1st shop at aldi never again !

DCFC79

dzug1 wrote: »

I think the problem is that (in this case) Lidl don't. It comes frozen and is left in the yard to defrost. Sometimes they leave it there too long.

this is wrong or it was for the stores i worked in, when the milk was delivered it was put straight into the fridge in the warehouse by the delivery driver or if there was a member of staff there then it would be put straight out into the fridge on the shop floor

DCFC79

trixie73 wrote: »

i know what you mean, they dont half go at some speed when putting your shopping through. do you think this is because they are paid alot better than checkout staff at asda, tesco, etc and are expected to work at speed?

The staff on the checkout have to scan a certain amount of items per minute/per hour(it was about 800 but it might hav chnaged or be different from 1 store to another) and if you fall below this target then you would possibly get a telling off for not reaching the target or the amount of customers would build up and then you would have to open another till, yes the staff are paid more, i think something like £6.50/£7.00 or something in that region plus any bonusus for the store reaching any targets

frugallass

DCFC79 wrote: »

The staff on the checkout have to scan a certain amount of items per minute/per hour and if you fall below this target then you would possibly get a telling off for not reaching the target or the amount of customers would build up and then you would have to open another till, yes the staff are paid more, i think something like £6.50/£7.00 or sometihng in that region

ah stuff that, I'll go to asda / morrisons where they treat their customers with a bit more respect !

DCFC79

frugallass wrote: »

ah stuff that, I'll go to asda / morrisons where they treat their customers with a bit more respect !

how did u derive that from what i said, they do treat the customers with respect but they have to get the customers out the door, the more customers they get through the bigger theyre bonus will be, theres nothing wrong with shopping there but you have to take your own bags, they dont have baskets and you put the shopping in the trolley once its scanned, like i said the stores i worked the majority of the customers were fine and we were fine with the customers,

nelly10

The reason they scan food through quickly is like you said, so they dont have to open another till. Opening another till costs more for them, bringing the price of food up. Same reason they dont have baskets. Having baskets brings the cost of food up.

We shop at Aldi. The food is priced average, but is quality. I use to eat basic baked beans, gross. But, i also shop around. Iceland is good for somethings amnd so is Adsa. I buy all the special offers lol

Stompa

DCFC79 wrote: »

...yes the staff are paid more, i think something like £6.50/£7.00 or sometihng in that region...

Last time I looked it was £8.00.

Schamansky

nelly60 wrote:

The reason they scan food through quickly is like you said, so they dont have to open another till.

Also, calling additional staff on tills means that these colleagues have to interrupt what they are doing at the moment in order to keep the store running (such things as restocking, merchandising, carding, doing orders, tidying up, sweeping, cleaning, etc.) This makes them fall behind in their tasks, in a place where everybody's workload is absolutely immense and the pressure to get everything done in time is verging on the ridiculous.

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For those who have a problem with packing their stuff away from the till and stubbornly insist in holding up the queues because of their god-given right to their own infallible ways, I have a subtle hint.

Stay clear of Aldi and Lidl. You won't like it there, and they (that's staff and customers) won't like you, either.

Hope that was subtle enough.

EDIT: for the elderly, the disabled, and mothers with prams (can't push a pram and a trolley at the same time), things look very different, of course.

MrsE_2

misskool wrote: »

I hate to say this but the way you eat your meat is EXTREMELY wasteful. Your premium cuts only account for a small proportion of the animal. The energy and the cost towards producing the whole animal is WASTED if you only eat breast meat and premium cuts. You may care about the animal but you don't have a care towards of what your habits are costing the environment.

Anyone who is not vegetarian MUST eat the whole animal. No amount of energy saving/recycling you do will make up for the energy wasted in producing parts of the animal you consider not good enough for you to eat.

Is this a joke:rolleyes:

I may not want the cheap bits & the odd bits of meat, but I'm pretty damn sure they don't throw it away after selling me the breast or steak or chop cuts;)

Someone else will buy those bits, & the food production companies will be even stuff the shopper doesn't want.

The pet food companies will have whats left.

Just because I don't buy/eat the whole lot doesn't mean it wasted:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

MrsE_2

DCFC79 wrote: »

how did u derive that from what i said, they do treat the customers with respect but they have to get the customers out the door, the more customers they get through the bigger theyre bonus will be, theres nothing wrong with shopping there but you have to take your own bags, they dont have baskets and you put the shopping in the trolley once its scanned, like i said the stores i worked the majority of the customers were fine and we were fine with the customers,

Seriously why don't they have baskets

Anybody know

Stompa

MrsE wrote: »

Seriously why don't they have baskets

Whenever I've asked they've said there's no demand - which is obviously nonsense.