In Aldi and Lidl you have dedicated packing areas (the big tables after the checkouts..) you’re meant to fire you shopping back into your trolley then move over there to pack. That’s why you have the trolley cutout so you can slide your stuff back into your trolley easy after they are scanned.
This is what I came here to say! I've seen me doing that in Tesco too to be fair. Just put everything back in the trolley and then pack outside/put everything straight into bags in the car.
The idea is to put it everything on the conveyor belt exactly how you would put in the bag,so when you bag in you just throw it in the bag,so when they finish scanning you finish bagging and I usually prepare my card in advance as well.
Sooo ALDI is a German supermarket, which is actually two parts (ALDI Süd and ALDI Nord = ALDI South and ALDI North). And let me tell you, here in Germany, all of the supermarkets are that fast. I’ve heard that apparently a lot of shops bag your things in the USA for you. Yeaaaah… that’s not a thing over here, and people are actually more upset here when the workers take too long. Edit: Lidl is also German hehe 😅
Aldi used to be one but after the founder died the sons fell out and split the company in two. There is only one of either Aldi in each country except American which has both but Aldi Nord go by the name Trader Joes
Aldi's does NOT bag for you in the USA. They put things into an empty cart as they are scanned and you move across the aisle to a shelf where you do your packing at your own speed. If you tried to pack as they scanned, you would be in their way. They do charge for bags so if you grab empty boxes from the shelf as you are shopping, or bring your own, it does eliminate that expense. You do need to give the quarter "deposit" on the cart and you get it back when you return the cart.
Pretty sure shes british and they dont really bag things for us either, just dont scan as fast is all (though I usually just use self service in stores generally)
I saw someone else mention it, but the Aldi’s in my area also have a designated bagging area. So they just scan quickly and put it back in the cart. You move to the bagging area (just a few feet in front of the till) and bag at your own pace.
But a lot of people still can't put it back in the trolley quick enough. For me it's disrespecting your customers. Luckily our local Aldi now have some self service tills where they tell you to pack your bags as you scan 🙄
@@lozzylolsI don't know where you are, but I'm not sure what you mean by they can't put it back in the trolley fast enough. Do your cashiers not automatically put the items back in the cart as they ring them up? That's what they do here. Then after you check out you go over to these big tables/benches and bag them up.
@@druelia9485 Here in Germany, there is a little slide to a small bagging area, and the cashier just slides everything on there for you to put into your bag, or your cart. Sometimes there are two areas, so the cashier can ring up the next customer, while you pack.
Wish we had it here in South Africa. The cashiers have assistants to pack. Yet, some stores still take forever, like Game is the worst. You can be 3 in the line but it can literally take 20 minutes per person. Checkers and Woolworths though are amazing. Pick n Pay is getting worse.
Man if there was an Aldi in my small town, customers would be screaming that they should be paid for bagging their own stuff and ‘doing the cashiers job’… they did it when self checkout got introduced
Also I know that Aldi is a German store because for one of my birthday celebrations I had a small German chocolate cake from there and the cake was actually German
Yep i heard that all over my area when self checkout became a thing. But I think most people who go to Aldi know bagging your own items is just part of the "culture" of the store, because I never hear anyone griping about that.
As an Aldi manager this is so accurate lol you pay THEN bag your groceries on the side to keep the line moving. 100% of the time of the line is long it’s because of slow customers not us
I remember there was this lady in Aldi in front of me and my mom, and she started yelling at the cashier to not go so fast and to put the things in her bag a specific way. The cashier apologized for going so quickly (although Aldi workers scan fast normally) and was being very nice about it. Then the lady called the manager because one there was a random iPad she found and needed to give in and two she started talking bad about the cashier and told him that the cashier was being extremely rude and improper. My mom luckily told the manager what happened so she didn’t get in trouble. I never thought I would actually see a Karen like that.
Aldi staff deal with it every day. They never actually get in trouble, because they're actually just doing what aldi trained them to do. But it's so sweet and helpful for the cashier's mental health that you stood up for them! :)
Not allways… I’m from Germany… where aldi and lidl is from… and here in Germany every supermarket is fast… and if you have a cashier who is slower, the costumers will complain about, because we are used to it… that’s why we even have mostly the same speed to pack our things in our bags… just the older generation or families with kids will use the packing area…
Lidl takes it to a new extream they give you the roller so things come doen even faster but they block the window shelfs with boxes and leaflets so you can't even pack there.
I push it back up to them if its piling up and can see I'm struggling always ask to slow down first if they don't listen I push my shopping back up towards them so it's falling on there lap and they have to stop to. Pick it up they useally slow down after that, Im a really fast packer so if I get overloaded then they really are going fast I even get it ready other end by heaviest to lightweight and cold and freezer bits together just so. I'm more prepared to. Pack I also won't pay until I've finished packing a ready to do so.
