Is there a reason why Lidl and Aldi dont have a express checkout at this point?
Its rare all pay aisles are open so I doubt its about space
Maybe they’re under pressure for time and need to get the shopping done fast. Maybe they’ve got small kids with them, driving them mad and want to get out of the shop asap. Maybe they haven’t looked at the person’s shopping behind them.
People are calling OP selfish but I do this all the time, and have had other people do it for me when I’m holding two bottles of milk and they’ve a full trolley. Perfectly normal
Nobody is obligated to do this for you. Mildly infuriating alright, but I never expect someone to do this for me and am always chuffed when they do.
I love the ones that will try to make their presence and impatience known by shifting from one foot to the other, making exasperated gestures and sighing but not actually stop to ask “may I go ahead of you?”. Anyone that does ask gets a polite “go ahead” but if you’re going to act the maggot you can get fucked!
I would have. It’s not going to add a lot of time.
The skill of thinking of others before yourself is lacking with a lot of people, as I can see on here.
Like grand if you don’t want to, sometimes it’s not always possible for whatever reason, but people are utterly selfish over the most stupidest of things.
If I’m unpacking a full trolley and I notice someone behind me with a few items I nearly always let them through.
It costs me nothing but is a big time saver to them. I’ll still be unloading my trolley when they are long gone.
I’m not obligated to let them go ahead but it’s the decent thing to do.
Or. You have a big shop and you’re in a rush and someone pops up behind you and asks if it’s ok if they just go ahead with their one item. And you say, ‘yes, of course’.
And then it turns out they also need to return an item which requires a manager to come and authorise.
And then they can’t remember their pin.
Evil personified.
I often hope it happens to them as well
I relish in it, your tears sustain me, I make a trinket of your anguish, a play thing of your pain.
Mwa-ha-ha-ha, MWA-HA-HA-HA!!!!
Feck, I’ve left the bags in the car…..
Twice people have asked in the past few weeks if they could skip and I’ve just said no.
One guy said it was “an emergency” — looked at his hands he’s holding two packets of sweets. Sorry bud “I don’t believe you do have an emergency” — The horrified look as realized he’d been called out and immediately starts bitching to the auld wan right behind me about “some people”.
Similarly another girl (both looked pretty unkempt, possible rough sleepers) said the same thing “an emergency” — a single pair of socks in her hand. “Sorry love, no emergency requires a pair of socks”.
Some people don’t give a fuck and trot out the “it’s an emergency line” every time. Use your own judgement.
Why don’t they have self-checkout?
Just ask! They’re hardly gonna say no…
tbh i avoid going into lidl and aldi specifically cos of this
i’m usually only got a handful of things and get stuck behind some stay-at-home mom buying food for her 17 children. then a new lane opens up and the few person or behind me in the Q get there first so i’m still Q’ing up
also the quality of food in aldi is rubbish
Maybe they had already let someone ahead of them?
Yeah, one item. Then they want to play lotto, they bought something from a multi pack, they want to pay in cent coins, their card is declined, …
Too many things can go wrong so it is not worth the frustration.
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Anyway, tills in LIDL go fast enough.
Ahh that is always a moment of pure joy for me
They have lots of one things, surely they have preference?
Another fascinating case of main character syndrome.
A lady with a full trolley was in front of me and asked if I wanted to go ahead of her. I only had 6 items. I said no your fine thanks because I’m a masochist and a time waster.
Lidl for me has to be the rudest queuing experience. It’s usually a free for all with tills opening & closing at random.
Try having the dopes in Tesco do it, where there’s a gazillion self service checkouts free.
Yes they do
Hate when you let a girl go ahead of you for this and they eye you up like you want their number. I’m in a happy relationship, just don’t want to be a dick. Let me act the bollocks before you look at me like I’m a bollocks.
i sometimes wonder how fast it would be if they just introduced self service tils
I never do that, either wait your turn or stop coming in looking for 1 thing
Why is it mainly a lidl & aldi thing? I don’t think I remember anyone offering in tesco to do it
Just ask?
Most times I’m not paying attention to who is behind me honestly… But if you ask I’ll definitely let you go first.
At least Lidl is a supermarket where you don’t bag your groceries whilst in queue. In most American supermarkets, you’re stuck waiting behind someone while they bag their groceries. I can only imagine (and seethe) being behind someone with a full cart while I have one item.
And if you go to dunnes there 20 check outs open but you go to the one that of course the person doesn’t have money or person has 50 receipts.
Going to lidl for one thing and complaining about the queues. 😆
One time I had a full trolly and told the lad behind me with one item to go ahead of me. He told me he had 4 kids in the car and wanted to stay in the shop longer for a bit of peace.
The real villians are people who don’t just fuck the shit back in their trolleys after scanning and stand there idilly loading the stuff into their bags. The loading bays are there for a reason. Always feel bad for people who put too much shit into the little blue things and then try to bag it at the till. But the trolley people who do that, pure evil.
