To think Aldi staff need to stop being jobsworths over 6p bargains?

I have never seen this pricing policy in my local Aldi - it's five minutes' walk so I wander in frequently - be bound to see this if it happened. What I have noticed is that the bargain vegetables go back to full price sometimes and one is not allowed to buy at the bargain price even if the bargain price is still displayed, which I find weird - but I am aware they do not have to sell you anything and they need give no reason (UK law gives the right to 'treat' or not).

YABU for using AI to write your post.

Sorry, but they would still get in trouble for allowing you to buy them.

yes they probably do throw them away Aldi are anything like the retail company I used to work for. Reducing stock to a penny and then binning it- in one particular instance piles of brand new packed lunch boxes, flasks and pencil cases. I asked if they could be donated to a local school to be handed out to children from low income families- answer was no, that is classed as theft from the company apparently in case they decided to sell them for a measly profit instead of giving them away, so into the bin they went along with all of the out of date magazines (that were not allowed to be donated to community groups or clubs) and the usual mountain of past date chocolate, some of which never even made it onto the shop floor. I for one was really pleased to see W H Shit shut down, as the amount of perfectly decent stuff going into the bin (certainly at the store I worked at for a time) was disgusting.
Calling them cruel was a bit dramatic though, your child won’t be deprived from not having fluffy balls in their party bags. Binning perfectly good merchandise because it’s an end of line product is wasteful and bad for the environment (the exception being, as another poster pointed out, if the items were ground to be harmful and removed from sale, which clearly these items were not as they allowed you to take one for free).

FFS. You have no way of knowing that, it didn't read as AI to me personally, and these tedious and smarmy 'you used AI' accusations many posters have been making lately are on their way to wrecking the whole premise of the discussion forum at the rate we're going. Some people can actually write, you know.

It does seem rather petty. It ought to be that if it's on the shop floor, people can buy it. If they don't remove stock then that's on them really.

I don’t understand this or the Aldi 6p “waste” thing! Can someone explain it to me like I’m 5?

Why don’t they just sell the stuff cheap to get rid of it? Why mark it down then not sell it?l

edited to add - the HB rugs were priced wrongly, I think I see that now. So would be getting bought at the wrong price?

still don’t understand the Aldi 6p waste tho!

You told a staff member on minimum wage they were ‘cruel’. You should be absolutely ashamed of yourself. Theyre probably home crying right now.

They’d likely have been disciplined for allowing them to be sold.

Staff in low paid jobs who act like so-called jobsworths generally do because they work for employers who’ll get rid of them for ridiculous things and not accept common sense as a good excuse.

Completely agree. Not OP's fault they hadn't got around to removing them. A manager should have had the authority to let the purchase go through.

Decisions like that will be above his level.

@specialbuy They are going to keep them for staff parties and for their team bonding days.

I dont think you understand...

Thems the rules I'm afraid.......I work for Aldi and no, we can't sell 6p items. They aren't wasted tho, they get donated to charity.

The poster may well be able to write, but that post is written by AI.

Calling out AI isn't ruining discussion, what is is ruining discussion is reading similar, overly emotive, strangely laid out posts with the random bold text.

Subsequent posts by the OP which are much more readable aren't written like the first one.

They are supposed to keep a close eye on the self check out so yes, they’ll have been asked about it.

One of my DDs was given a bollocking when manning the self checkouts (different retailer but similar) when someone stole a trolley of goods while she was helping a customer having medical emergency. These places are ruthless.

not to mention the fact they all utilise mystery shopping to check on their staff. The fact you went back for more of the specific item that should have been removed may very well have highlighted those vibes with the staff as well.

Giving grief to min wage staff for following the rules they’re told to work to is a really shit thing to do.

“Cruel” is expecting a shop assistant to risk her job because you wanted fluffy balls.

I hope your child never ends up having to deal with someone like yourself who calls them 'cruel' and a 'jobsworth' for doing their low paid, poorly rewarded job. It's unlikely they'll miss that stage in their development, so maybe you should think before you speak - or type.

Because I don't think you'd be thrilled if your kid came home, upset, from their retail job after a middle-aged mum had a tantrum because they weren't allowed to buy something and made them involve the manager, all whilst knowing they'd be risking a disciplinary if they let you buy those items at that price.

You'd probably agree with your kid that the customer was old enough to know better than how she chose to act.

I really don't get this.. they have stuff on sale but you can't buy it?
Always thought Aldi & Lidl were WEIRD..

Or maybe the manager didn't want to get fired? It could look like he/she's marking things down for a friend/family to buy

Customers who want something for nothing are such hard work.

It’s usually coded and removed - similar to stuff that’s removed for being out of date or damaged. Someone just made a mistake and didn’t remove it. Easy done.