@@Emma-jb2hbthat's a very stupid attitude you have. The cashier must be fast because nobody including you likes to wait in a long queue for the checkout. So instead of being a d@ck you should be grateful that you can buy good products for a small price in Aldi. The reason of that price being so low is that the personnel is reduced to the minimum and the cashiers also do other tasks at the same time, they don't have time to wait for slow people to pack at their own pace. They are overloaded with work, they are being told they are slow and they need to go faster, they have to face j#rks that don't even greet them back whey they kindly say hi and all this to give the customers the best service as fast as they can cos they are now working in a luxury superstore with 10-20 cashiers that can bag your shopping. So next time you visit a discount, speed the process, make sure I already prepare the fidelity card, don't be slow and lazy, prepare your shopping on the till in theis order: heaviest things first, refrigerated/cold products all together, all groceries together divided by type preferably in a bag, then eggs and the other light/fragile products at the end. There's no reason to push back up your shopping in the cashiers face. Instead you can kindly ask to slow down as you're having difficulty to pack. Not every cashier is a piece of sh@t and there are empathetic ones. But you must be empathetic too and behave properly and like a human, not like a d@khead and go slow on purpose to revenge. They are just doing their job, and them going fast guarantees you the low prices you're paying in those shops. You just see the surface of the iceberg, you have no idea of how much work is loaded on those workers, how much pressure and distress they have to face to make everything work in a shop where there's always too little people running everything anyway and somehow. The Aldi and Lidl employees are like superheroes and customers are most of the time the enemy number one. We're supposed to be always kind and nice to people and deliver a fast service with no waiting time at the checkout. And we often get insulted for this. So people who are usual customers should be understanding and grateful, not nasty. If you can't stand the fact we need to be hyper fast then go to luxury supermarkets where you pay 3 times more and you can pack at your own pace without consequences. Anyway if you keep going back to Aldi it means you are ok with the service all things considered, so do no complain. Pack faster or use the window shelves which are not there for decoration, they exist to give you time and space to pack everything as you like. Just shove everything back in the cart and pack in the packing area, not on the till. The till is not for packing. Is like you wanting to have a nice and panoramic slow drive on a highway. That's not the function of the highway. The panoramic slow drive road is the shelves on the windows. Thanks for your understanding.also paying as soon as the card machine is ready really helps the cashier, as they can eliminate the queue if the next clients just have a few items to buy. You blocking the cashier for revenge and being slow to packing is a really evil, nonsense, pointless thing to do. I personally ask the client to pay and then I use the till behind me for the upcoming client, so I always give even the slowest clients time to pack on my till, despite that's not how it should be. And when I give them the time to pack and I make the upcoming client pay (as he's faster and has less items to pack) the first client gets upset cos they want to pay first (despite them still not being done with their packing). People are so arrogant and ignorant and annoying. I really wish we had self checkouts and all these people with mental/behavioural issues could check out alone. It would save me a lot of distress. Trying to be polite and nice is not always the best attitude. Some people still complain and cry and moan. They are sick. They mistreat you back while you're being kind, they don't even say hi back nor say bye when they leave. They thing everything is due to them cos they pay. That's not it. They should be grateful ti the cashier, if they can buy those items they want is thanks to th cashier that gives those items to them. So always remember to be kind and collaborative. Be kind if you want kindness back. If a cashier ignores your requests to slow down it might be YOU not being kind back in first place, so they kind of punish you in a way. Try kindness. You'll live better. If that's not your case then be understanding, as they are under a big pressure, their boss might be telling them off for being slow or something else, so try to be nice. When I meet a nice person I immediately try to slow down if I see they are in difficulty or I also help them pack after asking permission to do that. And they usually love me for that. I know no everyone is like me, but I can guarantee you that's very hard to be like me. Most of my colleagues are not patient enough to withstand people's lack of kindness and they kind of hand the clients. But everyone is nicer towards nicer people. So that's the solution. Have a great day
@@Emma-jb2hbyeh you ain’t that fast at packing if it’s ending back up against the cashier. I’ve seen people pack them into bags as quick as the cashier puts them through. It’s called being prepared.
Actually, I prefer Aldi for I've no one to blame for damaged fruit or bread or broken eggs, etc. I pack my way and love the quality of the offered goodies and lower prices. In short, no complaints. Thank you Aldi!!
At my old job (a grocery store) youd get fired if you didnt reach the expected items per minute and it was ridiculously high. I rarely every made it up that high bc I had to bag my own items and all customers at the store were really picky about how things were bagged. Luckily i wasnt in the main check out every often so that wasnt an issue I had to deal with very often.
The manager at my aldi used to say: people are supposed to pack at the packing tables, thats what they are for. Tell that to the customer when they complain :D
I worked for aldi for 2 years the reason we were able to scan items so quick is, regular branded items have a single small barcode on it so you have to scan it perfectly where as at aldi they own most of the products they sell which allows them to design all packaging. So they put several barcodes all around the packaging so no matter how you place it past the scanner it will scan. Ps. When I worked there we aimed for 1000 to 1300 items per hour I loved watching people run a marathon trying to keep up and as soon as I watched them get the bags ready I knew I had to scan 10X quicker 🤣
When I used to work retail, going from an international superpower of stores to a little mom and pop shop made my anxiety go down ten fold. That timer used to crank my anxiety up so much. I was so focused on getting it down to the “green” (which was under 120- not fun for bigger orders). The managers would pressure me and my coworkers relentlessly for it. Now I just chill, no one buys hundreds worth of stuff and if they do, there’s not a crazy line behind them and we can talk and chill while I do my job at a decent pace.
