That's very old news. The Spanish have been complaining about this particucular practice by many bottlers - not jsut discounters - for years. ISTR that Tesco and Asda got pulled up on it as well.
That site of course is hardly unbiased - and it's dated 2005, I see.
No, it can't. Tesco Basics are generally seen as cheap and nasty - unfairly, in some respects. The pseudo branding practiced by the discounters is not marketed as low end in the same way as Basics.
In my limited experience of Lidl they also scan goods their tills very quickly indeed. ISTR reading that staff are under severe pressure to work very quickly in the German owned supermarkets - just part of the expected performance levels. Waitrose, Tescos, Sainsburys and M&S are much slower IME - unless you get the one "champion scanner" who delights in throwing goods through so quickly that you've packed one item into a carrier by the time they've scanned 37!
Retail markets consist of many segments - mass, premium and discount to name a few.
Geographically, markets vary considerably for local cultural and regulatory reasons.
The German situation has legislation about below cost selling for example.
Mmm....
Which is why it will ultimately fail. One cannot transplant a business model and ignore local conditions. This is why Lidl and Aldi have around 2% of the market and it has hardly changed and why Walmart has pulled out of Germany.
One doesn't need to be "involved" to figure out what works and what doesn't.
Oh right, so Germany is not the same as the UK when it proves you wrong but is the same when it proves that you might have a point - I think that is called trying to have it both ways...
By preference, I self-scan, saving myself the arse-ache at the checkout. But if I do have to go through the full checkout experience, I've no interest in the staff being able to scan faster than I can pack.
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