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According to 'er indoors there's all sorts of Toffs in there nowadays.
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The toffs call it Haldi.
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There are - used by all the local dignatories including myself as well as the plebs. 68.52% of my weekly food shop did be done by there.
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My Mrs gets our rubber johnnies from there a big old family pack
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Who is this Quality newbie person?
Expose yourself with strengths or weak nesses. |
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03 Feb 12 14:02
My Mrs gets our rubber johnnies from there a big old family pack Yeah extra thick and double large |
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Whom is she entertaining one wonders?
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Frank Bough i expect
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They'll be doing Game Pie next
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The venison at Lidl is particularly good.
Also look out for the Italian food range when they are doing a promotion. |
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Never been in Netto or Lidl.
Once had the misfortune to go into Aldi, only because the car park was full near Halfords, so finished up parking there. Can't remember what it was that I needed, but I thought "well Hey Ho" you never know, and in I went. What a disorientating experience it was. Laid out like a village hall "bring and buy" sale, and with no high level display except for hanging signs above. The layout was ridiculous, and I guess you needed to buy a special Aldi Sat Nav, to find your way around. They had socks and boxer shorts, next to the bread, and loads of other things like that. It was really strange being able to see all four walls wherever you were. Anyway I never found what I wanted so left with nothing except bewilderment. |
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The thinking mans Waitrose imo
Fantastic for general foodstuufs like pasta and the like,and some great continetal stuff as well,only went there about 18months ago when they built one near me and was pleasantly suprised.Their produce is also good quality they dont so any of that smart price much,fruit and veg seems cheap as well though ive no idea what that stuff costs tbh. Intersting mix of punters too you have your middle classes grabbing a few bits alongside tracksuited untermenchen stocking up on pop and crips. You can also get in and out very quickly and theyre like sh1t of a stick on the checkouts. My Verdict:UNDERATED |
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*Smart price muck
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I think Aldi checkouts have the longest conveyors in retailing. Other supermarkets could learn - the checkout is one place where length matters.
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I could explain the economics to Aunty Post but I'm not inclined to spend long on it. The classy environment you appear to prefer costs dearly. The fixtures, the stock-holding of a 24,000 item range, the attractive merchandising, the warehousing and distribution and admin. invoicing, importing, staffing and logistics all weigh heavily and add to price putting gross and net margins under intense pressure.
ALDI are not in that business - they don't want it, so no tobacco kiosks, no lottery, no club card, no service aspects at all. They are about minimal ranges, minimal staffing, low wages, chuck it on the display, rapid stock-turn and get the cash in the till before the goods are even paid for. The rate of expansion of ALDI, LIDL, NETTO speaks for itself. The big four, conversely, are going to come under increasing pressure with little room for growth. HTH! |
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Aldi are the best payers in Retail btw,though boy do their staff have to graft
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*yes, for 'low wages' I was referring to the total wage bill as a % of turnover generally known as 'cost-to-sell' CTS.
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used our local aldi a couple of times on the way home from work the only problem I have is the checkout never seen more than one on at a time with big long queue.
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You can also get in and out very quickly and theyre like sh1t of a stick on the checkouts.
My Verdict:UNDERATED Fair point this. Talking to someone who works at the mega tesco by me and they reckon that the company have put a lot of the new site developements on hold for now and are instead going to concentrate on getting staff behind the tills again. It seems that the old "if there is more than one person in front of you in the queue then we'll open another till" rule was just ditched and that whilst the small basket types are happy to use self-checkout, the number of 'big shoppers' who moan about having to wait in ever increasing queues has caused a rethink.. |
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Keep an eye of the son of the boss of Aldi. He might be knobbing Kate Middleton
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A few inches?
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(wrong thread sorry)
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Quite a sensible reply Ivor!
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The owner of Aldi is the richest man in Germany.
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Looking at some appraisal here I think perhaps I didn't give it a fair shot.
I will go again, with an open mind, and try to figure out what is good. At least I know that socks and boxers are next to the bread! Pretty clever marketing actually, as they think that someone will buy some socks, and then impulse buy some bread, that they don't need! |
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lol = wrong way round but you get the idea
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good value.....but I usually go in disguise in case I get recognised. I dont want the scrubers that shop there think I am one of them and the word gets round.
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Aldi is an abbreviation for Albrect Discount the original discounter from which businesses like the now defunct Kwiksave was spawned.
The business is now run by the 2 sons if I'm not mistaken their father ( the founder) retired afer he was kidnapped in the 70s by the Bader Meinhof gang (not sure of the spelling here) made all the front pages and the family allegedly paid a significant ransom against the police wishes. Ever since the family have lived in relative seclusion and refuse any invites to functions or interviews One son runs the business in the Northern hemishere and the other in the Southern. 8500 plus outlets in total. All built to the same custom built model worldwide only product ranges differ for obvious reasons. Not sure if it still applies but in the 80 and 90s checkout operators had to memorise prices and no scanning. Negotiate supplier exclusivity to hold down costs very very smart outfit. GR |
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Grim Reaper - I remember going to Aldi in the late 90's nr Dusseldorf and couldn't believe how quick you got through the check out - as they knew every single price of every item off by heart.
You'd think a bar code would be quicker in a way but it's not. |
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The reason it's quicker of course is that their eyes are scanning and pricing long before your shopping gets anywhere near a bar code scanner. impressive stuff all the same.
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love that for sheer efficiency
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The owner of Aldi is the richest man in Germany.
if i were the richest man in germany the last thing i would buy would be a load of grocery stores. |
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I can't believe that about the bar code for a second!
The bar code identifies the item and price in a fraction of a second. How can someone manually enter this quicker? Most people are running way behind with their packing in any case, so it doesn't matter how fast the system works, as the customer will always be behind. Then said customer has to fart about looking for their purse, as if it were a surprise, and then fiddling around for the correct cash (this is mainly elderly women btw). One such that I was behind recently, had managed to slow things down already, by engaging the cashier in continuous, eye contact, conversation. Then when she finally got her purse out it was full of fivers, all folded twice, so the cashier had to unfold them all whilst the conversation continued. I'm afraid that on this occasion, I had to suggest to the supervisor that if they were incapable of talking and scanning together, please tell them to stick to scanning. |
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I got the impression they weren't entering a barcode but the price, I can imagine typing three numbers from memory would be quicker than scanning under the right circumstances.
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The till operators used to have to remember the prices in the days when they also only took cash.
Aldi and Lidl are both brilliant shops. Once you realise that the gospel according to Tesco is a fallacy and you really dont need a choice of 50 different varieties of everything there's no reason to not use them. |
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Used them while they knocked down and rebuilt Morrisons, must admit I like them alot.
To keep pace with the newly opened Morrisons, Aldi have just completed a refit and the last new pallet has been fitted today. |
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good quality food imo ,fruit and veg top notch
the long queues put me off though i don't queue for anything -life is far too short for queuing |
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Not sure if they scan now but in the 90s it was purely down to cost saving why pay for technology when you can use the human brain without the cost for a marginal difference either way in terms of efficiency.
They are successful because commercially they strip out cost with an avarice that would make your average Tesco buyer blush. I can remember in the late 80s and 90s being told that they wanted suppliers to provide shelf ready boxes to reduce waste merchandising and improve staff efficiency. |