This is why when my family goes to Aldi 3 of us go one puts everything on the conveyor the other is ready with the money and the other fires everything back into the trolley safely and wheels it over to the packing area and then all 3 of us pack everything up together
We have a rule at our Aldi in Australia, the register is designed with a little trolley bay you have to wheel your cart into as soon as you're done loading everything onto the conveyor belt. The cashier scans and drops the items into the cart (obviously things like eggs are left for you to collect and put in the cart yourself) and then after you pay you wheel the cart to the packing table and pack everything into bags there. I assumed every Aldi was like that?
They are all supposed to be like that but sadly customers in the uk are so up their asses they don’t feel obligated to do that because they don’t in other stores.
So I worked at Aldi for awhile (by awhile I mean like 2 months, I was on a short term contract) and the reason we’re so fast is because unlike stores like Sainsbury’s who have 20 - 30 employees and 15 tills, Aldi (at least the one I worked at) had around 7 - 8 employees at one time with 6 tills. We had to pack quickly to keep customers satisfied and to keep the flow of traffic flowing.
Our Aldi and Lidl stores only have a tiny space by the checkout where scanned items accumulate, unless you only have a handful of items you need to dump everything back in your trolley or basket, and take it to the packing bench. If you've never been and have to pop in for a few bits then it's anxiety inducing 😂
Dude it isn’t just Aldi 😫 it’s every store; I used to be a cashier and it sucks cus you’re standing all day and your feet hurt and you have a time limit and you have to stock and clean it’s so much and by the time you even get home it hurts so bad to sit down that you don’t even wanna get up… it’s horrible especially here in the United States because the gov’t doesn’t care about us citizens- it’s all about the moolah 💰
I used to work one of the big Australian supermarkets (the green one) and we were told we had two minutes regardless of how big the trolley load was. Some customers would come through with two or three trollies back when the economy pwas favourable.
In the uk you get comfortable chairs to sit on and they only get on more cashiers when the live lines even get one customer over. Keeps speed up while not having to be at tolls the whole time. The workers are generally much happier and the customers can tell
That's not only Aldi. That's how every supermarket in Germany works. But never ever did anyone ask me whether I wanted a bag and this amount of communication is also very unusual.
My Aldi's has a packing/bagging area. The cashiers are quick but I count that as a plus. Throw those items in your shopping cart & move to the bagging station or bag at your vehicle.
In our country the check-outs in grocery stores have two lanes for scanned items, so you can pay and then continue to pack your things away at the same time that another client starts getting their things scanned.
I'm an assistant manager at an Aldi in the US. The goal for cashier's is 45 items a minute for your average and the stats get brought up on screen in the office when your till gets counted at the end of your shift. Cashiering is one of the core skills you have to have while there so if you're below 30 ipm consistently each week you'll start getting strikes against you. Keep in mind that all the numbers are averaged, so if you see a cashier moving way faster than you think that number should be, we're making up the difference for items that don't scan well and have to be manually punched in or issues with one or two customers who have slowed the process at some point. Please don't feel super rushed once you reach the payment point tho! Being at the payment menu pauses that time clock and doesn't affect anyone's score
Thanks so much for explaining this to anyone that reads it. In the uk 2 weeks a go there was a tv program on called inside Aldi, and they explained why they run things the way they do including the till area and special buys etc.
And this is exactly why I always go with the self check out option whenever it's possible. Only then I have enough time to tetris all my shopping into my backpack. 😂
In the U.S., we have a different system. The cashier places your order in a new carriage and you take the new carriage, replace it with the old, and go off to the side afterwards to pack up your items. It's honestly the best
I’ve never seen this. Usually it’s, go to the register area, put things on conveyer belt, items move to cashier and they scan them, then the cashier or an other person (a bagger) is bags the groceries and loads them back into your cart.
@Crow They don't do any bagging in Connecticut anywhere lol not Walmart, not Aldis, not Price Chopper, not Costco, nowhere except for Trader Joe's and some odd shops. Aldi employees put your food in an empty carriage sitting next to them, you swap out carriages at the end, and bag your stuff on the side at the bagging area
Pro tip from Germany: 1) Put things on the conveyor belt the way you want them in the bag (heavy first, breakable last) 2) leave space between stuff, don't stack it so they grab what you want first 3) mean spirited but put the codes facing away from the scanner so that they have to flip them. Also bottles, cans and everything that can roll, put it bottems facing the front or the back not sideways 4) have your bags read to be loaded 5) if they are still faster than you just dump it in the cart I went to Aldi in the US and it's nothing compared to Germany. Here asking the cashier to slow down would get you so much trouble with other customers but they would wait patiently for you to count out your coins to pay😂
I usually just put my stuff back in the trolley then pack my bags by the window but even with doing that the person is pretty much done by the time I put the trolley in front 😅 I understand they need to be fast but I get flustered so easily 😆
As a former employee at Aldi, this is too familiar! Most customers in Denmark didn't got the idea of taking the groceries to the packing area. Well, now Aldi is history in Denmark, since they closed all stores last year!
