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Post by metro1962 on Jul 23, 2024 19:41:39 GMT
Our local Aldi's have tiny checkout counters for the groceries to go on,so once the checkout woman scans them there is usually a big pile we have to wade through to put them in our bags.
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Post by jno on Jul 23, 2024 20:22:59 GMT
Our local Aldi's have tiny checkout counters for the groceries to go on,so once the checkout woman scans them there is usually a big pile we have to wade through to put them in our bags. I refer the honourable gentleman to the answer I gave almost 9 years ago, see below... ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png) ...and when you do finally get served the rush is on to get your victuals back in the trolley or bag it as the cashier is under instruction to beep beep like crazy which is very very annoying. We have a little a trick here in Austria to stop this - tear/rip a barcode half way down the conveyer. As the cashier struggles to get a beep you play catch up and put your stuff in a bag or in your trolley at YOUR OWN leisurely pace! ![:thumbup:](//storage.proboards.com/2558247/images/tUTYPH03e8Itse30rsgx.gif)
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Post by metro1962 on Jul 23, 2024 21:19:01 GMT
Our local Aldi's have tiny checkout counters for the groceries to go on,so once the checkout woman scans them there is usually a big pile we have to wade through to put them in our bags. I refer the honourable gentleman to the answer I gave almost 9 years ago, see below... ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png) ...and when you do finally get served the rush is on to get your victuals back in the trolley or bag it as the cashier is under instruction to beep beep like crazy which is very very annoying. We have a little a trick here in Austria to stop this - tear/rip a barcode half way down the conveyer. As the cashier struggles to get a beep you play catch up and put your stuff in a bag or in your trolley at YOUR OWN leisurely pace! ![:thumbup:](//storage.proboards.com/2558247/images/tUTYPH03e8Itse30rsgx.gif)
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Post by ltd on Jul 24, 2024 7:54:14 GMT
Aldi doing a lot of camping stuff in the Isle of S***e at the moment. Picked up a butane powered cooker for twelve quid which I was well pleased with. Just the job now the government have outlawed hexamine.
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Post by ontheslate on Jul 24, 2024 8:08:45 GMT
I refer the honourable gentleman to the answer I gave almost 9 years ago, see below... ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png) You can also spread out your stuff on the belt to slow down the scanning, personally I like to make a game of it and try and beat the till operator I was even commented on my packing speed by one of the checkout girls.
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Post by ontheslate on Jul 24, 2024 8:10:09 GMT
Aldi doing a lot of camping stuff in the Isle of S***e at the moment. Picked up a butane powered cooker for twelve quid which I was well pleased with. Just the job now the government have outlawed hexamine. Thats a great price might even pop in to get one myself.
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Post by yoyopickles on Jul 26, 2024 17:05:12 GMT
Because Im currently on a walking stick and don't do a "big shop" with a trolley,due to loading the car up after, I currently place my shopping bag in the actual basket, so I can see when it gets full, otherwise i end up buying too much that I cannot carry,as i need more bags. This is an okay practice at a manned till,as I just tip it out,but on the self service till,it's murder, because I have to tip it out into another basket then put the empty bag on the scale packing part at the other side of the scanner!
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Post by daz on Aug 10, 2024 6:12:28 GMT
You can also spread out your stuff on the belt to slow down the scanning, personally I like to make a game of it and try and beat the till operator I was even commented on my packing speed by one of the checkout girls. Me too im proud to say. I was in Europe recently and did a shop in a Lidl in Austria, where they basically throw your food in the trolley. The guy was surprised I packed as quickly as he scanned. When Lidl first come to Aberdeen in the 90s, your items were always put straight into trolleys, you never got time to pack bags like you do over here now, so it became something of a challenge I accepted. I'm calling it now. Bag packing at discount supermarkets is a future Olympic sport.
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Post by billymedhurst on Aug 10, 2024 18:22:03 GMT
What cheese me off about Aldi is the Union Jack-emblazoned lorries; a bit rich for a German company.
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Post by jno on Aug 10, 2024 20:50:14 GMT
What cheese me off about Aldi is the Union Jack-emblazoned lorries; a bit rich for a German company. Yup, a complete marketing scam to get Brits to feel good about going into Lidl, which they do en masse because they love bargains regardless of whether they're German or not. ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png) Then again, I think Asda was essentially Walmart and I believe Sainsburys has a major shareholder from Quatar. I was in a a big Asda in Hove near Newhaven recently billy, that can't be far from you? That, along with the one at Cribbs Causeway in Bristol are the two biggest Asdas I've been in.
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