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.

Sometimes I have mine checked sometimes not in Aldi. But the big Sainsburys near me has now put up barriers at the entrance and moved all the flowers within the barriers whereas they used to be on you way out. There definitely must be a rise in shoplifting. I can’t believe how much I’m spending sometimes for what I’m actually getting. I’m doing more meal plans to get the most out of what I have. Without a doubt people are stealing things like cheese and meat as they’re the more expensive basics.

why would anyone object ? Apart from those who have something to hide?

Apart from the insulting assumption that you're a thief, you mean? fine if you're OK with being treated like that, some of us aren't.

I had a bag in my trolley that had things in it from a neighbouring shop. The checkout person said "Oh, what did you get?" whilst proceeding to pull the bag towards him and look in it. It was all very nicely done if you could excuse the rudeness but I did feel like the bag was being checked. I'm considering going back to the car between shops next time.

There is a rise in shoplifting though,everywhere is being cautious I think. Sainsburys in a small market town near us, wont let you out without showing receipt at the gate!

I always assume those types are the shop lifters trying to detract from their immorality 🤣

If you shop in Waitrose and use the self shop handsets they will stop you periodically. The shop assistant comes over with a handset and checks that a percentage of your shop ( presumably the meat,the alcohol, nice toiletries) has scanned. Before they do it they will ask if everything scanned successfully. At that point you can say "Oh I don't think both bottles of wine scanned" They know you were attempting to pinch it so do you. All they care about is stopping you doing it. Presumably you'll be checked more often after that. It doesn't matter how inappropriate you think it is and how appalled you feel. People are stealing everything that's not tied down. They don't look' like a thief'. I dare say the most successful ones look as if they couldn't possibly ever steal.

Why obviously not personal bags? You could just as easily hide an item in a personal bag and I would use a personal bag to pack my shopping into if just going in for a top up shop.

I would find this a huge breach of my personal space and I'd refuse to do it.

yes, but we've never been asked to prove they're empty, we fold ours flat, so when we pull them out of our handbag at the checkout, they can see they're empty as they're folded into flat quarter size.

Not at my local Aldi. If they did I would not be offended. I use a big cube shaped shopping trolley and place the supermarket basket on top to load as I shop. I always use the self checkouts as I can only use one hand properly and the fast staffed checkouts end up with my shopping on the floor. Staff would be welcome to check my shopping trolley if they wished to do so.

I was quizzed about items I had in my bag that I'd just bought from a shop next door

Not had that at Aldi but our local Asda have completely changed the layout at the entrance and there is always always some staff at the security desk

Do you object to your suitcases being scanned at the airport, because they are assuming you are a terrorist? Do you object to go through a metal detector to get into an important building, as they are assuming you are carrying a knife and are a murderer? All these things are to protect everyone, they aren’t assuming you are anything. The supermarket doesn’t assume everyone is a shoplifter, but buy checking everyone’s bags when shifting is rife in the store, it stops the prices going up for everyone.

I don't get that at all
My empty bags are in the trolley, they spin the trolley the right way round and say "am I ok to lift your bags/can you lift them"
I lift them and that's it

They're not delving in anything, it takes 2 seconds if that, they're literally checking the trolley is empty and you've put everything on the belt. It's not going through your handbag or other shopping

Our Farmfoods staff have a code between them, they know who the shoplifters are, the tills are a step up so workers can see over the isles and the positioning of isles have also changed. They have a huge problem with shoplifters, not just young kids either

Staff are told that they have to do this by management and will get into trouble if they don't do it.

Yes, they checked last time I was in there, first time ever.

if they suspect - because they saw you, for eg - that you have shoved things in your personal bag then sure, they can detain you and call the police.

If you are bringing bags into a shop to use to pack your shopping in afterwards, in what world is it impinging on your reputation to ask to check them quickly before you start the checkout routine? Have you never been to a gig and had to open your handbag for a quick security inspection? it's the same kind of thing.

and that is fine. Shop elsewhere. But it is becoming more and more a thing as a) people are finally bringing reusable bags/boxes to pack their shopping in and b) shoplifting is a massive growth industry.

When every shop is doing it, where will you shop then?

Can’t blame them - there’s so much shoplifting now.

I don’t use Aldi, but Sainsbury’s always objects to my shopping bag (heavy duty cotton) at the self checkout, it evidently thinks I’ve got some nicked item in it. Always had to call an assistant over - so irritating. So now I don’t pack anything until I’ve paid. Which means longer for the next person to wait, but tough.

i will never shop in aldi again after i went in to get something they didn't have and my baby was crying, couldn't get out of the shop so went out through the entrance and a staff member chased me and took the blanket off my baby and looked through my pram!!!!!

We have trolley bags in the trolley, ready to throw everything in, ( in an orderly fashion), so it’s easy to peer over the conveyor belt to see.

I don’t mind. I don’t take things and I mind that the cost of my shopping rises because too many other people think it’s OK to steal. The amount of shoplifting that goes on is just ridiculous now. We’ll be going back to counters and produce behind glass soon.

No.

No, I've read about Aldi doing this so I keep half expecting it but they are not doing it so far.
They don't have any security either.

They've been doing this in Aldi Germany for at least 10 years.
I don't see what the problem is. They ask you to lift up the shopping bags so they can check the trolley is empty and then they take a quick look in the bags. I don't take bags into Aldi which contain items from other shops. I appreciate that's not the same for everyone - if you are shopping without a car for example and have to have all of your bags with you.
They do it because shoplifting is rife. Food is costing more and more and more people are lifting stuff. I think it's good they check. If too much stuff is lifted the costs of that get passed on to all the other customers with price rises.