Yeah I use to do this working retail. I also bagged pretty fast so just about every customer went to my line regardless of how long it was cause everyone knew I was the fastest. That day I truly learned what it meant to suffer from success.
I am a bagger at my supermarket store called Stop & Shop supermarket and I do help our customers when they need help to pack their reusuable bags, but I also help customers with those electric shopping scooters at work to make sure they are always plugged in since the newer ones batteries don't less long enough as the old one due which now don't want to work that well now either.
While not Aldi, I do shop at a store with self bagging. The way they do it is for the checker to put the items onto a another(1of 2) conveyor belt. After paying, you use this belt to bring the items to you as you bag. There are 2 of these belts, so generally, while one customer is bagging their stuff from one belt, the next customer has their stuff put on the other.
This is so,relatable!! So,e times they are so fast, I get anxiety trying to get out my money to pay!! Always be prepared when you go to Aldi. They ain’t got time for your bullshit!! Lol
That's why you're not meant to pack at the register, but instead use the packing benches a few feet away! Put your groceries into your trolley/basket and then bring to the bench to pack at your own pace
I think in one of our stores there's always a cart when you arrive. They scan your items and put it in the other cart which u can then take with you to pack your stuff at your car. Your old cart then stays to become the cart of the next person
Every time I am outside of Germany I almost fall asleep at checkout. Here, you rapid fire ur stuff back into the cart and then move to your car or the packing area.
Me, I just throw the stuff back in the shopping cart, then go off the side - the supermarkets in Poland often have tables or like sils where you can finish packing
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Hi holly
In Aldi and Lidl you have dedicated packing areas (the big tables after the checkouts..) you’re meant to fire you shopping back into your trolley then move over there to pack. That’s why you have the trolley cutout so you can slide your stuff back into your trolley easy after they are scanned.
This is what I came here to say! I've seen me doing that in Tesco too to be fair. Just put everything back in the trolley and then pack outside/put everything straight into bags in the car.
The idea is to put it everything on the conveyor belt exactly how you would put in the bag,so when you bag in you just throw it in the bag,so when they finish scanning you finish bagging and I usually prepare my card in advance as well.
@@mariuscarausu9352in most shops yeah, but in aldi they literally ask you not to pack your bags at the till...
I didn't know this but I don't shop there so the one time I did go it seemed mental 😂
Not in spain
Aldi is originally a German store, in Germany the cashiers do check out extremely fast. That’s probably why they do that there too
Als Deutsche Person bestätige ich es aber wir können es so schnell wie möglich wieder einpacken.
Ich kann es auch bestätigen und ich mach genau so schnell einpacken wie die scannt
Ich schwör soger
Stores have a max time to get everything checked out, usually 3-5 min
In Australia we have Aldi and they are fast aswell and it’s really frustrating so we barely shop there
I'm laughing so hard at the fast scanning movements 😂
😂😂😂
In Germany you‘re gonna loose your job if your slower
@@vero.2x05Das nennt man Deutschlandgeschwindigkeit. :)
SAME OMFG
Me too 😂😂
Sooo ALDI is a German supermarket, which is actually two parts (ALDI Süd and ALDI Nord = ALDI South and ALDI North). And let me tell you, here in Germany, all of the supermarkets are that fast. I’ve heard that apparently a lot of shops bag your things in the USA for you. Yeaaaah… that’s not a thing over here, and people are actually more upset here when the workers take too long.
Edit: Lidl is also German hehe 😅
Aldi used to be one but after the founder died the sons fell out and split the company in two. There is only one of either Aldi in each country except American which has both but Aldi Nord go by the name Trader Joes
Aldi's does NOT bag for you in the USA. They put things into an empty cart as they are scanned and you move across the aisle to a shelf where you do your packing at your own speed. If you tried to pack as they scanned, you would be in their way. They do charge for bags so if you grab empty boxes from the shelf as you are shopping, or bring your own, it does eliminate that expense. You do need to give the quarter "deposit" on the cart and you get it back when you return the cart.
In ALDIs in the US we don’t get bags but the workers go slow haha
Pretty sure shes british and they dont really bag things for us either, just dont scan as fast is all (though I usually just use self service in stores generally)
@@tka6670 your aldi has self service?
I saw someone else mention it, but the Aldi’s in my area also have a designated bagging area. So they just scan quickly and put it back in the cart. You move to the bagging area (just a few feet in front of the till) and bag at your own pace.
But a lot of people still can't put it back in the trolley quick enough. For me it's disrespecting your customers. Luckily our local Aldi now have some self service tills where they tell you to pack your bags as you scan 🙄
@@lozzylolsdisrespectful? Lmfao
@@lozzylolsI don't know where you are, but I'm not sure what you mean by they can't put it back in the trolley fast enough. Do your cashiers not automatically put the items back in the cart as they ring them up? That's what they do here. Then after you check out you go over to these big tables/benches and bag them up.
@@druelia9485 Here in Germany, there is a little slide to a small bagging area, and the cashier just slides everything on there for you to put into your bag, or your cart.
