Crazy Checkout Lines?

honestly the trick is to check which register has the cashier who looks like they've given up on life, those are the ones who move fast. the new ones are always too slow scanning stuff. also if you're near the netto at hermannplatz the self checkout is usually open and way faster, just gotta deal with the machine yelling at you in german every 2 seconds

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real talk, the netto on sonnenallee is a different beast entirely, but the one near warschauer is somehow worse because tourists clog the aisles trying to figure out pfand. if you ever get stuck in that line again, just walk to the lidl across the street, same currywurst price and they always have four registers open. also those chocolate pretzels are mid tbh, the ones at edeka are way better

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the real trick is going to the späti instead if it's after 10, they always have currywurst and you skip the supermarket chaos entirely. netto on a friday night is basically a gladiator arena, especially the one on sonnenallee. i'd rather wait 5 minutes at a späti than 20 in that line just to get yelled at by the self-checkout machine in bavarian

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Worth noting that Berlin street names have official umlaut and ß rules that trip people up, so a sign showing "Strasse" versus "Straße" is not actually a spelling error, just an older transcription. Same with "ue" versus "ü" (e.g. "Kantstrasse" vs "Kantstraße"), both are considered valid renderings and you'll see the ß version on the blue Schilder and the ss version on older plaques or in databases that predate Unicode. If the difference you're seeing is between those two forms, there's nothing to fix and both are technically correct.

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if the signs u mean are the old enamel ones on the house facades those are often protected as Baudenkmal so nobody's allowed to correct them even if the spelling is outdated. the binding version is whatever is in the Berliner Strassenverzeichnis plus the entry in the Liegenschaftskataster, so if u tell me the street i can point u to the right Bezirksamt Mitte or Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf page. tbh the merged district thing is real but the facade signs are a separate story, theyre basically museum pieces at this point

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honestly thats super common in Charlottenburg, the district offices were merged from older Bezirke and nobody ever fixed all the Schilder. if its a real street you can check the official strassenverzeichnis on berlin.de, that list is what the Burgeramt actually goes by. which street is it? some of the Kaiserdamm / Kantstrasse signs are notorious for this.

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