Every time we were at Aldi in America we just bagged up everything at the counter after the cashier. It was the only store we expected to do that at.
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Moved to Germany; why are the cashiers so fast? Please help.
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They will most likely ask you if you collect points BEFORE you pay.
It's really not a ton of work tbh Just pull out your bonus card.
The cashier will then scan a barcode off the card or your phone (whatever you like).
Haven't gotten all the stores and bonus affiliations memorized, but REWE & Penny work with Payback.
Edeka & Netto work with Deutschlandcard.
There are also a shitton of gas stations, online shops (eBay for example) that can be linked with your card.
IMO Payback is best, but it depends on where you shop at.
I was never a big fan of these things, was signed up but never actively pursued these points.
Sometime last year, I started to use my Payback card more often and my wife and me have already gotten some nice stuff for free.
As a matter of fact, I just ordered 2 really nice Salt and Pepper grinders made by WMF for free.
You can also get 10€ Appstore cards, movie tickets etc.
Shit adds up quickly and they put coupons in the app like (10x points for your REWE) that accelerate the process.
🤔 will tryThey will most likely ask you if you collect points BEFORE you pay.
It's really not a ton of work tbh Just pull out your bonus card.
The cashier will then scan a barcode off the card or your phone (whatever you like).
Haven't gotten all the stores and bonus affiliations memorized, but REWE & Penny work with Payback.
Edeka & Netto work with Deutschlandcard.
There are also a shitton of gas stations, online shops (eBay for example) that can be linked with your card.
IMO Payback is best, but it depends on where you shop at.
I was never a big fan of these things, was signed up but never actively pursued these points.
Sometime last year, I started to use my Payback card more often and my wife and me have already gotten some nice stuff for free.
As a matter of fact, I just ordered 2 really nice Salt and Pepper grinders made by WMF for free.
You can also get 10€ Appstore cards, movie tickets etc.
Shit adds up quickly and they put coupons in the app like (10x points for your REWE) that accelerate the process.
Dude no. I live in France, about 10km from Germany. Whenever I get groceries in France, I dread going to the cashier because a line of 3 people before you = having to wait for 15 minutes before it's finally your turn. And once it's your turn, you get like an item every 10 fucking seconds. Those people a slow af. Thank god they introduced automatic cashiers last year finally.
Pretty sure that the shortened version of "American English" is English, just like "Canadian bacon" is "bacon".
Well la-dee-da your highness.
When I was at Uni I usually packed bags for my customers. Had one guy almost cry when I started to do it because he wanted to pack his own bags. Man was crazy. Think maybe his wife left him for a bag-packer or something. Dark times.
It's easier in the UK to just let the lazy cunts pack their own bags.
Pretty sure the contracted form is still 'English', mate. 'American' definitely isn't a language if we're being pedantic.
Ah, gendered articles, the bane of English speaking people. And Slavs.
Lidl is awesome and Aldi has some cool stuff too, enjoy it. But it's weird you mention the cashier thing, here in Spain they're all fast. At least in the city. I'm used to pack the stuff as they scan.
Lidl is awesome and Aldi has some cool stuff too, enjoy it. But it's weird you mention the cashier thing, here in Spain they're all fast. At least in the city. I'm used to pack the stuff as they scan.
Check out Würzburg and Nürnberg! Freiburg is also nice, and on the way you could go over to the French side for Strasbourg and Colmar
Russian got the genders and the cases like German. Do other Slavic languages not have genders?
But do they have articles? Polish for example has all the cases and genders, numbers but in the nouns. Articles don't exist. My gf, who is Polish, got a language shock when she came here lol
In English articles are definite and indefinite (the and a) and that's it. Roman languages have a nice variety of genders and number, and also definite and indefinite. German uses a similar system but with cases. It's more or less easy for us to adapt, it's hard for people who don't use articles or use only two.
Where I'm at, all shops have contactless/nfc terminals for debit cards. So I just swipe it/put it on the terminal and I'm basically done. Faster than taking cash out of my pocket. So I'm definitely faster paying with a card then with money even if its just 1€.
Thats my go-to strategy: "swipe" the card, start packing, while the terminal processes my payment, I'm mostly done with packing.
That's why checkouts with these dividers at the end are an absolute godsend.
They shove all your shopping down one side, then just shift it over for the next customer's shopping to go down the other side, giving you time to pack even though the next customer is already being served.
They shove all your shopping down one side, then just shift it over for the next customer's shopping to go down the other side, giving you time to pack even though the next customer is already being served.
Those things used to be everywhere when I was a kid, now they seem virtually extinct. Don't really know why, doesn't seem to be a space issue though.That's why checkouts with these dividers at the end are an absolute godsend.
They shove all your shopping down one side, then just shift it over for the next customer's shopping to go down the other side, giving you time to pack even though the next customer is already being served.
You are fucked.
Also cashiers are just more efficient in our country. We also like to bag our things on our own. Bio products are mostly shit though. Also don't talk to cashiers. Don't be overly friendly if there is no reason to - be normal.
It's the same for big supermarkets like Metro too here in Germany so I was used to it the few times in Japan when I shopped at AEON e.g.
Ah yes, no they don't. In my limited Russian, I know of 'that'/'these' and they decline in all manner of ways, but there's no 'the' or 'a'.
Not even close. Problem with German articles is that they change based on being Nominative, Accusative, Dative or Genitive. For example a fucking Die in nominative case will be a Der in dative and they practically give you zero extra information. plz help.
If we could use Den for all accusative genders, Dem for dative and Des for genitive, life would be much easier.
"My philological studies have satisfied me that a gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years. It seems manifest, then, that the latter tongue ought to be trimmed down and repaired. If it is to remain as it is, it ought to be gently and reverently set aside among the dead languages, for only the dead have time to learn it."
