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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • Legend has it, that some friends of mine where stoned at night and thought it was a good idea to drive with their car to the nearest burger place. When they past a roundabout they thought it would be funny to drive around it backwards in rear gear. What had to happen, happened: they crashed with another car going through the roundabout. Not much damage done luckily. Police comes and after some time, tells my friends they are free to go. Apparently the other driver was drunk as hell and swore that they drove backwards in the roundabout but the police didn’t believe a word he said, because he was so drunk.










  • It’s simply a different system. The markets are adjusted to it. There is enough room and sometimes even tables for this purpose. The markets are simply using different mechanisms to speed up the process so that they can have more customers per minute. Aldi is a big player here. The cashiers are trained and drilled to be super fast. There are no baggers, but enough room to pack your stuff yourself later. Recently they added a new kind of “double line”. Now there is enough space for two trolleys right behind the cashier. Each line has their own card reader. The cashier has minimum waiting time for the next customer. Also almost zero time for customer interaction or any talk. Probably effective, but it really feels rushed out.