To think that you do not adhere to the packing protocol in Aldi, you should be banned?

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It's not hard. It's load. Pack into trolley. Pay. Go and pack your shopping up like a snail at your own pace at the packing shelf.

I think that Aldi should employ someone with one of those big hoops on a long pole and when someone looks like they are going to start limp-wristedly packing their bags at the till/mouthbreathing over cashier going too fast, the hoop man gets the faffer around the neck with the hoop and drags them out. They are then banned from Aldi for ever.

Banhammered from Aldi, ha ha ha ha! The shame!

Wow Lucy, chill

A checkout cashier (possibly tautologous for the die hard pedants) told me that they are "told off" if they did not scan quickly enough. she mentioned an absurd number like 1000 items a minute... but don't quote me on that.

I love Aldi and am a recent recession victim convert. One of the things I love is seeing the Waitrose Wallies looking at things as if they have a stripe of poo under their noses.

The fast packing is great! Get in, get your stuff, get out.

I thought that this normally indicated that the poster was grinning and not taking things seriously? Have I misunderstood?
When I'm feeling un-chilled I do this

I like how ranty your posts were, hence the

I will still pack into my waitrose bags in aldi/lidl though (very quickly, and probably faster than I could load into the trolley) even if I get scowls :)

Lucyinthepie I didn't say I didn't like it. I am going to shop there with an open mind. People say the products are very good. And be assured I wouldn't DARE put my goods into bags at the till. It's more than my life is worth! As I said earlier, it's only shopping! Not worth stressing over!

I must defend Aldi staff.

Efficiency doesn't cancel out politeness. They ARE polite, just in a different way. My favourite person that works there does talk to you whilst he's scanning, but he is focussed on what he is doing. He is lovely and helpful and very intelligent. But I still get my stuff paid for and out quickly. I prefer this, really. I am SICK to the back teeth of the one girl in Sainsbury's who every time I go in, takes an age to scan each thing and insists on telling me that she has just qualified as a primary school teacher. I don't care, love. I don't mind chatting to you if you can process my stuff at a quicker rate but if it's impeding you and making you go even slower, just the usual formalities will be fine!

Aldi - YEAH that's FAST supermarket culture!!

No flies on them - you don't DARE mess about at the till. There's no room to mess about anyway - just get it in your trolley mega fast!!

Oooh I'm a bit worried about shopping in Aldi now. Is it full of grumpy, impatient people looking daggers at you because it takes more than 0.000434 seconds to get through the till? Please, tell me it's worth it!

My auntie is a cashier in Sainsburys and they are told to chat to customers. Sainsburys cashiers nark me off. Hence internet shopping (and from Tesco, because the Sainsburys store they send internet deliveries to my house from couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery).

Our local aldi used to have an over enthusiastic cashier who typed in codes much faster than you could possibly put them into the trolley. Now though we have no problems. cashiers fast but breakables/fragile things put to the side by cashier.

Aldi has a high quality of good and is still cheaper. I shop here, sainsburys and merks and spencers. Great for steak mince, free range organic chicken, cold meats, parmesan and other cheeses, dishwasher tablets and their wine and champagne is great.

Chocolate at Aldi is fucking unbelievable.

Their salt and vinegar crisps make me weep with delight.

Thought you would all like to know that.

YY chocolate - 85% cocoa, 125g in five separate mini-blocks, 99p. Same for 70%. Fantastic truffles, pralines and suchlike, plus perfect clones of Snickers and Mars bars VV good for cakes and biscuits, too.

Their bread's a bit wussy and so is their yoghurt imo.

I went for the first time last week and didn't know the 'protocol'. Is that why she was firing all my shopping at me, literally throwing it as I tried to quickly pack into my bags? It was most bizarre and surreal.

I am currently relishing Aldi's French-style ground coffee with Aldi's fake Bailey's and a ginormous wedge ladylike slice of Aldi's Irish Whiskey cake, following a fabulous Aldi free-range chicken baked in my Aldi slow-cooker with herbs & veg from Aldi.

I'd change my name to aldiwhore if it wasn't already taken [hgrin]

Yep, sozzled! So did you think your shopping value made up for the checkout speed trials?

Shit is that what you are meant to do - I just thought the place was full of rude sucky teeth types with no social skills. thanks for tellling me

'Banned from Aldi' could be the Western version of the 'untouchable' caste.

garlic - not sure. Somethings sure were cheap and i did say wonderously to some auld biddy in the isles that it 'was ever so cheap' in a slightly conspiratorial way. I did start to get all huffy and Hyacinth Bucket at the till treatment, thinking 'this would never go down at Sainsbos' but was too busy trying to save my mangos and brie from the checkout op to actualy say anything. Have been back once and complied with expected protocol and now feel like an Aldi member.

welcome [hsmile]

I maintain that if you have more than 4 items on the little bit after the cashier then they should start throwing the shopping into your trolley. It'll sped up the precious types....

I refuse to go to the place for this very reason. Our local Aldi doesn't let you not pack - they're pretty forceful in telling you what their packing protocol is, as I found out the first (and only) time I went there as the stuff was being chucked at me at roughly the speed of sound.

What on earth is the point of doing a huge shop, unpacking it onto the belt, putting it back in your trolley, paying, and then going over to another part of the shop to transfer it all from the trolley into shopping bags. Fine if you've got a few items, but anything more and it becomes the faffiest faff in the whole of faffdom.

Aldi is awesome. I love it. Been shopping there for years before it's recently become trendy.

One tip I've learned to do at Aldi though is put the uncrushable stuff at the front of the belt and the crushables at the back. That way you stand a chance of keeping up with the checkout staff by simply scooping everything off and into the trolley without any real need to think about what you are about to crush.

Downside is it's all backwards when you do go to back but you have more time then.

Scary how you can still barely keep up though when all you are doing is using your arm to push everything into the trolley. But it's like a challenge!

Their gourmet jelly beans are just as good as jelly bellys and a fraction of the price. They also do some amazing deals on relly premium wines at xmas.

Not sure if I'm selling out my pinciples by going back after the checkout op chucking my stuff at me, she only had to say. It's really not on whether that's their protocol or not, feeling quite sniffy at the memory.

If you think that, even allowing for store protocol, service was substandard you should say.

After that it comes down to choice thought doesn't it.