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[Dave Plowman (News)]

No advantage having two. It simply slows things down and supermarkets should be whizzed round at mach2 to leave more time for wandering round the sheds.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

I'd love to meet the guy who designed their self service checkouts on a dark night...

[Alan]

In message , Mary Fisher wrote

The point is that a trolley load of goods goes 'through the till' in less than thirty seconds with a competent shopper in Aldi. There is no bagging up at the till - it all goes back into the trolley at high speed. It's a great system and if all supermarkets adopted the method they could probably halve the number of employees.

Aldi staff will offer help for those who obviously need it but the don't patronise every single customer by questioning their ability to pack bags.

[Alan]

What do you think waitrose/tesco/sainsbury/asda etc. mainly sell -but for a higher price?

Good customer service is not waiting five minutes per customer at the checkout. I actually prefer the checkouts at Aldi/Lidl type outlets.

Perhaps the main supermarkets cannot afford to pay farmers more for the goods because they are so over-staffed on checkout operatives?

[Rod]

Ah - so that's when he designed them, explains a lot... :-)

[The Natural Philosopher]

I never ever wander round the sheds.

If I need a tool I buy it online.

[Steve Firth]

I thought you had more of a brain than that Dave. If, in the one area of food production that I know very well, Aldi and Lidl have been caught out in fraud, why should I beleive that everything else that they do is above board?

Not only that, but in other areas of food sales Aldi and Lidl manifestly act in bad faith, passing off German and Danish produce as Italian. I gave examples earlier. So it's not just olive oil that is affected by this shoddy sales technique, no matter how much you and the Medway Fuckwit try to make it so.

If you want to buy shit dressed up as Shinola that's entirely your choice. But wouldn't you at least like to see these companies forced to describe what they sell accurately so that you know what you are buying?

[Steve Firth]

Good, shop there then. But don't kid yourself, or at least don't try to kid me that the crap they sell is worthwhile or that the standards of service they offer are anything other than shit.

[Mary Fisher]

They've gone to Sainsburys ...

One year on ...

Mary

[Mary Fisher]

?

You have no idea of our efficiency!

Shopping at the sheds is just as awful and only to be done when absolutely necessary.

Specialised outlets now, they're a different matter.

Mary

[Mary Fisher]

It's the same in our system - except that the bags are already open in the trolleys.

There's going to be enough unemployment about without adding to it.

Mary

[Mary Fisher]

...

You're making my heart bleed for T*sco ...

Mary

[Rod]

Plain chocolate choc ices (own brand). So far as I can see, they are the only stockist of such things - all others are covered in chocolate flavour coating which is, IME, disgusting.

Sainsburys used to their own, but I have not seen them for at least a couple of years.

[stuart noble]

Why should I give a toss whether something is Italian or Danish? It either tastes good or it doesn't

[stuart noble]

The choc ice benchmark eh?

[Rod]

Certainly is! Mmmm, that was really nice. Just had one...

[ARWadsworth]

Have you have not heard about the Barnsley taxi driver that took the new Argentinan footballer from Oakwell to Doncaster Aldi instead of Doncaster Audi. The new Audi was part of his contract, I wonder what bargains he got at Aldi?

Adam

[Bruce]

I bet Aldi's windscreen washer fluid is a lot cheaper than Audi's.

;-)

[Derek Geldard]

You're right, if it's dogshit it doesn't matter much.

Derek

[Steve Firth]

Well Aldi obviously think it's important enough to pass off Danish produce as Italian. Why not ask them why they do it?