Supermarket checkout situation - I’m so angry!!

[Sjan82]

I was at ALDI this morning. There was an announcement that checkout 7 was opening. I was on the other side of the store, made my way to checkout 7 (took about 30-40 seconds). There was a guy loading his stuff for billing - that’s all, no queue. I stood there (say queue position 1). When this guy went to pay the bill, I moved ahead and started loading my stuff. Now, a woman from the next checkout (8) queue started telling me she was in the queue longer and so I need to join the queue at the back (of checkout 8). I stupidly apologised and went back to CHECKOUT 8 QUEUE !! So she was in CHECKOUT 8 queue, holding her place there. When checkout 7 opened, she didn’t move to queue 7. Still l, when 7 moved faster, she jumped in, sent me to the back of HER queue!!!! I was on the phone so didn’t pay attention. But I’m so angry now! The bitch just paid and left! I’m so angry for not asking her to fuck off!
This happened in the morning! I’m still fuming! How do you let this go and forget it?

Several supermarkets (definitely Aldi) near me seem to have opted for the one queue system - but unless a staff member is policing it, can be a bit hard to tell, because the queue snakes back along one aisle, while other checkouts look as if they are free,

Prob worse in Aldi, as they're more 'pile em high' so hard to see whats going on.

Forget about it - fifteen minutes of your life you won't get back.

In all our local aldi's at the moment there is a sign on the door before you go in informing you that there is one que that then filters into each checkout when you are called forward so it sounds like you were in the wrong but because you were in your phone you were ignorant to the new system

Let it go go and sit in the sun with a glass of wine.

Life is too short to use up negative energy over trivial stuff that happened hours ago.

Hope you have a lovely evening

My Aldi isn’t doing the 1 queue thing, we were all just going to whichever one had less people waiting.

I've been in 4 Aldis during lockdown and they all do one queue for all tills.

I think you might have got it wrong op.

It's not worth getting too annoyed about but I understand the frustration. Also, it's possible the OP wasn't skipping the queue as our local Aldi still has a queue per till. The checkout person on till 1 tends to get pretty shouty at all the people queueing in one aisle and calls out that there are separate queues per till and which one has space.

Not all Aldis do one queue at all. Mine definitely doesn't. I went in a few weeks ago and people who were trying to do this were categorically told that you queue per till. The woman was rude op but it's a lesson learnt

perspective check on aisle three.

its absolutely true, a bad experience in a shop especially when you come off as the looser is devastating... never walk out of a supermarket depressed or upset by someone or something that happened. if you approach issues with other shoppers with absolute self belief in your values and a cool and relaxed intelligent manner then it doesnt matter if you win or lose - its more about dealing with the truth and justice of the situation... we all make mistakes and mistakes are forgivable, but being rude and letting yourself down is not
... stay in there and shop a bit more until you have cheered up. you will be there too many times in your life to have a supermarket phobia.

Problem as I see it is till 1 , 3 , 5 , 7 are lined up with the aisles so people can queue down the aisles at 2m distance.

The other tills only have space for a couple of people queuing.

On top of that people tend to finish a shop down the last aisle where it looks like there’s only one queue because people are spread out.

Thankfully in our Aldi, whoever is on till one shouts to shoppers to queue for the other tills and not to block the aisle.

If there was only one queue there’d be no reason for the 2m space markings on the other tills surely ?

This happened in the morning! I’m still fuming! How do you let this go and forget it?

By getting a life maybe? You obviously have too much time on your hands if such a trivial thing makes you fume!

many times people do need to be told to 'fuck off', but dont use this bad language, say it with intelligent language... dont lower your own standards to meet the standards of idiots - it horrible being beaten by rudeness and stupidity. dont ever let it happen again. make a pact with yourself. i am a writer and poet and walk around a lot of the time in supermarkets with a really creative thought process going on... and any idiot can ruin my train of thought, be entertained by them... that's the best you can do with the situation.. any other verbal response is a waste of your time. dont be so relaxed in these places... on the phone and obeying strangers!!! be grateful for the lesson - learn and move on.

has this ever happened to you?

You did it to yourself. Beat yourself up as much as you like; it's you own lack of awareness you're hitting.

Every supermarket that I’ve been in since the lockdown has one queue. I guess that was the case here today and you were so busy on your phone you didn’t realise.

* Other People are a bit weird at the moment. More than usual. Stressy and afraid. I’ve noticed it coming out as irrational behaviour too.*

Other People (OP) but also this description also perfectly fits the OP in this scenario!

I really can't get my head round someone being so angry hours after the event.

It’s hard to know if you queue jumped or not.

I nearly unintentionally did thjs in Iceland recently, came down the middle aisle and stood in front of the middle till distanced behind the guy who was paying. Looked round and saw a line of people going all the way down the last aisle glaring at me. Apologised and quickly raced to the back of the ten person queue.

I was in an Aldi this week. There were two queues, each serving 2-3 tills each. The cashier would call the next customer forward when their conveyor was available. Easy to miss though, if you came down another aisle.

YABU for not standing up for yourself.
You should be more angry at yourself than her

You sound a very angry person.

I put YABU because you were on on a call at checkout. Either you called someone or you answered a call. At checkout, you only use a phone for contactless payment.

As for the rest of the OP, I was told to move checkouts at Sainsbury's a few days ago, even though both checkouts were open and I had already started unloading. I probably lost 2 minutes of my life but I still caught my bus ok. You know the famous phrase that Elsa says in Frozen don't you? :-)

Same here re queue in aisle for all tills.

We have 2 aisles and Alice 1 is for tills 1-4 and aisle 2 for 2-8.

No one is waiting by a till because that row is left velar for people who turn around to go up the next aisle iyswim?

@keeprocking

This happened in the morning! I’m still fuming! How do you let this go and forget it?

By getting a life maybe? You obviously have too much time on your hands if such a trivial thing makes you fume!

Don't be so rude. I would love to be able to let things go, and I can assure you I have a fantastic life as do most people who suffer from this problem. Churning out the old "You must have nothing better to worry about if this bothers you so much" is seriously overdone and really twattish. I thought people might have grown out of saying that by now but there's always a few who struggle to grasp things I suppose. Maybe you could offer some helpful advice on how to do let things go instead of being so superior? It is something that many people suffer from and it's not a choice, it can be crippling. Just because you're perfect it doesn't mean you have to belittle people who have insecurities or anxiety.

Stop shopping in Aldi and go to a supermarket that has scan as you shop. No ridiculous queues.