Pressure in Lidil/Aldi

fleet_admiral · 24-09-2014 12:01AM

FloatingVoter wrote: »

Trick to Lidl is to pop down early in the morning (pre 9 AM) before the moms start shopping. No buggies, prams or toddlers. Just a quick cruise around the store and one or two others (at most) in front of you. All in a hurry to get somewhere, all paying cash and packing as they go.

I didnt know they had shops in America

FloatingVoter · 24-09-2014 12:04AM

fleet_admiral wrote: »

I didnt know they had shops in America

This is true. In parts of the remote Amazon you may have to catch your own food.

muddypaws · 24-09-2014 12:05AM

Macavity. wrote: »

They don't have an exit for people who have no items. Which means if I'm just going in for a look or something, I have to awkwardly walk through the small area where people are purchasing goods. This causes a minor amount of social discomfort for me, making my life very slightly more difficult.

You can always do the going out through the in door dance. You loiter by the entrance, waiting for someone to come in, then you get through the first set of doors, where you again wait for someone to come in through the outer doors, make a quick bolt for it and you're free.

mikeyjames9 · 24-09-2014 12:08AM

I just ask them to slow down

N365 · 24-09-2014 12:20AM

This drives me mental,especially when there is no queue. What is the hurry for anyway? I don't hear anyone moaning when people pack their bags in tesco or Supervalu etc Why is there such a rush in aldi?

Galwayguy35 · 24-09-2014 06:33AM

monkeysnapper wrote: »

Aldi workers get a sheet of paper at the end of their shift telling them how many items they scanned per hour ( average) each store has its own target but it's mainly around 1000 .

It also tells them how many voids ( mistakes / customer put backs ) .

How much money your till is up or down .

Refunds.

Usually every 6 months you have a review to discuss how your last 6 months has gone, you get your average till scans per hour , and over the last 6 months how much your till is up or down to the cent .

When working on the shop floor in mornings you also get a time limit per pallet you work , so example... Food cans and general cereal / you get 20 mins per pallet/. Fruit and veg ... 10 mins per pallet .

I worked in aldi for a few years and I found place to be ok . You always get a few narky customers but generally people know the score . If I got a narky person I'd just slow down, or if I got a older person .

I found place like any other place I've ever worked , if you keep your head down and just get on with your job nobody is going to break your balls over till speeds or pallet times .

A fella that worked with me got a job as the manager in one of the shops, good starting salary he was on as well.

He told me that it's only management that have full time jobs, ordinary floor workers are never made full time.

suicide_circus · 24-09-2014 06:38AM

N365 wrote: »

This drives me mental,especially when there is no queue. What is the hurry for anyway? I don't hear anyone moaning when people pack their bags in tesco or Supervalu etc Why is there such a rush in aldi?

The check out staff in aldi and lidl are being timed. If they dont process your items quickly enough they will be pulled up on it.

YFlyer · 24-09-2014 08:11AM

monkeysnapper wrote: »

if you keep your head down and just get on with your job nobody is going to break your balls over till speeds or pallet times .

That's what I dislike about the Aldi in Limerick that I shop in. The guys would nearly knock you down with those large trolleys when moving along the aisle. They never seem to look or care that there are customers standing looking at items on the shelves.

Tzardine · 24-09-2014 08:15AM

The lack of shopping baskets in lidl / aldi is a serious pain in the hole.

I have to either take one of their trolleys which is so big it had its own fecking orbit or I have to put shopping into my bags before I pay which usually ends up in a game of spot the store detective.

jmrc · 24-09-2014 08:21AM

Lidl is great, never bring the shopping bag....always pick up a cardboard box, put my messages in it and when it comes to the race at the till I can out pack the B*tch every time...... and when I get home the young lad (2.1/2")has a half hour of fun making the box into a car...

Value all round.

Red Nissan · 24-09-2014 09:12AM

Lads, next time in Lidl or Aldi mention this thread and get a free Banana.

kylith · 24-09-2014 10:11AM

Can't chuck everything back into the trolley if you're using a basket though. Trying to get my backpack packed before the cashier can't balance any more on that little shelf is a fun game of speed Jenga.

rubadub · 24-09-2014 10:23AM

shruikan2553 wrote: »

Why wont they add a checkout for 10 items or less.

I remember the checkouts in tesco had 10 items or less, but they were allowed process more, I wish it just refused to process it to force people to obey the rules. The info desk in mine used to have a 3 item policy and I saw them enforce it, like saying it could not scan in more and people had to leave stuff behind.

TheSheriff wrote: »

I just find it all very off putting, grocery shopping shouldnt be a stressful experience.

I should be able to stroll around, pick up what I need and then pack my bag at the till.

I find the lidl model far less stressful. I become stressed & enraged in the local supervalu where the auld one is talking to the other auld ones for minutes. There is another older till operator who is great, she has seen me waiting on the chatters and calls me over to her till, I think she is annoyed with the chatty one too and does it to embarrass her. It is quicker for me to regather all my items and walk around to her, even though my operator is totally finished checking stuff through and I am just waiting on the purse rooter who is chatting to her, purposely delaying themselves.

kylith wrote: »

Can't chuck everything back into the trolley if you're using a basket though. Trying to get my backpack packed

Bring the basket with you, do not leave it at the top of the conveyor. I get as much as I can into the backpack and if there are leftovers it goes in the basket I am still carrying. Or as I said before if its say 10 cans of beer I leave them in the basket, they scan 1 and pop it back in the basket and hand it over.

hiFidelity · 24-09-2014 11:15AM

Gone Drinking wrote: »

Why don't they play some kind of music? It can't be THAT much cheaper to have the place so silent.

