I have lived in Germany long enough to have experienced the revolution of no smoking in restaurants. I have not, however, experienced that the law impacted smoking by employees of my local Edeka and Aldi.
I walk through waves of smoke coming from both break rooms in Edeka, twice per shopping trip. At Aldi, there's no basement but they smoke cigarettes in the food storage room, backstage where they bake the bread nowadays. You cannot circle the store without being forced through the employee smoking area *IN* Aldi.
I don't understand the loophole in the law that allows employees to smoke in grocery stores, but not customers. I used to smoke, but now appreciate giving customers clean"er" air where they buy their vegetables.
Please explain. I think this is my first Toytown post.
