Shopping in LIDL

ebixa82

dark crystal wrote: »

How dare you. Seriously. You haven't the faintest notion what the hell you're talking about.

I said I was trying to get out of there as fast as possible because my toddler was trying to stand up in the trolly (there were no harnesses on them) and I was trying to get him to sit down for his own safety, whilst packing bags at the same time. How does that equate to not controlling him exactly? I was doing my best.

I thought you said you walked out without paying anything and leaving a 3/4 full trolley behind for some member of staff to put away?
Very inconsiderate thing to do as that will no doubt take someone away from the till to deal with this meaning even more pressure and queues on the tills for your fellow customers.

Glenbhoy

dark crystal wrote: »

"Fu*k this, I'll just get out of ye're way will I?" and walked out, leaving the shopping behind in the trolley.

I wonder who got the 2 euro for returning the trolley?

Jesus Shaves

ebixa82 wrote: »

And maybe she should try to control her child in public better.

You should be ashamed of yourself for that comment

RainbowRose81

dark crystal wrote: »

How dare you. Seriously. You haven't the faintest notion what the hell you're talking about.

I said I was trying to get out of there as fast as possible because my toddler was trying to stand up in the trolly (there were no harnesses on them) and I was trying to get him to sit down for his own safety, whilst packing bags at the same time. How does that equate to not controlling him exactly? I was doing my best.

Don't mind that poster. It's hard to find anyone who think's logically here or knows how to actually think alot of the time, that's why you get replies like that.

Wantobe

Wow, this thread isn't going all that well for you OP, maybe you should stage a walk out here too...;)

dark crystal

Wantobe wrote: »

Wow, this thread isn't going all that well for you OP, maybe you should stage a walk out here too...;)

Indeed!

Feck you all, I'm off!!

RainbowRose81

Wantobe wrote: »

Wow, this thread isn't going all that well for you OP, maybe you should stage a walk out here too...;)

That is how revolutions start when people stand up for their rights and justice and right they are!

ebixa82

RainbowRose81 wrote: »

That is how revolutions start when people stand up for their rights and justice and right they are!

Dear God, I hope you are taking the piss

MrStuffins

I don't think i've ever seen somebody's story change so much

Yakult

I thought germans were noted for being hard working and efficient? Lidl and Aldi are anything but.

One till going, with about 15 people queuing.. Never have I seen more than two tills opened.
And they badly need an express check out.

Not to mention depressing atmosphere in the place, a bit of music wouldn't kill any one.

MrStuffins

RainbowRose81 wrote: »

That is how revolutions start when people stand up for their rights and justice and right they are!

LOL!!!!!!!!!

Rights? Justice? The OP was shopping and a couple of rude people said "How much shopping does she have?".

This is hardly emancipation of the slaves territory!

Revolutions haha. I can see it now. The OP's story draws very similar lines to the French Revolution. Can't wait for the Storming of the Bastille Bakery Isle!

ebixa82

Yakult wrote: »

I thought germans were noted for being hard working and efficient? Lidl and Aldi are anything but.

One till going, with about 15 people queuing.. Never have I seen more than two tills opened.
And they badly need an express check out.

I guarantee a queue with 10 people in it in LIDL/ALDI are served twice as fast as a 5 long queue in Tescos. They have it all down to a t in there.

dark crystal

Yakult wrote: »

I thought germans were noted for being hard working and efficient? Lidl and Aldi are anything but.

One till going, with about 15 people queuing.. Never have I seen more than two tills opened.
And they badly need an express check out.

I reckon this would really help. It seems most LIDL customers are only after a few items during their visit.

An express checkout would be a great idea to cut down on queuing times.

MrStuffins

Yakult wrote: »

I thought germans were noted for being hard working and efficient? Lidl and Aldi are anything but.

One till going, with about 15 people queuing.. Never have I seen more than two tills opened.
And they badly need an express check out.

