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It's British too. Tesco is always called Tesco's.
British supermarket Sainsbury's even put it in their logo. The actual name of the company is J Sainsbury plc.
Or even Sainsbo's ;)
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#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
People still avoid Aldi in the Netherlands if they want to keep up appearances. Lidl seems to suffer from this stigma a lot less.
That's interesting, because the customers at Aldi here in Germany are basically a cross-section of the population, but tend to be middle/higher middle class. Especially after the update to most of their shops during the last 7-8 years [0], most Aldis look really nice inside. This combined with the huge advantage that shopping at Aldi is really efficient (the stores are not large, for most items, you have only a singl…
Dutch here, worked a few years in Germany. I can attest to the difference in esteem of the Aldi/Lidl in de and nl. But you already agree: German shops just look run down as a matter of course. Rewe and Edeka the least probably?
However (I've lived some years in FR and PL too), nothing beats Dutch supermarkets in terms of shopping-speed. Nowhere. If you think (German) Aldi is fast, you should try a Dutch shop (preferably in the city around rush hour so you can see it shines under pressure). As a low anchor, you can try the same in France (any brand, but Lidl too) ;) This includes stock: Dutch supermarkets are rarely out of something, but in Germany this is par for the course (or I am extremely unlucky?)
Also, and this is actually quite true for the Netherlands as well, there is a quality problem. It can be good, but it rarely is great. The French (and Belgians) really have that beat, at the cost of speed. Only fresh veg and bread is where Lidl shines, and I love them for it.
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#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
So they’re passing on transport costs?
All businesses pass on all costs, otherwise they would go bankrupt. Revenue must remain greater than expenses (outside VC funded moonshots).
Thanks Einstein.
I was referring to passing them on on an individual store basis rather than averaging across all stores.
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#115Do Americans find it difficult to slice their own mushrooms?
Thanks for highlighting this absurdity. Gotta love em dorky Muricans
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#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
British supermarket Sainsbury's even put it in their logo. The actual name of the company is J Sainsbury plc.
Sainsbury's is a reduction of John Sainsbury's supermarket, so they need sense. Just like Wilko's is Wilkinson's general store.
Well obviously but poster's point was that it's a British/Commonwealth colloquialism to do that.
It started as "J Sainsbury" with no apostrophe s. Then it changed it registered as "J. Sainsbury Limited" in 1922, again no 's.
"John Sainsbury's supermarket" was only contracted and picked up much later for marketing.
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#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
you Americans need to think about your "LEGOs" problem
You really don’t want to go down this road. I have no problem starting a movement to get Americans to call them “LEGO’s” and you won’t be able to even suggest it’s wrong because it’ll just be a contraction of “LEGO parts,” “LEGO bricks,” and “LEGO sets.” (But feel free to lambast us over punctuation and quotation marks.)
That isn't how contractions in English work – you can't form a contraction from two nouns.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/con...
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#118What would it take to add the ALDIs in Europe to this map ?
I believe there is already a framework for this, for all supermarkets, and it is being used in several countries with significant political impact.
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#119I find these types of maps fascinating. For people wondering what would this map look like if we were not limited to the USA and Aldi:
https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/gmaps.jsp?indexToShow=...
There are a few larger categories (groceries/rent/etc.) rather than individual items.
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#120How naive of me to ecpect anything else than an us-only map when this is about a german supermarket chain with most of its stores in europe...