Shopping in LIDL

dark crystal

So due to being stoney broke, I decided this week to forgo my usual weekly shop in Tesco and decided to save a few quid and shop at LIDL instead for the first time.

After filling up the trolly, I went up to the checkout and started putting the stuff on the conveyer. A few people then started lining up behind me and it was then the muttering started.

Some auld hag said loudly: "Your wan is taking her time" and huffed. Then another woman said "Jesus, how much shopping has she at all?" (I had a weeks worth of groceries, about 3/4 of a trolly full). They all just stood there and glared at me like I was the anti-Christ.

I looked at the checkout girl who was just throwing the groceries into the trolly with a miserable head on her. I said to her, "Er, why is everyone staring at me like I've just murdered someone?" to which she just shrugged and carried on throwing the shopping into the trolly.
Eventually, sick of the people staring and tutting I just said "Fu*k this, I'll just get out of ye're way will I?" and walked out, leaving the shopping behind in the trolley.

Seriously, are people who shop and work in LIDL usually this ignorant or am I just totally unaware of some secret LIDL code of conduct that's supposed to be adhered to?

It's a bad bad place....

stoneill

Lidl checkouts are first come first served and you were there first!

You should have stayed where you where and got your shopping done and don't be a victim of passive bullying.
Those people in line would be tutting no matter where they are.

_AVALANCHE_

Your're leaving something out OP, it's a grand shop.

RB94

Maybe you were at the 10 items or less till.

Sindri

They're cunts OP. Leave 'em to it.

MistyCheese

Ha, ha, yeah, LOL.

This one time I painted my nails with a cherry colour...

I stroked the brush over my nails, filling them with colour. Until they were fully covered. At this point I painted no more. My nails were fully covered with the cherry colour. So I painted no more,

Following this, I allowed my nails to dry.

CyberJuice

ive shoped in lidl a few times,i will only ever get a basket full to last me a couple days but usually the staff on register are foreign so u dont egt much chat out of them.. they probly hate their job too so they dont wana be making small talk with customers

regarding the big boat load of grub you were buying,nobody likes ques,if i am stuck behind someone with a rake of stuff like that ill be complaining in my head but i wont say anything out loud,u just have to grin and bare it.. shame on the aul ones complaning,they sometimes take hours,countin out pennies and fishing around in their purses,then loading stuff into the buggies/trollie things...


dont see why it bothered u so much tbh,just get ur gear and get out,dont go home empty handed crying about it.. who cares if theres a few impatient aul ones bhind u in a que,dont let it ruin your day OP. i woulda just been fishing around lookin for money and made them wait longer while i look at them and smile

dark crystal

MistyCheese wrote: »

Ha, ha, yeah, LOL.

This one time I painted my nails with a cherry colour...

I stroked the brush over my nails, filling them with colour. Until they were fully covered. At this point I painted no more. My nails were fully covered with the cherry colour. So I painted no more,

Following this, I allowed my nails to dry.

Great story, yo.

Hahahahaha!!!!!

amacachi

dark crystal wrote: »

and walked out, leaving the shopping behind in the trolley.

Yeah, and they're the ignorant bastards.

_AVALANCHE_

dark crystal wrote: »

"Your wan is taking her time"

Explain this bit.

policarp

Fair play to you.
Ignorance shouldn't be tolerated.
Lidl, Tesco, Aldi, Dunnes, Supervalue or
any outlet that wants your money. . .

CB19Kevo

Some people would want to shut there mouth's.
If they were annoyed at having to q, I'm sure they could have went to other checkouts.
Rare i do this myself :rolleyes: but turning to them and saying have you a problem shuts up most idiots.

dark crystal

CyberJuice wrote: »

dont see why it bothered u so much tbh,just get ur gear and get out,dont go home empty handed crying about it.. who cares if theres a few impatient aul ones bhind u in a que,dont let it ruin your day OP. i woulda just been fishing around lookin for money and made them wait longer while i look at them and smile

It didn't ruin my day at all, I just shopped elsewhere. Just wondered what the deal was in the place is all...I've never encountered it anywhere else.

Although you're right, I should have just gone slower and smirked at the old bitches. I just wanted out of there as it felt like some Texan women's prison with a line of vicious inmates ready to cut your throat for using the phone first. Or something.

dark crystal

amacachi wrote: »

Yeah, and they're the ignorant bastards.

Damn straight they were.

Captain Graphite

amacachi wrote: »

Yeah, and they're the ignorant bastards.

Well, the dramatic effect of the classic "supermarket storm out" manoeuvre is somewhat dampened if you put the shopping back before you leave. There's a fine line between making a statement and making yourself look a bit mad.

later12

I know OP.

It really hurts to forego the "sweet-smelling baked bread aroma of Superquinn".

My friend's aunt's neighbour's boyfriend actually caught poverty in there once.

Eww. Poor people are so smelly:mad:

LighterGuy

Op, I shop regularly at LIDL ... and ...

dark crystal wrote: »

I looked at the checkout girl who was just throwing the groceries into the trolly with a miserable head on her. I said to her, "Er, why is everyone staring at me like I've just murdered someone?" to which she just shrugged and carried on throwing the shopping into the trolly.

