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Vanessa Fuhrman, Grocery Store Automats Get a Rise Out of German Bakers. Wall Street Journal, Nov. 1, 2010.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304510704575562152983070566.html
("What exactly does happen inside the automats has become a matter of dispute")
Note:
(1) In the title of the report:
rise (n): "an angry reaction <got a rise out of him>"
All English definitions are from www.m-w.com.
(2) For automat, see self-service laundry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-service_laundry
(known in the United States, Canada, and Australia as laundromats (from the genericized trademark of the Westinghouse Electric Corporation)[1] or washaterias. George Edward Pendray created the word "laundromat" for Westinghouse.)
citing
Beth Livermore, The Way We Are. Natural History, December 1999.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1134/is_10_108/ai_58360832/
(3) cock (vt): "to set erect <a dog with one ear cocked>"
(4) Aldi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldi
(short for "Albrecht Discount", is a discount supermarket chain based in Germany. The chain is made up of two separate groups, ALDI Nord (North - operating as ALDI MARKT) and ALDI Süd (South - operating as Aldi Süd), which operate independently from each other within specific market boundaries. The individual groups were originally owned and managed by brothers Karl Albrecht and Theo Albrecht; Karl has since retired and is Germany's richest man. Theo was Germany's second richest man until his death in July 2010.)
(a) Albrecht is German version of Albert (Germanic adal noble + berht bright)