To think that people shopping in Aldi shouldn’t insist on packing bags at checkout

[Shell4429]

Just, this. I was shopping tonight and two customers in front of me did this and I was really annoyed. While waiting I thought that Aldi should charge a fee for people who do this. It’s not fair on customers who do it the correct way. A surcharge would work, like it did with carrier bags. If everyone insisted on doing this surely it would drive prices up.

Lweji

Oh come on, you know what I mean, I don't need a Brexit lecture. I voted Remain btw, for the absence of doubt about me having a Lidl based political agenda.

I didn't say it was the case in all European countries either, just that it's an effective solution. And that packing your bag twice is batshit.

I'm fucking off back to the feminist board, it's mental here. I rarely post on AIBU but today I have learned that packing shopping threads exposes you to the threat of being called an 'entitled cunt' and are even more scarey than the dog threads.

Badcat
"But if you use a basket at my Aldi you have to leave it behind once you have put all your shopping on the belt. So you can't take your basket with you as they come and collect them like sneaky ninjas. So how it that meant to work? "

Yes, this is very true. But if you are just using a basket or a bag, presumably you are also an 'entitled cunt' for not waiting another 5 days so that you have enough shopping to fill a trolley.

I get you OP! Maybe a fine is a bit much, but it’s one of my bugbears when people don’t follow the rules of Aldi/Lidl!

I first used Aldi back in the late 90’s. It was very strict back then - the staff remembered all the prices, empty trolley waiting to load your stuff into then yours went did the next person and cash/debit card only (no credit cards or cheques). Now they’ve become popular people seem to think they can act like they do in Tesco etc and then THEY end up moaning that they are being rushed or the cashier doesn’t chat etc!

At the end of the day they keep their prices low by keeping staff numbers down. That is the reason people shop there. So do your bit people - either pack at the same rate the cashier scans OR put everything straight into your trolley then pack at the shelf of your car. For those that say about only holding up a minute or two, of every customer did this that’s a considerable amount of time over the day and therefore would mean that they need to employ more staff - which ultimately means a rise in costs.

Of course if someone is disabled and therefore cannot either keep up or do it at the packing bench (because they can’t reach or something) that’s different. If it’s because they have young kids with them or are older and just slower then I’m sorry but you should use the packing shelf. As someone else said - you would probably be the first to moan if the prices go up, despite you being the direct reason for it!

breastfeedingclownfish

LMAO!! yes, also I sometimes I take a granny shopping trolley with me if I need to get heavy items (I don't drive) so I can throw everything in it whilst using my "entitled cunt" smile at those using trolleys.

Yeah bitches, that's right.. look at me just bunging my stuff into my granny shopping trolley. Go straight past the packing shelves and collect £200..... tries to do some "on trend" finger clicking

I think you just need to STOP supermarket shopping and do it online!

I stormed out of an Aldi the other morning! I didn’t have a coin for the trolley (first time user and didn’t know you needed them there) so had to fill up my basket as much as possible which made it really hard to carry and I was really struggling while trying to find things I wanted. Got to the tills and only 2 were open and both tailed back up the aisles with trolley fulls. I kind of through my basket down and stormed out. Fuck that...

I always pack at the till but I’m fast. Like others have said I pack the conveyor belt all cans together all frozen together, bread and crushable things last. I do occasionally end up holding the cashiers hand as I go to grab something as they scan it. I think I’ll be the first person banned from Aldi for this.

These so called rules make me laugh. I don't go to Aldi or Lidl that often but when I do I pack at the till and so does everybody else around me.

Not once have I been chastised for doing so. Neither has anyone else around me.

I went there this week and packed into my bags in the trolley. Nobody died.

I've shopped at Aldii for years. I used to pack at the packing counter. But when plastic bags started were deemed, quite rightly, the devil's work, I invested in some reusable shopping bags. Aldi sell some too. I line the trolley with them open and place shopping in themas I go. When I reach the till I unload heavy things first etc. I fling everything back into the bags at the same speed as the checkout staff. It saves all that faff at the packing shelf as there is often not enough room on busy days.

