As of: February 16, 2024, 5:04 p.m
By: Armin T. Linder
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Is this note hanging there for security reasons or does it have a history?
A Rewe team has placed an important note for customers on the alarm button.
Gernaheim – Every sign has its story.
You often read something like this when a photo of a bizarre notice appears on the Internet.
Sometimes the explanation is obvious – such as a warning on an Ikea toilet.
It's also conceivable that something must have happened at Penny's before the team left a drastic note to customers.
The mental cinema also starts with the note that a Reddit user says he discovered in a Rewe branch.
The authenticity has not been confirmed, but it doesn't look like a fake either.
It is the branch in Gernsheim (Gross-Gerau district/Hesse), explains the user to our editorial team.
Rewe sign: “This is NOT a call button for employees, but a house alarm”
“Dear customers,” it reads.
“This is NOT a call button for employees, but a home alarm.
If you have a problem with the reverse vending machine, please contact the staff at the checkout!
Your Rewe team.” The whole thing hangs directly under a button that says “house alarm”.
Maybe just preventive?
Or because one or more customers tried to ask the employees for help with the deposit machine - and instead triggered a loud siren?
The posting collected almost 800 reactions via upvotes/downvotes and dozens of comments in two days.
“Every weird sign has a weird reason,” one commented.
The prompt response: “I think the funny reason here in this case is that when the machines cause problems, people actually click that house alarm button.”
Rewe sign on the alarm button – does it have to be placed exactly there?
Another sees a different issue: “The problem lies in positioning such a switch directly at reverse vending machines and then being surprised that there are people who use it.” There is also a quick answer to this - namely the speculation that that the house alarm has to hang exactly there due to regulations.
Of course we don't know any more details, but the Rewe team apparently had no other way to help than with a sign like this.
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“These reverse vending machines must be a nightmare for every supermarket operator,” says one user.
At the same time, it is once again discussed that – to put it cautiously – not all customers always behave in the way that makes sense.
The topic of friendliness was recently discussed in a Lidl video.
Now someone reports an anecdote - which of course cannot be confirmed: “Because customers are simply stupid and stubborn at times.
I was already standing eight meters high on a lifting platform in a Rewe, drilling into the ceiling with a Hilti and obviously wearing -NOT- Rewe work clothes - and I first had to discuss with a grandma why I couldn't tell her where which are Toffifee.” Did you know that you should never put a certain drink on the checkout conveyor?
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