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Aldi and Lidl checkout system

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  • #272
    Sam Kade
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,309 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    heldel00 wrote: »
    Oh believe me I try to avoid it as much as I possibly can but no denying there are bargains to be had.
    I always seem to have a bad experience when I go to Aldi. For example the last couple of times I have been there I got rammed with a trolley and left the store limping with a busted ankle and only the other day I walked into someone's yawn! A really dirty smelly yawn that just stunned me and made me want to retch!
    Now I know this could happen in any supermarket but I just seem to be very unfortunate when I go to Aldi.

    You walked into someone's yawn a smelly one, did you go down their throat? Because people suck in air when they yawn.


  • #273
    heldel00
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,832 ✭✭✭heldel00


    Sam Kade wrote: »
    You walked into someone's yawn a smelly one, did you go down their throat? Because people suck in air when they yawn.

    And they also release that air!!!


  • #274
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 94,847 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    How to do rounding properly :pac:


    http://i.imgur.com/6hX7Kqu.jpg


  • #275
    the groutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,096 ✭✭✭✭the groutch


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    How to do rounding properly :pac:


    http://i.imgur.com/6hX7Kqu.jpg



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  • #276
    brooke 2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,472 ✭✭✭brooke 2


    Winterlong wrote: »
    The systems they have in place at Lidl/aldi dont bother me to be honest.
    And the staff are always friendly, more so than in tesco, but not as friendly as in supervalue IMO.

    But reading this thread about people putting their trolley in the queue while they then continue shopping.
    FFS, that would drive me nuts. Fair enough forgetting one item and explaining and dashing. But doing a full shop while having a trolley in the queue - nah!

    I have never seen that happening!


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  • #277
    vicwatson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    Today I saw it all in Aldi, a cheeky bastard came up in the next aisle and said to the customer ahead, "do you mind if I skip ahead as I've only a couple of things" - he's taking things to the next level, have no problem if invited but to ask if they can skip ahead? Feck right off - dude never heard of the queueing system in life


  • #278
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    ^^^^^^^^

    no harm in asking surely?


  • #279
    OldMrBrennan83
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  • #280
    MrDiyFan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 193 ✭✭MrDiyFan


    I don't have any problem with people asking

    I usually offer anyhow. Especially in aldi as it doesn't have express checkouts.


  • #281
    Nermal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,836 ✭✭✭Nermal


    Some halfwit in Lidl today decided to have a bit of 'banter' with the cashier marvelling at how cheap his shop was. After painstakingly packing everything in the box he'd nabbed from the store he made a production of asking to pay by card, finding it, and having a bit more 'banter' about entering the cashier's PIN instead. My blood pressure was dangerously high. It was relieved somewhat when the dope traipsed out of the place after wishing us all a 'happy easter'...


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  • #282
    Elliott S
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,475 ✭✭✭Elliott S


    the_pen_turner wrote: »
    I would make an educated guess that a sill packer takes at least twice if not 3 times longer to go from till to leaving the shop

    I'm happy enough with it taking marginally longer on the packing end to get through the scanning and paying part quicker. Packing at the sills most definitely gets people through the tills quicker. Without a doubt. For this alone, sill-packing is worth it. Overall, the time spend at the tills would be the same, I'd say, and I'd rather the longer bit of time to be at the end once the shopping is paid for rather than waiting in line to pay. Packing at the till slows down the rate at which people go through the tills. If you think you save time by packing at the tills, you don't. It's a false time-saving economy. Luckily people have copped this in every Lidl and Aldi I shop in.


  • #283
    Elliott S
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,475 ✭✭✭Elliott S


    vicwatson wrote: »
    Today I saw it all in Aldi, a cheeky bastard came up in the next aisle and said to the customer ahead, "do you mind if I skip ahead as I've only a couple of things" - he's taking things to the next level, have no problem if invited but to ask if they can skip ahead? Feck right off - dude never heard of the queueing system in life

    I have no problem with people asking this and indeed have seen it happen plenty, and have done it myself. It's pretty commonplace, I find.


  • #284
    the_pen_turner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,692 ✭✭✭the_pen_turner


    Elliott S wrote: »
    I'm happy enough with it taking marginally longer on the packing end to get through the scanning and paying part quicker. Packing at the sills most definitely gets people through the tills quicker. Without a doubt. For this alone, sill-packing is worth it. Overall, the time spend at the tills would be the same, I'd say, and I'd rather the longer bit of time to be at the end once the shopping is paid for rather than waiting in line to pay. Packing at the till slows down the rate at which people go through the tills. If you think you save time by packing at the tills, you don't. It's a false time-saving economy. Luckily people have copped this in every Lidl and Aldi I shop in.

    there is a lot of doubt .
    I disagree 100%.
    most delays are not caused by whether you put the food in the trolley in an organised way or whether you just randomly put it in. the food still has to go into the trolley to be packed at the sill.

    if you remove all the pointless variables like not being ready with eh money then there will be no difference to the time to go through the till for a group

    packing at the sill only adds time to the customer and save no time for ant one else


  • #285
    Fred Swanson
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  • #286
    misstearheus
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    I hate how they talk to each other in their own language across the Tills. In. Ireland. And now they talk to Customers in their own language. In. Ireland. Dunno how they pick them out they just seem to know that Customer is one of them...


