2024-01-13 04:09:02
Seevetal (Lower Saxony) – Barcode not recognized, turn the bottle, put it in again. And that again and again. Behind you there are many people with their huge bags, rolling their eyes impatiently. You can lose your nerve at the deposit machine…
You can put 100 bottles in the deposit swallower at once
Photo: Andreas Costanzo
“I couldn’t look at the long queues anymore,” says supermarket boss Jonas Meyer (25) – and bought a turbo gobbler for his Edeka in Hittfeld: “It costs as much as a mid-range car, but it’s an investment that pays off worth it.”
This is what supermarket boss Jonas Meyer (25) looks like behind the scenes at the deposit
Photo: Andreas Costanzo
Because the “Tomra R1” accepts 100 cans and PET bottles at the same time. Everything can be tipped directly from a bag into the large opening, then the flap closes. Everything is then mixed in the drum, sensors record the empties and after two minutes at the latest you have your receipt.
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“Not only saves time and nerves, but also ensures clean hands,” explains Meyer. Bottles and cans no longer have to be fished out of the sticky bag individually. Just in case, there is still a sink right next to it.
“Anyone can use it, it’s super easy,” he says – and he still has an explanatory video on YouTube. In a very short time, over 400,000 people watched it. Meyer laughs: “I didn’t expect at all that a deposit machine could become an internet star.”
Meyer hopes to use his turbo deposit machine to attract additional customers to his Edeka store in Hittfeld
Photo: Andreas Costanzo
1720 people commented on the video. Below: “In 30 years we will tell our grandchildren how we had to manually throw each bottle into the machine one by one. That’s the future!” Or: “We just need that all over Germany now!”
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The system is not yet widespread in Germany – unlike, for example, in Scandinavian countries. Meyer: “This gives us a unique selling point in our market and we hope to attract even more customers.”
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