Sometimes there are two areas, so the cashier can ring up the next customer, while you pack.
@@drakmaaaaa2729right? 😂 Everything is so soft now a days
As a German person this made me chuckle, in Germany they usually scan everything pretty quickly to not waste time and keep the cue going
More like so they can employ less staff
@@harrymcfadden2572No lmao
The cashier's at edeka are not quite as fast as the ones at Aldi, right ? Or Am I mistaken ?
@@SeriousBartYT I'm not sure, it probably doesn't depend on the shop but on the cashiers.
Wish we had it here in South Africa. The cashiers have assistants to pack. Yet, some stores still take forever, like Game is the worst. You can be 3 in the line but it can literally take 20 minutes per person. Checkers and Woolworths though are amazing. Pick n Pay is getting worse.
Man if there was an Aldi in my small town, customers would be screaming that they should be paid for bagging their own stuff and ‘doing the cashiers job’… they did it when self checkout got introduced
Also I know that Aldi is a German store because for one of my birthday celebrations I had a small German chocolate cake from there and the cake was actually German
Yep i heard that all over my area when self checkout became a thing. But I think most people who go to Aldi know bagging your own items is just part of the "culture" of the store, because I never hear anyone griping about that.
It shouldn’t be the cashiers job to bag your things. It’s annoying people standing around and not bagging their own stuff
We should go back to the old days where there's a counter, you tell them what you want and they go get it. Lazy gits. :D
Self check out is a different story. But I dont need anyone to pack my things I am totally happy with them screening my stuff
As an Aldi manager this is so accurate lol you pay THEN bag your groceries on the side to keep the line moving. 100% of the time of the line is long it’s because of slow customers not us
I remember there was this lady in Aldi in front of me and my mom, and she started yelling at the cashier to not go so fast and to put the things in her bag a specific way. The cashier apologized for going so quickly (although Aldi workers scan fast normally) and was being very nice about it. Then the lady called the manager because one there was a random iPad she found and needed to give in and two she started talking bad about the cashier and told him that the cashier was being extremely rude and improper. My mom luckily told the manager what happened so she didn’t get in trouble.
I never thought I would actually see a Karen like that.
Aldi staff deal with it every day. They never actually get in trouble, because they're actually just doing what aldi trained them to do. But it's so sweet and helpful for the cashier's mental health that you stood up for them! :)
FR LIKE THEY ON FULL SONIC SPEED 💀
I know this is a joke but my God how can people still not realise you put the things back into your basket/trolly and pack your bags on the benches? 😅
I used to always just sit on those benches 😂
Depends how mich you brought and if you’ve forgotten your bags
@@leepic1103 me and my brother were sitting on them and my brother fell off and fell face first 💀 I've been scared of sitting on them ever since lol
Not allways… I’m from Germany… where aldi and lidl is from… and here in Germany every supermarket is fast… and if you have a cashier who is slower, the costumers will complain about, because we are used to it… that’s why we even have mostly the same speed to pack our things in our bags… just the older generation or families with kids will use the packing area…
@@m.s.3041 Do they have an policies to slow for the disabled? I can't even get it in the trolley quick enough, and I always feel judged.
It’s always in Aldi as well
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Lidl takes it to a new extream they give you the roller so things come doen even faster but they block the window shelfs with boxes and leaflets so you can't even pack there.
I push it back up to them if its piling up and can see I'm struggling always ask to slow down first if they don't listen I push my shopping back up towards them so it's falling on there lap and they have to stop to. Pick it up they useally slow down after that, Im a really fast packer so if I get overloaded then they really are going fast I even get it ready other end by heaviest to lightweight and cold and freezer bits together just so. I'm more prepared to. Pack I also won't pay until I've finished packing a ready to do so.
@@Emma-jb2hbthat's a very stupid attitude you have. The cashier must be fast because nobody including you likes to wait in a long queue for the checkout. So instead of being a d@ck you should be grateful that you can buy good products for a small price in Aldi. The reason of that price being so low is that the personnel is reduced to the minimum and the cashiers also do other tasks at the same time, they don't have time to wait for slow people to pack at their own pace. They are overloaded with work, they are being told they are slow and they need to go faster, they have to face j#rks that don't even greet them back whey they kindly say hi and all this to give the customers the best service as fast as they can cos they are now working in a luxury superstore with 10-20 cashiers that can bag your shopping. So next time you visit a discount, speed the process, make sure I already prepare the fidelity card, don't be slow and lazy, prepare your shopping on the till in theis order: heaviest things first, refrigerated/cold products all together, all groceries together divided by type preferably in a bag, then eggs and the other light/fragile products at the end.
There's no reason to push back up your shopping in the cashiers face. Instead you can kindly ask to slow down as you're having difficulty to pack. Not every cashier is a piece of sh@t and there are empathetic ones. But you must be empathetic too and behave properly and like a human, not like a d@khead and go slow on purpose to revenge. They are just doing their job, and them going fast guarantees you the low prices you're paying in those shops.
You just see the surface of the iceberg, you have no idea of how much work is loaded on those workers, how much pressure and distress they have to face to make everything work in a shop where there's always too little people running everything anyway and somehow.
