So a cute gent from my singledom hookup past messaged me saying he’s wanting to try out bottoming…. I mean I wasn’t gonna say no :p. Pls reblog us for the sake of self esteem!
So a cute gent from my singledom hookup past messaged me saying he’s wanting to try out bottoming…. I mean I wasn’t gonna say no :p. Pls reblog us for the sake of self esteem!
The only major chain retail store that I know of that allows their cashiers to sit is the Aldi grocery store, a German chain. Their starting pay is also $12 an hour chain-wide.
The interior of the store looks like this so they save money on the annoying shelf restocking. Products remain in their boxes until being removed by customers. No unboxing and putting stuff on shelves, and constantly having to rearrange it. Also, the boxes make inventory a breeze as a sealed box has a defined number of items in it.
Typical American grocery stores have shelves like this
Every item has to be unboxed and neatly stacked on the shelves. If they get messed up by the customers, everything has to be rearranged back to specific rigid order. When you have to verify the inventory, every item has to be removed from the shelves to be counted and put back. Aldi’s also do not have plastic bags. You can buy reusable bags or simply use the empty cardboard boxes that are available.
Last is the carts. Most grocery stores have their carts strewn across the parking lots, rolling around and hitting cars until a store employee is sent out to collect them, after being yelled at by the manager when they were told to do other tasks in the meantime. Aldi’s chains those carts together and you have to put a Quarter in to release it. When you are done, you plug the chain back in and get your Quarter back. If others are lazy, you can collect and return the loose carts and collect the Quarters.
It stops this…
Then the employees have to do this
reblogging this because I love Alidis
With the exception of the shelf stacking, all of this is totally normal in every single supermarket chain in the UK… what the heck America
Same for Germany… why would you make it any more complicated than that. Just. Why not let them sit??
They’re not normal for no reason. The right to sit during work seems normal for most retail workers in these countries because they are it is part of the labor rights that have been won by unions. Sometimes the right to sit was won in an agreement with the store and sometimes it was put down in national laws.
For example, in the UK your employer legally has to provide you with a comfortable seat if you do work that can be done while seating. In the Netherlands you have to be provided a seat if you work at a cash register for more than 4 hours a day or for more than 1 hour uninterrupted.
Unionize.
Oh yes, let’s ignore charging poor people a quarter to use a fucking cart, and focus on the fact they let their cashiers sit. Gods, capitalism is a shit storm, and everyone who reblogged this without pointing out how fucked up it is that they charge poor people money to use a grocery cart has lost any respect I might’ve had for them.
Also, in the US that charging a quarter thing would never work. People would be even less inclined to put the carts bak properly, and those carts would get stolen at an even greater rate. You can’t just point at something done differently in another country and say that we should do that thing because it works there. Just because it works there doesn’t mean it would work here.
ALDIS ARE IN THE US. i’ve had an aldi in my town for almost as long as i’ve been alive. people dont steal the carts and most people put the carts back because they want their quarters back. you… get the quarter back… also, i’ve seen plenty of people pass on carts, so the next person who comes up doesn’t have to use their own quarter.
aldis are in the us and i’ve hardly ever seen their carts in a mess. so like, yes. this works.
And their food is extremely affordable and sustainable. Literally the only complaint is they only have general staple items. Like seriously though i spend about 30 dollars less at aldis per trip than Wal-Mart.
Aldi is literally one of the most accessible and friendly grocery stores ever and is specifically a go to for low income families. The idea that it wouldn’t work here is a blatant lie.
I LOVE ALDI!! I was just there 2 days ago. I got half a 🛒 full of groceries for $65. The same items at a regular grocery store probably would’ve cost me well over a hundred bucks. Yes, I bring my own reusable bags, but I can pack my groceries how I like them. And yes I used a quarter to get a cart but when you’re leaving the store, you chain it up and get your quarter back. Idk why anybody would grocery shop anywhere else.
This post is fucking ridiculous. I’m so glad I got out of the shitty tumblr discourse… No one has anything to add or is in any way informed. UK stores don’t have to give you a seat, I worked 9hr shifts not allowed to lean on the wall because it seems like you aren’t attentive. Talking bout aldi like it’s a world changing concept store and that a coin deposit for a cart is exclusionary. Dudes, you don’t have to add to a post when you have no reason to. If you see a post about aldi and think “hey I heard of them once here’s a bunch of facts I made up” then like… Stop?
i’ll never get over the fact that there’s a movie called “snakes on a plane” and in that movie there’s a line that is, verbatim, “ive had it with these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane”.
that is absolutely bonkers. that’s ridiculous. that’s like making a movie called “gators in the sewer” and having someone in the movie say “im getting really sick and tired of these fucking gators in the sewer”
the funny part is that the alternate title was something mundane like “flight 93″ and samuel l. jackson made the director change it back to “snakes on a plane” bc he said it was the only reason he auditioned
I’m pretty sure United 93 is a super different film