I'm also interested. Apart from not unboxing on shelves, Lidl/Aldi are pretty typical European grocers. I wonder what is different in the US. Clumsy paper bags and greeters, what else?
Shopping carts require 50 cents or 1 euro to be used, customers return them themselves so nobody has to push those around.
Also, Aldi makes great efforts to not change store layout. I think in the past 5 years I shopped at Aldi, the core part of their layout (ie, minus the seasonal offerings and the special offerings) it has only changed once and they changed back to what they had before within a week.
If you need a specific thing from Aldi, you can go in and straight to where you need to go, grab it and checkout.
> Also, Aldi makes great efforts to not change store layout.
Actually I really appreciated that with Lidl moving from Austria to the UK, I knew where things were. (Supermakets shifting their stock around does my head in). The stock seems to be more regionalized over the years so not sure how similar it will be these days.
Also, Aldi makes great efforts to not change store layout. I think in the past 5 years I shopped at Aldi, the core part of their layout (ie, minus the seasonal offerings and the special offerings) it has only changed once and they changed back to what they had before within a week.
If you need a specific thing from Aldi, you can go in and straight to where you need to go, grab it and checkout.