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Re:Aldi, a brutally efficient grocery chain, is upending Ame... by anigbrowl on Saturday May 18, 2019 @03:59AM (#19946290)
Aldi made quite a lot of those things standard in Europe.
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Re:Aldi, a brutally efficient grocery chain, is upending Ame... by krn on Saturday May 18, 2019 @04:38AM (#19946366)
This. Aldi was founded in 1946, and many of its efficiency-oriented practices were later adopted by other supermarkets in Europe[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldi

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Re:Aldi, a brutally efficient grocery chain, is upending Ame... by jacquesm on Saturday May 18, 2019 @04:45AM (#19946384)
Albert Heijn started the whole self-serving thing in 1952 (and was founded in 1887!).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Heijn

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Re:Aldi, a brutally efficient grocery chain, is upending Ame... by apexalpha on Saturday May 18, 2019 @07:45AM (#19946886)
And in the chart in the article you can see that they (AHold) are really big in the US, too. Didn't know that.
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