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?

You’re a novice if you don’t line your shopping up to be scanned in decreasing order of weight!

I was actually offered a job by the manager at ours based upon my packing and remembering the code of two garden items outside. A proud moment! (I’m 59, you know …. 😁)

Of course this is mandatory. I always do this. It just makes sense.

I've gone for jobs at Aldi, it's terrifying

400 scans per 15 minutes, so an hour's worth is 1600 scans, they are electronically monitored and if they are idle, they have to log out and start shelf stacking or warehousing.

Failure to achieve the scan targets can result in not passing you probation and having to leave.

If you can't keep up, you need to chuck it straight back into your trolley and pack it after you've paid over at the bench. Don't be that person that holds everybody up.

Congratulations to all those who can beat the cashier. New respect to those working on the tills, I had no idea that other supermarkets also had a scan rate.
I line up the conveyor in decreasing weight order, then shove everything back in the trolley as I pack from the trolley into boxes in the my car. It is an MPV so the boot forms a shelter of it is raining, and I’m pretty quick and putting everything away

your packing kung-fu is strong op.🙏

@Damnloginpopup now I'm dead. Years. Its been years. How could you!?

Love this! Will be doing it tomorrow 😂

I work for Tesco and we are told not to start scanning until the customer has all their shopping on the conveyor belt unless they are accompanied of course . If the belt is looking full I do ask if they would like me to start to give them
more room . When I start scanning I am pretty fast but try not to overwhelm the customer especially if they are elderly. I can also manage to have a conversation if the customer wants to chat or ask something . We have plenty of self scan options for speed. Some of our customers are happy to pay a bit more to not be rushed .

Life goals

This should be a sport at the next Olympics. 😀

Yes this 👍 I'm sure Aldi are faster then Lidl's

Oh god I'm normally flustered and close to tears under threat of my shopping being forced off the end of the till in Lidl.

I like some of the food but my god its a stressful experience. If it wasn't my closest shop I'd never go in there.

Tesco home delivery all the way for me.

I roughly do this but I intersperse with occasional fruit and vegetables that have to be weighed in order to slow the cashiers down. These can then go in their own bag.

If I can get a ratio of about 8/10 regular scannable items followed by 1 weighable fruit/veg (or coded bakery item) I can usually beat the cashier.

Getting my own back for the poster around Xmas time.

I didn't even know I was playing THE GAME 😁 until I lost. Same as Whamageddon.

This makes me want to go back to Aldi to see if I can get back into peak form 😂

Some of our customers are happy to pay a bit more to not be rushed .

How does that work?

The whole point of aldi and lidl is that you throw your groceries back into the trolley/basket and then pack into bags in the packing area. That's how they move people quickly and keep prices low. Works very well in Europe, but of course, the Brits have to be all 'oh no, we don't do our shopping like that, I will hold up the entire queue while I try and pack the bags where they shouldn't be packed...

The packing area in our Lidl is shite - it's messy and you get in the way of people trying to get to the exit.

Much better to enter gladiatoral combat with the cashier.

Oh well, that's ok then. Be that person

I don't think @Ginmonkeyagain cares about 'being that person.' What is THAT person anyway? OP has clearly stated that she can pack her bags quickly (in the trolley) so she doesn't have to do it all at the packing shelf. Quite a few people do it in my Lidl, and Aldi, and as long as they are reasonably quick and don't hold up the queue, who cares?

As an ex-cashier, that is just so rude!

You seem to be missing the point. "We" are sorting the shopping into the right bags in the same time as if we'd just shoved it all back into the trolley. No one is held up and the cashiers still scan at their normal speed.