Aldi this morning!

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I can't stop wondering if IBU or unfair to other people!

In Aldi this morning and gentleman their with his DW. She clearly has a disability and he was holding her hand, she walked slowly with her hard down and unsteady. I witnessed people barging past in annoyance a few times and was

At check out I went into quiet queue, 1 person in front already unloaded. Queues then all got busy quite quickly and this man came behind me. I was about to offer to swap when the announced the till adjacent to us would open. He went to move over and the person behind him and approaching tolls literally shoved their trollies to the conveyer belt - 1 almost hitting his trolly.

Clearly I'm not BU to think this was entirely wrong and they are arseholes - but AIBU to think Aldi should introduce a disabled till like other stores?

(Btw I did then swap with him and he looked grateful but declined my offer of loading the conveyer belt and I respected this)

a disabled till like other stores?

I've never heard of this ! (YANBU, by the way).

Our local Asda has one. It's lower and wider.

I know some stores have a disabled aisle doubled up as a 10 items and less one. So the queue is also shorter and more accessible and I've always witnessed normal human kindness and them being given priority.

I was actually embarrassed to be part of the human race for a moment this morning. (I also have pmt!)

Some primark stores have a disabled till and you only need to ask and you get served without having to queue as well as it being lower.

My local Iceland stores have 'disabled tills'. They're wider so you can get a wheelchair through and a bit lower so someone in a wheelchair can reach easily. Good on you OP for helping them out. It gets my goat when members of the public take the piss out of disabled people. (I'm disabled myself so I've been on the receiving end a few times myself). I ticked off a school boy on the bus last week for being rude to a deaf woman. She was sitting in front of me,and he sat down next to her,with a huge backpack on,and kept knocking her with it when he turned round to talk to his friend who was standing nearby. After about the 6th time he'd done this,she gestured to him could he stop doing that please. He pretended not to understand her so she tried again,talking in the way in which deaf people tend to talk,and he started mimicking her! I tapped him on the shoulder and said 'Excuse me,the lady is deaf. She is asking you to stop whacking her with your backpack,and you are being very rude to her. Where are your manners?' He muttered something under his breath,got up and went and sat somewhere else.

I usually shop at Aldi as it’s so cheap and convenient.
However cheap and convenient means very poor customer facilities and service.
The till section is the worst part of the experience.
Massive queues, rude staff, rough alcoholics and smelly people (don’t care if I get scorned fo saying that)
And the minute the “till number 4 is now opening” comes over the tannoy it’s a free for all and manners don’t exist.

Our local Asda has one. It's lower and wider.

Ah ! I get you - yes, seen those ...

My ds was actually hilarious the other week in Aldi. A lady was serving and there was no red stopper on the conveyor belt. The cashier was yelling at everyone who went near she was closed and then got frustrated and said "the red number means it's closed".

I just thought it wasn't usual to check the night above the queue but mental note to do it in future.

Ds looked up and said "well if you're colour blind you can't tell the difference so no need to be rude"

I do agree with you, people were being arseholes - but is Aldi really the best place to do a slow shop?

Not an excuse to be a dick though.

is Aldi really the best place to do a slow shop?

It may not be best for a slow shop but it's probably one of the best for a cheap shop! Why should they go elsewhere?

IME the accessible tills in some other stores, are just wider, so you can fit through with a double buggy or a wheelchair, they aren't reserved for people who physically move a bit slower than the rest of the population.
the people who pushed round, rather than indicating the older couple were first, were a bit rude, but you gt that in life sometimes, it's not really the shop's fault.
So, yes, YABU to think they should have a cashier on standby on a private till to serve 'disabled people'..... apart from anything else, what a nightmare trying to decide who was 'disabled enough'.... have you read the regular threads that are started about accessible toilets ?