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Aldi / Lidl

  • 22-09-2013 10:53PM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 825 ✭✭✭


    Can anyone tell me why a bell goes off every so often in these shops ???


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  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 12,551 Mod ✭✭✭✭byhookorbycrook


    It's to call someone to open a checkout.


  • Moderators, Regional North West Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 19,193 Mod ✭✭✭✭byte
    byte


    A cashier ringing for another colleague to man a till when the queue gets long.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,944 ✭✭✭✭Links234


    one of the cashiers calling for another cashier when they see it's getting busier?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,818 ✭✭✭donvito99


    Signals that you have arrived.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    It's to call someone to open a checkout.

    Thread needs locking on aisle 4.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,179 ✭✭✭hfallada


    Calling staff to get to the till, rather than packing the shelves. Everytime the bell rings I see them legging it to the tills.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,339 ✭✭✭Artful_Badger


    Aliens


  • Moderators, Regional North West Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 19,193 Mod ✭✭✭✭byte
    byte


    It must be a fair nuisance, when you're busy doing something, to drop all and man a spillover till, then leave it again to resume what you were at previously. All damn day!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,660 ✭✭✭greedygoblin


    It's to call someone to open a checkout.

    Ya usually they only operate one or two checkouts at a time. When they start getting overrun during busy periods they ring the bell to alert another staff member to come and help.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,629 ✭✭✭Archeron


    It's to signal that the store has just ran out of chest waders and self assembly bathroom cabinets.


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  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 14,568 Mod ✭✭✭✭johnnyskeleton


    Every time an aldi bell rings, that's when an angel gets his wings.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 825 ✭✭✭3fullback


    I think this is a different type of bell though is seems to go off on a pattern


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,003 ✭✭✭Busted Flat.


    3fullback wrote: »
    Can anyone tell me why a bell goes off every so often in these shops ???

    Do you hear them anywhere else ?. The Bells The bells. I think the guy that said that had a hump on his back.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,339 ✭✭✭Artful_Badger


    3fullback wrote: »
    I think this is a different type of bell though is seems to go off on a pattern

    Maybe the workers are trying to signal for help ? They could be chained to the tills. Have a peek next time your in.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,081 ✭✭✭✭Del2005


    3fullback wrote: »
    Can anyone tell me why a bell goes off every so often in these shops ???

    As the others have said to get more tills open. There's a sticker on the tills showing no more than 2 people queuing beyond the belt and then staff will open a new till ASAP, unlike premium stores where I've stood for several minutes queuing to be ripped off while loads of staff stand around chatting with only a couple of tills open.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    There is a bell sequence, one two and three. Depending on what is required. Another till opening, coins and notes cash from the safe and FIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,003 ✭✭✭Busted Flat.


    mike65 wrote: »
    There is a bell sequence, one two and three. Depending on what is required. Another till opening, coins and notes cash from the safe and FIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Fire, jaysus that would be a big ding dong.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,359 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    I always get the impression the tills are the worst job in the place.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,113 ✭✭✭shruikan2553


    Wish they would use the thing in the lidl in Galway. Always long queues


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,952 ✭✭✭Lando Griffin


    Its the start finish bell for when the points for Employee of the month start or end.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,081 ✭✭✭✭Del2005


    mike65 wrote: »
    There is a bell sequence, one two and three. Depending on what is required. Another till opening, coins and notes cash from the safe and FIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


    Like the coded messages sent over PA systems to alert staff in other businesses to issues/emergencies that they don't want to freak the customers with.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,963 ✭✭✭Meangadh


    The cashier rings the bell cos he/she is trying to make some sort of music to hide the deathly silence you find in Aldi and Lidl.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,359 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Very obscure.Beats horse though I suppose.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,785 ✭✭✭Ihatecuddles-old


    kneemos wrote: »
    I always get the impression the tills are the worst job in the place.

    I worked in a Supermarket and I loved the tills. I really enjoyed it. Loved the customers!I went into work every day smiling and the customers loved me :D

    I loved scanning, helping them pack, beaming a smile at them, having a bit of a chat. Ah nostalgia.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,785 ✭✭✭Ihatecuddles-old


    kneemos wrote: »
    Very obscure.Beats horse though I suppose.

    Surely hare isnt that obscure?? I love game meat!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,454 ✭✭✭jobeenfitz


    That bell is just to warn staff that there is a weird boardsie fcuker here.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,735 ✭✭✭Vincent Vega


    I thought it was played when someone in the creative department came up with a suitable name for one of those imitation products.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 50 ✭✭qapmoc


    maybe the bell is store security when someone walks out without paying? The security man always goes to someone at the door when it sounds.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,276 ✭✭✭sdanseo


    byte wrote: »
    It must be a fair nuisance, when you're busy doing something, to drop all and man a spillover till, then leave it again to resume what you were at previously. All damn day!

    Used to work in a shop with that system. You could be in the middle of changing the twine on a carboard baler (fiddliest job ever) and have to drop everything so that some bint up front has to wait 18 seconds less to buy a batch loaf and a pint of milk.

    Usually because some moron has decided to use Laser, ask for cashback, and is only buying the Herald.

    Annoying as hell!


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 772 ✭✭✭Caonima


    That a really fit Eastern European burd has walked into the store (especially the case for the Moore Street branch)


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