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to ask was this pushing in/rude

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chickennuggetsfortea · 31/03/2018 14:30

i went to Aldi this morning and as i was paying rememberd i has forgotten butter and cheese. so i paid and while my husband went back to the car i went back round.
when i got to the till there was a full shopping trolley left at the end of the check out. i waited a few minutes and in that time two more shoppers joined me at the till. i said i wasn't sure whos the trolley was and as the conveyer belt was now almost empty i put my shopping on it .
The lady of the trolley then came back and i said i was sorry i waited a few minutes and when you didnt appear i put my shopping on the belt.
she told me i had no right to push in .i said i hadn't really as she had walked away she said i was very rude and had i never forgotten aything .i said i had but wouldn't begrudge anyone going in front of me while i ran back

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chickennuggetsfortea · 31/03/2018 14:31
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Juells · 31/03/2018 14:33

That's along the lines of "It's bum's as keeps seats, not hats"

mimibunz · 31/03/2018 14:33

You were fine. If you had rocked up with your own full trolley then that would have been rude, but you had a couple of items. And she walked away!

GreatDuckCookery6211 · 31/03/2018 14:35

I wouldn't have minded but I would have been surprised I think. You did push in.

AsAProfessionalPenis · 31/03/2018 14:38

Of course you didn't push in, nobody was waiting in front of you

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 31/03/2018 14:38

I know in Aldi/Lidl there seems to be an etiquitte of letting someone in front if they have 1 -2 items and the other has a trolley.

I was in Lidl a while back, the man in front of me had 2-3 things and put the divider down, then pushed it back saying his wife was "just getting a few things" .
Along comes the wife with a fecking trolley full of lemonade bottles maybe 20 bottles.
Easy enough, scan one x 20.
Then she asks the cashier to add the price of 4 pints of milk and she's run back to get it. Cashier said "No, I need the item"
Women huffs about why she didn't know the barcode for milk Hmm but decided against it.

Eventually they finished I said "Here's a novel idea, get your shopping THEN come to the checkout" , they were Hmm

catchyjem · 31/03/2018 14:41

I would have assumed the trolly was abandoned and shoved it out the way!

pudcat · 31/03/2018 14:44

You did not push in. What are you and all the others in the queue supposed to do? Wait til she came back? She could have been another 5 or 10 mins. I removed someone's basket the other as they were not there. I had just finished putting my last item through when she returned. Some folk are so self centred and selfish.

LockedOutOfMN · 31/03/2018 14:47

You didn't push in, OP.

Bluelady · 31/03/2018 14:53

Of course you didn't push in. She must have been having a bad day if she got arsey over two items.

troodiedoo · 31/03/2018 14:53

You didn't push in. Snooze you lose!

InsomniacAnonymous · 31/03/2018 14:55

What she did was use her trolley to save her place in the queue. That's not acceptable. You did nothing wrong OP.

DextroDependant · 31/03/2018 14:55

You were fine to do as you did.

diddl · 31/03/2018 14:55

So there was a trolley in the queue & no one being served?

I would have thought that the cashier would have called you over anyway.

Pettynotvindictive · 31/03/2018 14:59

You can't mark a space in a queue for cashier with a unmanned trolley!
I would have moved it too back of queue and told staff, in my local Aldi you can't do that at all.
You were more than reasonable

Scabetty · 31/03/2018 15:00

About 10 years ago I left 7 yo and 5 yo with trolley at back if in long queue while I grabbed bread. On return woman had told them to move and let her in front. I had a loud word there😡

Eveforever · 31/03/2018 15:02

You did initially wait, which is what I would've done, but when the conveyor belt becomes free you're going to look like a berk if you keep waiting behind an unattended trolley. The other shopper was being unreasonable. Either she didn't believe that you waited at all, or she thinks it's reasonable to expect people stand behind her trolley for an indefinite period of time even though that would make you look like passive idiots.

Camiila · 31/03/2018 15:02

I hate this culture of saving yourself a place at the check out with either an unmanned trolley or a friend with no shopping, and I never let it go quietly. I have been known to insist the manager is called and the people who are saving themselves a place be made to go to the back of the queue

Take a stand against this!

Joinourclub · 31/03/2018 15:03

You can't push in front of someone who is not there to push in front of!

TidyDancer · 31/03/2018 15:05

Anyone who abandons their trolley loses their place in the queue imo. The shopper marks their place, not the trolley. That includes the cheeky bastards who shop in pairs and one of them holds a place in the queue while the other is the actual shopper.

Orangecake123 · 31/03/2018 15:06

Nope. You've done nothing wrong!

RadioGaGoo · 31/03/2018 15:07

You didn't push in OP. Its bloody entitled to just leave a trolley at a checkout to carry on shopping and expect everyone to wait for you. Surprised that anyone would think you pushed in.

AjasLipstick · 31/03/2018 15:09

I don't like it....people leaving trollies and dashing off. If you don't get back in time, then I'm next.

Loobyloomicles · 31/03/2018 15:10

I don't think you pushed in at all, as you waited and she still wasn't there.

Also, I think in Aldi and Lidl the checkout rules are completely different as it's all about speed. She was being unreasonable to leave her trolley there as it wasn't as if there was a huge queue and she'd lose her place (if there had been a queue, you'd have been behind her when she left).

AnoiaUnstickMyDrawers · 31/03/2018 15:11

I was in tesco the other week, full trolley, no shopping on the belt, no person with the trolley. A group of 3 or 4 people behind it looking confused. The till operator called us forward and just as I was paying (I was last) the phantom trolley owner returned and started moaning at me about pushing in. I told her no one knew what was going on, we thought the trolley had been abandoned, and we were the 4th people to be served while she was MIA. She huffed a bit, put a couple of bits on the belt from the trolley and buggered off again! The check out woman couldn't believe what was happening and was calling the supervisor over as I left. People are weird.