[MOC] Lidl Grocery Store

[Gabor]

Hi everyone!

What you can see on the pictures is the end of a story, which began in 2017. At that time I studied on a university in Hungary. All in all that was a horrible time, but it had also some advantages. One of them was, that in Hungary it is really easy to find a job as a student. The companies need always people, and of course the students need always money. That’s why there is a very good system there for finding a job or finding employees. In my current place in Austria, the marketplace for jobs is completely different. As far as I experienced, people don´t need so much money and companies also don´t really need employees. That´s strange… (Maybe it´s necessary to add, that these jobs I´m speaking about - in both countries -, are bad jobs, like cleaning, working on the fields, factory jobs, etc. So jobs you can calmly do parallel to the university and don´t need your whole brain capacity.)

It doesn´t matter. Much more important is the story. Because of the facts above I could try during the school years more that 15 different workplaces. Including better ones, like being a guide in a very old monastery. And including Lidl.

Actually Lidl was a better one, too! It was also interesting. So I decided to build an exact model of it. I started to build the model immediately, but after that a lot of things happened. I went to Germany for a year, after that I came to Austria, I always found something more interesting to build, etc. So the model was always at the background. But now, finally it became ready!

Before I started working in Lidl I had to read the product placing strategy. This is something you never forget. That´s why the interior is completely detailed. Because of scale reasons it has not so many things in it, as a real store, but the different groups of products are exactly there, where they have to be. After the entrance there are chips and stuff like that, after them the fresh things, like bakery products and vegetables. At the back there is the non-food part and the refrigerators (mopro). On the way back to the cashdesks are the drinks for example.

Notice the two different sizes of the pallets. The 3x4 stud variation is the Euro pallet, the other one which´ size is the half of the Euro pallet is the Düsseldorf pallet. It is also very important in Lidl.

It was also said to me, that there are only shopping carts and no baskets, because the parents always allowed the kids to sit in the baskets. And it´s not hygienic. Well, the kids are sitting in the shopping carts as well. And not on the seat, actually in the cart.
Another things you never forget are also on the model. For example a student, who is cleaning the floor with a pushbroom. In Lidl it is really taught you, ho you have to use the pushbroom.

Let´s see what a customer doesn´t see. The warehouse and the offices. The machine near the garage door is for the empty paper boxes. It presses them, you put cables aroud them to keep it together and after that you can bring the package out on a pallet. That´s a cool thing. Which is not cool is that there are no place in the warehouse. If you want to bring out pallet “A”, you often have to bring out pallet “B”, “C” and “D” before. After that you can bring out pallet “A”. After that you have to bring back pallet “B”, “C” and “D”. After that you can start to fill the shelves from pallet “A”. That is also a mission impossible scene about it in the warehouse with a pallet jack and an employee.

The most interesting thing outside is maybe the big Lidl sign. It contains more that 100 parts and is of course completely without glue and stickers! You can read the word “Lidl” on both sides.

Another thing is the parking spot for disabled people, which I posted a bit earlier. Here you can find details about that. What I like on the building is the roof. I guess it turned out great with the angles. The different chimneys and the parts of the ventillation systems are also designed after the real ones.

Hope you like the model! Thanks for watching and reading! You can find more MOCs from me on my Flickr page!
 

[kiwinewt]

Very impressive build! Well done!

[Stuartn]

Incredible build, the overall level of detail is magnificent and the road techniques are very well executed

 

[noahtheb]

The build techniques in this MOc are amazing, and I love how you made the roof interlock!

[Feuer Zug]

The layout and scheme remind me of visiting Lidl stores in Europe. You have it nailed for the scale. Even the sign is spot on.

[peedeejay]

Very well done! The sign is pretty cool!

[LEGO Train 12 Volts]

Impressive realization!

Every internal detail is faithfully reproduced, as well as the external architecture.

The motorized truck and the Lidl logo are the icing on the cake! 

[Gabor]

On 5/26/2021 at 5:26 AM, kiwinewt said:

Very impressive build! Well done!

Thank you!

On 5/26/2021 at 5:57 AM, Stuartn said:

Incredible build, the overall level of detail is magnificent and the road techniques are very well executed

 

Thanks! We will see in the future, how the roads work, if it gets some modulad editions. The first intersection will be exciting!

On 5/26/2021 at 3:27 PM, noahtheb said:

The build techniques in this MOc are amazing, and I love how you made the roof interlock!

Thanks!

On 5/26/2021 at 5:27 PM, Feuer Zug said:

The layout and scheme remind me of visiting Lidl stores in Europe. You have it nailed for the scale. Even the sign is spot on.

Thank you! I know that there are some Lidl stores in the US as well. Are they very different?

On 5/27/2021 at 10:15 AM, peedeejay said:

Very well done! The sign is pretty cool!

Thanks!

On 5/28/2021 at 6:06 PM, LEGO Train 12 Volts said:

Impressive realization!

Every internal detail is faithfully reproduced, as well as the external architecture.

The motorized truck and the Lidl logo are the icing on the cake! 

Thanks! I´m glad you still have the Milka truck in mind!

Edited May 29, 2021 by Gabor