Aldi has become our first stop for everything, if we can get it there we do before going to one of the big chains around us.
Their prices are often 2-4x cheaper than the big chains, sometimes for the exact same item. “Fancy” cheeses that are $10 a block at the big chains are $2.50 at Aldi. Produce can be a bit iffy sometimes but if you’re flexible and spend a bit of time picking through it it’s fine.
The self checkout machines are also much better (even though they are annoyingly insistent about “scanning the next item”) and I’ve never had to wait for someone to come unblock it vs the big chains where they always seem to get stuck when I move some items around.
I’m also a big fan of the culture changes they embody - 25 cent deposit for your cart so the parking lot isn’t filled with carts from lazy people and allowing your cashiers to sit down while they work vs making them stand for no reason other than a power move.
It’s so much better than competitors that I’ve become a marketing employee for them anytime high food prices come up in conversations to the point where my partner jumps in with “get ready for the Aldi speech”
I also like the frankness and simplicity of their communication style.
No fancy buzzwords, to the point and speaks to things we all know are true but are typically not addressed or are wrapped up in spin. The first and last paragraphs are great examples.
The authenticity of it leaves me with a strong sense of trust and respect.
You can always use step functions or some janky recursive calls to work around the 15 min timeout.
I would recommend using docker containers and writing it in a way that you can swap out lambda/ecs/k8s/etc as the backend infrastructure. That way you you can punt on doing any fancy work to try and break the jobs up across lambdas under that 15 min constraint.
I get these as well..(twice so far) they are no fun to say the least. I’ve also read stories of the surgeries making “flare ups” more regular. Stress seems to be a big driver for me (first one at the start of college and second one during travel…)
All of the things you mentioned have helped me as well. I also have a couple of hemorrhoid cushions that I sit on to reduce pressure.
I’ve found that when I start to feel pain in my tailbone immediately taking some anti inflammatory medicine and getting antibiotics ASAP before the inflammation cuts off blood flow has stopped them in their tracks!
I spent many hours in http://www.cburch.com/logisim/ during my program doing the same thing. It was a great feeling to finally get a sub component correct and then copy it around in the next layer up.
My understanding is that the “Andon Chord” was developed by Toyoda out of lean manufacturing in Japan as a result of resource constrained manufacturing.
Do you have any information on “ the Harvard professor” and how JIT interacted with domestic lean manufacturing?
Extract and load. It’s a variation of ETL where you push the Transformation(T) step into the warehouse as opposed to doing the T out of band in code.
This allows you to retain the data as raw as possible and empowers your analytics teams to move faster by not having to wait for engineers to transform the data into a usable form.
Their prices are often 2-4x cheaper than the big chains, sometimes for the exact same item. “Fancy” cheeses that are $10 a block at the big chains are $2.50 at Aldi. Produce can be a bit iffy sometimes but if you’re flexible and spend a bit of time picking through it it’s fine.
The self checkout machines are also much better (even though they are annoyingly insistent about “scanning the next item”) and I’ve never had to wait for someone to come unblock it vs the big chains where they always seem to get stuck when I move some items around.
I’m also a big fan of the culture changes they embody - 25 cent deposit for your cart so the parking lot isn’t filled with carts from lazy people and allowing your cashiers to sit down while they work vs making them stand for no reason other than a power move.
It’s so much better than competitors that I’ve become a marketing employee for them anytime high food prices come up in conversations to the point where my partner jumps in with “get ready for the Aldi speech”