I'm willing to bet a thousand euro she was eastern european, right?
Sad but true that alot of eastern euopean staff in supermarkets feels its even too much to say "hello" as they are scanning your goods. Let alone any chit chat.

dark crystal wrote: »

Some auld hag said loudly: "Your wan is taking her time" and huffed. Then another woman said "Jesus, how much shopping has she at all?" (I had a weeks worth of groceries, about 3/4 of a trolly full). They all just stood there and glared at me like I was the anti-Christ.

'Cause people be assholes. Through and through.
If roles were reversed same mouthy cun*s would take offense to anyone in the que saying anything.


Lesson learned is that people are assholes.

policarp

amacachi wrote: »

Yeah, and they're the ignorant bastards.

Just bad manners, maybe?

dark crystal

later10 wrote: »

I know OP.

It really hurts to forego the "sweet-smelling baked bread aroma of Superquinn".

My friend's aunt's neighbour's boyfriend actually caught poverty in there once.

Eww. Poor people are so smelly:mad:

Sorry, what?

I already stated that I was broke myself. No need to start insinuating that I think I'm better than anyone.

You're barking up the wrong tree there my friend.

later12

LighterGuy wrote: »

I'm willing to bet a thousand euro she was eastern european, right?
Sad but true that alot of eastern euopean staff in supermarkets feels its even too much to say "hello" as they are scanning your goods. Let alone any chit chat.

Arra yeah, sure the Irish wan down my local Tesco here in Hammermith does a little jig every time someone asks her for a carry bag, and greets all of her happy customers with a Top a' the marnin'!

Can't beat a rendition of Danny Boy when you're paying for your groceries, all the same.

later12

dark crystal wrote: »

You're barking up the wrong tree there my friend.

Relax Missus. I wasn't barking at all, it was more of a reference to alison o'riordan than to your post:)

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/on-just-196-a-week-it-hurts-to-part-with-the-pennies-2271802.html

Tesco Massacre

If you mix with commoners, OP, then expect remarks like 'yer wan' or 'come here a mineh' & 'what's de story'?.

I know it's not pleasant, but keep your chin up. You'll be back shopping in Superquinn in no time.

policarp

amacachi wrote: »

Yeah, and they're the ignorant bastards.

The customer is always right. . .

dark crystal

later10 wrote: »

Relax Missus. I wasn't barking at all, it was more of a reference to alison o'riordan than to your post:)

http://www.independent.ie/national-news/on-just-196-a-week-it-hurts-to-part-with-the-pennies-2271802.html

Ah, fair enough

starviewadams

Bit unfair on Eastern European folk,nearly all of the staff in my local Lidl are Eastern European and they're great craic with the regular customers.Girl who served me yesterday was even recommending me different mixers for my vodka!

LighterGuy

later10 wrote: »

Arra yeah, sure the Irish wan down my local Tesco here in Hammermith does a little jig every time someone asks her for a carry bag, and greets all of her happy customers with a Top a' the marnin'!

Can't beat a rendition of Danny Boy when you're paying for your groceries, all the same.

You clearly have no sense or clue on how to be civil towards people.

Majority of my work history has been in retail. I have worked the checkout countless times. I have had customers come up to me who wanted to engage in chit chat as I scan up their items. I, being a civil person, will engage with the Bull**** / its all crap 'chit chat with them back. Because I am civil.

Dan Chipowski

I wouldn't mind the staff member at all, as most staff members in Lidl/Aldi will literally fire the change at you. They're doing their job and just want to get the customers through as quickly as possible. It's hardly the nicest job in the world so I wouldn't blame them too much.

I've been to Aldi and Lidl numerous times and for whatever reason Lidl is always slower at the checkouts even if the line is about the same.

later12

LighterGuy wrote: »

You clearly have no sense or clue on how to be civil towards people.

Majority of my work history has been in retail. I have worked the checkout countless times. I have had customers come up to me who wanted to engage in chit chat as I scan up their items. I, being a civil person, will engage with the Bull**** / its all crap 'chit chat with them back. Because I am civil.

Are you on the blob?

I didn't say anything about civility. I just don't like your reference to Eastern Europeans; the Irishwoman in my local Tesco is as great a wench as you'll ever see in a supermarket, but I'm sure most people are not daft to make sweeping statements about Irish people based solely on individuals like that.

I've met lovely sales assistants in Lidl as well as less chatty ones; none have ever been rude, which is all one should expect really.

cloneslad

dark crystal wrote: »

I looked at the checkout girl who was just throwing the groceries into the trolly with a miserable head on her.

She probably has a 'miserable head on her' because in LIDL and Aldi, they scan, and you throw the groceries into the trolley. They don't do that, it's scan and take your money and get you outta there.

You then take your stuff and pack it into bags at one of the windows and then get the f**k out.

FearDark

LIDL attracts a lower class citizen.

Ficheall

LIDL is great.

OP's story is a bit dodgy though. Unless, as cloneslad suggested, the OP wasn't putting the stuff in the trolley herself, but rather waiting for the cashier to do it for her. In that case, the people in the queue would have been justified complaining about the OP, unless she has some disability that renders her incapable of stacking her own trolly.
I doubt that's the case though, because one fills one's own trolly in Tesco too.

Care to fill us in on the rest of the details, OP?