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To: ptanner who wrote (65317)	12/9/2001 10:14:48 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Respond to of 275872

PT, I do not know how many stores are in that chain, possibly someone over in Germany can comment. Apparently people flock to buy these deals because the chains do their homework and get huge deals from the supplier who also gets a deal from the assorted CPU/meemory maker etc. Note, they are systems a bit off the cutting edge and they trapped the old price of memory. Any SD shop trying to beat it will have a hard time. It is in essence an SD shop product as the makers is one of those large SD shops we have heard about( also called white box makers, they usually use standar mobos and power supplies, etc) Can anyone in Germany tell us if this is a standard box or if it is a proprietary box, like Dell or Compaq? Bill

To: ptanner who wrote (65317)	12/10/2001 11:29:40 AM
From: andreas_wonisch	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

Patrick, Re: It still seems amazing that a (probably large but not the only) grocery store chain in Germany sold as many PCs in a short period as Gateway does in a month. Aldi is Germany's Wal-Mart, so it's not just another supermarket chain it's the supermarket chain in Germany. (we have also some Wal-Marts here for a few years now but they don't play a big role yet) Aldi has very attractive prices on groceries and they sell other things like electronic articles only on special occasions (once a week with changing products). PCs are only sold once in a year and are usually very quickly sold out because of their attractive prices. So while 300,000 units may sound much you also have to keep in mind that while they sell those units in a few days, they don't sell any for the rest of the year. I doubt they would sell that much if they had permanently PCs for sale. Andreas