Insulted over a tin off beans in supermarket

[seekerseeker]

Ahhh in Aldi this morning the queues half way up the isle I'm third in line and standing there minding my own business. When a lady barges past the people behind me and says " I'm just going in front off you because I have only this (points to a can of beans) " i said " no sorry you are not pushing in front off me or anyone else we all have places to be you will have to line up like everyone else" well that didn't go down too well she started shouting that she had a job to go to and if she didn't get out the shop in 3 minutes she would miss her bus blah blah blah I'm disrespectful and she thinks I need a personality transplant & liposuction!! Before I had the chance to say anything she was escorted away from the tills by the security guard and a member off staff to see what the problem was. During that time I had paid for my shopping. Was outside the store waiting for the bus and see her get into a car and drive off. I thought eh she made this big scene over a tin off beans and a late bus but yet left the store with no beans and drove off ?!! Got home told my friend and she said I was out off order for not letting her go before me! Was I in the wrong?

[Miserylovescompany2]

Queues seem to bring the best out in folk. You'll always get one that seems to think its below them to stand behind another as THEIR need/time is more important than anyone else's...

They also have a freakish ability to suddenly develop a tutting disorder or a perpetual sigh?

[diddl]

"the etiquette in Aldi is to let people with only a few items to the front of the queue."

Says who?

People with a few items?

Does that mean that you could be waiting all day if you have a trolleyfull??

[Namechangearoo]

Calm down Patchouli666 it was meant in a lighthearted manner and I apologised in case OP had been genuinely offended. Not my fault you read too far into my explanation, I actually have no qualifications at all and have worked my way up from the bottom, so you were wrong anyhow

[MycatsaPirate]

You get rude people everywhere. Even in waitrose you know!

But yanbu to be annoyed at this woman.

The rule is you stand there and wait to be asked if you'd like to skip ahead or if you are utterly desperate, ask really, really nice, apologise eleventy billion times (in a very Briitsh way) and keep apologising/saying thank you until you are out of the car park.

I once had a guy literally grab my DD by the shoulder and move her in Lidl once. We were looking in a freezer and I had asked her to reach something for me, she was about 5 I think. This guy just grabbed her and pulled her away from the freezer. I think that's one of the very few times I've had a red mist descend. It escalated extremely quickly and resulted in him being removed from the store before I shoved him in the freezer and locked him in

I just can't abide rudness. At all. From anyone. Whether they are 6 or 66. Just be nice ffs.

[Kirstyinnorway]

I miss Aldi, might have to try and get a visit in on my next trip back to the UK.



P.s. I think I'd actually rather be corrected on my grammar if I'd made a mistake, it seemed to be said in a friendly way...

[DadDadDad]

Marmite - ha! when I joked about someone in Waitrose with their fancy olives, I did toy with making the item organic hummus. You couldn't make it up, obviously.

[wideboy26]

A while ago in our local Sainsbury's I was waiting in a short queue at the customer service counter to have some nectar points from a previous visit added to my account. Along came a nicely spoken, well-dressed older lady with a basket of items and in a real charm offensive she asked if she could pay at the desk because the queues at the check-outs were too long and she couldn't work "those things", pointing at the self-serve check-outs. Her charm offensive worked on the lady at the desk and completely disarmed me, but I thought to myself what an entitled old faggot. Life is too short to get upset over such small matters, but then when it came to paying, her card wouldn't work or she had insufficient money or something. I can't remember exactly what the problem was, but it added a few more minutes to the queueing time of the rest of us. People really do take some believing at times.

[expatinscotland]

YANBU. There's no fucking 'Aldi etiquette'. Who stands around noticing what people behind them in a queue have? 'I'm just going to push past you.' 'No, you won't.' End.

[PuppyMonkey]

Lots of people who don't understand, this is simply the way Aldi tills work. There ought to be lessons in school.

You are supposed to let a person with few items in front - not lots of people, just one. however, they ought to wait to be invited not push through.

I will happily do a short video presentation on this later for those still unsure.

[PuppyMonkey]

No Aldi etiquette

[Spybot]

She could have asked nicely but didn't. That's what you get when you are rude!

[TondelayaDellaVentamiglia]

and just remembered. last time I offered a chap to go on ahead, he said "no worries, it's only the dog waiting for me at home, I have all day to myself since my wife died"

...dh was with me and made all the right conversation with wifeless man, I was practically weeping in the car on the way home.
He was buying a camera birdbox to keep himself busy

:(

[jcne]

hahhhahahaa. wow. sounds like you have been lucky enough to encounter one of natures true nutters out in the wild.

[BroomstickOfLove]

It absolutely is the Aldi way. They don't have express/basket tills, and it is the done thing to keep an eye out as you are unloading your trolley for someone approaching with a basket. You carry on putting your stuff on the conveyor belt, and they take the basket up to the cashier for speedy check-out.

Often the basket person will have paid before I've unloaded my trolley.

[PuppyMonkey]

Damn right Broomstick - you can always spot the newbie who doesn't understand the skills required and think it's the same rules as Waitrose.

[OhGodWhatTheHellNow]

I would always let the small basketter go before me, as it would give me a few more precious seconds to unload my family shop onto the conveyor and get the trolley to the other end before the wombat checkout operator starts chucking it over the floor scanner.

More self-interest than generosity

[MitzyLeFrouf]

Anyone who barged in front of me at a supermarket queue and then proceeded to tell me I needed liposuction would be wearing that tin of beans. In their rectum.

[shovetheholly]

Agree with PPs that anything that causes a delay in the 60mph Aldi checkout is welcome! (When I go to Sainos now, it feels like living at half speed).

Seriously, life is too short to get so riled up over a can of baked beans! (On both sides).

[expatinscotland]

Been shopping in Lidl for 15 years and Aldi for 8. Nope, not 'the done thing' everywhere, Broomstick.

[BroomstickOfLove]

Yes - I look out hopefully gor a basket person to ease the pressure while I decide whether a bag of satsumas goes before or after a loaf of bread on the heavy to light/fragile conveyer belt order.

[MrsBlennerhassett]

if i had a massive shop and someone behind me just had a tin of beans i would probably offer for them to go first. If they just pushed in front of me before id offered i would have reacted the same as you! YANBU

[fleuricle]

she was also a fibbing moo-bag too if she claimed to be scared of missing her bus but then got in her car?

[FourForYouGlenCoco]

Tondelaya waaaahhhing with you how heartbreaking, bless him.

OP YANBU.

Aldi/Lidl etiquette is definitely a thing, I quite often let people go ahead of me. I've usually got a huge trolleyful and would feel a right dickhead making someone wait behind me if they're only buying a few things. One day when I was really relaxed and not in a hurry I let TWO people in front of me

[MintToBe]

She said she was late for the bus but drove off in a car. Bloody muppet. Good for you. You were not being unreasonable at all.

[Mrsglitterfairy]

She sounds like a right nutjob!! As a lot of PPs have said, I would usually offer for someone who only had a couple of bits to go in front of me if I had a full shop but she shouldn't have expected it and how strange to go off on one like that....