I went to Dunnes with my mam and there was classic Dublin mammies in front of me, exact excerpt from their convo:
: I hate the way they do it at Lidl, it’s like they’re throwing the stuff at me
: ah yeah, I don’t let them rush me though, I take my time
: i think they’re getting used to the way *we* do things here now though, they do it like that in Spain but it’s just not the way we do things yeno
Who on earth is the ‘we’? Spain? What???? The staff have obviously just realised you’re a raging asshole and know you’re going to slowly bag and glare at them simultaneously.
Lidl’s really needs to bring an exit point that doesn’t require me to go the tills with nothing on me.
I was waiting in the queue in my local Lidl this morning and the fella in front of me offered to let me go ahead of him cause all I had were croissants and he had a rake of stuff.
I discovered that in Lidl they can suspend a large trolley purchase in order to allow a smaller purchase to be done.
I thanked yer man profusely. Little things like that make life easier and more pleasant for everyone.
Letting people go ahead of you is the secret handshake to get you into heaven
When they purposely don’t look behind them to see what the next person has. I burn holes in the back of their head with my stare.
Most items I’ve ever bought in a supermarket at one time is prob 15, avg is around 2. Don’t get people buying 100+ items in one go
Nothing can be worse than someone from BuyMe doing four shops from the one trolly.
I’m cautious with this stuff. All too common for the person in front of me to want a chin wag with the cashier, to have a faulty card or to spend ten minutes rooting through their purse.
I always let them through, I have not yet been given the same courtesy
the odd time i go into lidl or aldi im usually just getting one or two things and so it happens quite often that i get people offering to let me skip ahead but always decline because the whole idea is just a bit dumb. if you want to go through the tills without a queue then go there at 9 in the morning. unless you are the president of a country or some shit, nobody is that important that they can’t wait a minute or two for the people in front of them to finish.
Completely agree. One thing I was always wondering though, if you have 2 people behind you with 1-2 items, do you let them both go ahead or do you only let one?
I suppose you would let both go ahead and you would expect that the second person would have the cop on to say “No, thank you – it’s okay”?
What’s the proper Lidl/Aldi etiquette here?
No, the killer is them searching for the lidl rewards app …2 hours later they start to read out their number in a panic
I mean who shops at Lidl anyways 🤔… Tesco masterrace all day everyday 😂😂😂
I was in the cue for the self-checkout in dunnes one lunch time. Lad forgot something so left all of his food in the self checkout and went for a wander for 5 minutes.
This and people who don’t have the common decency to put the next customer divider for the person behind them.
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And I’ll look over my shoulder and smile at you
Is there a reason why Lidl and Aldi dont have a express checkout at this point?
Its rare all pay aisles are open so I doubt its about space
Maybe they’re under pressure for time and need to get the shopping done fast. Maybe they’ve got small kids with them, driving them mad and want to get out of the shop asap. Maybe they haven’t looked at the person’s shopping behind them.
People are calling OP selfish but I do this all the time, and have had other people do it for me when I’m holding two bottles of milk and they’ve a full trolley. Perfectly normal
Nobody is obligated to do this for you. Mildly infuriating alright, but I never expect someone to do this for me and am always chuffed when they do.
I love the ones that will try to make their presence and impatience known by shifting from one foot to the other, making exasperated gestures and sighing but not actually stop to ask “may I go ahead of you?”. Anyone that does ask gets a polite “go ahead” but if you’re going to act the maggot you can get fucked!
I would have. It’s not going to add a lot of time.
The skill of thinking of others before yourself is lacking with a lot of people, as I can see on here.
Like grand if you don’t want to, sometimes it’s not always possible for whatever reason, but people are utterly selfish over the most stupidest of things.
If I’m unpacking a full trolley and I notice someone behind me with a few items I nearly always let them through.
It costs me nothing but is a big time saver to them. I’ll still be unloading my trolley when they are long gone.
I’m not obligated to let them go ahead but it’s the decent thing to do.
Or. You have a big shop and you’re in a rush and someone pops up behind you and asks if it’s ok if they just go ahead with their one item. And you say, ‘yes, of course’.
And then it turns out they also need to return an item which requires a manager to come and authorise.
And then they can’t remember their pin.
Evil personified.
I often hope it happens to them as well
I relish in it, your tears sustain me, I make a trinket of your anguish, a play thing of your pain.
Mwa-ha-ha-ha, MWA-HA-HA-HA!!!!
Feck, I’ve left the bags in the car…..
Twice people have asked in the past few weeks if they could skip and I’ve just said no.
One guy said it was “an emergency” — looked at his hands he’s holding two packets of sweets. Sorry bud “I don’t believe you do have an emergency” — The horrified look as realized he’d been called out and immediately starts bitching to the auld wan right behind me about “some people”.
Similarly another girl (both looked pretty unkempt, possible rough sleepers) said the same thing “an emergency” — a single pair of socks in her hand. “Sorry love, no emergency requires a pair of socks”.
Some people don’t give a fuck and trot out the “it’s an emergency line” every time. Use your own judgement.
