"Neil Williams" wrote in message
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On 2016-09-27 17:11:28 +0000, Roland Perry said:

You've never been in a Tesco Express, then?

Of course I have (I do quite often, I don't tend to use full size
supermarkets in person, rather if I want to do that I have a delivery),
and that indeed offers that part of the business model, albeit generally
at a higher price. Companies don't necessarily have to have totally
unique business models, you know

So they'll have a pile of mixed trays of cottage cheese, cottage cheese
with pineapple and cottage cheese with something else [chives maybe], and
people have gone through picking out all the plain cottage cheese,
leaving a sorry pile of all those other sorts that no-one [especially me]
wants.

Yes, I've hit issues with that, they won't get a new one out until it's
all gone.

Of course, their non-food takes these features to extremes, with much of
the stock being for sale for only a few weeks a year, and bins full of
clothing that within a day or two are entirely the unpopular sizes no-one
wants.

That's a very German thing, there are other variants e.g. the Tchibo
coffee chain which is a curious combination of Costalottabucks, Argos (for
order) and the Aldi non-food section. The concept fits the typical German
small shop quite well.

IME doesn't work well there either.

More than once I raked over the cheese or the dessert-pot selection and
walked away without my desired variety. (that was in pennymarkt, one of the
numerous German stores which has competed with the aldilidl model by copying
it)

tim