AIBU to think it is rude to start putting stuff on the conveyor belt......

JobStresserxo · 2023-11-02T14:40:34+00:00

at the supermarket before the customer in front has finished loading their shopping? Happened several times to me just recently. This morning, I had to ask the customer behind me to allow me more room on the conveyor belt as she hadn't left enough space for me to get my shopping on.

Siameasy · 02/11/2023 14:42

Yeah it’s silly of them as they might end up having to move it. I would feel rushed as well

TheLightSideOfTheMoon · 02/11/2023 14:42

Just leave the stuff you can’t fit on in the trolley and let the checkout staff use the stretchy bleepy thing.

If they ask explain that you couldn’t fit your stuff on.

TokyoSushi · 02/11/2023 14:44

I had a massive rant about this on here the other week, I bet it's Aldi! I do my weekly shop there, and find that's pretty much the only place that people do it! People leave you about 30cm for a full trolley! My thoughts on my previous post were 'why don't people use their eyes and their bloody brain?!' - still applies!!

GirrlCrush · 02/11/2023 14:44

Not rude if they can see the items you have left to load and can gauge how much space they will need

orangegato · 02/11/2023 14:46

Always happens in Aldi as the checkouts are an Olympic sport.

Load from the back so they can’t get near.

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JobStresserxo · 02/11/2023 14:46

Spot on, it was at Aldi!

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TokyoSushi · 02/11/2023 14:46

People don't though, if you've a couple of items left, fine, but people come right up behind you when you have a trolley full! Can you see this is one of my pet subjects?!

Seeline · 02/11/2023 14:46

Ooh this really annoys me when people do it!

I make sure I need as much room as possible and push all their stuff around. Or I have just asked them to not do it.

Fair enough if there's only a couple of things left but one woman started when I'd still got half a trolley load and left me about 3 inches.

GirrlCrush · 02/11/2023 14:47

It qualifies as an Olympic sport if it's Aldi!

SiouxsieSiouxStiletto · 02/11/2023 14:48

Normal in Aldi and Lidl.

DilemmaDelilah · 02/11/2023 14:48

I think it's really rude and I usually use the divider thingy to push their stuff down to the end of the belt, leaving a space more than big enough to put all my stuff on.

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JobStresserxo · 02/11/2023 14:49

Definitely! I love the adrenalin rush of the checkout experience at Aldi. I really should get out more 😁

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MsAdoraBelleDearheartVonLipwig · 02/11/2023 14:49

I’d be giving them the death stare with an ‘I’m not finished’ through clenched teeth. Or just shove their stuff back till they get the message. Why are people so spectacularly unaware?

PinkflowersWhiteBerries · 02/11/2023 14:49

Checkout etiquette, or lack of, drives me up the wall. Keep your crap off my conveyor belt; keep your trolley away from my backside; and keep your nosey face away from the card machine when I am paying.
Don’t care if it’s Aldi or Waitrose, I will be telling you ! 😂

user1471508666 · 02/11/2023 14:50

Yep this happens to me in aldi too! So rude and then they act like they didn’t notice when you ask for more room 🙄

Riverstep · 02/11/2023 14:50

I don’t shop in either Aldi or Lidl purely because of the check outs. Hate it 🤣.

Apossum · 02/11/2023 14:52

oh it’s so rude. I’d literally just started putting my shopping on the conveyor the other day and some bloke started whacking his stuff up there too… he could see I had a full bloody trolley, it was just so ignorant! I said ‘oh I don’t think you’ve left enough room actually’ so he huffed and rolled his eyes and moved his stuff back literally a few inches, 6 at most. I was so annoyed, I just carried on and shoved his stuff back when I got there. His wife was mortified as had been trying to say he shouldn’t do it as he was, and in the end she elbowed past him to move his stuff while apologising profusely. Which kind of made me more annoyed at the man, it wasn’t his wife’s place to apologise!!

Teachingteacher · 02/11/2023 14:57

I almost always shop at Aldi and I hate this!

Im not sure if they do this in the UK, but a common thing here is for people to leave their trolley/basket in the queue just before the conveyor belt, and then wander around the store collecting the final items. Then, a line builds up behind them and no one is brave enough to push in front of their un-manned trolley/basket.

