Checkout etiquette!

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I was in Lidl with half a trolley of stuff and a new checkout opened which I went to. The man with 3 items went in front and I started loading my trolley on the checkout. Then the woman behind me started loading her stuff on as well.
The space she left me was not enough to put my shopping in so I was doing my best checkout Jenga moves.
Is it ok to start piling on your shopping before the person in front has finished, and if not, is it ok to say something or seethe quietly at their lack of patience???

You say ‘Oi! You! Waiiiiit!’

Wag your finger if necessary.

Absolutely not okay. I have had this many times in Aldi and Lidl (nowhere else funnily enough). I always turn around and point to the trolley and say something to them because I can't believe people are that stupid and/or rude!

I find strategically placed gladioli really annoy people like that...

No. always best to leave your trolly at the end though. prevents any one being able to load to the belt.

Well unless the load for. the end of the belt, with their trolly outside of the belt area (if that makes sense!!). if they do that whilst you are by at the end loading up there's no hope of reasoning with them!

That is so rude! I would keep shoving their stuff back with the divider.

Well unless the load for. the end of the belt = Well, unless they load from the end of the belt.

Really didn't make sense!

I would say "Sorry, I'm not quite finished could you hang on please?"

On a different note I approached a checkout operator who was sitting there with an empty belt looking bored the other day to be told "I'm serving someone, she's just doing a bit more shopping"

Um, no, that's no how it works!

For clarity I am blaming the shopper, who clearly let the assistant ring through her stuff and then start wandering round picking up goodness knows how many things, rather than the assistant. I know the shopper was a while because three other people were refused at that checkout for the same reason before the shopper reappeared. Running off to quickly get one thing you've forgotten is fine. Allowing your shopping to be all rung through and then spending 10 minutes getting more stuff, not fine!

I guess I was thrown by the fact a whole Lidl check out was open to me, I started at the wrong place!
Next time I shall either start at the end or carefully place the gladioli (can't believe the value they give you!) and if that fails I shall say something!