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A friend of mine worked for a logistic company and he told me many times that dealing with Aldi was a nightmare for them because they were extremely demanding:
by zepearl 7y ago
A friend of mine worked for a logistic company and he told me many times that dealing with Aldi was a nightmare for them because they were extremely demanding:
very thin profit margin, tough quality checks (when delivering the items to the warehouses the checks were done on many more samples and in a much more detailed way than what other supermarket chains did) and if the truck arrived at the warehouse anytime after the agreed delivery time you were basically screwed (ranging from at least having to provide a discount to the whole delivery being rejected therefore having to find another chain willing to buy it or just throw it away).
All this might as well explain (additionally to your "shelf life") the good & cheap onions.
I'm an onion lover - Go onions! :)
(ps: this is just a neutral comment - so far I mostly ignored Aldi, excluding the exercise bike I bought from them which is still working perfectly ~3 years later)
- TazeTSchnitzel 7y agoHigh standards and tight margins? Sounds like Apple.
- odux 7y agoTight margins and Apple don't belong in the same sentence
- tonyedgecombe 7y agoThey do share an intense attention to detail though, Ikea is similar in many ways.
- dethac 7y agoThe attention to detail isn't always a good thing, though. Sometimes, they see the tree (wow, a thinner display cable) instead of the forest (this hinge has to flex thousands of times). Other times, they'll see a much thinner keyboard, but miss that debris could break the mechanism entirely. Even other times, they can forget to enable proper thermal controls or network drivers. Or, they can make sure your phone doesn't charge unless it wakes first. Bugger. I mean, compared to $400 HPs or $200 Samsungs, there's definitely more attention to detail, but that isn't exactly a very fair comparison. I'd argue that the whole consumer electronics industry is negligent, including Apple.
- Redoubts 7y agoI think they’re referring to the suppliers perspective.
- TazeTSchnitzel 7y agoCorrect.
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- ekovarski 7y agoCostco has similar rules now re deliveries; They are tightly controlled by HO.