Not to mention depressing atmosphere in the place, a bit of music wouldn't kill any one.

I dunno, have you heard music lately?

I was in the queue in Tesco last week. I'm into my hardcore Belgian trance you know? And on the radio in Tesco came some Swedish Hard House?

Well, that was IT!!! I just stormed out and left my shopping there in a rage! Hopefully my actions will start a revolution!

listermint

dark crystal wrote: »

I reckon this would really help. It seems most LIDL customers are only after a few items during their visit.

An express checkout would be a great idea to cut down on queuing times.

These systems are very expensive to implement and maintain, which defeats the purpose of a budget checkout.

Im going to go out on a limb here and say you should really grow a back bone and not let other people bother you. I mean you can run into various c*@ts throughout your day to day business but if you let it bother you more fool you.

People will be like that, its life, dont try to change them. Smile back in the smug acknowlegement that you dont have their stresses. leave them to complain themselves into an early grave.

Frank Black

Yakult wrote: »

Not to mention depressing atmosphere in the place, a bit of music wouldn't kill any one.

Supermarket muzak kills your soul - Fact!

Glenbhoy

Yakult wrote: »

I thought germans were noted for being hard working and efficient? Lidl and Aldi are anything but.

One till going, with about 15 people queuing.. Never have I seen more than two tills opened.
And they badly need an express check out.

Not to mention depressing atmosphere in the place, a bit of music wouldn't kill any one.

As most have said the speed is impressive, that queue takes no time to clear. If the queue gets excessive, the security man will call some of the staff from the floor up to man a till.
The shop is extremely efficient, people don't just sit on tills, they stack, price and clean etc and go back to the tills when the numbers justify it.
I suppose that's why they pay their staff above average market rates.

Also, they don't supply baskets, because they know if you take a trolley, chances are you will buy more.

Big Knox

dark crystal wrote: »

Quite right. I'm judging a store by how I was treated as a customer - what's wrong with that exactly?

dark crystal wrote: »

I'm glad you find LIDL such a great place to shop.

By all means, continue to enjoy shopping there without people like me to get in your way

You seem to have a vendetta against Lidl over this incident and have made your decision never to go back based on comments made by other customers. I don't really see any logic here and it has led you to come to boards and try and belittle the business rather then address the cause of the issue, the people who made the comments.

If I walked into your house and made snide comments towards you would you walk out and decide never to return blaming your environment as you did above rather than me?

Cantona's Collars

I don't mind queuing in Lidl or Aldi,I know that my stuff will be along that belt and scanned in record time unlike my local Dunnes,some of the staff there are like zombies only slower and less efficient.
My local Lidl & Aldi are beside each other and everybody shops in both,strange thing is that most of the staff in Aldi are Irish and it's the opposite in Lidl.Saying that,the staff are sound although one girl there must feel there's a tax on smiling.

Ignore the tutters behind you,they are everywhere.Most are the same ones that invade the post office and take half the day rooting in handbags at the counter in shops.

Had an instance of a guy in a queue at the airport,roaring & shouting down the phone so everyone could hear him,complaining about the hold up at passport control.The dipstick got to the booth only to realise he's stuck his passport into his hand luggage and couldn't find it.
They are out there op,ignore them and get on with your shopping-Don't blame the store if people are cunts. Btw the stuff in Lidl's bakery is lovely.

ppink

dark crystal wrote: »

How dare you. Seriously. You haven't the faintest notion what the hell you're talking about.

I said I was trying to get out of there as fast as possible because my toddler was trying to stand up in the trolly (there were no harnesses on them) and I was trying to get him to sit down for his own safety, whilst packing bags at the same time. How does that equate to not controlling him exactly? I was doing my best.

could this be what people were tutting at by any chance? I was told in ALdi and Lidl not to pack at the checkout, that is why they have the big long counter at the end.

