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Lidl to Launch Rival to AWS

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Re: Lidl to Launch Rival to AWS

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Post by LargoLasskhyfv »

eru wrote: post #496
LargoLasskhyfv wrote: post #433

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While i'm not working there, i casually know some people who did at the store level, shelving/cashier. It's not less hard at f.e. Edeka or Rewe either. That's what i meant. And health insurance isn't tied to a job here. And when you are shopping, if you are not absolutely ignorant, you can see and compare the range of tasks a single person has to do where and when. There is not much difference to be seen, and backsta…

Oh, I'm more comparing to American supermarkets. They have much higher staffing levels than what competition with Lidl and Aldi has forced the German retail landscape down to. (Btw, 'for example' is spelled e.g. not f.e. in English. And German 'd.h' (das heißt) is i.e. in English. They are curious creatures and have a thing for Latin. Most people still pronounce eg as 'for example' and ie as 'that is'.)

That was the most succinct explanation of those three things which i always feel vague and unsure about. e.g./f.e./i.e.

Thx. We will see if it 'sticks' :)

But...i often see f.e. written, could it be a regional difference like US vs. british spelling?

Re: Lidl to Launch Rival to AWS

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Post by stx »

paganel wrote: post #134
benjohnson1707 wrote: post #96

Former Schwarz employee here: The company made SO much money in the past 4 decades with big box / discount retailing, you won't believe it. Salaries are off the charts (it would make senior software engineers in SV look pale). Hubris is as well. The only thing that drives reasoning are statements like 'we're not just some random company, we're Schwarz Group'. It's the poster child Corp described by Andy Gorves statem…

> 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…

> 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)

Are Germans usually this strict about language in a professional setting? I am from the USA but worked for a company with offices in Germany for a couple years. They were formal in some ways but also made many jokes that could get you fired in the USA. Maybe my experience was the exception.

Re: Lidl to Launch Rival to AWS

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Post by flingo »

vertis wrote: post #486
SturgeonsLaw wrote: post #190

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One of the perks of being an Aussie is calling everyone from the frontline workers to the C-suite 'mate'

I don't think I've ever seen someone at a tech company in Australia refer to someone as 'mate'. Certainly not C-suite. For the most part, I find the use of mate as obnoxious at worst and awkward at best.

In Australia, the words "mate" and "cunt" have seemingly-opposite meanings, to what an American-English speaker might think.

Re: Lidl to Launch Rival to AWS

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Post by xnyan »

eru wrote: post #427
xnyan wrote: post #341

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I don’t think it’s just German. When I started learning Russian, 95% of what I was taught was on вы (plural/formal you). When you’re a beginner you really lean on stock phrases and bits you learned in class, so when I moved to Kharkov everything I said was formal for about six months. It took a year before I really stopped speaking to children or pets formally. It makes sense I guess, if you’re not sure formal is pro…

> It makes sense I guess, if you’re not sure formal is probably safer than informal (although speaking to someone formally when you should be speaking informally can also be insulting.) You get lots of leeway on the latter as a foreigner.

Very true, however I’ve noticed in pretty much every culture speaking the lingua franca poorly often means you are treated nicely but not very seriously.

Re: Lidl to Launch Rival to AWS

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Post by LargoLasskhyfv »

eru wrote: post #496
LargoLasskhyfv wrote: post #433

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While i'm not working there, i casually know some people who did at the store level, shelving/cashier. It's not less hard at f.e. Edeka or Rewe either. That's what i meant. And health insurance isn't tied to a job here. And when you are shopping, if you are not absolutely ignorant, you can see and compare the range of tasks a single person has to do where and when. There is not much difference to be seen, and backsta…

Oh, I'm more comparing to American supermarkets. They have much higher staffing levels than what competition with Lidl and Aldi has forced the German retail landscape down to. (Btw, 'for example' is spelled e.g. not f.e. in English. And German 'd.h' (das heißt) is i.e. in English. They are curious creatures and have a thing for Latin. Most people still pronounce eg as 'for example' and ie as 'that is'.)

nag nag... i know why i'm using f.e. so much instead of e.g. It's because the German z.B.(zum Beispiel) translates one to one to f.e.(for example).

Re: Lidl to Launch Rival to AWS

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Post by NicoJuicy »

londons_explore wrote: post #258
NicoJuicy wrote: post #246

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Scan barcode, scan sticker. Apply discount to previous product

Indeed, but that isn't how they do it. They just scan the sticker.

Then inventory management isn't important on discounted products.

Perhaps the primary goal is just to have it gone.

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