Why don’t they have self-checkout?
Just ask! They’re hardly gonna say no…
tbh i avoid going into lidl and aldi specifically cos of this
i’m usually only got a handful of things and get stuck behind some stay-at-home mom buying food for her 17 children. then a new lane opens up and the few person or behind me in the Q get there first so i’m still Q’ing up
also the quality of food in aldi is rubbish
Maybe they had already let someone ahead of them?
Yeah, one item. Then they want to play lotto, they bought something from a multi pack, they want to pay in cent coins, their card is declined, …
Too many things can go wrong so it is not worth the frustration.
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Anyway, tills in LIDL go fast enough.
Ahh that is always a moment of pure joy for me
They have lots of one things, surely they have preference?
Another fascinating case of main character syndrome.
A lady with a full trolley was in front of me and asked if I wanted to go ahead of her. I only had 6 items. I said no your fine thanks because I’m a masochist and a time waster.
Lidl for me has to be the rudest queuing experience. It’s usually a free for all with tills opening & closing at random.
Try having the dopes in Tesco do it, where there’s a gazillion self service checkouts free.
Yes they do
Hate when you let a girl go ahead of you for this and they eye you up like you want their number. I’m in a happy relationship, just don’t want to be a dick. Let me act the bollocks before you look at me like I’m a bollocks.
i sometimes wonder how fast it would be if they just introduced self service tils
I never do that, either wait your turn or stop coming in looking for 1 thing
Why is it mainly a lidl & aldi thing? I don’t think I remember anyone offering in tesco to do it
Just ask?
Most times I’m not paying attention to who is behind me honestly… But if you ask I’ll definitely let you go first.
At least Lidl is a supermarket where you don’t bag your groceries whilst in queue. In most American supermarkets, you’re stuck waiting behind someone while they bag their groceries. I can only imagine (and seethe) being behind someone with a full cart while I have one item.
And if you go to dunnes there 20 check outs open but you go to the one that of course the person doesn’t have money or person has 50 receipts.
Going to lidl for one thing and complaining about the queues. 😆
One time I had a full trolly and told the lad behind me with one item to go ahead of me. He told me he had 4 kids in the car and wanted to stay in the shop longer for a bit of peace.
The real villians are people who don’t just fuck the shit back in their trolleys after scanning and stand there idilly loading the stuff into their bags. The loading bays are there for a reason. Always feel bad for people who put too much shit into the little blue things and then try to bag it at the till. But the trolley people who do that, pure evil.
I went to Dunnes with my mam and there was classic Dublin mammies in front of me, exact excerpt from their convo:
: I hate the way they do it at Lidl, it’s like they’re throwing the stuff at me
: ah yeah, I don’t let them rush me though, I take my time
: i think they’re getting used to the way *we* do things here now though, they do it like that in Spain but it’s just not the way we do things yeno
Who on earth is the ‘we’? Spain? What???? The staff have obviously just realised you’re a raging asshole and know you’re going to slowly bag and glare at them simultaneously.
Lidl’s really needs to bring an exit point that doesn’t require me to go the tills with nothing on me.
I was waiting in the queue in my local Lidl this morning and the fella in front of me offered to let me go ahead of him cause all I had were croissants and he had a rake of stuff.
I discovered that in Lidl they can suspend a large trolley purchase in order to allow a smaller purchase to be done.
I thanked yer man profusely. Little things like that make life easier and more pleasant for everyone.
Letting people go ahead of you is the secret handshake to get you into heaven
When they purposely don’t look behind them to see what the next person has. I burn holes in the back of their head with my stare.
Most items I’ve ever bought in a supermarket at one time is prob 15, avg is around 2. Don’t get people buying 100+ items in one go
Nothing can be worse than someone from BuyMe doing four shops from the one trolly.
I’m cautious with this stuff. All too common for the person in front of me to want a chin wag with the cashier, to have a faulty card or to spend ten minutes rooting through their purse.
I always let them through, I have not yet been given the same courtesy
the odd time i go into lidl or aldi im usually just getting one or two things and so it happens quite often that i get people offering to let me skip ahead but always decline because the whole idea is just a bit dumb. if you want to go through the tills without a queue then go there at 9 in the morning. unless you are the president of a country or some shit, nobody is that important that they can’t wait a minute or two for the people in front of them to finish.
Completely agree. One thing I was always wondering though, if you have 2 people behind you with 1-2 items, do you let them both go ahead or do you only let one?
I suppose you would let both go ahead and you would expect that the second person would have the cop on to say “No, thank you – it’s okay”?
What’s the proper Lidl/Aldi etiquette here?
No, the killer is them searching for the lidl rewards app …2 hours later they start to read out their number in a panic
I mean who shops at Lidl anyways 🤔… Tesco masterrace all day everyday 😂😂😂
I was in the cue for the self-checkout in dunnes one lunch time. Lad forgot something so left all of his food in the self checkout and went for a wander for 5 minutes.
This and people who don’t have the common decency to put the next customer divider for the person behind them.