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Does anyone notice that Aldi now uses Scanners to register the price?
In Geretsried the build in those Scanners, but it's not become any faster.

I doubt that anybody can produce a scanner that works any faster than the cashiers at Aldi... They are so fast that you will get into trouble packing your purchases into your trolley fast enough

damn right freter - usually the cashiers will sit there, bored, as you try to cram the stuff into your bags and pull the money out of your wallet. Sometimes they will punch in the numbers and help you bag. A phenomena indeed.

Hiya!

I just read a newspaper articel about that.
It seems that Aldi South does switch to scanners because of the introduction of the Euro. When the conversion comes, all their cashiers can't possibly learn by heart all the new prices, so they have to employ scanners instead. Also it is very hard for them to find cashiers that are able to learn all prices in the first place.

Aldi North now seems to be employing a different system, they use to puch in a three-digit number that is unique for evey item and then the computer inserts the correct price. No probs there with the Euro conversion.