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That's never happened before: Electronic mini-supermarket opened in a town in Upper Bavaria - it's always open

2022-01-24T10:21:48.449Z


That's never happened before: Electronic mini-supermarket opened in a town in Upper Bavaria - it's always open Created: 01/24/2022, 11:12 am By: Boris Forstner Some of the vending machines in the store have already been filled, and more products are to be added soon. © Ralf Ruder For a few days now, there has been a “Pölti” in downtown Weilheim, a mini-supermarket without staff that is open ar


That's never happened before: Electronic mini-supermarket opened in a town in Upper Bavaria - it's always open

Created: 01/24/2022, 11:12 am

By: Boris Forstner

Some of the vending machines in the store have already been filled, and more products are to be added soon.

© Ralf Ruder

For a few days now, there has been a “Pölti” in downtown Weilheim, a mini-supermarket without staff that is open around the clock.

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A coffee and a drinks machine, which also sells snacks - there is not much more to be found in the small room on the corner of Pöltnerstrasse and Greitherstrasse.

There are still several cupboards there, but they are empty except for a few sticks of Toblerone, which are more for decorative purposes.

But that should change soon if the makers have their way.

Fair trade goods, a lot from the region like the Dachsbräu beer, which is already available to buy, plus social prices like one euro for the coffee - that's the idea that Felix Schimke-Klubuk (33) and his comrades-in-arms Peter Titze and Florian Menzel pursued.

Mini-supermarket in Weilheim: A "technical corner shop"

Actually, Schimke-Klubuk had completely different plans for the house.

After the shop on the ground floor had been empty for a long time, he wanted to build three small apartments there, but the city had refused him that.

So he considered opening a shop, but his wife vetoed it: "She's a doctor and has forbidden me to put a salesperson in a shop during the Corona period," he says.

But because at the same time she complained that there was no way at all for citizens who work shifts like her to buy anything to eat or drink in Weilheim at night, the idea of ​​the electronic kiosk came up - or "technical corner shop “, as Schimke-Klubuk calls it.

Felix Schimke-Klubuk © Private

One of the comrades-in-arms who worked for Deutsche Bahn and knew that they had been experimenting with fully automated supermarkets for a long time was helpful.

"We asked the responsible ministry how long a shop like this could be open without sales staff, and after six months the answer came: around the clock," says Schimke-Klubuk.

Electronically safe supermarket Pölti: Desire for cheap groceries, snacks and drinks

In order not to plan past needs, they let the citizens have a say - with a mailbox in the shop and by direct mail, they asked for two months what such an electronic mini-supermarket should offer.

The response was enormous, "there were actually 500 to 600 replies," says Schimke-Klubuk.

And the desire was clear: cheap groceries, snacks and drinks in the city center.

So the founders got started.

The name was found quickly, and the initial idea of ​​"Emma" eventually became "Pölti", which somehow sounds cute and should quickly become commonplace.

An employee comes by twice a day, refills the machines and collects the money.

The "Pölti" founders don't want to earn anything with their project: "If it pays off, we will donate any profit to ecological projects, for example," says SchimkeKlubuk.

The mini-supermarket Pölti is the entree to the art gallery

In order to fill the "Pölti" further, the citizens should be allowed to have a say again. People are happy about offers: "If someone wants to sell their pottery there, they can come to us just like someone who makes chocolates himself," says Schimke-Klubuk. After all, the mini-supermarket is also the entrance to an art gallery in which local artists will probably be able to exhibit their projects on 80 square meters from summer.

Then Schimke-Klubuk wants to be in Weilheim again.

The 33-year-old, who studied international management and has already set up a fruit juice factory in Abu Dhabi, is currently stuck in Ukraine.

He has been running a company for building materials research there since 2018, "because, unlike in Germany, there are enough highly trained engineers and few requirements".

But because of the security situation, he cannot leave the country at the moment.

The Pöckinger then wants to move the center of his life to Weilheim, "because it's just a great city".

And with the "Pölti" now has a unique project.

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Source: merkur

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