Hopefully this means I'll be able to rent a blowtorch and an air compressor and only pay for the time I use it.
Lidl to Launch Rival to AWS
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Re: Lidl to Launch Rival to AWS
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That's after taxes? That's roughly the salary you'd get in Poland , but with a lower cost of living. Not saying you should relocate or anything - I'm just amazed at the state of the Italian IT job market. I spent a few years in Italy and have a friend who lived and worked in Poland. Hated the experience, but by his account it was the most stable and well paid job he had ever. I never understood how could that be poss…
Yes, that's after taxes. Relocating is on my wishlist but I'm really too afraid to do it.
To clarify as I can't edit: my friend is Italian, I'm Polish.
Anyway while you'd probably be better off relocating to Germany, France and of course Switzerland if you ever consider Poland then give me a shout at:
hand @ wringing.it
It's a throwaway email that I check once every week.
Perhaps I would be able to help.
Re: Lidl to Launch Rival to AWS
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Look at the evidence. Lidl (and ALDI) are exapnding all over the world. Meanwhile Walmart decided to pull out of Germany because the competition was to tough. ALDI and Lidl are world class at selling a limited selection of medium quality goods to a massive audience at extremely cheap prices. It's unclear how any of the technologies you mentioned would improve that core competence. It's also unclear that any of them c…
> In Germany we don't have any voting machines, never was even seriously discussed. It was quite seriously discussed and some were used during the 2005 election. You don't see any discussions about it today because the constitutional court put a stop to it. https://www.loc.gov/law/foreign-news/article/germany-constit...
Interesting!
Yeah, voting machines are pretty unnecessary (for most voting systems).
There's something to be said in favour of a method that any village idiot can understand and observe with their own eyes. Paper delivers that.
Re: Lidl to Launch Rival to AWS
#364Earlier quoted context omitted.
In Germany, their store managers do inventory manually, which means they have to order items they run low on, no tech insight. Their attempt at setting up SAP failed after burning 500 million on it. Delivery robots, Amazon-style prototypes for cashier-less systems, heck, even Instacart like delivery are nowhere to be found. If Amazon decided to enter the German supermarket landscape, Lidl (also, Aldi and others) woul…
> If Amazon decided to enter the German supermarket landscape, Lidl (also, Aldi and others) would be in serious trouble. I doubt that since I think that Amazon's vision is very different from what many German customers want. Here is a (German) text of a German blogger who went to Amazon Books in the Empire State Building. His experience was not positive: > https://www.danisch.de/blog/2019/06/18/ein-seltsamer-einkauf.…
Amazon would have to enter the German retail market with a Germanized product.
Re: Lidl to Launch Rival to AWS
#365Earlier quoted context omitted.
In Germany, their store managers do inventory manually, which means they have to order items they run low on, no tech insight. Their attempt at setting up SAP failed after burning 500 million on it. Delivery robots, Amazon-style prototypes for cashier-less systems, heck, even Instacart like delivery are nowhere to be found. If Amazon decided to enter the German supermarket landscape, Lidl (also, Aldi and others) woul…
> In Germany, their store managers do inventory manually Do other stores not do this? I know Tesco did this not too far in the past - they had an IT-enabled process, but it was based on staff going round the shelves, scanning barcodes, and punching a button if stock was low. That's despite them having tons of computer power pointed at store-level sales records. As someone who doesn't know retail, like most users of t…
Grocery is a high-volume business with multiple supply chains of various levels of integration. Keeping actual inventories rectified with sales data depends on accurate billing/receiving through the back door of any specific outlet. Expected inventory vs actual inventory can easily get out of sync due to uncapturable or hard-to-capture behavior at the store level (theft and damaged products aka shrink) or product being left at the warehouse but present on an invoice (which is transmitted electronically) or even product misplaced somewhere in the backroom that cannot effectively be sold. There is constant drift between what should be at a store versus what is actually at a store and augmented ordering is usually used in lieu of automated ordering, where managers have shelf-level visibility on what is on its way, what is currently present, and what is projected to sell based on historical data using something like a Motorola Symbol Barcode Scanner running Windows CE.
