AIBU - Lidl etiquette

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I did my shopping in Lidl this afternoon. I loaded my goods on the belt, the assistant checked them through and I then loaded them straight back in my trolley. I paid then went to the ledge at the side and packed my shopping into bags.

I always thought the etiquette was that in the cheaper supermarkets, you got through the checkout as quick as possible. Quicker checkout = more people = lower prices.

Was IBU to get cheesed off at the people in front of me who carefully packed each and every item into their bags as they went through and then spent ages sorting their stuff before finding their purse to pay?

What do other people do?

Lidl isn’t quite as hectic at the checkout as aldi in my experience, I can keep up with the cashier and pack at the till (but I don’t faff about either!)

I pack at the end of the till if i have my bags already open in the trolley so I can put my things straight in to them, but if they can't keep up then no yanbu

Was IBU to get cheesed off at the people in front of me who carefully packed each and every item into their bags as they went through and then spent ages sorting their stuff before finding their purse to pay?

A little bit yes, because if they were breaking store policy, it'd be up to the cashier to point it out to them.

We regularly shop at Aldi, always pack at the till. DH is super speedy!

I shop in Lidl because I can pack into the bags as it's scanned. I hate Aldi because they throw everything at you so you have to pack elsewhere, drives me mad as it's really inefficient!

Trolley bags are the answer. -misses the point-

They probably dont know. Most stores in this country have a "pack at checkout" system. There isn't any signage to tell you not to and the cashiers never ask you to pack on the ledge. How are they supposed to know?

Bags open in the trolley, heavy items put on the conveyer first. Doesn't take me any longer to put my shopping into my open bags than it would without.
Our Lidl doesn't even have a packing shelf now anyway. Faffing with purses is another thing altogether 😁

I just pack as I would in any other place. I feel that sort of etiquette hasn't been the norm in these places for years really.

I have got used to Aldi and I can pack quicker than they can throw it at me.

What I do object to is when they start scanning the next person's shopping surf it's literally in front of me before I have put my bank card back in my purse after paying.

*so it's

No love that's only Aldi

I put it on the belt in order of heavy items, fruit and veg, chilled, soft stuff. I then load into my trolley and trot off to my car where my bags are, and pack them there. I just want to get out that shop ASAP, so don’t bother packing on the shelf. I throw it into my boot.

It depends. The new lidl near us has a weird divider thing so they can have two people packing at the end at once. That doesn't annoy me.

If people can pack quickly (bags in trolley and load on the belt properly) then it's as quick as putting in the trolley.

The faffers annoy me though. It's on the checkout staff to keep it moving.

I use ikea bags at Aldi and chuck it in.

I think as long as you can keep up with the cashier it’s fine. If I get a particularly quick cashier I just hurl my shopping into the trolley and sort it out later at the counters. Can’t bear the people who take their time and packing and THEN fish around for their purse, if I had my way everyone would have to go through with their cards in lanyards ready for scanning. Not really, but what a brilliant idea!😂

Ah the shelf of shame.

I was in Aldi a while ago and the woman at the next till clearly hadn’t had the ‘chuck it all in the trolly and deal with it later memo’.
She had her two children helping and it was all ‘put that in the blue bag for the frozen things’ ‘that can go in the green bag for fruit’.
I had got to my car, loaded my stuff in and when I drove past the shop front to leave the car park she was still going. The chap on the checkout looked like he might explode.

I do what you do OP (though I find their scanning speed full-on). Or I use the Lidl with a self-checkout. Apparently one or other of Aldi/Lidl no longer have “scan per minute” targets for their staff.

I try to arrange stuff on the conveyor so crushable things get scanned last.

I did my shopping in Lidl this afternoon. I loaded my goods on the belt, the assistant checked them through and I then loaded them straight back in my trolley. I paid then went to the ledge at the side and packed my shopping into bags.

Ours doesn't have a ledge at the side so we pack it into bags at the checkout. One of us does the fridge stuff and the other does the cupboard stuff and we get it done quickly.

Oh No!! Have I been doing it all wrong?

I use Aldi and Lidl and just pack my bags the same as I would at Tesco. I am fast, there is no hanging about. I didn't notice any kind of ledge or shelf, am pretty sure everyone else was doing same as me but am doubting myself after reading this!

Why would it be different than other supermarkets though? I don't get it.

Yep huge blue IKEA bags are the answer.

My German friends were surprised by the packing at the till in England but that's our supermarket culture isn't it? They told me in Germany you would not do that, you would move to the packing table. I don't think most people in England understand that is what that long thing is for and some seem to think it's somewhere for little DCs to run on in their outdoor shoes so not somewhere you'd want to put your groceries. They also said in Germany you'd pick out a box from the shelves that had got empty to put your shopping in so that you weren't needlessly using plastic bag.

Lidl seems to me quite different now from when I used to go to it 20 yrs ago. It's adapted for the English market in all sorts of ways.

What I don't like at Aldi is that they start putting all your shopping through before the previous person has finished picking theirs up.So you cant always start packing straight away. Its a bit stressful sometimes. Aldi might as well just throw it at you.