The Aldi and Lidl employees are like superheroes and customers are most of the time the enemy number one. We're supposed to be always kind and nice to people and deliver a fast service with no waiting time at the checkout. And we often get insulted for this. So people who are usual customers should be understanding and grateful, not nasty. If you can't stand the fact we need to be hyper fast then go to luxury supermarkets where you pay 3 times more and you can pack at your own pace without consequences.
Anyway if you keep going back to Aldi it means you are ok with the service all things considered, so do no complain. Pack faster or use the window shelves which are not there for decoration, they exist to give you time and space to pack everything as you like. Just shove everything back in the cart and pack in the packing area, not on the till. The till is not for packing. Is like you wanting to have a nice and panoramic slow drive on a highway. That's not the function of the highway. The panoramic slow drive road is the shelves on the windows.
Thanks for your understanding.also paying as soon as the card machine is ready really helps the cashier, as they can eliminate the queue if the next clients just have a few items to buy. You blocking the cashier for revenge and being slow to packing is a really evil, nonsense, pointless thing to do.
I personally ask the client to pay and then I use the till behind me for the upcoming client, so I always give even the slowest clients time to pack on my till, despite that's not how it should be.
And when I give them the time to pack and I make the upcoming client pay (as he's faster and has less items to pack) the first client gets upset cos they want to pay first (despite them still not being done with their packing). People are so arrogant and ignorant and annoying. I really wish we had self checkouts and all these people with mental/behavioural issues could check out alone. It would save me a lot of distress.
Trying to be polite and nice is not always the best attitude. Some people still complain and cry and moan. They are sick. They mistreat you back while you're being kind, they don't even say hi back nor say bye when they leave. They thing everything is due to them cos they pay. That's not it. They should be grateful ti the cashier, if they can buy those items they want is thanks to th cashier that gives those items to them. So always remember to be kind and collaborative.
Be kind if you want kindness back.
If a cashier ignores your requests to slow down it might be YOU not being kind back in first place, so they kind of punish you in a way. Try kindness. You'll live better.
If that's not your case then be understanding, as they are under a big pressure, their boss might be telling them off for being slow or something else, so try to be nice.
When I meet a nice person I immediately try to slow down if I see they are in difficulty or I also help them pack after asking permission to do that. And they usually love me for that. I know no everyone is like me, but I can guarantee you that's very hard to be like me. Most of my colleagues are not patient enough to withstand people's lack of kindness and they kind of hand the clients. But everyone is nicer towards nicer people.
So that's the solution.
Have a great day
@@Emma-jb2hbyeh you ain’t that fast at packing if it’s ending back up against the cashier. I’ve seen people pack them into bags as quick as the cashier puts them through. It’s called being prepared.
@@Emma-jb2hbYou seem like a really annoying customer.
Theres tables at the end for this exact reason, to properly pack
Still they shouldn’t make you pack your things like a animal.
I work at Aldi...It is like that for real. They time us on the registers 😂😂
fr thats so accurate
Actually, I prefer Aldi for I've no one to blame for damaged fruit or bread or broken eggs, etc. I pack my way and love the quality of the offered goodies and lower prices. In short, no complaints. Thank you Aldi!!
And in other stores you can? If something is broken dont buy it. Simple
So relatable! Only at Aldi!
Nope. Lidl too
@@DeeFourCee You have a point!🤣
Our Aldi has a packing area where you can put things in bags and boxes. It’s nice honestly.
At my old job (a grocery store) youd get fired if you didnt reach the expected items per minute and it was ridiculously high. I rarely every made it up that high bc I had to bag my own items and all customers at the store were really picky about how things were bagged. Luckily i wasnt in the main check out every often so that wasnt an issue I had to deal with very often.
The manager at my aldi used to say: people are supposed to pack at the packing tables, thats what they are for. Tell that to the customer when they complain :D
I need to show this to one of my relatives who work at Aldi.
I worked for aldi for 2 years the reason we were able to scan items so quick is, regular branded items have a single small barcode on it so you have to scan it perfectly where as at aldi they own most of the products they sell which allows them to design all packaging. So they put several barcodes all around the packaging so no matter how you place it past the scanner it will scan.
Ps. When I worked there we aimed for 1000 to 1300 items per hour I loved watching people run a marathon trying to keep up and as soon as I watched them get the bags ready I knew I had to scan 10X quicker 🤣
LOLLL This literally aslo happens in Australia😂😂😂
Crazy accurate lol.
The eye contact throughout had me in stitches 😂😂😂
When I used to work retail, going from an international superpower of stores to a little mom and pop shop made my anxiety go down ten fold. That timer used to crank my anxiety up so much. I was so focused on getting it down to the “green” (which was under 120- not fun for bigger orders). The managers would pressure me and my coworkers relentlessly for it.
Now I just chill, no one buys hundreds worth of stuff and if they do, there’s not a crazy line behind them and we can talk and chill while I do my job at a decent pace.
