To get the aldi rage...

[chillypop]

... when people pack at the till?

Aldi is predicated on low costs, meaning a smaller number of staff, meaning fewer checkouts open, meaning the etiquette is for customers to haul ass through the checkout. There's a packing area to accommodate this!

Today I found myself and many others waiting whilst an individual decided to meticulously pack a shop which was presumably to feed the population of a small country. Even the member of staff at the checkout seemed a touch bewildered.

Yes, a first world problem. Am I just being impatient?

Then if that’s not bad enough they start looking everywhere for their purse, like it comes as a complete surprise that they now have to pay. Some even manage to very loudly hold a conversation on the phone too, so when the person serving tells them their card’s been refused …. instead of ending the call they keep asking the person serving to repeat themselves. The urge to ram the phone down their throat or up their arse is strong!!!

This too. I have lost count of the amount of times I have been waiting like a mug in the queue with my fridge and freezer stuff going warm/thawing out, because someone is fannying about at the checkout, with different payment cards, a multitude of wallets and purses and credit card wallets (and vouchers if it's morrisons or tesco.) Whilst chatting shit about fuckall, and giving people their life story and the latest instalment on their health issues (which no-one gives a fuck about.)

Many people have better things to do than stand in a queue whilst Dawdle McSlowford chats bollocks about their fucking hernia, fucks about with their purse and wallet for 5 minutes or more, and after 3-4 minutes hasn't even put a single item in their fucking trolley. Wrap it up you annoying bore, pack your shit, and go home.

I'm not sorry. I don't care. So bite me.

😂 This was me many years ago. From another country. First problem is that we are used to having our bags packed at the end of the till. So there I stood watching the till making sure everything scanned correctly. Only to realize that all my shopping was just sitting there at the end of the conveyor piling up. I didn't know I had to be packing it!

When i went to Aldi, wow, that nearly blew my mind. I didn't know wtf was happening and I've never seen shopping scanned at this rate of knots. Again I think I just stood there as I didn't know what I was meant to be doing where with what bags (didn't have any). Some kind person must have realized I was a forriner and suggested I just refill the trolley and head over to the bench.

It was quite a learning experience. I'll add in that I also went into a veggie shop as I needed some mushrooms. The man asked me how much I wanted, which again threw me as I would usually just fill a bag myself. In a fluster I said four pounds (I have no idea why and I don't even work in pounds). He gave me a look and said money or weight..... 😂 Eventually I said OK maybe just half that bag you are holding. Which turned out to be about 400grams or so, still a shit load.

I never went into that veg shop ever again 🙈😂. I bet he is still telling stories about the daft mushroom woman.

@WhileMyGuitarGentlyWeeps I'm neither entitled nor precious I just will not tolerate being treated in a rude or disrespectful manner by anyone!

😂😂😂😂 Had a good giggle at this.

You would all hate our shops. If the person doing the packing popped off somewhere, or went on a loo run, everything comes to a dead halt. OK maybe not always, but a definite slow pace. I do pack if someone isn't there to do it, but many folk would stand there and wait. 😂The cashier would take over but probably get the side eye when the packer returns for breaking the good bag packing rules.

@Dobbysgotthesocks Don't go shopping in my home country then, the staff and other customers don't care if you tolerate rudeness or not, we will tell you to get to the packing shelf while physically moving your stuff for you.

@Blossomtoes As much as you protest, the above will happen to you too. If you don't like the business model then don't shop there. The manager won't care if you never enter the store again, seriously.
Are you one of those who go abroad and break the local rules because in Britain it's allowed? 😂

I laughed SO SO hard at this !

“*…some entitled and precious individual thinks the rules should not apply to them.”
*

Wot Rulz????

No one's ever told me and I've never noticed this big sign!!!

You sound like my mother @WhileMyGuitarGentlyWeeps

🤣🤣🤣 why would anyone try to move me when packing my shopping as fast as the cashier scans it????

And if I was treated rudely I would call them out very publicly for it!!! Thank god where I live people have enough intelligence to use their brains to be able to have patience and gratitude!

@Saracen

Crying.

@Dobbysgotthesocks Because we don't like people who think the rules don't to them.
We don't care if you call us out on it or not, you would just be told where to go in no uncertain terms 😂

Bags set out in trolley and everything thrown in to the bags. I'm often stood waiting for the checkout person to catch up.

Don't apply to them.

Called out because I put my shopping in the open bags in my trolley rather than loose in the trolley? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
It takes no more time than flinging them in loose!!!
I call 🐮 💩!!!!

@Norgie where in the world do you live? Definitely will avoid!!!!

So there's Liddell zooming us through the tills - and then they go and introduce a loyalty card that you have to tap your phone and wait x 3 ?

lockscreen
open app
tap on card
go around to in front cashier to tap it

It's Slow.

@Fairislefandango I totally agree with you!
I love Aldi for this very reason! I now cannot bear paying in other supermarkets, the slowness drives me crazy!

Also, I've been shopping in Aldi for about 15 years now and I have never once had a cashier 'fire' or 'chuck' my stuff at me...

Aldi's here have a divider at the bottom of the cash out area so they can deal with 2 lots of shopping at once, it someone is taking a long time and there's a build up etc. It's really handy.

I love Aldi

If you have a load of food just shove it in the trolley and pack at the side. There was a guy in queue yesterday in Aldi and he started chatting to this woman mid packing and kinda move a few inches away and had his bags all over the floor while I was at checkout and nearly tripped over his big pack of popcorn, he did not even acknowledge it and move over, as I was packing at the side he was still there yapping and in everyone's way with bags all over the place and not even bothered. Sooo annoyed in Aldi also as no soya milk and will not have delivery for 2 weeks, jesus I could have picked up a carton in Dunnes earlier if knew. They are getting worse as always running out of things like brown rice, ketchup, mayo etc.

Are you one of those who go abroad and break the local rules because in Britain it's allowed?

No, I’m not but please tell me where you live so I can avoid ever going anywhere near it.

Are you one of those who go abroad and break the local rules because in Britain it's allowed? 😂

@Norgie are you one of those lemon mouthed regulars who sneer at a blundering incomer because they don't know the local traditions?

By 'traditions' I mean the way you queue up in shops etc 🙄

@Norgie are you purporting you speak for a whole country? 😂 do tell us where you’re from so we can share our experiences of being in your country and not being told where to go if we get the ‘rules’ wrong.

I use big IKEA bags so YABU I pack at the till.

Ikea bags. Throw into big bags to keep up with till operator. That's what we do. My boot fits two ikea bags too. So easy win.

Yes I pack at the til too but use the open bags and lob everything in method. If you want to pack slowly at the till, use another supermarket it’s that simple!

Yeah I got this recently and I was more annoyed at the chatty young lad on the till who slowed the bloke down even more, discussing the merits of cycling to work. 😡
It's the Staff's job to politely advise the new customers of the policy (they did with me anyway 😁)
As customers, it's our job to ask the next 10 customers queuing behind with just a handful if they would like to go infront 😑