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

I am still a bit confused but I am absolutely determined to buy something from Aldi for 6p

Absolutely anything

I’m always sympathetic to people who have to carry out silly rules - most jobs involve a bit of this. If you ask nicely and people can bend them, they often will. But everything is filmed in store and stock closely monitored, so I’d understand.

Aldi just assume that all their customers are up to no good. Although it depends on area. When I was in Yorkshire they would insist on scanning the compostable bags and didn't seem to trust customers to do it. In nice area of Suffolk they don't do this.

It’ll be a process thing they’ll get rid of as much as they can at 6p then there be a cut off point and the rest of the stock is written off

then sent back to be disposed of all this will be an auditable process that needs following

I am going there now, I have eleven minutes before they close

I reaaaaaally never understand how ANYBODY can defend capitalist companies that make hundreds of millions pounds of profit each year against things like this. Are Aldi going to go bust over this? No. Was there a queue of 50 other people racing to buy this product? No. Even if there was, they would rather put them in landfill than make a SIX PENCE profit. I've worked for multiple supermarkets and all of them do this. Whenever I saw someone in need taking something I never batted an eyelid. Low and behold, those billion pound companies are still up and running!

Team Aldi - capitalist gains, corporate greed, environmental damage

Team people living in the real world - supporting a mother trying to save money on party bags. Come on now

That said, the workers are just taking orders and doing their jobs. If you take issue with anyone, it should be Aldi as a company.

Sorry you didn’t get what you wanted. I doubt that they just wanted to be ‘cruel’ to you but likely following whatever process they need to.

Don't you DARE buy anything for 6p or they will have your guts for garters.

'Overly emotive' and 'strangely laid out'? This is very subjective stuff. And people have been using bold to emphasise their points since long before AI.

And even AI checkers aren't able to accurately recognise AI-written material a lot of the time, so stating 'that post is written by AI' like it's a fact seems like an extraordinarily arrogant assumption to make. It's assumptions like this that are going to kill creativity in the English language at the rate we're going.

Not everybody writes in short, dull, predictably worded/structured sentences all the time, and thank goodness for that. And people are not under any obligation to write in a way that somehow 'proves' they're not ChatGPT.

I am driving like a maniac to get there before 10pm

I have had a similar thing happen, Aldi were selling the jars of cranberry sauce for 6p (and they still had over a year use by date), so I went to buy 2 and the checkout woman wouldn’t let me buy them. She said once the item is reduced to 6p it goes in a bin in the back room so she can’t sell it.

I wasn’t bothered, I’m not that obsessed with cranberry sauce, but I do think the staff reduce things to 6p to keep it for themselves.

sainburys stuff doesn’t go to
landfill.

Cant stand Aldi. Used to shop there a few years ago but now avoid it. It's not really any cheaper than anywhere else now for zero customer service, blatant copying of branded products barely any cheaper but taste cheap, food quality has gone downhill and detest paying for the privilege of having my shopping thrown at me.

I’d have just walked out with the balls. You’d paid for them, so they couldn’t exactly arrest you for shoplifting.

They probably get to keep them-for themselves. I had similar in Marks and Sparks when staff leave stuff in stockroom and they can buy stuff that did not sell for 50p. They hate it when you ask them for it.

My friend tried to ring up some items with a clubcard and a staff member physically blocked the scanner with her hand because she tried to scan a screenshot of a clubcard qr code instead of opening it in app, apparently screenshots aren't allowed even though they scan through just fine.

She was so aghast buy her pettiness that she responded by abandoning shopping on the checkout, told the staff member 'then you can find homes for all these items' and started shoplifting from that Tesco.

Wish I had the balls. These supermarket employees are absolutely out of control.

YANBU, I had similar with a perfect cotton dress for summer in a shop. It came up as unsellable at the self-check out till. I offered the staff to let me purchase without a receipt so that I couldn’t bring it back but they said they couldn’t.

How did she know they were scanning as 6p for you, did she get an alert on the system?

I don't think you understand what the word 'cruel' means.

I mean, I'm with you on it being ridiculous and wasteful (and I thought there was a law that if a shop has advertised a product at a mistakenly low price, they have to honour that price not raise it at the top).

But none of those things is 'cruel'.

Do you mean 'miserly'?

This.

Don't be so ridiculous. This would have come from above. They certainly dont need to risk potential disciplinary action because you are being a bit of a diva.