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.
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.
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.
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…
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! :)
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
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!!
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.
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
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
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
Oh she's new 😂😂😂 u don't have to pack ur stuff while in line just throw it back in the cart and package it on the side that's why there's a huge long side table in front 😂😂😂
Sorry but as a foreigner living in the UK, the problem isn't with the cashiers' speed. I find it hilarious that I easily finish at the self serve checkout with a larger shopping while some Brits are packing at a 🐌 pace and fumbling for their card / phone / purse like they didn't realise they had to make a payment. I guess this is the price for being so calm in general, they can't gear up 🤷♀️
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.
There’s a area at the end to pack all your stuff yes be packing while they scan but don’t feel pressured to go at there speed as long as your not moving like a snail nobody will care
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.
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First I try to scan the app, when I am done with it half of my items scanned, and then change the app to google wallet to pay... i cant keep up with that speed lol xdd
Actually they put everything in a cart, then you take the cart with your food to a counter ten feet away. You can then pack at your leisure. No need to speed.
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 🤣
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.
Anyone who shops in Aldi or Lidl knows that you do not pack your bags at the checkout. The long benches at the front of the store are not a part of the decor!
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
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!
So this is the content you make when you have no life experience and work at the same grocery store since highschool and never keft your hometown. I bet she thinks "life experience" is fuckin random guys at the club lol
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 😂
we're not on a time limit specifically, else that would mean the more shopping you have the faster we'd scan, but that's not the case, we're actually inclined to slow down a bit if the customer is not the speediest packer (we have 4 different techniques based on the type of customer we are serving) we DO however get measured on our speed AND scanning accuracy (accidentally scanning an item twice and error correcting it etc.) and the general target is 1000-1100 items per hour, with 1400 considered exceeding expectations. it all comes down to how many customers you serve/how much time you spend on till and what customers you get. sometimes i get a 970, last week i hit 1300 odd so it does vary
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 😆
Wait, you're actually timed? I know I've only worked at one store, but we don't really do that here in the states. I've never had a cashier tell me they were being timed. The store I worked at had a list of the fastest times with a bonus given to the best times, but that was really it.