There was a standoff between two women at Aldi last week, because a woman left her basket on the ground and was gone for at least 3-4 minutes. The next lady assumed she wasn’t coming back, stepped over the basket and started loading her groceries onto the conveyor belt. When the basket lady returned, she screamed at the women that she was ‘next in line, and had left my basket there to mind my spot’ but the other lady wasn’t having it. I paid and started walking out and they were still going at it…

enchantedsquirrelwood · 02/11/2023 14:59

It is a bit silly because you might need more of the conveyer belt.

But what annoys me more is when the person on the desk starts putting your stuff through before the person in front of you has gone. You can't go through and start putting your stuff into bags until they've gone, so the staff member needs to wait the few seconds.

Last week we also had someone who tried to push her trolley past ours. I don't know why she thought we were waiting. People might be stupid but they don't usually just hang around for the sake of it.

enchantedsquirrelwood · 02/11/2023 15:00

DilemmaDelilah · 02/11/2023 14:48

I think it's really rude and I usually use the divider thingy to push their stuff down to the end of the belt, leaving a space more than big enough to put all my stuff on.

This is a good idea.

EvilElsa · 02/11/2023 15:00

Just push it back along the conveyor. I did the other week using the shopping separator.

Skodacool · 02/11/2023 15:03

enchantedsquirrelwood · 02/11/2023 14:59

It is a bit silly because you might need more of the conveyer belt.

But what annoys me more is when the person on the desk starts putting your stuff through before the person in front of you has gone. You can't go through and start putting your stuff into bags until they've gone, so the staff member needs to wait the few seconds.

Last week we also had someone who tried to push her trolley past ours. I don't know why she thought we were waiting. People might be stupid but they don't usually just hang around for the sake of it.

The idea in Aldi and Lidl is that you put your stuff back into the trolley then move to the shelf at the end to bag your stuff.

DivergentTris · 02/11/2023 15:07

Always happens at Lidl for me, our Aldi has self-scan for trolleys so I can avoid it.
Mind Aldi drives me mad with the trolley positioning, it's the only supermarket I have ever been to where your trolley HAS to be at the end of the check-out, it HAS to be in a certain position and it HAS to be pointing the right way. Even to the point where if it's not the cashier 9/10 times (for me anyway) frog marches round and does it for me. For note, my trolley is neatly by the checkout, not in anyone's way or causing an obstruction, it's just not the way they want it.

This was a bit of stress for me before the self-service ones were big enough for the trollies then I could avoid it (some did try and tell me it would be easier if i had it positioned long ways rather than sideways mind! I mean I always have it tucked in out of peoples way but still.... doesn't happen as often). I really wanted to do it to avoid the issue BUT it's only in Aldi, nowhere else and at 48 I just can't get used to it just because it's just the way they do it for no reason other than just that - it isn't even considered anywhere else I go. Hence I use the self-service, wish Lidls were big enough then I could avoid those who get excited at on the conveyor belts.

Strangely mind I keep going back. Maybe there is a part of me that finds this stuff amusing...

Stressybetty · 02/11/2023 15:09

Yeah I'd give them a look while juggling my stuff or push it back along with the divider but rarely had that happen. What annoys me is when the person behind is up my arse when I'm loading up and paying. Always feel like saying, sorry, did you want to pay for me as well? I shop in Lidl, politeness is standing at the end of the belt next to your stuff, not loitering past the tills /scanner where I'm packing. I tend to give them a pointed look and the assistant is usually glaring at them as well. We're in a very middle classy naice area so lots of passive aggressive faux politeness around! I'm a fast packer too, everything back in the trolley and then sorted into tubs in the car so not like I'm holding people up!

Isheabastard · 02/11/2023 15:09

Yup, this happened to me in Aldi, with a single man behind me. Sadly he had no wife to apologise for him.

I completely ignored him and just waited til enough of my stuff had gone through to load more stuff on, then went forward to load up the paid for stuff in my trolley/bags so there was more room for the cashier. The cashier was very cooperative with me, and totally got the situation.

In all this made the whole checkout much much slower, so in the end his wait was much longer than if he hadn’t started putting his stuff on the conveyer before I finished emptying my trolley.

I don’t have problems usually with this sort of thing and would usually politely and calmly address the person. But it was a very quiet time in Aldi, and there was no one waiting behind him.

Did I teach him a lesson? probably not. Did I feel petty? probably yes.

Should I get a life? Most definitely yes!!