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

Think you need to get a grip and count you self lucky that you find this so cruel 🤣

I suspect their response wasn't because they were dazzled by your wit. They probably found your pettiness amusing. I don't need to chill out because I expressed an opinion.

I don't know how that gif ended up there.

If you worked in Aldi, Lidl you would know what gets marked not to be sold food,toys gets picked up by charities to give to kids etc. Not wasted. It is not the staff in-store or managers fault, a list is sent each day from higher up what to clear off

I’m afraid not OP, here’s what me and Chat GPT have been discussing lately and I’m sorry to say you’re not on the list 😞

Doesn't make sense though, if it waste they want to get rid off, then let customers buy it at 6p, save space in aldis refuse bins, this saves money on refuse collections

Omg stop banging on about being a mum and how it’s so so cruel oh and did you mention you’re a mum just trying to get by?! You’re making it into an emotive situation when it just wasn’t. The staff were likely following some sort of protocol after realising they hadn’t followed it earlier. Let it go, Jesus.

A lot of the time it isn’t waste. Just stock for charity. It should have been removed from shelf but may not have been as busy etc. OP was lucky to get a small bargain with the first two.

Exactly this. Talk about drama and angst over nothing

Of course they weren't being cruel. It was irritating at worst! Talk about being a drama queen. Still at least they will have had a laugh on a Friday evening.

I think throwing stock away instead of selling or giving it away when it is not a safety issue should not be allowed because it's hugely wasteful. Doesn't mean I think they should have had to sell them to you for 6p when they were on the shop floor by mistake, though.

This is why I hate the phrase "jobsworth" of course "it is more than my job's worth" to not follow policy to appease someone who won't care if the head office fire them for the infarction.

It doesn't make the o.p right for taking it out on the employee because you have had worse. What's the famous mumsnet catchphrase...raise your bar.

Who spat on your chips?

Greedy cow because she found a bargain? You would have laughed because she found it cruel. Who is the cow here, bully?

I was back in England about 15 years ago to visit my elderly parents. My dad had Parkinson's and had to quit driving the year before. He'd bought a mobility scooter, but because of his PD shaking he was embarrassed to leave to house, & seemed to have developed agoraphobia. My mum and I talked him into riding his scooter to the Aldi's about 1.5 miles away, to get him out and about again, we thought.

Entering the store my dad went through the wrong door and ended up by the check-outs. I was the right side and looking for a way to get to him. This woman who worked there rushed at him like a charging bull, shouting at him for going through the wrong door and for him to get out. It shocked me. In America store clerks are very polite to customers and would have helped him. In America she would have been fired for that behavior.

My dad told her he wouldn't be back and we went home. WW2 generation treated like shit because some store clerk felt she had some power over an old disabled man.

Every time I see Aldi mentioned I see red.

I'd staff are enforcing a policy, and you disagree with the policy, maybe you should complain about the policy

Calling staff 'jobsworths' is unpleasant.

Sometimes there's a bigger picture that as a customer you wouldn't know. And they are not obliged to tell you every breath and step of these decisions. The staff are adhering to policy. The customer was entitled.

It's not the employee, it's the employer. You wouldn't want someone to risk their job for the sake of you getting some cheap tat. It's not that they value the few quid that much, it's that they value putting food on the table.

’Grabby cow’ aren’t you charming🤨?
The items should’ve been taken off the shelves if they didn’t want to sell them, rather petty I think.
Hardly a stampede to fill baskets of marked down toys.

A grabby cow for buying a few little balls at a bargain price?

Are you ok? You sound mental.

I find this weird

so they reduce stuff to sell it but then op says they throw it away rather then sell it for 6p. What’s the point

if a price is wrong I think the shop has to legally sell it at the price is shows

dd got a bargain cuddly for 99p and meant to be £6 but the shop allowed her and best friend to buy them

then removed all shelf to reprice

tho as someone said - maybe taking 10 is a little selfish and like anoejrr shopper buying all the steak reduced to 50p and freezing it

manners is acquiring a few - not 10. Unless of course a massive box so still many left after op took theirs

I was waiting for a nasty fucker comment. Here you are, probably like this in RL too.
We've all used the wrong word to describe something. Maybe this was a big deal to OP as she's trying to organise a party on a tight budget. I hope OP doesn't care what the staff are saying.

OP did not say that, she said, ‘Apparently, Aldi reduces certain stock to 6p as a way of marking it as waste rather than pricing it at 0p.’ That means she found out in the course of her discussions with the staff. You are misreading her OP.

Absolutely ridiculous comment - if they were reduced to clear then there is no limit on purchase numbers because they are trying to clear the stock!

If they're going classify them as waste they should take them straight off the shop floor shouldn't they.

OP what you should have done was buy a few more bits as well , then they probably would have left you alone. I know you had already done your shopping but I'm sure it would have been fine if you had more in your basket you would have been less noticeable.

Why would they send the reduced stuff to landfill when someone somewhere could derive great joy from it? It’s so ridiculously wasteful.

In your case, I think the staff thought they could get into trouble if someone higher up cottoned on to the fact someone had bought them. Did they have to manually reduce the price on the till? They do this with reduced sticker stuff that’s all so not like they could say they didn’t realise someone had bought them.

Cruel is a bit of a reach as others have said.