*started to be deemed

We don't have an Aldi, only a Lidl but I assume it's a similar set up. There's a packing area but it's always got little kids climbing all over it and running along it, so I've never used it and always do mine at the till.

This morning I was there and some packed at the shelf, others at the till. There were many customers doing as I do,

There is a new Lidl in town and that has been built without a packing shelf so they obviously are moving away from that expectation.

I use those colour coded trolly bags at till,which are very quick as straight in. Aldi were actually selling the pack of 3 colour coded trolly bags like mine last year,they are designed for belt to trolly so if Aldi have a problem why did they sell them?

I did not know about this procedure.
I might be one of those annoying people. Oops.

I never realised there was some sort of Aldi protocol. The times I've been in there in recent years I've never seen anyone use the packing shelf and we never have.
Charge a fee? Yeah that'll go down well with the general public who would probably change to shopping elsewhere.

Pinklady1982
I'm confused. Did someone force you to enter Aldi? It sounds like you had an awful experience and were right to storm out.

Did you manage to get your shopping done elsewhere in the end?

I'm really confused at this post. Firstly i've never and never would shop at Aldi anyway but i have never been at any supermarket where people don't pack their shopping at the checkout as its going through the till. Where are we supposed to pack it? I presume throw it in the trolley and then pack it outside in the cold by the car? I pack my shopping as its coming through and i do it as quickly as i can but steadily. If other people in the queue don't like that then its tough luck.

Entitled, much ? svalentine60 Do you drive the wrong way up a one way street because you fancy it ? Then talk loudly with your neighbour in the theatre or pictures, and make notes in the margins of books you borrow from a library ?
In life, if you choose to go to a supermarket that saves you both time and money, then you have to be willing to work to the way they have found works best. No-one is kidnapping people and making them shop in Aldi, it's something people can opt in to if they want to. What is selfish and entitled would be to opt in, and then try to obstruct the system.
I suspect Aldi shoppers everywhere are very glad you never would shp at Aldi and hold everyone up, but, as you never have, and never would, then why bother commenting on a thread about something you clearly don't know anything about ?

Get over yourself and shop online if your times so precious.Jeeez.

Or, NutElla5x, here's an idea, why don't you go to one of the other 4 or 5 main Supermarket chains that work the way you like to shop, and let people who prefer to shop a different way do that in peace without being held up ?

I've seen signs in store in Lidl and Aldi.

Aldi and Lidl have packing shelves for customers to move to once their items have been registered and placed back in the trolley. This is to try and prevent shoppers being held up in queues. I admit I do sometimes put shopping straight into a bag but only if there is no-one in the queue behind me. If only used a basket then shopping has to be packed at till. Why do folk think there are packing shelves?

I pack at the till and I’m not about to stop! I have a back condition and find the whole leaving into the trolley to unload it really causes me pain, so I’m buggered if I’m going to do it twice! I do, however, have a system for loading on the belt, and have three large bags which perfectly fit in a trolley, so takes me no longer to pack than it would to just lob it back in the trolley.

In my Aldi they have packers who do it for you

I'm fucking off back to the feminist board, it's mental here

Fine. Just don't go there and tell the UK how (no) feminists do it in Europe.

sashadasher
If packing into bags is as quick as in the trolley then using the packing bench, nobody cares.

There's loads of us on here who do just that.

What's annoying is the people who let their stuff build up right on the end whilst they get their bags, then faff with them, then haven't got food in the right order on the conveyor, dip between different bags to make sure it's stacked properly and then think the assistant show slow down for them or get confused when the shop assistant (as they do in all aldis near me) keeps scanning and things fall into the trolley.

Why are you confused?? My mum recommended I try it for a change from Asda and it’s quite close to me and she said it’s usually really quiet first thing in the morning, so nothing confusing about it, and really no need for narky comments! For me yes it was a bad experience, I have severe back pain and get panick attacks when around a lot of people, not that I should need to explain this to you, but there’s no need to make assumptions about how I felt and what my experience was like!