Increasing amounts of US capital are flowing into Germany’s traditional industrial firms and family-owned businesses. As many business owners struggle to find successors, more companies are becoming acquisition targets.

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      Not the first time. Example: they are afraid of german supermarkets in america because there employees have WORKER RIGHTS!! THE HORROR!!! And from i see Aldi and Lidl and Edeka in the US are perfered by even american customers

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        They’re allowed to sit, can you imagine the pearl clutching!? I’ve actually seen a boomer in the wild complaining about an employee on their break sitting against the wall outside. Evidently it’s not dignified. If a company doesn’t prioritize cruelty, they’re afraid of it.

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        Do the employees of their US subsidiaries have European-style working conditions? Other European companies have embraced US-style union-busting in their US operations.

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          I’m not sure about the company structure for their international markets. So I don’t know the rules. But from what I’ve read they brought their concepts of shopping cart “deposits”, cashiers working at unexpexted speeds and - oh the horror - chairs for their cashiers to actually sit on during work.

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          If you are employing in germany, or are a german company employing outside of germany, the employees get all benefits from german employment and all work laws from germany apply

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        Yeah I can confirm that people here who have access to an Aldi will use it and speak very highly of it. Every Aldi I’ve seen here has been extremely busy. I also personally prefer Aldi to practically all chain grocers… although nothing can beat a local Mexican grocery store imo, and thankfully I have been lucky enough to mostly spend my life in areas of the US that have those.

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    You know the German owners can decide to sell to be German instead of some fuckhead American company. Greed is greed no matter the nationality.