Save energy: Aldi Nord shortens opening times - this is how other companies react

Created: 10/20/2022, 4:35 p.m

By: Isabelle Jentzsch

Aldi Nord is adjusting its opening times due to the energy crisis.

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In order to save energy during the crisis, Aldi Nord is adjusting its opening times.

Other companies are also reacting and taking cost-cutting measures.

Essen - The energy crisis has Germany firmly in its grip.

In order to save electricity, gas and thus money, end consumers and companies resort to various means.

The grocer Aldi Nord is now taking a drastic step and is “actively making a contribution to saving energy”, as the company announced on Twitter.

Aldi Nord is the "first grocer in Germany" to adjust the opening times of numerous markets and close them at 8 p.m. from November 1st, 2022.

The company explains in its tweet that this measure will initially apply to the winter period of 2022/2023.

So far, the grocer had opened its markets until 10 p.m.

The announcement does not indicate whether all locations are affected by the change.

Energy saving measures: Aldi Nord is changing its opening times

Energy crisis: Deutsche Bahn switches off the light

Other companies also want to take cost-cutting measures in view of the crisis and the coming winter.

Individual department stores from Galeria Karstadt Kaufhof and Saturn stores have already turned off the escalators.

VW only heats the production facilities to 17 degrees, the employees should get warm clothes in return.

As Germany's largest consumer of electricity, Deutsche Bahn has switched off the light bulbs in its 103 meter high DB Tower.

So far, the glass company headquarters has always been brightly lit, even if it was recently empty due to renovations.

Saving energy: Companies cool down the workplaces

A spokesman for the optics company Fielmann told the

that employees are encouraged to “only switch on the light when it is absolutely necessary.” The Otto Group offers its employees the option of working from home and cools them down in return, the offices down to 15 degrees, sometimes even down to 6 degrees.

In these offices, however, people should no longer work at all.

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Doctors warn that a workplace that is too cold can also have health consequences.

In view of the government's energy-saving measures, employers should therefore not cool down the workplaces too much.

In order to save energy, supermarkets and discounters should therefore adjust their opening times better, the supermarket chain Tegut also demands.

Aldi Nord shows that this is possible.