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Re: Lidl to Launch Rival to AWS

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Post by niwork »

literallycancer wrote: post #458
niwork wrote: post #315

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Remote jobs paying 6 figures? Aren't they flooded with Indian applicants? Why can I hire an outsourced Indian or Ukrainian for £10,000 PA then? Sounds weird..

Simple. It's the difference between being able to find good paying work, and relying on others to find it. You can be located in a cheap country making thousands a day while others make that in a month. Just need to be a good at finding people whose problems you can solve.

Can you give an example of that? What have you been doing?

Re: Lidl to Launch Rival to AWS

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Post by brnt »

collyw wrote: post #271
zaarn wrote: post #150

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Last time Walmart tried to get a position in germany they just failed outright, nobody accepted the Walmart shopping culture here, not even the employees.

What's Wallmart shopping culture? I seem to remember them from spending time in Mexico 20 years ago. It was just a large supermarket from what I remember. Nothing especially unusual that I can remember.

I'm also interested. Apart from not unboxing on shelves, Lidl/Aldi are pretty typical European grocers. I wonder what is different in the US. Clumsy paper bags and greeters, what else?

Re: Lidl to Launch Rival to AWS

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Post by zaarn »

brnt wrote: post #502
collyw wrote: post #271

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What's Wallmart shopping culture? I seem to remember them from spending time in Mexico 20 years ago. It was just a large supermarket from what I remember. Nothing especially unusual that I can remember.

I'm also interested. Apart from not unboxing on shelves, Lidl/Aldi are pretty typical European grocers. I wonder what is different in the US. Clumsy paper bags and greeters, what else?

Shopping carts require 50 cents or 1 euro to be used, customers return them themselves so nobody has to push those around.

Also, Aldi makes great efforts to not change store layout. I think in the past 5 years I shopped at Aldi, the core part of their layout (ie, minus the seasonal offerings and the special offerings) it has only changed once and they changed back to what they had before within a week.

If you need a specific thing from Aldi, you can go in and straight to where you need to go, grab it and checkout.

Re: Lidl to Launch Rival to AWS

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Post by neuronic »

eru wrote: post #370
neuronic wrote: post #205

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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-...

Absolutely, but I thought I was talking in the context of grocery stores, not e-commerce giants without comparable alternatives.

I am very skeptical Amazon would be able to take significant market share from Aldi, Lidl, REWE or Edeka.

Re: Lidl to Launch Rival to AWS

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Post by brnt »

zaarn wrote: post #503
brnt wrote: post #502

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I'm also interested. Apart from not unboxing on shelves, Lidl/Aldi are pretty typical European grocers. I wonder what is different in the US. Clumsy paper bags and greeters, what else?

Shopping carts require 50 cents or 1 euro to be used, customers return them themselves so nobody has to push those around. Also, Aldi makes great efforts to not change store layout. I think in the past 5 years I shopped at Aldi, the core part of their layout (ie, minus the seasonal offerings and the special offerings) it has only changed once and they changed back to what they had before within a week. If you need a…

Well yeah, I am European and I asked what Walmart is like. Your description covers pretty much all European supers I know.

Are you saying Walmart might move the meat section with some frequency? Why wouldnthay be useful?

Re: Lidl to Launch Rival to AWS

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Post by namibj »

dirtnugget wrote: post #470
paganel wrote: post #134

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> 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…

German here. I absolutely loathe the formal form. It can be compared to using "Sir" with your superiors. While it is super common to address people informally in younger IT companies, in more traditional ones it is mostly informal. If they talk formal, run. It's most likely a shithole. This level of formality between people I find very patriarchal and outdated. Also, with people you just met it becomes somewhat awkwa…

When meeting new people, it's actually a pretty good indication of whether the interaction is strictly business, or might include off-topic conversations.

Re: Lidl to Launch Rival to AWS

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Post by ahartmetz »

Merem wrote: post #456
ahartmetz wrote: post #419

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Something funny that I noticed is that German PC gaming magazines are now saying "Sie" to their readers. I guess it makes sense - most of them are adults and some of them not even very young adults these days.

Why "now"? I used to read the PC Games a decently long time ago and it was always "Sie". Same with the PC Action and Computer Bild Spiele. No clue about the Gamestar but those were basically the relevant PC gaming magazines.

You may be right, I have not been paying attention for a long time.

Re: Lidl to Launch Rival to AWS

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Post by eru »

neuronic wrote: post #504
eru wrote: post #370

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> 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-...

Absolutely, but I thought I was talking in the context of grocery stores, not e-commerce giants without comparable alternatives. I am very skeptical Amazon would be able to take significant market share from Aldi, Lidl, REWE or Edeka.

Oh, I was thinking of just overall market shares for stuff that eg Aldi sells.

Amazon would probably mostly compete by delivering that stuff to you, not by having stores.

And I don't see any deep seated German aversion to getting groceries delivered.

I do see Amazon having a decent chance of getting a big chunk of the grocery market, but I don't expect all of Aldi, Lidl, REWE and Edeka to have to close up shop.

(Similarly, Aldi and/or Lidl were winning a decent chunk of the grocery market in UK and Australia when I was living in either country. But they won't take 100%. The incumbents adapt. Some of the might fail, but not all of them.)

Re: Lidl to Launch Rival to AWS

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Post by collyw »

zaarn wrote: post #503
brnt wrote: post #502

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I'm also interested. Apart from not unboxing on shelves, Lidl/Aldi are pretty typical European grocers. I wonder what is different in the US. Clumsy paper bags and greeters, what else?

Shopping carts require 50 cents or 1 euro to be used, customers return them themselves so nobody has to push those around. Also, Aldi makes great efforts to not change store layout. I think in the past 5 years I shopped at Aldi, the core part of their layout (ie, minus the seasonal offerings and the special offerings) it has only changed once and they changed back to what they had before within a week. If you need a…

> Also, Aldi makes great efforts to not change store layout.

Actually I really appreciated that with Lidl moving from Austria to the UK, I knew where things were. (Supermakets shifting their stock around does my head in). The stock seems to be more regionalized over the years so not sure how similar it will be these days.

Re: Lidl to Launch Rival to AWS

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Post by blaser-waffle »

VHRanger wrote: post #351
wolfgke wrote: post #339

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> 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…

I'm French Canadian and that sounds insane. In France, there's a soft tendency to use the plural you ("vous") a lot more because of the more rigid French class system. In Quebec it's seen as a snobby thing to do due to the more working ass culture. That said, in neither country would anyone ever get a monetary fine for using one over the other. That's crazytown

what is "ass culture"?
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