Gingerbread Cookie Cups with Orange Cream

[layers_of_eli]

I recently got a chance to visit ALDI headquarters near Chicago. I've written a couple of posts on the experience, and this one involves how brands create a "screen of expectation" in you that makes you more likely to enjoy (and therefore buy!) their product. This doesn't bother me, but I do like for it to be transparent. I also don't always want

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[moreteadk]

There were stories here about them for example sending in people at random to purposely drop money or forget money at the till just to see what the cashier would do. There was also a clause in the contract which stated that by signing they agreed to the shop management's right to search their car, locker or handbag without any particular reason for it. Also a story about one employee had been sent to the bank alone with all the shop's money from that day, an amount along the lines of $16.500, because it was too expensive to have some security company take care of it. If an employee talked to the press or to their union, they got fired. If an employee got hurt by doing something in their spare time, like playing some kind of sports, the shop demanded compensation. German top-management refused to do anything about it, because those were the rules in Germany and so therefore must also be the rules in Denmark. Couple of years ago now and the massive customer boycot eventually forced them to do something about it, or so I gather, but even so. I have a longer memory than that, to be honest.

[layers_of_eli]

Yeah, I wouldn't shop there either under those circumstances. That's abhorrent.