Showing posts with label Aldi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Aldi. Show all posts
Sunday, November 8, 2015
Annett Louisan, Mama will ins Netz
Hallo Mama, du hast jetzt 'n Computer
bei Aldi günstig... ist ja super!
Du würd'st mir gern 'ne E-Mail schicken?
dann musst du nur auf Outlook klicken
Nee-nee das macht man mit der Maus
Ist noch Plastik drum? Dann pack sie aus!
Jetzt nur die Nerven nicht verlieren
du musst erst Software installieren
er ist noch aus, dann drück on/off
da ist vorn irgendwo ein Knopf
ein Kabel fehlt liegt garantiert
mit dem Karton im Altpapier
Sie hat das Starterpaket ohne Rumfummelei
so richtig für Doofe und so
die haben gesagt da wär alles dabei
die Hoffnung stirbt zuletzt
Mama will ins Netz....
Was hast denn du für 'nen Provider
Hast du vergessen, leider leider
da kam doch irgendwann 'n Brief
mit so 'nem Code- definitiv
Nee-nee da ist nix mit: "vor Ort."
Die machen nur Onlinesupport.
Sie hat das Starterpaket ohne Rumfummelei
so richtig für Doofe, und so,
die haben gesagt da wär alles dabei
die Hoffnung stirbt zuletzt
Mama will ins Netz....
Pass auf, ich schick dir mal 'n Link--
ach nee, das geht ja nicht ohne das Ding.
Wir lassen's mit der E-Mail bleiben,
was wolltest du mir eigentlich so schreiben
auf diesem ganz blöden Gerät?
Du wolltest wissen wie's mir geht?
äh... gut Danke!
Sie hat das Starterpaket ohne Rumfummelei
so richtig für Doofe und so
die haben gesagt da wär alles dabei
die Hoffnung stirbt zuletzt
Mama will ins Netz ....
Monday, August 24, 2015
Cashiers at Aldi earn considerably more than elsewhere
GlassDoor http://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/cashier-salary-SRCH_KO0,7.htm
ALDI doesn't require low-end workers to fetch carts from the parking lot. How so? Carts are locked up, and can only be used if you insert a quarter. The good thing is that nearly every customer wants to retrieve that quarter after shopping, so they return the cart themselves, and release those quarters. ALDI shoppers in Europe temporarily invest a whole Euro to use their shopping carts at ALDI. Dedicated ALDI shoppers always keep their coin nearby, so that they don't need to fumble around without a shopping cart in the store. This self-help attitude requires fewer employees to be on hand, and keeps costs down. Also, the cashier job itself involves other duties, including stocking shelves, and some inventory control.
While cashiers earn over $12/hour, ALDI managers earn $20/hour.
Cashier Salaries
Salaries by Company Cashier - Hourly
OVERALL STUDY INCLUDED:
4,082 Salaries Updated Aug 22, 2015
Min Max National Average
$10k $32k $19,425
Average $8.88 / hr
Minimum $7.00 / hr
Maximum $12.00 / hr
Sam's Club (262 Sam's Club Salaries)
$9.96/hr
$8.74/hr
$8.35/hr
ALDI doesn't require low-end workers to fetch carts from the parking lot. How so? Carts are locked up, and can only be used if you insert a quarter. The good thing is that nearly every customer wants to retrieve that quarter after shopping, so they return the cart themselves, and release those quarters. ALDI shoppers in Europe temporarily invest a whole Euro to use their shopping carts at ALDI. Dedicated ALDI shoppers always keep their coin nearby, so that they don't need to fumble around without a shopping cart in the store. This self-help attitude requires fewer employees to be on hand, and keeps costs down. Also, the cashier job itself involves other duties, including stocking shelves, and some inventory control.
While cashiers earn over $12/hour, ALDI managers earn $20/hour.
Friday, April 10, 2015
Trader Joe Has a Brother. He’s Even Better.
Slate's Culture Blog Dec. 2 2013 12:26 PM
Chances are that you have never set foot inside the best grocery store in America: Aldi. And even if you are lucky enough to be in one of the 32 states where Aldi is, perhaps you were put-off by the cardboard boxes in lieu of shelves, or the row upon row of suspicious-looking off-brands. What
is this place? Why do I have to put down a deposit to check out a cart?
What is the weird giant shelf by the exit? And what do you mean, I have
to pay for a bag?
Calm your hormones, meine Schatzis: Aldi, which is short for Albrecht Discount, is the American incarnation of a German grocery chain that is so ubiquitous in the Vaterland that almost 90 percent of Germans shop there. (Not all German imports are luxury cars, beer, and super-cool glasses.)
The Brüder founded their discount-store empire
together. A disagreement in 1960 over selling cigarettes hastened a
partition, and an epic game of grocery-store Risk: Theo would rename his
business Aldi Nord, and would control territories north of the Rhine, plus a healthy chunk of Europe. Karl would head up Aldi Süd, and get southern Germany, more of Europe, plus the U.K. and Ireland. But both companies operate stores in the United States—Aldi Süd operates as Aldi, and Aldi Nord as the now ubiquitous Trader Joe’s.
But whereas Trader Joe’s employs just one major cost-saving device—private labeling—everything
else about it is Americanized. The place is swarming with upbeat
employees; cashiers stand at the till and bag your products for you; you
just grab a cart willy-nilly and they trust you to put it back. Aldi
also private-labels (those $1.99 “Millville” Rice Squares are Chex, you guys!), but what makes it a more exciting venture—and even cheaper than Trader Joe’s—is that it has imported the entire German grocery experience (aside, alas, from employees yelling at you if you do something wrong).
If you’ve ever visited Germany, you’ve noticed that a
4-ounce glass of juice at a restaurant may run you $10, while
groceries—often of much higher quality than their American
counterparts—will be noticeably less expensive. This is in part because of cost-cutting shopping practices whose arrival stateside I greet with a robust “Wunderbar!”
You can always tell an American in Germany by the way they incredulously don’t get that nobody is going to bag their groceries for them—they’re expected to do so (and schnell!)
while the seated cashier is ringing them up. Shoppers also have the
option of quickly sticking wares back into the cart and schlepping them
over to a special low, wide shelf that’s an official bagging area. As
for the cart: It requires a deposit, and customers must return them to
their rightful place—without the help of an employee—if they want their
money back.
These are standard practices at even upscale German Supermärkte,
so high-end groceries are cheaper relative to other goods than they are
here. This is why I am hoping for Aldi’s rousing success in Amiland:
so that more of our stores, and our culture in general, will
incorporate such Teutonic efficiency. First the cost-savings of bagging
our own groceries—then the ubiquitous bicycle lanes; immaculate, punctual public transportation; and, finally, required paid vacation and parental leave. It would be ausgezeichnet indeed, meine Lieben.
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