Re: Lidl to Launch Rival to AWS
#366This quality of this article is terrible. It's very short (235 words), there are no concrete sources, or solid evidence that this is real. This is nothing more than speculation. Is this considered journalism is 2020?
Even more sad, is when you search and try to find better sources, and realize that it's mostly just a few small, outlier publications, copy and pasting off of each other. Business Insider unabashedly copy and pasted from Charged Retail, and didn't even bother to format/ edit/ paraphrase anything. Even text from the link to sign up for the Charged Retail news letter is in there (https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/lidl-owner-l...).
So the way I see this, there is no story here. This is not real news. This is a rumor. Maybe even fake news. Nothing more, so let's stop talking about it.
Re: Lidl to Launch Rival to AWS
#367Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Salaries are off the charts Just to add another data point, Lidl is also the retailer that pays the best market salaries in the Eastern-European country where I live in (they actually included that in several of their hiring ads), and I'm talking about shop people like cashiers and the people that put things on the shelves. > They are getting into the car sales and recycle business as well. In here they've also ope…
> I agree though about the big difference between the German and US management. I have a close friend that works at the regional Lidl HQ and she got reprimanded just after being hired for having used the singular "you" (less formal) instead of the plural "you" (I'm not sure how it translates into German) when addressing herself to her bosses on the company's hallways Using "du" instead of "Sie" for adressing people c…
Howcome the German Apple store are using “du” all over the place?
Are they not well advised by their localization partners?
Re: Lidl to Launch Rival to AWS
#368Earlier quoted context omitted.
That wouldn't even be legal in Germany (and I guess the EU), pricing has to be clearly labelled, and additionally has to have a price per common unit if the package has a different size (e.g. a 3.5l bottle of detergent would show €/litre). I wonder why they don't just use e-ink price labels? These are common around here for a decade or so.
Ever been to any Rewe or Penny at Saturdays? They usually have the bright yellow "action price/Sonderangebot" signs on the shelves which are valid only from the following Monday. It's a real nuisance.
It used to be even worse in Britain before the invasion of Aldi and Lidl really had an impact.
They had lots of 'buy 5, pay 3' and similar nonsense deals. Often, the software in the register would "mysteriously" not have the deal, and you pay more.
And, of course, a 50% reduction usually meant that they just doubled the price in the week before.
Things got much better in the last ten years or so. That's roughly when Lidl and Aldi really started eating Tescos lunch.
Re: Lidl to Launch Rival to AWS
#369This quality of this article is terrible. It's very short (235 words), there are no concrete sources, or solid evidence that this is real. This is nothing more than speculation. Is this considered journalism is 2020? Even more sad, is when you search and try to find better sources, and realize that it's mostly just a few small, outlier publications, copy and pasting off of each other. Business Insider unabashedly cop…
"The medium is the message" so they say. This is what the Internet has become.
The commentary is what makes this interesting, not the content of the article.
Re: Lidl to Launch Rival to AWS
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Trader Joe's in the US is owned by Aldi Nord. How come Trader Joe's is doing well here in the US despite Amazon? I don't know anything about the operations and logistics of Trader Joe's but from a consumer perspective the stores seem very streamlined. In many ways it reminds me of Lidl in Germany (more so than Aldi).
Because the person doesn't know what they are talking about. Germans will never prefer Amazon over known local stores - it's already enough to be an American company these days. People know what that means and they don't want it. Wal-Mart completely crashed and burned in Germany and it already started at the weird greeting person at the entry. When Germans see this, the business is basically already bust. Keep the fa…
> Germans will never prefer Amazon over known local stores [...]
Huh? Amazon does pretty well in Germany.
Germans aren't mythical creatures. Even if some of them like local stores, prices and convenience and quality still matter.
See eg https://www.handelsblatt.com/today/companies/e-commerce-how-...