Edeka: Supermarket desires to drastically restrict the vary of cheese and meat counters | EUROtoday

Sausage and cheese freshly sliced ​​in response to your individual needs – if you need that, you may have at all times been in the correct place at Edeka markets.

Unlike discounters or their competitor Rewe, Edeka shops at all times offered meat and cheese to their clients with gross sales workers on the so-called recent produce counter.

But now the vary is outwardly to be drastically diminished, because the “Lebensmittelzeitung” reviews. “Edeka is operating at its core, the service counters. Because the retailer is finding fewer and fewer staff, almost all regions are introducing the concept of “versatile counters,” the report says.

According to the report, the company wants to restructure its stores in some regions so that self-service is available at certain times instead of service. According to the “Bild” newspaper, the southwest of Germany, Bavaria, the north and the Minden-Hanover area are affected.

The reason for the move is said to be the lack of qualified staff. It is not yet known whether a reduction in staff numbers for cost reasons plays a role.

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The so-called “versatile counters” could then be staffed at certain times, but at other times offer pre-packaged goods. According to “Bild”, the aim is to be able to “perform with out workers” at “off-peak instances”.

There is now a nationwide shortage of butchers, with markets such as Edeka competing with local butchers and meat shops.

An official statement from the company is still pending. The Edeka group of companies is organized as a cooperative and consists partly of independently operating retailers. In 2023, over 400,000 employees worked for Edeka nationwide.

Most recently, the company had attracted attention with a campaign against the AfD before the state elections in Saxony and Thuringia; WELT had also reported on “Blue is not a good choice” and the criticism of the campaign.