I do have to say though when I was in uni and shopped in a small shop the "locals" were very vocal about having students coming in and using laser cards....it held things up apparently.

smash

My mother nearly lost the plot last week when a checkout operator asked the old lady in front of her to just put stuff in the trolley as it was scanning through and then sort into bags on the shelf at the back of the checkouts because he didn't have the time to wait for her.

Attabear

MrStuffins wrote: »

I don't think i've ever seen somebody's story change so much

On Boards?

Surely you jest.

listermint

smash wrote: »

My mother nearly lost the plot last week when a checkout operator asked the old lady in front of her to just put stuff in the trolley as it was scanning through and then sort into bags on the shelf at the back of the checkouts because he didn't have the time to wait for her.

Thats their system! Thats why they DONT have an area that your goods pile down into alla tesco / dunnes. It goes straight into the trolley and be off with you to the designated area behind the tills to pack.

its an efficient system why wont irish people use it ?

dark crystal

Big Knox wrote: »

You seem to have a vendetta against Lidl over this incident and have made your decision never to go back based on comments made by other customers. I don't really see any logic here and it has led you to come to boards and try and belittle the business rather then address the cause of the issue, the people who made the comments.

If I walked into your house and made snide comments towards you would you walk out and decide never to return blaming your environment as you did above rather than me?

No, I just wouldn't invite you back to my house.

Look, I've shopped in loads of different places and all I'm saying is that, as a customer, I hated the LIDL experience. So, as is my right, I won't be going back there to do a weekly shop again. There's no big vendetta.

If you enjoy shopping there, by all means, continue to enjoy shopping there. Everyone has different experiences and opinions, don't they?

If someone else didn't like how Tesco operates, I wouldn't give a flying fart and continue to shop there anyway regardless as I find their customer service satisfying.

smash

listermint wrote: »

Thats their system! Thats why they DONT have an area that your goods pile down into alla tesco / dunnes. It goes straight into the trolley and be off with you to the designated area behind the tills to pack.

its an efficient system why wont irish people use it ?

You're paying them! they should be a bit more accommodating.

listermint

dark crystal wrote: »

No, I just wouldn't invite you back to my house.

Look, I've shopped in loads of different places and all I'm saying is that, as a customer, I hated the LIDL experience. So, as is my right, I won't be going back there to do a weekly shop again. There's no big vendetta.

If you enjoy shopping there, by all means, continue to enjoy shopping there. Everyone has different experiences and opinions, don't they?

If someone else didn't like how Tesco operates, I wouldn't give a flying fart and continue to shop there anyway regardless as I find their customer service satisfying.

i think people are more bewildered that your blaming the store (chain) because

A) you dont know that you dont back your bags at the tills

b) you take offense from people you dont know and thus blame a whole chain of stores on peoples tut tutting.

c) you opened a thread on both of the items above.



expect people to comment if you opened a thread.

ppink

smash wrote: »

You're paying them! they should be a bit more accommodating.

but there is a reason they are cheap, surely that is part of the reason!

Frank Black

dark crystal wrote: »

No, I just wouldn't invite you back to my house.

Look, I've shopped in loads of different places and all I'm saying is that, as a customer, I hated the LIDL experience. So, as is my right, I won't be going back there to do a weekly shop again. There's no big vendetta.

Ever? Based on one bad experience of some fellow customers tutting?

This is an over-reaction imo.

If you were to take this stance with every establishment, you'd never be able to go anywhere.

MrStuffins

smash wrote: »

You're paying them! they should be a bit more accommodating.

You're paying for the goods. You're not paying for 5 star treatment. You put the stuff in the trolley, they scan it through and take your cash, you then bag the stuff yourself and off you go.

No big deal!

listermint

smash wrote: »

You're paying them! they should be a bit more accommodating.

If i said your clueless would it make it better?


Can you think of any other reason these budget shops DO NOT have an area for items to sit at the till while being packed?

Its scan scan scan NEXT, scan scan scan NEXT.

it works everywhere else on the continent. Whats your problem.