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

They shouldn't be offered for sale at 6p, as you well know. So nobody needs to be watching self check out fir them. They made a mistake not taking them off the shelves and you took advantage after realising this by going back. They saw you and said they can't sell them, which they can't. You knew they should not have been offered for sale. You took advantage of their mistake and are now full of self righteous indignation that you couldn't profit to the level you wanted to because they tried to rectify their mistake.

You are being ridiculous saying this is a union matter.
They probably didn't have time to take then off the shelves due to having fill shelves to stop people like you complaining about stock levels.
They do still need to be able to be scanned internally for waste management etc, which is why they don't reduce to zero. The advantage is all about running the business efficiently to keep the prices and waste down.

Why are they on a shelf though? That’s what’s confusing me.

I get you can’t sell stuff but why can a customer see it

Once in Sains I took a kids dress to the till and she said sorry I can’t sell that to you. I said what? She said it’s not supposed to be on sale yet.

They’d put out a whole new range but couldn’t sell it until the next day. So silly. God knows how many people picked items up

Agreed.

But it's not 'cruel'. In any sense.

They shouldn’t have been on the shelf. They should have been removed.

Certain stock isn’t paid for unless it is sold. There is a return process. They may be able to bin them or give them to staff but not sell them as it is a breach of contract with the suppliers.
DH worked in electrical retail and often got freebies but they strictly couldn’t sell them in as they were to be destroyed if not returned. Companies sell the stock on to cheaper ran shops. Pound shops etc.

😆. You don't work in retail I'm assuming.
Ive been called a cnut at best .. I doubt she's crying, I doubt she gave it a second thought. .. crying ..really?

You say in your original post that you are aware if it, or didn't you write it. Anyway, if you didn't know at the time, why would you not accept it when you were informed.

It was an error. No doubt the staff members who didn’t remove them will be called in for an explanation. It is a busy environment. The bargain was too good to be true.
I think you overreacted to the situation.
No means no.

You have used the term “jobsworth” more than once. I would imagine that if your true feelings about the employees of Aldi that you were dealing with even made a fleeting appearance, years ago, before the days of mobile phones and so called influencers, you would have been told to “Fuck off” but nowadays, they stick to policy in order to get a wage to put food in their children’s belly.

Yes, OP is showing herself to be a CF. Arrogant and entitled.

We've done this when i worked in retail. Loads of christmas chocolates had to be reduced to stupid prices and then wasted out and sent to charity. Nice for the charity but we weren't supposed to sell it to staff or customers. Obviously we bought some and let some regulars buy some. It doesn't make financial sense.
I remember years ago our manager got a message to reduce all Lindor and Ferrero chocs so he did we all bought it with staff discount it was great unfortunately it had been an error but it was too late. Sometimes there are perks to working retail although staff is not supposed to put stuff aside it has to be offered to customers first. Yeh right.

Imagine that was 10 Kevin the carrots @ 6p...they would of had you up at court! 🤣🥺. Miserable bastards!

@fashionqueen0123,I can't speak for all stores, but in our case we're a fairly large shop with a relatively small warehouse. It's a challenge fitting stock in there at the best of times, but at peak times like now it's virtually impossible. Additionally, only Managers can deal with special buy stock, so staff wouldn't be able to remove 6p items unless specifically asked to do so.

Edited for typo

Gawd, next it’ll be accusations that Aldi made her terribly sick child cry, and ruined her birthday AND Christmas.
Bit much, over a ruddy tuppenny (or so) ball in a paper bag.

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OP, there is a reason why this is Aldi policy and the rationale behind it is irrelevant. You have basically just shown yourself to be a snobbish, disrespectful arsehole to someone just doing their job.

My DC works in retail to help fund her post grad studies. I did the same in a call centre because it paid pretty well and fitted around my studies. I remember being treated like absolute shite, being told how thick I was just because some entitled arsehole did not renew their breakdown cover/took out the cheapest and then had to pay to be recovered 200 miles etc.

My DC has had a job in the same national company since 6th form college and is now junior management whilst studying. The company auditing, laying blame at shift managers when things do not add up etc is constant. As well as that they have to do their actual work in serving the general public. This, as you brilliantly demonstrate, seeks to mean a significant minority think it is totally acceptable to treat retail workers with total disdain and contempt for doing the job they are paid to do. Obviously entitled/ill-informed or just plain mad people think them making a stand over a 60p etc purchase is really worth them loosing their job They are obviously being unreasonable.

What a complete jobsworth! You’re nearly out the door, and they’re making such a fuss about nothing.. You’d already bought some, so it’s not as if you were trying to pull a fast one. And the fact that they were going to throw them in the bin anyway makes it even more ridiculous.
Years ago, I found the most gorgeous dress in Debenhams. I absolutely loved it, but when I went to pay, they told me they couldn’t sell it because it had no price tag or care label. I couldn’t believe it. I’d never stolen anything in my life, but I wanted that dress so badly when she wasn’t looking I put it in my bag with my other shopping. Got great wear out of it. 😂

I don't see how nitpicking at someone's grammar helps your argument. It just makes you look defensive.

A paper trail that they didn’t follow the instructions from head office not to sell them… you know chains have central managements ‘above’ them, and site staff and managers have to answer for pretty much everything, so if they’ve had direct instuction that’s ignored that’s not very good is it.

There’s some pretty dense people on here struggling to understand that ‘jobsworth’ (get the fuck if your high horse) staff don’t make up things to power play or ‘be cruel’ 🙄

If this isn’t AI, OP, I’d bet my bottom dollar if you did an Ancestry test Chat GPT would be there as a close relative. I’d know his ‘humour’ anywhere.