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How Lidl saves the world
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Lidl seems to be becoming the most progressive supermarket in the Netherlands. Originally German discounter scores best when it comes to human rights and hard work is being done on sustainability. What happened at the ' #dozenschuiver '?
The latest action from #Lidl against food waste does not pass unnoticed. It is running so well that last week the supermarket announced that it was going to import it all over the Netherlands. Daisy, assistant manager in Woerden, praises products whose shelf life expires the next day. 'They can be removed tomorrow for €0.25, or €0.50 for meat, fish and vega. ' She sticks a sticker with the text 'Don't waste me' on the chicken ster-grill sausage, for which this message is perhaps doubled: it is made from meat from roosters and retired laying hens - a 'residual product' of poultry farming, which usually disappears in animal feed. That's why three stars get the sausage from the Animal Protection.
Although the explanation occupies the entire wall of the entrance of the Lidl in Woerden, customers pass by carelessly. Most do not see that 1,766 solar panels on the roof provide enough power to cool or keep all the food in this first energy-neutral supermarket in the Netherlands. There is not even anyone at the two fast charging stations where you can charge your electric car for free while shopping (125 kilometers). 'But in the morning we regularly have businessmen who come to pick up a coffee and croissant and then go to work in the car while they hang on the pole for free, 'says a cashier. 'And that is also very fine ', almost sustainability manager Quirine van Weerd (34) to say, 'with this we attract new customers.'
The latest action from #Lidl against food waste does not pass unnoticed. It is running so well that last week the supermarket announced that it was going to import it all over the Netherlands. Daisy, assistant manager in Woerden, praises products whose shelf life expires the next day. 'They can be removed tomorrow for €0.25, or €0.50 for meat, fish and vega. ' She sticks a sticker with the text 'Don't waste me' on the chicken ster-grill sausage, for which this message is perhaps doubled: it is made from meat from roosters and retired laying hens - a 'residual product' of poultry farming, which usually disappears in animal feed. That's why three stars get the sausage from the Animal Protection.
Although the explanation occupies the entire wall of the entrance of the Lidl in Woerden, customers pass by carelessly. Most do not see that 1,766 solar panels on the roof provide enough power to cool or keep all the food in this first energy-neutral supermarket in the Netherlands. There is not even anyone at the two fast charging stations where you can charge your electric car for free while shopping (125 kilometers). 'But in the morning we regularly have businessmen who come to pick up a coffee and croissant and then go to work in the car while they hang on the pole for free, 'says a cashier. 'And that is also very fine ', almost sustainability manager Quirine van Weerd (34) to say, 'with this we attract new customers.'
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