REWE continues to innovate : In the Upper Franconian municipality of Pettstadt , REWE is testing a new formatting called " Josefs nahkauf BOX " , which is intended to ensure a supplying of fresh groceries and intersection for daily needs in the municipality of 2,000 inhabitants . The pilot construct at Ohmstrasse 15 is a so - called " walkway - in computer storage " : on a sales area of around 39 square meters , locate in the town and operated without faculty . Customers can grass there 24 hour a day , seven days a workweek . They can choose from an motley of around 700 clause and will find everything for their daily need , from apple to toothbrushes . customer can pay cashless at a ego - check with either a debit or reference card .
Photo : REWE Markt Ltd / Achim Bachhausen
The concept of the " take the air - In storehouse " is customer - friendly , conceivably simple and offers an simple shopping experience . Customers use their EC or credit card to gain admittance to the fund around the clock . There , they can move around freely and put together their leverage at their leisure . The assortment ranges from refreshing fruit and vegetables , dairy and wintry production to dry out good , non - alcoholic potable , toothbrush and cigarette monger machines . In the assortment , there is an stress on REWE private recording label , organic product in all ware categories , and regional and local provider . Neither alcohol-dependent drinkable nor spirits are on sale .
The payment summons is cashless . client employ an EC or credit card to pay for their purchase at a self - check , where each item must be scanned severally . After the payment process , customers can leave the store with their purchases .
The operation of the store is ensure by a nahkauf merchandiser , via the caller ’s own veritable store . In Pettstadt , it is the nahkauf merchant Josef Sier and Thomas Scheuring who jointly hunt down a nahkauf shop in Walsdorf .
" Local provision is an significant construction cube for the attraction of a community . With the unexampled " nahkauf " conception , an authoritative slice of the puzzle in the circumstance of our further developing comes to Pettstadt . I am pleased that all citizen can now once again carry out their basic provision directly on situation and , moreover , around the clock , " say Pettstadt ’s first mayor Jochen Hack .
" Through this pilot , we would care to find the answer to the question of time to come - oriented local supply in rural sphere and settlement settlement expanse that are far from self-aggrandising agglomorations . In Germany alone , there are around 8,000 undersupplied settlement area in which people have to journey very longsighted aloofness for their daily food market shopping . Our nahkauf data format , which check local supplying in field where all our competitors have withdrawn , is arrant for this . Furthermore , through this labor we are once again demonstrate that we are one of the most innovative companies in the land when it comes to foodstuff shopping , " says REWE Divisional Board Member Peter Maly .
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