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[โ€“] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 42 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

One of the other Australian Supermarkets, Coles, uses Palantir's systems of facial recognition to keep a database of what shoppers buy. Which is creepy.

[โ€“] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Coles says explicitly that they do not use facial recognition.

Bunnings and Kmart on the other hand did up until 2022, and then backed off after complaints and bad press.

Coles does employ Palantir systems though, which is gross.

[โ€“] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 41 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

And thatโ€™s why the Aldi families regularly rank highest in Germanyโ€™s most-filthy-rich-seriously-do-you-even-know-how-much-money-you-have list. The owners of Aldi Australia are currently the third or fourth richest families with a total of 27B of personal wealth.

Source (German):ย https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_reichsten_Deutschen_(Manager_Magazin)#Liste_2025

[โ€“] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Isnโ€™t the ownership of Lidl so complex that nobody really knows where the money ends up in?

[โ€“] phneutral@feddit.org 7 points 1 month ago

It has to reach the pockets of Dieter Schwarz somehow, otherwise he wouldnโ€™t be on top of the linked list.

[โ€“] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Weโ€™re talking about Aldi.

[โ€“] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Yes we are. And Lidl is a similar massive German juggernaut, with a very confusing ownership structure.

go, visit Heilbronn!

[โ€“] Speculater@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well I'll say I fucking love Aldi in the US.

[โ€“] reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah I grew up with it then moved to an area without it and shopping is so much more stressful. Love the mostly one way aisle architecture and that there arenโ€™t a lot of decisions to be made per item.

[โ€“] Speculater@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Want rice? Here's the one brand we have. Protein powder? Here it is. Milk? Just this one. Thank you for shopping and don't forget your quarter!

[โ€“] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Tax free probably too.

Love the Australian tax system

[โ€“] 50MYT@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

If you read the article, that 900m is after the tax was paid.

[โ€“] TheIvoryTower@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

... because they are slightly less greedy than the main Woolworths/Coles duopoly.

Aldi are doing god's work, I only wish they could establish in New Zealand, but apparently our Foodstuffs/Woolworths duopoly is even harder to crack into.