Aldi Süd with a new checkout concept: Two changes are planned - the first branches have already been adapted
Created: 01/12/2023 11:19 am
By: Stella Henrich
Aldi Süd is increasingly focusing on a more pleasant shopping experience for its customers.
New checkout systems should prevent queues and long waits for discounter customers in the future.
Munich – Aldi Süd is revolutionizing its tills.
The discounter introduces checkouts with a double goods chute and self-checkout registers.
A spokeswoman for the company said in a press release.
The innovations are an addition to the cash registers that already require stealing, where a cashier sits and pulls the products over the scanner in no time at all.
According to the spokeswoman, the new concept has already been extensively tested at 30 pilot branches.
All Aldi Süd branches will be successively equipped with at least one extended cash register that can serve two customers at the same time.
These so-called double cash registers have a double goods shaft with two separate EC terminals and receipt printers.
Thanks to these two card terminals and two receipt printers, the checkout staff could already start entering the next purchase while the other customer is still paying, says
Lebensmittel-Zeitung
, describing the planned added value of the innovation.
And thanks to this technical innovation, customers have more time to pack their goods.
At least that's how André Giesen, Director National Store Operations at Aldi Süd, praises the new checkout concept.
As a supplement to the double checkouts, selected branches in urban areas will have so-called self-checkout registers.
Customers scan their purchases themselves at the self-check-out and pay with a bank card, credit card, smartphone or smartwatch.
Aldi Süd introduces a new checkout zone with a double goods shaft.
(Iconic image) © Aldi Süd
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Aldi Süd customers can thus head to the checkout that makes the most sense for their purchase.
Many small purchases are made in branches that are, for example, in the vicinity of schools or office buildings.
Here, self-checkout tills are ideal for straightening out possible queues in the checkout area, continues André Giesen.
The rollout will start in the first quarter of 2023. Incidentally, the discounter has been using these checkouts abroad for some time, reports
Lebensmittel-Zeitung
.
In Great Britain, Aldi Süd customers have been able to pay at self-service checkouts since 2019.
Supermarkets such as Rewe, Edeka and even Netto are already testing new shopping concepts.
Rewe, for example, has long been offering consumers the option of using their cell phones to scan goods when shopping with the Pick & Go concept in many stores.
Rewe completely dispenses with a checkout process.
And Rewe subsidiary Penny tested the possibility of registering goods with a smartphone as you walk through the store in almost 200 stores.
Customers only need a special app for this, which is available in the Google Play Store and Apple's AppStore, according to the Internet portal.
Fully digital penny markets are to be created this year.
Like
Merkur.de
already reported on the new, digital payment concept last summer.
Discounter Netto has already jumped on the moving bandwagon to save customers long waits at the checkout - at least in Bavaria.
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