Netto Marken-Discount Checkout Chaos?

The self-checkout at Netto is basically a lottery where you always lose. I've started timing my trips to avoid peak hours, usually right when they open at 7am or after 8pm, and it's a completely different experience. The machine at the one on Schonhauser Allee actually worked fine for me last week, though I did have to pet a cucumber like a nervous cat to get it to scan. If you're near Rosenthaler Platz, the Rewe there has self-checkouts that haven't tried to fight me yet.

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yeah netto self-checkouts are a whole vibe but not a good one lol. the one at hermannplatz is somehow worse, the machines freeze up if you look at them wrong. i just go to the edeka on kotbusser damm now, the staff there actually know how to override a scanner glitch in like 10 seconds flat. plus they have a better cucumber selection if you're brave enough to try again

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honestly the netto on frankfurter allee is notorious for this, the self-checkouts there have a personal vendetta against anything that's not a perfect rectangle. i've seen people just walk out leaving their baskets full of stuff, it's that bad. if you're in that area try the penny on warschauer, their machines actually work and the staff is quick to fix issues. also cucumbers are just cursed at netto, i think their system has a bug specifically for them

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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the house facades those are often protected as Baudenkmal so nobody's allowed to correct them even if the spelling is outdated.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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