Aldi and Lidl checkout system

MeatTwoVeg

Mc Love wrote:

There needs to be an express checkout for 10 items or less,

Fewer.

Los Lobos

Can people stop saying sill please, it's a window sill

OldMrBrennan83

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Spanish Eyes wrote: »

I always put myself in the place of the person behind me (could be me), where the person in front is faffing around and has no spatial awareness of the delay to others.

It is basically being NICE and considerate. Soon most will get with the program I suppose, but it's a long haul just the same.

Rank hypocrisy.

Promoting a message of being NICE and considerate and then going on about others "faffing about" and their lack of "spacial awareness".

Hypocrisy is the contrivance of a false appearance of virtue or goodness, while concealing real character or inclinations, especially with respect to religious and moral beliefs; hence in general sense, dissimulation, pretense, sham.

snubbleste

Lidl take aaaaa-aages to open a new checkout whilst Aldi do it immediately when the queue gets too long.

LordSutch

dfeo wrote: »

Aldi and Lidl checkout system

9/10 = Very well designed and efficient I'd say ...

Only thing missing is a 'Quick Checkout' for seven items or less.

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LordSutch wrote: »

9/10 = Very well designed and efficient I'd say ...

Only thing missing is a 'Quick Checkout' for seven items or less.

You'll be lucky!

The only thing actually missing is Lidl's adherence to their own policy of opening another till when there are more than two trolleys in a checkout queue.

By refusing to open more tills, the pressure to evacuate the area is placed on the person being served.

And we've seen that people who shop in these places have literally no time to spend on shopping, need to be somewhere else and have never heard of Internet shopping.

Next time you're there have a look for the "no more than two trolleys" stickers inside the checkout operators enclosure.

Then ask a member of management why they don't observe their own methods of efficiently managing the tills they have.

redcup342

dfeo wrote: »

I regularly go to a local Aldi and Lidl and in principle, the queuing system is excellent.

Lob your stuff on the conveyor belt, move to end of the checkout, your stuff is quickly scanned through and you (just as quickly) put the stuff back into the trolley and pay.

Move to the preparation window sill things at the end and repack and organise there.

What p1sses me off about Aldi and Lidls here is that most people are organising and packing at the end of the tills.
The whole mantra of Lidl and Aldi is efficiency, which thus translates into cheaper goods due to less dwell time and wasted time. There is no justification to have more tills open in Lidl / Aldi if people just copped on and stopped packing at the till.

THAT'S WHAT THE WINDOW SILLS ARE THERE FOR :mad:

I've been to Aldi and Lidl in Germany and the Netherlands and you'll get dirty looks for holding up the system. People there actually respect the system there.

Bullsh*t

People pack their stuff at the end of the Till all the time here in Germany (and in the Netherlands)

Either they wait with a bag ready to pack the stuff in or they wait with a trolley and 3/4 bags open in the Trolley waiting to fill it.