to ask was this pushing in/rude

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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

You were fine! I work at aldi and if someone has a couple of items I'll ask them to come to the till to pay while someone has run back or is still loading their shopping. At aldi it really is get people through the till ASAP and that often means people jump up the queue so long as the one in front isn't left waiting (as I said earlier still loading or has wandered off). Don't worry about it OP

I always let people with considerable less shopping than me go ahead, and why not, it sometimes takes me longer to unload my trolly on to the belt than it takes even a couple of people with a few items to get scanned and pay. Additionally, if I had left my trolly I just couldn't expect everyone to know who I was, where I was and if I was coming back or not. You're fine, shake it off :)

I would have pushed the trolley out of the queue and denied all knowledge of it when they came back

The woman is unreasonable and ridiculous - you did nothing wrong OP!

YANBU. You didn't push in. You shouldn't have apologised to her though. That presumably gave her the impression that you thought you'd been unreasonable. If you hadn't said anything she probably would've just tutted to herself/muttered under her breath.

It's like saving a deckchair by putting your towel on it at 5am, going back to bed for a few hours, and wandering innocently over to take possession of the chair at your leisure.

No, you weren't rude or wrong. Do it again!

You don’t get to reserve a space in the queue at the supermarket.
You were fine she was rude.

I bet she saves sunbeds with towels 6 hours before she needs them too.

No, she thought she was something special and shouldn’t have to wait a turn.

I don't think the OP made a mistake in apologising. How was she supposed to know that her good manners would be mistaken for an admission of wrong doing. I hate when people confuse politeness with weakness.

I didn't realise this was a thing - place saving whilst continuing shopping :/ The Aldi here is quite small, a town centre one quite a way from any parking, and I don't recall anyone using trollies, just those larger wheeled baskets at the most so,no one seems to do a full shop. I find it frustrating to shop there because there is virtually no space beyond the till to pack your bag anyway. The till operators don't seem to be any faster than other supermarkets.

In other supermarkets ( I normally do a trolley shop in Sainsbury's or Waitrose ) it occasionally happens that someone will realise they have forgotten something when some of their stuff is on the belt but the person in front is still being served - they will tell the operator and dash off at speed and come back without disrupting the flow too much. Have done it myself ! Never seen leaving a trolley and just continuing to shop - there seem to be very active checkout supervisors in my local big Sainsbury's, anyway, who would keep an eye on that.

Since I seem to only have experience of a smaller, unrepresentative,, Aldi, what is it about Aldi or Lidl that would cause people to place mark there instead of shopping in a normal way ?

I despise queue jumpers with a passion. OP you werent queue jumping. By the time you were through the checkout she probably only put up two or three items onto the belt. Ignore her and dont think anymore of it.

thanks everyone i did think i wasn't in the wrong but had started to think maybe i was .

The worst queue jumpers I've seen were in a Waitrose near my mum's place (London suburbs). It was so bad they were pissing each other off! Almost every checkout had a half-filled trolley sitting in the way. Pita. That was years ago, mum moved in with us in Devon 12 years ago!

I have been sworn at by some obnoxious bloke and his wife who found I had 'queue jumped' when their trolley was parked by the checkout. When they'd finished abusing me they still had to go off to get more shopping, so they hadn't even been ready then!