2#38259969) |
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Date: May 20th, 2019 8:05 AM Author: Soul-stirring set lol at the shameless race to the bottom the US has become. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4265247&forum_id=2#38259949) |
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Date: May 20th, 2019 9:46 AM Author: Swashbuckling heaven Aldi's model started in Germany. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4265247&forum_id=2#38260220) |
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Date: May 20th, 2019 8:23 AM Author: razzmatazz point nibblets The selection must be atrocious. 12,000 sf is tiny. That's 20% smaller than the average Trader Joe's. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4265247&forum_id=2#38259975) |
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Date: May 20th, 2019 10:01 AM Author: massive casino LOL (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4265247&forum_id=2#38260278) |
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Date: May 20th, 2019 10:37 AM Author: territorial meetinghouse TJs == Aldi (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4265247&forum_id=2#38260436) |
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Date: May 20th, 2019 10:15 AM Author: maniacal histrionic church round eye On many of its products, barcodes are either supersized or printed on multiple sides to speed up the scanning process.
this should be sop |
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Date: May 20th, 2019 10:29 AM Author: Yapping disgusting nowag native GC needs their marketing. Nature of the beast. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4265247&forum_id=2#38260388) |
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Date: May 20th, 2019 10:33 AM Author: azure alcoholic pisswyrm orchestra pit grocery stores aren't really "GC" in the true sense and your kind of a faggot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4265247&forum_id=2#38260410) |