to think Aldi would sell more if their trollies were bigger?

[Tankflybosswalkjam]

I have just had to miss out on some garage shelving and a rug because I couldn’t get them in the trolley alongside my weekly shop. If they had bigger trollies the nation would have better access to really useful things.

@DiptyqueandDiamonds yes!
My method includes selecting looped carrier bags and putting three hanging off the back of the trolly seat, and two of the paper bags which stand up by themselves in the trolly seat. So fruit and veg go in paper, and the other three are (left to right) frozen, non food/cleaning/baked. Two other bags are shaken out in readiness, and big stuff like toilet roll, bags of cement, go on the very bottom.

Tell you where it goes wrong though. Cereal. Bloody cereal boxes. They balls up my method.

But surely you would only choose the supersized trolley if you knew you wanted to buy rack shelving and an anvil? It sounds as though you went in and then spotted them in the middle aisle, not knowing until that point that you needed them.

If you'd only gone in for the super six, a tray of beans and a bottle of Tamova you wouldn't have taken an ungainly trolley.

It sounds as though you went in and then spotted them in the middle aisle, not knowing until that point that you needed them.

Well yes! It’s the element of surprise that I love at Aldi. The jars of bungee cords, the huge pack of 1000 cable ties...No one can plan for that!

Now googling Tamova.

They just look the same size as any other supermarket trolley to me.

Surely you'd just go back in? And why are the tills stressful? Especially for just a couple of larger items.

YABU you go back in if you really want it.

the only thing stopping me from coming home with a roll of barbed wire and garage shelving is that I can’t get them in my trolley with the food. I need a cooling off period.

Your system sounds complicated. All you need is a few blue IKEA bags and to order the items on the conveyor belt properly. Heavy stuff first, lighter protected items in the middle then the light / breakables on the top.
I’ve also never found anything that couldn’t be slid on the bottom as a last resort too.

I love your sense of humour, OP.

I’m actually here just to share something I heard in Aldi. A man was talking to someone who seemed to be a fairly new girlfriend. A slightly weird date, but anyway... He said to her, “And this is what I call the silly aisle.” I got to the till before I realised what a brilliant pun this was. Isles of Scilly... silly aisle. Absolute genius.

I shop at Lidl and find their trollies ridiculously huge, but I still couldn't fit garage shelving in with my weekly shop. Just use some common sense and go back for it.

@Totallyworthit

I would just put the stuff in the car then go back in, even freezer stuff would be ok for the time that would take.

That involves queuing up twice.

Not. Happening.

@midnightstar66

Surely you'd just go back in? And why are the tills stressful? Especially for just a couple of larger items.

Because you have to queue up for half an hour in a massive queue behind everyone else. I like Lidl coffee, but I only go once every six months to get it because I hate queuing and neither of my local ones have self-serve tills.

Because you have to queue up for half an hour in a massive queue behind everyone else. I like Lidl coffee, but I only go once every six months to get it because I hate queuing and neither of my local ones have self-serve tills.

Aldi are amazing for speedy checkout openings, I've never ever queued more than 5 minutes in any of their stores, however I still wouldn't call wiring a stressful activity. It's also a good test of how much you actually want it. If you're not prepared to queue you didn't really need that kayak. They are doing us a service really!

@puffinkoala

Because you have to queue up for half an hour in a massive queue behind everyone else. I like Lidl coffee, but I only go once every six months to get it because I hate queuing and neither of my local ones have self-serve tills.

I have never, in my life, EVER waited half an hour in a queue in ALDI, OR LIDL. Never happened. In fact I am pretty sure that I have never waited that long in any supermarket queue!

The only time I have ever waited that long in a queue for a store, is at Currys/PC World, (who always seem to have 2 members of staff serving, and 20 members of staff wandering around aimlessly.)

And a few times I have waited in a queue for 30-45 minutes to get into a rock concert, an air show, or a Comic Con Event...

But never a supermarket, or store of any kind. (Except, as I said, Currys/PC World.)

@Tankflybosswalkjam

What they need (and I’ve given this some thought) are the bigger ones you get in Homebase and similar. A wide flat basket on the top and a kind of heavy duty flat bed bit underneath.

They'll be fun on small places like Aldi! I've always found their staff very helpful, I still have some shelving that I bought forty years ago in Germany, one of the assistants was told to carry it across to my house!

This is what is needed. 50litres on the top, plus a big bit down below for bottles of pop, ski equipment and a mig.

I think a PP has nailed it. We really do need a cooling off period between seeing said essential item and actually buying it. In the time it takes you to do the rest of your shopping, go through the checkout and put your bags in the car, you may have come to the conclusion that you don't actually need the full SCUBA outfit.

Yabu, you can hardly move in our local Aldi without massive trolleys taking up room.

Personally I would buy more if they didn't always have huge crates of stock in front of everything I needed.

[quote Tankflybosswalkjam]@Longdistance and others, maybe you’re right, it needs reconsidering. Personally I like Costco trollies. Or the ones they used to have in Makro. They are trollies of intention.[/quote]
Haha! trollies of intention :)

When I make a spur-of-the-moment decision to buy a Christmas tree or a cubic metre of firewood in Aldi I usually take a photo of the label on my phone to show at the checkout. Then I can just go and collect it after paying.

This system seems to work and saves queueing up again (never for half an hour!). You just need to make sure the staff take note that you've definitely paid!

I guess that's what you get for shopping in a jumble sale.

@Tankflybosswalkjam it needs a larger basket up top. The bottom bit us right though.
Love your username btw 👍🏻