Its usually just a wash of foreign accents and men saying "jayus, for 15 quid, who doesn't need an angle grinder and a wet suit?"

In regards to the bag packing, I always go with my missus, so we usually get it all bagged and paid nice and quick.

It's because it is a no-frills supermarket. If a commercial premises has music playing in the background then it has to pay annual fees to the Irish Music Rights Organisation, IMRO for short. This fee can amount to €2,000+ I think.

SuperValu have their own specially recorded 'music' to avoid having to pay this IMRO charge. If you consciously listen to the SuperValu music you may hear how atrociously bad it is. You will never hear this music outside of SuperValu.

muddypaws · 24-09-2014 12:17PM

Tzardine wrote: »

The lack of shopping baskets in lidl / aldi is a serious pain in the hole.

I have to either take one of their trolleys which is so big it had its own fecking orbit or I have to put shopping into my bags before I pay which usually ends up in a game of spot the store detective.

I've lived in other European countries, and have never seen anybody put their shopping into their bag before the till anywhere other than in Ireland. First time I saw someone do it, I did think they were shoplifting. I've done it a couple of times myself now, but feel really uncomfortable doing it, and make a huge show of emptying the bag at the till, to prove it is empty and I'm not smuggling anything out.

Boom_Bap · 24-09-2014 12:28PM

muddypaws wrote: »

I've lived in other European countries, and have never seen anybody put their shopping into their bag before the till anywhere other than in Ireland. First time I saw someone do it, I did think they were shoplifting. I've done it a couple of times myself now, but feel really uncomfortable doing it, and make a huge show of emptying the bag at the till, to prove it is empty and I'm not smuggling anything out.

I've seen it quite a bit in Germany.

Alun · 24-09-2014 01:04PM

Tzardine wrote: »

The lack of shopping baskets in lidl / aldi is a serious pain in the hole.

Bot my local Lidl and Aldi have baskets, as well as 3 different sizes of trollies including a small shallow one that is ideal for the smaller shop. Perhaps a visit to Specsavers might be in order?

OldMrBrennan83 · 24-09-2014 01:09PM

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24-09-2014 01:18PM

Why don't Aldi sell saffron threads?

Cantona's Collars · 24-09-2014 01:20PM

Anytime I shop in Tesco or Dunnes I find myself at the till thinking,"will you hurry the feck up".I'm used to having my stuff scanned at light speed.

Another thing that drives me nuts at the till are those women who wait until all their stuff is scanned and then realise that they have to pay as if it was some new concept then spend ages rooting around in their handbags for purses or cash.

OldMrBrennan83 · 24-09-2014 01:28PM

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Galwayguy35 · 24-09-2014 01:29PM

Patww79 wrote: »

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So you ended up spending more money on fuel and the shop itself was more expensive.

Each to their own but I couldn't give a toss about having a nice experience when I get cheaper shopping and don't have to put up with a bunch of cackling hens bladdering at the till holding me up.

porsche boy · 24-09-2014 01:30PM

if you think packing you stuff is pressure you would want to look into the pressure on the staff. Stuff I've heard is incredible. There is a reason few Irish work there.

FloatingVoter · 24-09-2014 01:30PM

They always have baskets (and cardboard boxes) in the Lidl on Cork street. Shoplifters are also catered for as security only watches the door.

OldMrBrennan83 · 24-09-2014 01:35PM

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franer1970 · 24-09-2014 01:38PM

Most annoying thing about Aldi / Lidl is that they evidently think anyone leaving without buying anything is stealing - the entrances are one way and closed checkout lanes are barred shut. You have to force your way through an open checkout, trying to avoid looking like a queue jumper / shoplifter.
Always happens when I go in there to buy one heavily promoted special offer item which they don't even have.

Barely There · 24-09-2014 01:40PM

I like the way the slow packers are annoyed by the Lidl/Aldi model.
Frankly, I'm more than happy for them to feck off to their local Tescos where they can happily stare into space or engage in a stupid conversation with the checkout person about the latest goings-ons in Eastenders. They obviously don't have very much going on in their lives and value these moments.

I have more important things to be doing on my weekend off and I don't consider the weekly shop to be anything other than a necessary inconvenience that I wish to get through in as fast a manner as humanly possible.

That's why I say 'Horse those groceries through Svetlana, I'm game for a bit of speed packing'

sbsquarepants · 24-09-2014 01:41PM

I generally couldn't care less who I inconvenience - i'll take my god damned time thank you very much. That being said I'm not allowed do the shopping for that very reason!

copey · 24-09-2014 01:45PM

Happend to me today

Wulfie · 24-09-2014 01:49PM

son.of.jimi wrote: »

Yeah I don't think you should pack at the till. they have the shelf behind the tills for packing. No rush then

I can pack faster than any aldi employee can scan my stuff. Most of the time anyway.

Pressure in Lidil/Aldi

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