Hamster purchases are totally non-solidarity.
That is why the retail sector does set upper limits for its customers.
Sometimes, however, the amounts given raise doubts.
Munich - In the first weeks of the corona pandemic, it was not only in Germany that the supermarket shelves were hoarded.
Sacks of flour, pasta packs, disinfectants and above all: toilet paper were piled up in the shopping cart!
The gold of the forward-looking consumer.
Whoever had it was already a little king.
Because nobody really knew how life would go on in the face of Corona.
In countless households today, toilet paper rolls are likely to be stacked up to the roof.
Though hoarding and hoarding were over when stores set caps on the sale of certain products.
Because there should be something for everyone.
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Kaufland sign causes ridicule: Are 120 bars of Milka chocolate really common in households?
The shortage of goods has now been remedied.
Demand has normalized again.
However, certain products are only sold in commercial quantities.
However, the companies decide on this themselves. And so the specification can certainly raise frowns.
A photo is currently circulating on the Internet that was allegedly taken in a Kaufland branch.
You can see a shelf with Milka boards on which a sign indicates a “maximum delivery amount”.
This amounts to a mere 120 bars.
“Delivery in normal household quantities” can also be read, along with the Kaufland logo.
Kaufland sign causes ridicule: "Small afternoon snack" or "Food for the journey home"
The ridicule was of course not long in coming.
“Quickly to Kaufland,” writes a user who shared the picture via Twitter.
Another thinks: "Well played." So basically: a clever move.
Because that could tempt some with a sweet tooth to load the shopping cart a little fuller.
The reactions were also rather tongue-in-cheek.
“Yeah, enough for that little afternoon snack,” it says.
Or: “Food for the journey home.” A user tries to classify the quite optimistic number and thinks that five packs are set as normal household quantities.
In this case, it is allegedly about five boxes of 24 bars each.
Which would have landed us at the 120.
well played @kaufland pic.twitter.com/eOcRij4DMS
- Oskar Schmidt (@ flandy84) October 25, 2021
Kaufland-Schild causes ridicule: the definition of “normal household quantities” is up to the retailer
However, the term “normal household amount” is not precisely defined in Germany.
According to
finanzen.net
, consumer
advocates
cite
the amount that the household in question can use within two to four weeks
as a guideline
.
50 oranges or 100 oranges could be just as acceptable as five pieces of butter.
The consumer center emphasizes, however, that it always depends on the individual case.
In the case of toilet paper, for example, at some point - also due to a lack of supplies - the rule to only hand in one pack per customer prevailed.
But that has long since softened.
(mg)
