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Re:Aldi, a brutally efficient grocery chain, is upending Ame... by bartread on Friday May 17, 2019 @08:15PM (#19944768)
-their conveyor belt is far longer than most stores. You should be able to get your entire cart worth of groceries on the conveyor at once. This minimizes the slowness of people handing one item at a time to the next checker.

As others have pointed out, this isn't particularly innovative: this is the norm in large European supermarkets, regardless of brand.

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Re:Aldi, a brutally efficient grocery chain, is upending Ame... by adventured on Friday May 17, 2019 @08:26PM (#19944812)
It's normal for Walmart as well. You can easily fit a shopping cart of groceries on their conveyors. There's definitely nothing innovative about it.
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