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Go on, go on! I feel we are on to something!
Could be! :) But only one reserve I have: the carts have to be powered for connectiviy and the electric unlock mechanism. So they could be more expensive. But then let's add an ad screen ( E-Ink! ) on the front inside and have this solve the increase.
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Could be! :) But only one reserve I have: the carts have to be powered for connectiviy and the electric unlock mechanism. So they could be more expensive. But then let's add an ad screen ( E-Ink! ) on the front inside and have this solve the increase.
Let's put it in a pitch deck! The idea isn't any worse than those non-transparent video screen fridge doors for super markets! Hold on,ehat if the carts' screen could look inside the frudges and display the content? Augmented reality like? We just to figure out a way to make it all AI powered or something!
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What's wrong with German supermarkets? Coming from the UK, I generally prefer them. The only thing that pisses me off is that Lidl and Aldi don't have baskets. In fact my local Lidl had an absurd short-lived policy that you aren't allowed in the shop unless you get a shopping cart! Thankfully they came to their senses. I just use my shopping bag as a basket.
I consider german food products in general to be tasteless (I am not saying they are low quality but it just does not fit my palate). Lidl / Kaufland is fine for veggies. Rewe good in general and I like Billa+ but that's more premium quality anyway. Just in general not a fan of german food products.
>To combat this, grocery retailers in Europe, such as Aldi, Tesco and Lidl, have coin locks Where I lived, decades ago one store tried this. They ended up folding because no one wanted to deal with inserting coins, why: 1. What if you had no coins ? Most people in the US dump all coins in a big jar when the get home. I would guess back then, about 30% of the people never carried coins, so the chain instantly lost som…
Point 3: doesn’t make sense. The carts don’t have coins stored when they aren’t in use by a customer.
>To combat this, grocery retailers in Europe, such as Aldi, Tesco and Lidl, have coin locks Where I lived, decades ago one store tried this. They ended up folding because no one wanted to deal with inserting coins, why: 1. What if you had no coins ? Most people in the US dump all coins in a big jar when the get home. I would guess back then, about 30% of the people never carried coins, so the chain instantly lost som…
>To combat this, grocery retailers in Europe, such as Aldi, Tesco and Lidl, have coin locks Where I lived, decades ago one store tried this. They ended up folding because no one wanted to deal with inserting coins, why: 1. What if you had no coins ? Most people in the US dump all coins in a big jar when the get home. I would guess back then, about 30% of the people never carried coins, so the chain instantly lost som…
Plus once it's a generalized system and all carts require coins, it's not like you have the choice anymore.
Shopping carts are always broken because the store doesn't give damn. For instance in my current city giant Auchan store has literally every single cart busted, unmaintained and completely rusted top to bottom. Similarly sized Carrefour has normal carts, mostly without any issues, just like Ikea and several other medium and small stores. Kaufland even has some fancy new carts, which not only work fine but have some m…
You can blame one middle manager. You can't blame a million middle managers. If all middle managers are doing something wrong, that's a problem of org design. The same is true across the board. One corrupt congressman? Bad apple. 100 of them in a government? Something is wrong with the way the system is set up. One bad teacher? Bad apple. Most teachers are bad? You're looking at some issue with hiring practices, trai…
>To combat this, grocery retailers in Europe, such as Aldi, Tesco and Lidl, have coin locks Where I lived, decades ago one store tried this. They ended up folding because no one wanted to deal with inserting coins, why: 1. What if you had no coins ? Most people in the US dump all coins in a big jar when the get home. I would guess back then, about 30% of the people never carried coins, so the chain instantly lost som…
In Estonia you can just pick up a little plastic tag that fits in the coin slot from the store infodesk, it's actually really simple.
>To combat this, grocery retailers in Europe, such as Aldi, Tesco and Lidl, have coin locks Where I lived, decades ago one store tried this. They ended up folding because no one wanted to deal with inserting coins, why: 1. What if you had no coins ? Most people in the US dump all coins in a big jar when the get home. I would guess back then, about 30% of the people never carried coins, so the chain instantly lost som…
Points 1 and 2: you can get a plastic or metal store-branded token for free from a cashier. Or many of us carry our own token attached to your keychain. No coins needed. Point 3: doesn’t make sense. The carts don’t have coins stored when they aren’t in use by a customer.
You saw this was decades ago :)
For the plastic tokens, almost no one in the US (at least were I live) would deal with these plastic tokens. I very much doubt that would be accepted.
Also we have deposits on bottles, most people here just toss the in the trash, not bothering to return them. I am sure forcing carriage returns would lose the chain many customers.
For it to work, every single chain would have to adopt this at the same time. Not going to work where I am in the US.