ALDI customer policy

Mupette

OP

I a complete stranger knocked on your door and told you their child was desperate for the toilet can they use yours, (just out of curiosity of knowing your answer to this)

would you let them, you don't know them, they could steal from you, or fall down and break a leg in your home..

or just be completely innocent and child just needs a wee

Stompa

FWIW I did once spot our local Aldi staff allowing an elderly customer to use their toilet.

trumpton

Can anyone honestly say they have never been caught short and needed the loo unexpectedly? Whatever your view of Aldi, you can't blame a small child for suddenly needing the loo. Every parent has probably been in the same situation as the OP at one time or another.

dmg24

trumpton wrote: »

Can anyone honestly say they have never been caught short and needed the loo unexpectedly? Whatever your view of Aldi, you can't blame a small child for suddenly needing the loo. Every parent has probably been in the same situation as the OP at one time or another.

I am sure everybody has (especially where booze is involved ), but I would not expect a shop to let me to use their private toilet!

DON79

I regularly shop at Aldi with a four year old and a two and a half year old, I make sure they both go to the toilet before we go out wherever we are going. Yes it can happen that they will still need, but that is not the fault of the shop. Lol! I have to make sure I go too before I go out given the size of my baby bump!!! TMI ha ha!

Common sense prevails to make sure you take your child to the toilet if you know that you are going somewhere that does not have a public toilet.

Esqui

Not sure about Aldi, but we don't let customers use our staff toilet for 3 reasons:
1) The amount of stuff out the back is a bit of a hazard
2) Unscrupulous types could get a good look in at our office and money safe, business sensitive information, etc
3) Our toilets stink

freakyogre

shamac wrote: »

What has happened to courtesy? Manners? Humanity? Treating each other with a bit of thought and care-look at the lady thrown off a bus the other day because her child wouldn't be quiet-he was 2! What a disgrace.

Unfortunately too many people look out for themselves so other people and companies have to protect themselves. If the child in the original post had been allowed to use the toilet and then had slipped and hurt themself, who would the parent blame? Sadly that's what it comes down to most of the time.

I used to work in retail and we weren't meant to let people use our toilets either for 'health and safety' reasons which I totally agree with. The one time we did let a child use them (supervised from outside and with their parent if I remember correctly) they left the place in a total state which we had to clean up. It wasn't our job to parent someone elses child.

Harry_Flashman

"Go to the toilet before we set off" was the cry when I was a nipper

Good training - I still do it now (and I always have a hanky )

vikingaero

trumpton wrote: »

Can anyone honestly say they have never been caught short and needed the loo unexpectedly? Whatever your view of Aldi, you can't blame a small child for suddenly needing the loo. Every parent has probably been in the same situation as the OP at one time or another.

I have a Porta Potti for this eventuality - about £6.99 from Boots.

TheSaint_2

It happened to me with my daughter (4) I kicked myself because I forgot to tell her to go before we left. Luckily there is a pizza hut next to our Aldi so I just took her in there, otherwise it would have been a squat round the side of Aldi job