This is why when my family goes to Aldi 3 of us go one puts everything on the conveyor the other is ready with the money and the other fires everything back into the trolley safely and wheels it over to the packing area and then all 3 of us pack everything up together
I like the simple fact they get to sit down
They go BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP "can u slow down" BEEP BEEP "neverrrrrr"
We have a rule at our Aldi in Australia, the register is designed with a little trolley bay you have to wheel your cart into as soon as you're done loading everything onto the conveyor belt. The cashier scans and drops the items into the cart (obviously things like eggs are left for you to collect and put in the cart yourself) and then after you pay you wheel the cart to the packing table and pack everything into bags there. I assumed every Aldi was like that?
They are all supposed to be like that but sadly customers in the uk are so up their asses they don’t feel obligated to do that because they don’t in other stores.
So I worked at Aldi for awhile (by awhile I mean like 2 months, I was on a short term contract) and the reason we’re so fast is because unlike stores like Sainsbury’s who have 20 - 30 employees and 15 tills, Aldi (at least the one I worked at) had around 7 - 8 employees at one time with 6 tills. We had to pack quickly to keep customers satisfied and to keep the flow of traffic flowing.
Our Aldi and Lidl stores only have a tiny space by the checkout where scanned items accumulate, unless you only have a handful of items you need to dump everything back in your trolley or basket, and take it to the packing bench.
If you've never been and have to pop in for a few bits then it's anxiety inducing 😂
Dude it isn’t just Aldi 😫 it’s every store; I used to be a cashier and it sucks cus you’re standing all day and your feet hurt and you have a time limit and you have to stock and clean it’s so much and by the time you even get home it hurts so bad to sit down that you don’t even wanna get up… it’s horrible especially here in the United States because the gov’t doesn’t care about us citizens- it’s all about the moolah 💰
I used to work one of the big Australian supermarkets (the green one) and we were told we had two minutes regardless of how big the trolley load was.
Some customers would come through with two or three trollies back when the economy pwas favourable.
If there is a time limit complain to employment beureau
In the uk you get comfortable chairs to sit on and they only get on more cashiers when the live lines even get one customer over. Keeps speed up while not having to be at tolls the whole time. The workers are generally much happier and the customers can tell
Standing? What kind of cashier is standing. Cashiers have chairs you know.
it’s like ✨magic✨
That's not only Aldi. That's how every supermarket in Germany works. But never ever did anyone ask me whether I wanted a bag and this amount of communication is also very unusual.
I love to shop a Aldi! Just how much I love your videos 📸😍
You're supposed to take your stuff to the counter on the side wall to pack your bags AFTER you pay :)
My Aldi's has a packing/bagging area. The cashiers are quick but I count that as a plus. Throw those items in your shopping cart & move to the bagging station or bag at your vehicle.
In our country the check-outs in grocery stores have two lanes for scanned items, so you can pay and then continue to pack your things away at the same time that another client starts getting their things scanned.
The guy in the background behind the customer: 👀
So true..
Aldi employees offering bags?
FR😭i work at aldi, luckily we don’t have the time limit thing anymore they stopped it before i started thank god😭
I'm an assistant manager at an Aldi in the US. The goal for cashier's is 45 items a minute for your average and the stats get brought up on screen in the office when your till gets counted at the end of your shift. Cashiering is one of the core skills you have to have while there so if you're below 30 ipm consistently each week you'll start getting strikes against you.
Keep in mind that all the numbers are averaged, so if you see a cashier moving way faster than you think that number should be, we're making up the difference for items that don't scan well and have to be manually punched in or issues with one or two customers who have slowed the process at some point.
Please don't feel super rushed once you reach the payment point tho! Being at the payment menu pauses that time clock and doesn't affect anyone's score
Thanks so much for explaining this to anyone that reads it.
In the uk 2 weeks a go there was a tv program on called inside Aldi, and they explained why they run things the way they do including the till area and special buys etc.
Hello can I get a ❤ love you Holly
And this is exactly why I always go with the self check out option whenever it's possible. Only then I have enough time to tetris all my shopping into my backpack. 😂
At Aldi in America, the cashier has an empty cart they put ur items into and then you swap carts after paying and pack your stuff in a separate area.
In the U.S., we have a different system. The cashier places your order in a new carriage and you take the new carriage, replace it with the old, and go off to the side afterwards to pack up your items. It's honestly the best
Where? In which part? I’ve shopped at a lot of grocery stores in my time all of them in various parts of the States.
I’ve never seen this.
Usually it’s, go to the register area, put things on conveyer belt, items move to cashier and they scan them, then the cashier or an other person (a bagger) is bags the groceries and loads them back into your cart.
@@ben_anton New England for starters. No stores here bag anything for you. Walmart, Aldis, Costco, Price Chopper, Big Y, etc.
