Coincidentally, from what I’ve heard, Aldi prints the barcode on all sides of the packaging, so the cashier doesn’t have to look for it. (Idk myself as there’s no Aldi where I am.)
Yes. Part of the reason it seems shocking to me that they are considered good practice in USA is things like this. Although the barcode thing is good and harmless, they try to make every little thing milliseconds faster, the cashiers at aldi don’t do small talk, they don’t have the time. If they are too slow at scanning, they get fired or that’s the rumour at least. They recently also started splitting cash registry, so they can process even more costumers per minute and must be even more of a robot and less of a human… At many other supermarkets, the cashiers know their customers, have small talk about the weather or the kids or so. Aldi kind of forbids it without literally forbidding it because forbidding would probably not be legal.
I mean, I don’t have a problem with the barcode thing since it saves empty effort of twisting the package around in one’s hand looking for the barcode. It’s a great design solution eliminating a small frustration that occurs hundreds of times a day. I’d be glad if my local supermarkets had that on the stuff I take to self-checkout.
Coincidentally, from what I’ve heard, Aldi prints the barcode on all sides of the packaging, so the cashier doesn’t have to look for it. (Idk myself as there’s no Aldi where I am.)
Yes; it’s on at least 2-3 sides of all Aldi Branded products so they can scan faster.
Yes. Part of the reason it seems shocking to me that they are considered good practice in USA is things like this. Although the barcode thing is good and harmless, they try to make every little thing milliseconds faster, the cashiers at aldi don’t do small talk, they don’t have the time. If they are too slow at scanning, they get fired or that’s the rumour at least. They recently also started splitting cash registry, so they can process even more costumers per minute and must be even more of a robot and less of a human… At many other supermarkets, the cashiers know their customers, have small talk about the weather or the kids or so. Aldi kind of forbids it without literally forbidding it because forbidding would probably not be legal.
I mean, I don’t have a problem with the barcode thing since it saves empty effort of twisting the package around in one’s hand looking for the barcode. It’s a great design solution eliminating a small frustration that occurs hundreds of times a day. I’d be glad if my local supermarkets had that on the stuff I take to self-checkout.