to be mildly miffed by ALDI shopper?

[charleyfarleysaunt]

Yeah, I know I'll get flamed, but I have just got to vent... on the way home tonight I nipped in to ALDI and the woman in front just didn't seem to know how to ALDI (this should be a verb)

She had a full trolley (I had a basket with 4 items in - no, I didn't expect to go in front of her although it might have been nice ) which she proceeds to unload on to the conveyor belt ONE FECKING ITEM AT A TIME. Seriously... one thing at time and then rearranging everything to the extent that by the time she had finished faffing about the poor checkout assistant had already filled that little space at the end of the till

And then... she carefully lined up her bags in her trolley and faffed even more putting everything in to bags ONE ITEM AT A TIME...

Seriously? It's not Waitrose... or ASDA... there is bloody great shelf for packing your stuff away - you bung your stuff on the conveyor belt then bung it back in your trolley and THEN faf about packing on the shelf they so nicely provide for you! It's a speedy shopping place

The entire queue behind you, you drippy mare was getting very annoyed; could you not feels the waves of irritation wafting your way????

Oh, and if they staff are actually marked on speed you have buggered up the poor, patient assistant's stats tonight

(Thank feck one of my 4 items was wine - it goes well with venting)

I have to say I pack straight into bags but if you open them all and line them up in the trolley it is just as quick as piling everything back into the trolley. My shopping bags are not very well organised though as it doesn't really matter too much to me as long as bread, eggs etc don't get squashed and I vaguely have all he cold stuff together.

I've never been in an aldi but it would never occur to me to put stuff back in the trolley & then pack it elsewhere

I shop at Aldi and I've seen this a few times, the checkout operator should say "for future reference...." etc

I've seen one checkout person tell a slow person to hurry up and this isn't how we do things and you pack at the shelf - this guy then turned to me and said "Did you hear that - she's being so rude" and I said "I can see you're new but this is how it's done here".

He left saying he'd never come back. Thank goodness.

I pack at the till. I am incredibly fast and well practised though it's probably my only skill.

Actually I think I admire people who refuse to be forced into their way of doing things. Just because they want you to do things a certain way (for their own profits) does not mean you have to if it doesn't suit you.
Fair play to Madam Dithery, I say.

've never been in an aldi but it would never occur to me to put stuff back in the trolley & then pack it elsewhere

Well now you know

Also if you position your trolley right at the end of the belt it prevents people from loading their shopping on before you finish. People have no sense of needed space sometimes.

Small trolley lined with Ikea bag. Hurl everything in. If you've loaded the conveyer belt right, it ends up the right way up in the bag. Simples.

I was once miffed by a breach of Aldi basket protocol. I had a basket, mainly bulked with loaves of bread so no more than 4 or 5 items and was pipped by a bulging basket. To add insult to injury, another member of the party turned up with a second bulging basket to add to the first making a veritable trolley worth! Sneaky feckers.

It's easy to pack at the till if you sort your shopping in the trolley as you go round... So all the flat boxed stuff goes on the converyor belt first, then you make sure your bags are open in the trolley.

As the cashier chucks them at you everything just goes in the bags same as it would if you were putting it in the trolley itself

I do the basket over trolley at any shop to be fair, I think that's just manners...

In our Aldi, on sundays, you move along with the hordes - if you miss an item there is no turning back - it would be like salmon trying to swim up stream!

Staff are friendly, I find,

I second the IKEA bag approach. One for cold, one for ambient. Chuck the food in. Job's a good 'un.

www.lakeland.co.uk/24862/4-Reusable-Supermarket-Shopping-Trolley-Bags---Deep
I have these and people always ask where I got them for my Lidl shopping (no Aldi where I live but it's the same principle) they're fantastic

Aldi and lidl are cheap. They are cheap because they have minimal staff and no frills presentation. The staff work bloody hard to keep the store manageable between jumping on and off tills. Twat bags who think it's ok to dawdle at the tills because they don't like being told what to do mess with the entire ecosystem of the shop and mean the low staff cheap food model doesn't work properly.

Either prepare your bags at the checkout and pack FAST or chuck everything in the trolley and organise it on the shelf. Don't be a dawdling twat bag.

I saw someone using these the other day. Impressive.

Trolley Bags

X post viking, are you in Worcestershire by any chance?

I've never been in an aldi but it would never occur to me to put stuff back in the trolley & then pack it elsewhere

It's a good job you stumbled upon this thread then.

God forbid you wander into your local Aldi and expected to carefully pack your shopping as it was scanned!

I love the challenge of trying to get things into a bag as quickly as the checkout operator can throw it in my general direction. More shops should operate this way.

Oops guess that's aldi added to my "don't shop here with an invisible disability" list 😂

Ooooh I'm glad I happened upon this thread. We're getting an Aldi in my town soon. I usually shop in Waitrose.

You will miss the wine bar and the sushi bar Decaff, there's none of that at Aldi. No Olive Bar either.

No need, all you have to do is say something and they'll help you like anywhere else.

I hope this translates ok from the link, but I have these bags that clip to the trolley sides. Fill yer boots, and then re fill at the till. Great.

www.google.ie/search?q=shopping+trolley+bags&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiF5uf2o83VAhVjCcAKHUzLD1kQsAQIcQ&biw=1920&bih=974#imgrc=Da2JCUYBCL7LGM:

Xposts

I think I'd be far too scared to venture into an Aldi. I'll stick with Waitrose self scan. Much safer.

Haha! No sparkling I'm pretty much at the other end of the country (my handle is a clue ) but glad they're becoming more common, they're worth every penny. No more having to buy bags at the checkout to add to the pile I have in a cupboard already! unless I forget them, in which case I have to spend 3 quid on a Star Wars one or some such nonsense!