@Crow They don't do any bagging in Connecticut anywhere lol not Walmart, not Aldis, not Price Chopper, not Costco, nowhere except for Trader Joe's and some odd shops. Aldi employees put your food in an empty carriage sitting next to them, you swap out carriages at the end, and bag your stuff on the side at the bagging area
YOU GOT THE SHIRT OF ALL THE SHOPS IN THE UK 😭
to make these videos 😂
FR BRO MY PARENTS GOTTA BE LIKE THIS GUY 🟥⚡👨
Never seen something so accurate. Thank God for self checkout
😂 I love the way the worker is going soo fast 😂😂😂
Your videos are so good I could watch them every day
Pmsl 😂😂😂😂I love ❤️ getting my shopping thrown at me! By the one poor bugger on the till 😅
This is why I always go to self checkout
Pro tip from Germany:
1) Put things on the conveyor belt the way you want them in the bag (heavy first, breakable last)
2) leave space between stuff, don't stack it so they grab what you want first
3) mean spirited but put the codes facing away from the scanner so that they have to flip them.
Also bottles, cans and everything that can roll, put it bottems facing the front or the back not sideways
4) have your bags read to be loaded
5) if they are still faster than you just dump it in the cart
I went to Aldi in the US and it's nothing compared to Germany. Here asking the cashier to slow down would get you so much trouble with other customers but they would wait patiently for you to count out your coins to pay😂
Lol, so true. I try to get those 50 items per minute, almost a competition between me and one of my managers to see who is faster
I usually just put my stuff back in the trolley then pack my bags by the window but even with doing that the person is pretty much done by the time I put the trolley in front 😅
I understand they need to be fast but I get flustered so easily 😆
WHY IS THIS SO TRUE IM CRYING 😭💀
THIS IS WAY TOO TRUE!!!
I love how the cashiers eyes are bugging out as she scans 😂 so accurate
My biggest flex is being able to keep up with them 😌
they package like they’re trying to win an award for it
Well then you’re not gonna like the stores in Germany because every store in Germany is like that
This is still the funniest ever 😂😂😂😂😂 so accurate
That's why they have benches after the checkouts at Aldi to pack your shopping
In every ALDI I see, in Australia since I live in Australia, so like every aldi has a table near the exit to pack your own stuff!
This is utterly relatable!!!!
This is UTTERLY relatable 😩😩😩😭😭😭🤣🤣🤣🤣
As a former employee at Aldi, this is too familiar! Most customers in Denmark didn't got the idea of taking the groceries to the packing area. Well, now Aldi is history in Denmark, since they closed all stores last year!
why is this so true😂 and the accent😢
Being born and raised in the Netherlands I find the UK Aldi cashiers quite pleasant in tempo tbh
Yeah I use to do this working retail. I also bagged pretty fast so just about every customer went to my line regardless of how long it was cause everyone knew I was the fastest.
That day I truly learned what it meant to suffer from success.
as a german i love this concept of aldi... so efficient
I am a bagger at my supermarket store called Stop & Shop supermarket and I do help our customers when they need help to pack their reusuable bags, but I also help customers with those electric shopping scooters at work to make sure they are always plugged in since the newer ones batteries don't less long enough as the old one due which now don't want to work that well now either.
So true, my mum used to race these guys
While not Aldi, I do shop at a store with self bagging. The way they do it is for the checker to put the items onto a another(1of 2) conveyor belt. After paying, you use this belt to bring the items to you as you bag. There are 2 of these belts, so generally, while one customer is bagging their stuff from one belt, the next customer has their stuff put on the other.
In all honesty Aldi has it all figured out
POV:then you see shadow singing “I AM AT ALDI (I AM)”
Yes i had this experience myself many times ive gone shopping its mad and think how so quick some them but i loved how played that out 😂
Facts, because Aldis cashiers do got me crushing hard.
She’s so pretty😇
This is so,relatable!! So,e times they are so fast, I get anxiety trying to get out my money to pay!! Always be prepared when you go to Aldi. They ain’t got time for your bullshit!! Lol
The tiny end of the till kiosk in lidl makes you feel like this no matter how slow they scan
German efficiency at its finest. 😂
Yep same in Australian Aldis
I honestly thought that Aldi was just Australian turns out it’s not
@@naomid9706 me too... i wonder if nqr (not quite right) is also international....
in switzerland theres also an aldi i don't shop in aldi but mirgros and coop but if people say that then it gotta be fast
Saw you in the new cineworld ad ! 😂❤ made me smile !!
This is so true yesterday I went to Aldi and when they were finished i wasn’t even a quarter done of putting it in my bag
That's why you're not meant to pack at the register, but instead use the packing benches a few feet away! Put your groceries into your trolley/basket and then bring to the bench to pack at your own pace
My question is how tf do u have every uniform for every British shop
Omg I'm in love with your mickey playing soccer shirt where did you get it ❤❤
from a carboot sale
In my local ALDI, Right in front of the checkouts, there are big benches for you to get your stuff and pack.
I think in one of our stores there's always a cart when you arrive. They scan your items and put it in the other cart which u can then take with you to pack your stuff at your car. Your old cart then stays to become the cart of the next person
This happens to me all the time💀
Every time I am outside of Germany I almost fall asleep at checkout. Here, you rapid fire ur stuff back into the cart and then move to your car or the packing area.
I was not expecting the scanning im wheezing
As a former bagger, my power is unmatched
Me, I just throw the stuff back in the shopping cart, then go off the side - the supermarkets in Poland often have tables or like sils where you can finish packing
They are so fast!! I love it!! Then I organize and pack my groceries on the long table. 😂
sooo true 😂