Faster, better, more integrated.
Initially, prices for Aldi’s range of products – around 700 – were entered without a decimal point. In the 1990s prices were then replaced by three-digit numbers – so-called price look-ups (PLUs). The company’s steadily growing range of products eventually prompted the introduction of scanning in 2003. Until then, scanners had always been slower than the cashiers’ nimble fingers. Aldi conducted an ergonomics and process study aimed at finding ways to improve checkout systems in terms of speed. Aldi checkouts became even faster and easier last year with the introduction of card terminals that customers can use for cashless payments. Wincor Nixdorf installed the terminals, ensuring a smooth flow of data right from the peripheral equipment to the servers run by the payment transactions company.

More recently, Wincor Nixdorf ensured a smooth flow of data in connecting the Linux-based reverse vending systems to the checkout systems and also to the Wincor Nixdorf service infrastructure. From a remote location, all 2,480 Revendos are now being monitored, given software updates and actively maintained where required. All of these measures aim to keep Aldi in the fast lane.