Speedrun ALDI Any%

But also at regular checkouts.

You've just stood there motionless for the last 4 minutes, while someone else (potentially two people) scanned and bagged your purchases for you.

How is it that JUST NOW is the time you've decided is right to rummage through your bag for your wallet/purse, or check your banking app on your phone to see if the account actually has money in it? What were you doing for the rest of the time that was so vitally important?

I swear you can just about hear the birds flying around in their head sometimes.

I love to go as early as possible. There are only old people around me and everything is calm and chill.

Even in a world where his wife does the shopping has he never ran into a gas station for a snack or gone to lunch on his own?

When you willfully reject responsibility, you don't think clearly. Human capabilities like pattern recognition will be ignored.

Working retail, or any job with the public, is wild.

This is the core problem, right here. At a minimum, people need training to learn what information to ignore so you can navigate the whole thing. Even if you know the store's layout, you still need to have the will to ignore advertising and disregard extraneous information. Being a fast reader that can do fast mental math, also helps tremendously.

Traffic flow is another problem. Wegmans is the chief offender here, IMO, by putting impulse items in massive crates that crowd the store entrance+exit combo. It amazes me that it's not a fire hazard, because it makes entering the store a nightmare. But most grocery stores have awful choke points in produce, dairy, meat, and other high-traffic areas. And of course those are the stores that have no small carts or hand-baskets, obligating customers to gum up the works with big metal baskets that are 70% empty.

A better idea is a store that doesn't flood your eye sockets with information you don't absolutely need. Get rid of the special displays, end-cap bullshit, and vendor promotional stuff. Then, normalize all the price tags and include unit cost per lb/oz/L/whatever to make bargain hunting a snap. Then, measure the fucking carts and make sure that two can get by everywhere in the store. Finally, pick a store layout and stick to it.

I want to say that Aldi is already doing all of the right things, but I could be wrong.

Lol, what? I have no issue navigating one. "Overloads you with information", for fuck's sake, they're selling thousands of things.

I'll do one better.

Every extra item gets to be used against the customer to harm them.

The extra item is a can of tuna? Well, we'll beat you with the tuna. The extra item is a hammer? Well, apologies my good man, but you know the rule.

Oh yes. It was great. People forced into distance. It's all forgotten now.

How much could it cost?

Sounds like sweden might have a higher average IQ amongst their population

The USA continues to baffle me. You people still have paper checks? I haven't seen one in at least 30 years in Europe (before that I was too little to care about such things, so I might never have seen one)

Yeah. In fact, society is full of people who aren't getting things 100% correct and we just have to be accepting of that. So i don't like this post.

BUT: the fact that some people don't get systems like this 100% all the time is proof that we should abolish car dependency and prioritise public safety precautions. [r/FuckCars]

I love how wanting people to be courteous and respectful of others is racist. I just want people to realize that they're not alone in the world, and to please move your cart to the side of the goddamn aisle.