I beat the Lidl cashier

[Ginmonkeyagain]

Today was a momentous day. Today I finally beat the Lidl cashier. He tried his best but I was there, ready and waiting to pay with all my bags properly and neatly packed while he sorted out the final till stuff.

Do I now get to move on to the next level?

When you're in a hurry though... I've been in Waitrose watching the people in front of me have a long chat about their leg, or their Cressida's wedding, boiling because I have to be somewhere.

Give me efficiency over personal service 90% of the time.

@OlderGlaswegianLivingInDevon
Is the speedscan rate got something to do with the reason why the checkout staff don't start scanning until you have all of your shopping on the converyor belt. It seem strange that so many wait until you've unpacked everything even when you are short of space and it would be helpful if they start.

They seem to do it even when I'm shopping with someone else who is ready and waiting to pack.

In my Aldi the cashiers are too busy shouting over to each other about what they got upto the night before to worry about working at speed. They all love a good chat with the customers as well. I think they're related to half of them.😃

But you're supposed to pack at the shelf? I'll bet they had to slow down to allow you to do it which then impact's negatively on their stats.

Beating a Lidl cashier in Germany would be the next challenge, they are on a completely different level!

Ha ha ha. Bless you.

Nope. You just have to have your bags ready in the trolley. It's not rocket science

Or have those big trolley bags open and ready to go.

My goal is to spend as little time as possible in a supermarket. I don’t want chat, I just want my stuff as quickly as possible!

like others, I find it’s a fun game. It’s the reason Aldio own brand barcodes are so enormous, makes stuff easy to scan.

I always beat the cashier in Aldi and Lidl. I don't shop at either weekly though.
I pack my trolley as I go round so that I can load the conveyer belt in the correct order. I also have the fabric bags with rods so they hang open across the trolley. First (biggest bag) gets filled first and dropped into the trolley, then the next and so on. Then unroll the next set if required and fill on top. It's the most exercise I ever get in a 3 minute burst and I spend twice the time in the shop that I would otherwise, purely in order to prepare for and win a race that my opponent is unaware of. 😁

@MyselfYouselfMeYou

Yes, at ASDA you are ' allowed ' to scan the 1st 6 items, then you have to wait.
Then you can scan 6 more.

But now you have 12 items waiting to be packed. ( not good ) and the customer is still loading the shopping onto the belt.

and the check out person has had to hit the ' total ' button twice ( not good ) as hitting the total button stops your scan speed, you are not ' allowed ' to keep stopping your scan speed.
The idea is you scan the whole shop.

However, it is ' permitted ' to ' total ' to allow time to remove the security tag off the alcohol, my manager has also said it is just about permitted to ' total ' to allow time to take clothing off hangers / remove the security tag.

Next time you go to a supermarket, have a look at your receipt and see how many ' subtotals ' there are on the receipt. Then you will know how often the person stopped their scan speed.

my husband also plays this game honestly it makes his day if he wins 😃

Op well done I always just pack my trolly and wheel it away Aldi staff scare me !

V impressive OP!

My DD and I have it down to a fine art - we spend our own sweet time unpacking the trolley on to the belt and group it in household/fridge/freezer/food cupboard and designate a trolley bag for each.

Then we just fill up each trolley bag and are always done in time.

If DH comes to 'help' instead of DD, the whole system falls apart 😆

The only time I've 'beaten' a Lidl cashier is if I've only popped in for five items or less.

However, I was once told by a Sainsburys cashier I had the most neatly packed bags she'd ever seen, and noted they were packed in the order they'd be unpacked at home - fridge, freezer, food cupboard, and household cupboard.

It was a proud day to have my 'special talent' recognised by a professional!!

NB - I never let the scouts or whomever pack my bags, I give a massive donation to prevent them doing so - eggs with bleach, pasta with veggies, soap with bread? Not. On. My. Watch.

@OlderGlaswegianLivingInDevon
Thank for the reply. That's interesting. I was thinking it was vpbecause they wanted a wee break 😅

Love playing “beat the cashier”, level 2 = pack your bags whilst taking a phone call!

Same here! I'm calling troll post ;)

I find that bags with good structural integrity that stand up and stay open on their own, a strong and stable hessian fabric, are a game changer. I put anything retangular on the conveyer belt first and speed tetris it in, fruit and veg all together in another. Floppy plastic bags for life hold one back in the supermarket and in life. A good bag is akin to a good bra.

Time is money for supermarkets, almost all of the jobs are timed, they work the night team like slaves at our one.

This is a good thread, it's like the modern day "I found a list!".

The only time I can do this is if I take an ikea blue bag and chick everything into it.

Which backfires immediately because I can't then lift it out and into the car boot 😆

This.
Were they all in the proper bags?

Our Aldi staff are so slow (except 1 older woman). I am always left waiting for the next item. So jealous of everyone with quick cashiers.

Perhaps the real trick would be to reverse your car through the doors and back it up to the end of the till, so you can open the boot and the cashier can just chuck the stuff straight in!

I'm going to lidl tomorrow now, challenge accepted. Never knew this game...

Do you guys also play 'the game'?