Good Stuff From Jumbo

[Matiasba]

IMHO Jumbo is by far the best option, best service, best room, more space, the best quality products, the best variety, the bigger stores, more tidy, organized, shiny, clean, no doubt they are the best option to go to any supermarket, the problem is that they are VERY EXPENSIVE!!! the common products such as cream, milk, dulce de leche, chocolates, meat, toilette paper, they are (easily!!) 35% more than Coto and Coto is even more expensive than Dia, so go picture if Dia still wins with their prices, what Jumbo is doing is an abuse!!

I prefer Dia which is very dirty, disorganised, with almost no staff, longer queues, more time, different faces, in bad mood, after a long day, etc, the experience is totally other thing, but hey, the prices are a lot cheaper!! we re talking of 35%!!

 

[scotttswan]

Rather than making comparisons to USA stores and standards, here is a comparison of those available in Argentina.

I was talking about British supermarkets. They used to be pretty fucking terrible with queues when i was a kid.

Then Tesco launched this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vONlFeSIMz8

http://www.irisys.co.uk/blog/bid/71123/Case-Study-Tesco-deploys-Irisys-Queue-Management-to-alleviate-subjectivity-deliver-faster-checkout-for-customers

http://vimeo.com/52142660


Wish they would get this here.

 

[scotttswan]

Bonus corporate tech video!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPNRfZgnrA0

 

[citygirl]

Can't handle the lines at Carrefour which is the only major chain by us. I have succumbed to the less efficient but easier/more cost efficient shopping method of buying meat at the local granja (which yes, sells meat as well as chicken), my veggies at the veggie stand, my paper products at the papelera and all the bulk goods at Makro. No real lines at any of them and while it takes more time overall to make 4 or 5 stops, it's worth it for mental sanity, to support smaller businesses and to get better quality at better prices.

I do miss the giant Jumbo in Palermo though which had so much stuff.

I found Disco had the best quality in general but was even more expensive than Jumbo.

 

[Gringoboy]

Brought a tear to my eye those videos, mate!

 

[Chet]

I do the 'markets' for some bulk sorts of things but I really like the butcher/baker/veggie stand stuff. Support your local little shops or they tend to go away.

 

[germano]

Jumbo's history:

En 1960 en la ciudad de Temuco, al sur de Chile una familia fundó un supermercado que luego sería pionero en la historia de los supermercados. Siguiendo estelegado, en 1976 nace en Santiago de Chile, Jumbo Kennedy, el primer Hipermercado Jumbo en éste país. Siempre apuntando a crear un nuevo concepto comercial, caracterizado por ofrecer mayor variedad, calidad y comodidad logrando una mejor experiencia de compra. Con la visión vanguardista de crecimiento permanente que caracteriza a la Compañía, en el año 1982 se inauguró el primer Hipermercado Jumbo en Capital Federal, Jumbo Parque Brown.
Hoy contamos con 24 sucursales en distribuidas en Buenos Aires, Rosario, Mendoza, Salta, Neuquén y Tucumán. En Jumbo nos encontramos en constante expansión, acompañado por un plan de capacitación del grupo humano que lo conforma, ya que el constante desarrollo e incorporación de personal local es una clave fundamental para asegurar el éxito de la organización. Es por esto que el desafío para enfrentar el futuro corresponde a toda la organización en su conjunto y de esta manera, sigue afirmando a nuestros clientes que siempre: "Jumbo te da más". [Jumbo gives you more.]

The history begins with a restaurant that father Karl Werner Paulmann had in Chile. Later they added a store. The German family had emigrated after WWII to Argentina and later to Chile. Wait wasn't the Argentina-Chile route a common escape route for nazis and other war criminals? Right ... Karl Werner Paulmann was a member of the SS and a nazi war criminal:
www.elmostrador.cl/pais/2012/02/22/la-desconocida-historia-nazi-del-padre-de-horst-paulmann/

All that does not make current owner Horst Paulmann a nazi. On the other side he was close to Pinochet and there are links to colonia dignidad - so he seems to keep the old family tradition alive. http://www.exprisioneroschile.cl/index.php/component/content/article/3-nacional/146-paulmann-derechos-humanos-y-los-nazis.html