Home of the backwards supermarket 

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Yes. And on the backside - because they´re operating their plans from the middle of the 20th century.

As least this isn't the United States where Lidl would sue ... and win!

Just use both buildings and use both streets. Both, the truckers and the customers will have an easier life. 😉😉🙃🙃

@@renatoherren4217 Well, five supermarkets for some 2000 souls might be a little over the top. But I like the idea.

@@PiscatorLager Add souls from the nearby villages.

There are more of them now. Germany has been reintroducing some of the old defunct prefixes, and in many districts it's now possible to choose the prefix you want. If you register your car in the Aschaffenburg district, you can choose between AB and ALZ; and a lot of residents of the Kahlgrund are now choosing ALZ.

@@rewboss True. I forgot to emphasize the fact that the plate is held in the old style which was in use legally until 2000. Since then, only the Euro-Style with the left blue band and the ugly font is allowed. The seals on the old plates say „Landratsamt Alzenau“ referring to the former Landkreis Alzenau. On the new plates it is written „Landratsamt Aschaffenburg“. This is, where I am differentiating between the old and the new plates. My statement made before is referring to the old plates.

That is amazing. It means this tractor is (at least) almost 50 years old. During the 1970s, a number of smaller towns and cities in North Rhine-Westphalia (and in the state of Hesse, I believe) were incorporated into larger entities, cities and districts. In the years and decades after these mergers, you could tell by looking at the license plates when the vehicles were originally registered and you could immediately spot really old clunkers.

@@wolfgangthiele9147 Indeed. And he looks like being so old - and all the car drivers on the street are feeling that he is at least so old...

@@wolfgangthiele9147 It´s not uncommon for farm vehicles to last that long. Especially when owned by part time farmers. In winter they don´t have much to do, so they usually maintain and repair their vehicles in their barns. So they stay in shape for a long time, and costs are low.

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Public transport can vary - there are a lot of rural areas where buses are more or less "school buses" and don't run at other times. I live in a "medium connected" area in Northern Germany, my district has 150k inhabitants on 300 square miles and going the 20 km to the capital of it takes me an hour by bus. But it is cheap - the monthly ticket for the district is only € 35.

Don´t let him fool you. The villages are tiny, but the area is quite populated and the administrative units are small. 3:00 tells the story: they are surrounded by bigger cities and the area is quite developed with industries. This area is not rural in the sense that people mostly depend on agricultural production, it is only rural in numbers of inhabitants. If you have a closer look you´ll find almost everything you need for life in this place: Not only supermarkets and hospitality, but schools, emergency response, various doctors, post office, banking, entertainment... and all the other things are just a bus ride away in the bigger cities. This is the outcome of the theories of Walter Christaller, this is not by accident, it follows a plan.

That group of teeny villages have better bus and train service than most US cities and suburbs! 😡

@@edwardmiessner6502 because US and Canada developed car centric cities. If you are interested in this topic, I recommend you the channel "not just bikes" Germany is in some parts good, but really great are the Dutch cities and rual areas!

@@adamabele785 Thanks I'll read up on Walter Christaller!

For a place remote at this it truly is impressive.

Yes. Catching a flight at Frankfurt Airport from where he lives is doable on public transit. He is lucky in that perspective. There are other regions where actually there is a bus every 2 hours and school buses in the morning and evenings. That is the only transit then. Also if you have the luck to live in a greater metropolitan area you will have S-Bahn services every 15 or 30 minutes to the huge metropolitan city. I lived quite some time in Konstanz, and the small town of 80,000 people had 17 bus lines when I lived there - running from early in the morning to late night. From the train station there were trains to Zürich Airport (Switzerland) and Frankfurt Airport (via Karlsruhe Mannheim). From Zürich rail station you could take the TGV train to Paris ;-)

Well, the video is called "Home of the backwards supermarket" and not "The backwards supermarket". So the subject is the home aka the village. ;)

@@Appolyon that's one way to look at it, lol. ;-)

You should also mention, that one Liter is approximately 0.264 gallon or to make it even more American 'roughly a quarter of a gallon'.

@@berndbeispielmensch Imperial gallon or American gallon?

@@qwertyTRiG yes

In the north of Germany gas prices are quite a bit lower. I paid 1.29€/Lieter yesterday. And I still that this is quite much for fuel. December last year I paid less than a Euro per Lieter

@@TJayVariable Diesel or gasoline? Because I paid 1.51€/liter of gasoline yesterday in central/eastern Germany (Leipzig) which was a little below average compared to the last days but still very expensive compared to last year

The workers held the plan in the opposite direction.

Where he fits, he sits.

In Nordhorn there is McDonalds where you access it from the back and drive out from the front onto a running Heavy Traffic Street Junction

Lidl are also the ones that insist on using a shopping cart in the fiercest of ways, while for the others, it doesn't really matter any more during those times with low incidence values. My theory is that, with a cart, you are slower through their stores, and therefore you buy more. This is supported by the fact that they have only large and extra-large carts, no real small ones (although the large ones are labelled "small"), so if you buy only a few items, they will always look "lost" in that cart. There must be some clever psychiologists at work in Lidl's marketing department! (those manipulative little shits...)

Indeed. :-)))

well, if the entrance is towards the parking lot, then we can probably say this is "at the front side" ... with today's supermarkets, the more important question might (sadly) be "where's the parking lot" instead of "which side is the street "

Next to my train station is a similar situation: There are three stores sharing the parking lot between them, all having their entrance to this area. So, the EDEKA, which is directly located at the street, is facing backwards.

The Aldi in Gerbrunn (next to Würzburg) is also reversed, and it has no adjacent other building, in fact, it is at the end of a cul de sac with the parking lot going around the building. I think this is to lower congestion at the parking lot: If the entrance were at the beginning of the parking lot, people would park at the very first spot, temporarily blocking the road for incoming traffic going to spots further in. But if the entrance is at the back, people drive all the way in before parking, securing traffic flow.

The former Rewe in Königstein i.T. faced the high street but had two extra tills at the back with direct access to car park for patrons arriving by car from smaller villages, and for me who walked across the side street thru it. The new Rewe sits above its parking garage accessed by the lift.

@@mnsegler1 oh that's interesting! I don't think I've seen Rewe above a parking garage yet. But a Kaufland close to me is on the ground floor of a multistorey apartment complex and they have an underground parking garage. I also heard they're now building freestanding Aldis that have flats above so that way they're creating more housing space. I don't think I've ever seen a freestanding Aldi like that, but in my city's centre we have one that is wall to wall with another house and has a parking garage above it.

I think it was already getting old, in a bad state of repair and too small for modern needs. Its orientation wasn't the most important reason they decided to replace it.

I think hes from Kleinkahl :D

For anybody wondering: not the city in Italy, but one of the bird species known as "kite" in English.

@@imrehundertwasser7094 Yes. Also known more specifically as Rotmilan or Gabelweihe in German.

Basically this is one city 😅

@@peterg.8941 Well yes, but I think the two main features are that it is the most eastern city in Germany and that it is one of the most beautiful and well preserved ones.

@@untruelie2640 that's true