  • #287
    Jimmy Garlic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,348 ✭✭✭Jimmy Garlic


    misstearheus wrote: »
    I hate how they talk to each other in their own language across the Tills. In. Ireland. And now they talk to Customers in their own language. In. Ireland. Dunno how they pick them out they just seem to know that Customer is one of them...

    Because they just scanned enough jars of pickles and mayonez to know that customer is true Slav.


  • #288
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,228 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Patww79 wrote: »
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    Because they are moving people from till duty to other work

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #289
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,228 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Patww79 wrote: »
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    Feck off to tesco then and leave the rest of us humans to shop at our own pace

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #290
    OldMrBrennan83
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  • #291
    Sam Kade
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    heldel00 wrote: »
    And they also release that air!!!

    Which gives you plenty warning to get out of their way. When you see them sucking in move before they exhale ;)


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  • #292
    homerjay2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,346 ✭✭✭✭homerjay2005


    dbagman wrote: »
    how hard is it to have your empty bags open in the trolley ready to go? I always pack at the till. whats the point in putting the stuff in the trolley twice?

    ireland in general, is full of people who have no consideration for anybody else. it really is amazing just how many people are in their own world when it comes to holding up other people.


  • #293
    [Deleted User]
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    You're all missing the point!
    Windowsill packing allows you to discard unwanted packaging.

    I toddle to the window & take off all the crap plastic etc that doesn't need to be there, throw it in the bin, then just take home what I want.


  • #294
    Advbrd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 619 ✭✭✭Advbrd


    I have two large trolley bags that I got in lidl. They clip on to both sides of the trolley and have built in compartments for frozen food. As the goods are scanned, I drop them into the bags, the same way you would drop them into the trolley: scanning complete, packing complete, no one held up, no need to pack at window, simple.


  • #295
    maximum12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 666 ✭✭✭maximum12


    misstearheus wrote: »
    And now they talk to Customers in their own language. In. Ireland. Dunno how they pick them out they just seem to know that Customer is one of them...

    It's the same as when you're in a foreign country and you see the bacon and cabbage head walking in the opposite direction and you just know they're Irish.


  • #296
    Elliott S
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,475 ✭✭✭Elliott S


    the_pen_turner wrote: »
    packing at the sill only adds time to the customer and save no time for ant one else

    Disagree, sill-packing makes getting through the tills much faster.


  • #297
    sonofenoch
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    I died several times watching this :D

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU3X0TOvKCo


  • #298
    Fred Swanson
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  • #299
    [Deleted User]
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    Elliott S wrote: »
    Disagree, sill-packing makes getting through the tills much faster.

    It simply does not in my experience but that's beside the point really, the aim of shopping is to get the food home and packing at the till gets you to your car and home faster as you handle every item less often and are walking out the door while a sill packer begins to unload their trolly into bags.

    I think sill packing is a stupid system and nothing will change my mind on that. I'd much prefer Aldi put in proper tills with space at the end rather than a window sill.


  • #300
    Elliott S
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,475 ✭✭✭Elliott S


    Jenny Deafening Topaz wrote: »
    It simply does not in my experience but that's beside the point really, the aim of shopping is to get the food home and packing at the till gets you to your car and home faster as you handle every item less often and are walking out the door while a sill packer begins to unload their trolly into bags.

    It doesn't get you to your car faster, you just think it does. Everyone gets through the tills faster with sill-packing, this is without doubt. Like, it's not even close, and I've done both many times. So quicker through the tills and maybe marginally longer packing time. Overall, that is a net faster process than everyone packing their shopping at the end of the till. I don't really understand how people can be so short-sighted and stubborn about this. Why would you not want to do it the quicker way?

    Oh and Aldi and Lidl won't EVER provide the space at the end of the tills because they know the above system is the one that makes sense. In fact, I can envisage other supermarkets in the country following suit in the future.


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  • #301
    Elliott S
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,475 ✭✭✭Elliott S


    Actually, this thread illustrates to me why inefficient systems are kept in places for years in all kinds of settings and industries. People don't seem to want to welcome change or admit that the way they were doing something wasn't the optimal method. Being "right" is more important to them than changing things for the better.


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