(Mark Twain)
First of all, welcome to germany. Hope you have a great time in our country.
Most Aldi / Lidl / Netto have a very short checkout counter so that people have to hurry and more customers can be processed. That is by design, I worked in some markets. Either you start packing while they are still scanning or use a cart and pack outside the store / near the exit.
If you plan to visit berlin send me a pm, living here for the last 8+ years and may be able to direct you to some cool spots.
If the cashier is too slow they are fined, there is a camera pointed at them and a lightbarrier that is measuring the time between the register being open and closed. You have to be quick and not dawdle about!
If you block the checkout area as a customer then after 5 minutes the police will be called and if you resist then the army will intervene!
If you block the checkout area as a customer then after 5 minutes the police will be called and if you resist then the army will intervene!
The major Australian supermarkets (Coles, Woolworths) are mostly self service checkouts these days, at least in Sydney. They do have manned (staffed?) checkouts, but those are minimal and generally only used by old people and those with enormous amounts of stuff. Aldi is Aldi though, same deal here.
We are not much for small talk. If you don´t initiate a conversation with the cashier they will just scan your products and you are on your way.
I don't believe you can get fired in Germany because you did not hit a scanned item quota.
On topic.
You need to plan ahead on how to put stuff on the rollerband and how to stack that shit for later packing/ temporarily placing in the shopping cart. It's an artform.
Heavy boxy items first other stuff later, but you need to puzzel it in the shopping card in such a way that you can still put the heavy boxy shit first in your actuall bags.
Since a couple guys here commented on bio products.
Bio is fine, buy it if you have the funds (recent studies found out that chicken meat is 98% likely to have traces of hormones and antibiotics, compared to 0% in bio chicken meat in Germany). There are some items where bio is more of a marketing stunt (Tomato's from the Netherland (100% greenhouse, no wasted earth, chemicals and super low about of water used) >> bio tomato's from elsewhere).
If you use Paypack or similar bonus cards be advised that, coupled with your smartphones location data, you are trackable not only when/where you shop but also what you buy. That data is then sold to the same people that buy your Google info etc. At least you are getting compensations for your personal data.
Also do the planet a solid one and buy drinks/water in ideally glass bottles. A lot of other drinks bottles (every carbonated one) are refundable at any store, for your glass stuff there containers everywhere in the city.
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Oh man, that reminds me of the time I went to get a pop-up marquee thing for the garden (was ridiculous cheap and we had some friends coming during summer). Anyway, it was so packed that it had basically become a block puzzle, only one actual space in the entire store that anyone could move into. Am actually surprised there was no death.
They mean well, and it's for charity but that's when your eggs are going to be at the bottom of the bag.
They do and it's because of social status. When you stare at someone and he flinches and you basically win the staring-game then you establish your status as the alpha lead in the bus or the train. Without knowing this, society would crumble!
Like others said, what you posted would be "Er/sie/ihm/ihr/sie/ihnen" in German.
The "Die/Der/Das/Den/Dick" you quoted would be "The/The/The/The/Dick" in English. Bit tricky..
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A nice example:
(I'm gonna keep German word order to make following the translation easier)
"DER Hund, DIE Ratte und DAS Pferd gehen mit DEM Kind in DEN Park"
"THE dog, THE rat and THE horse go with THE child to THE park"
Bonus: "DAS Kind mit DEM Kind und DEN Kindern" = "THE child with THE child and THE children".
Bonus 2:
"Die Frau DEREN Hund ich sehe"
"The woman WHOSE dog I see"
"Der Mann DESSEN Hund ich sehe"
"The man WHOSE dog I see"
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And if both stare indefinitely, two alphas have crossed paths? Cursed to meet each other's gazes, forevermore? Slowly, developing a mutual respect and unsaid affection for one another? But unfortunately already married, and so barred from making or adopting alpha inheritors? My goodness, that is heartbreaking.
It's actually like when the angels in Dr Who (the creatures that can only move when unobserved) look at each other.
Unless a kind strangers moves at least on of the alphas, or helps them by somehow breaking their line of sight, they'll just stand there indefinitely. Now, unlike angels, Germans can actually die, which means that in worst case scenarios, the stronger alpha just has to bide his time until the weaker one perishes.
lol did you even read the thing you posted? "a variety of the English language". My goodness, how are people getting this wrong? AmE is not a separate language! It's just one of the many many regional varieties of English.
source: common sense, wikipedia, and someone who actually majored in English
Here's some fun actual real linguistics (i.e. actual science) for you:
The rule of thumb is that if it's mutually intelligible it's not a separate language. It's an accent or a dialect.
Most people from Britain and most people from America can completely understand one another - this means they are literally speaking the same language. (English). You can take someone who learned English in India and put them with an American and they'll understand each other, by and large. That means they're speaking the same language. Vernacular, slang, etc doesn't count as they're fringe use.
That said, it's not a hard line and there is some contention among linguists. Circumstances where this line blurs. E.g. take a person from deepest rural Alabama and put them with a person from deepest rural Ireland, and yeah, they might not be able to understand one another even if they're both speaking English.
Velocity - dafuq you talking about them having different morphologies? They're morphologies are exactly the bloody same! (In 99.9% of cases.)
Note that in Germany they are not considered weird and, indeed, sex isn't weird. Go to a lot of completely normal average Friday night clubs in Berlin for instance and you'll find sex bits. Think of your local preferred nightclub but with a basement or back room like that. And nobody blinks an eye.
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that is absolutely not true.
also its funny to read about the famous german efficiency, considering how fucking stupid and overly complicated some things are.
This is good advice, BUT!
Be careful.
Don't be first in line when you have many items to put on the belt.
The cashier will start scanning them while you're still loading your stuff on it.
This is the Aldi/Lidl/Netto nightmare.
