Is your Aldi checking that your shopping bags are empty before you pack?

[Sunshineandrainbow]

Or is it just mine?
Cashier is checking that your bags are empty before you pack. Some are asking them to go on the convveyor belt with shopping.

It happened to me for the first time a few weeks ago, and again last week

Policy according to our store, due to the huge rise in shoplifting

yes ours started doing this about a year ago

Not as far as I'm aware. I normally use the self checkout to be fair, but if I do go through the manned tills they just want to throw my stuff through at the speed of sound as usual. No time for bag checks.

Yep. And shopping trolleys/buggies too.

Yes and my local Tesco too.

No. Not yet anyway.

No. At least not this weekend. I'd been to home bargains and had a bag full which I took into Aldi to get a couple of things.
Mind you, it's only since November that we've had a security person visibly in store.

How does this work? You might have a bag that already has things in it (and did before you went into the shop). Not everyone is going into shops with empty shopping bags ready to be loaded into the boot.

Eh? What if you've been somewhere else and bought stuff prior to going in Aldi?

I don't shop in Aldi. This is a reason why. It's none of their beeswax what I've already bought from other shops that day - they could be personal or prescription items for example. The other reason is our local Aldi has very poor standards of cleanliness. Plus I'd rather not have my shopping thrown at me.

Yes and I take it personally. I’ve never stolen anything in my life but somehow seem to be untrustworthy. I haven’t been as much recently

Yes. Have been for a while too

Yes. I'm in Hampshire.

Yes, there are checks of this sort in our local Aldi.
Perfectly understable as shoplifting is absolutely rife.
The staff are extremely pleasant and respectful.

They have zero right to look in your personal bags, pockets, purses, body cavities etc

Not now as we have a brand new security guard.

I'm in Melbourne, and Aldi started off like this when they opened up in mid-2000s. I still go in with just my card.

Bunnings (Bluey's Hammer Barn) have always reserved the right to see your receipts when you leave and there's always someone there to do it. I loathed being treated like a thief when I first got here, but am innured to it now.

Yes, CoL has also resulted in rocketing shoplifting, often to order, and with violence offered to intervening shop staff.

Yes mine do, and asked me to turn my pushchair around to see that the basket underneath was empty I guess? I didn't go in for ages after that but now I will if I'm on my own with no pushchair. Last time I was in I seen a guy kicking off and refused to lift his bags up in the trolley to show that they were empty. Don't really get why the cashiers have to do this though. What are the security and cameras for

Yes, literally lift up the bags and that's it
They don't always check but I've been going there since it opened (newer store) and I always seem to get the same assistant

They've never looked in my bag, they just pick up the bags or ask me to so they can see you haven't stashed a litre of vodka and some steak under them
I've been in with other bags (b&m is next door) and had a separate bag they've never looked in

I'm amazed they have time for this!

I have my bags in the trolley ready to speed pack and they started checking them before scanning just a few weeks ago. I understand it's because of a huge rise in shoplifting. It doesn't bother me, I get it, but I've seen people be mortally offended and shout at the cashier.

They don't.

Have they started looking in people's body cavities then?