Re:Aldi, a brutally efficient grocery chain, is upending Ame...
by rsynnott on Friday May 17, 2019 @08:20PM
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Even in places with high employment and minimum wage?
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Re:Aldi, a brutally efficient grocery chain, is upending Ame...
by adventured on Friday May 17, 2019 @08:39PM
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Yes. Essentially every traditional Walmart and Target store in the US does it that way, regardless of high employment and minimum wage.
Walmart as one example has a motorized cart mover. The employee collects and stacks the carts into a line, backed by the motorized unit, and then can just gently guide the whole flock of carts and it moves along with little human effort. It enables the employee to move dozens of carts at a time across the parking lot without very much physical risk of injury.