Baskets at Lidl!

Helix

I find Lidl checkouts are not really designed for using Baskets. The belts are really long, you join the queue and start unloading your basket, in the meantime 3 people have also joined the queue and started doing the same. The baskets are kept at the start of the till, so to put it back you either have to squeeze past the people behind you. Or ask them if they can put back for you.

DCFC79

How about this as a checkout operator

James_Lahey

IMO no need for baskets in Lidl - if you don't have enough shopping for a trolley just grab a cardboard box from the container full of them - or from a shelf display that is nearly empty. No need for a basket or carrier bags (and handy to line hamster/guinea pig/rabbits hutches when home.)

the-mango

my local lidl only has baskets..

edit: reading through the thread I think it might be slightly different to others, we don't have a belt either at the checkout or a ledgy bit

s_b

Not been in lidl for ages but called in today because we needed some plastic bread.
They had the new baskets, really helpful as i only wanted a few items,
got to the checkout and i had never seen it so busy.
The people in front who had come in a taxi spent £120:eek: i didnt think it was possible to spend this much but they did, anyway they got annoyed with ME for not marking their end of the food line with one of those plastic dividers so poor assistant had to take 5 things off their bill.
I was in no rush and i wonder if i learnt them not to be so lazy next time.
So felllow shoppers its easy to have a bit of fun even in mundane places

PasturesNew

I always walk into Lidl/Aldi empty handed and grab a box along the way .... it doubles up as the way to carry the stuff I buy from the shop to the car. If I can't find a box, I buy less.

vikingaero

I agree there isn't a massive need for baskets at Lidl. What they are crying out for is a complimentary squirt of a deodorant for some of their customers. Put the deodorant on a chain by the entrance.

marywooyeah

Azari wrote: »

Even so, I'm still a little puzzled as to how the victim in MarywooYeah's post managed to move things to a 'ledgy bit' to pack them without a basket. Where was the operator putting his items if he had neither a basket nor a trolley?

I must admit that I'm not that familiar with Lidl's but it's hard to see why, if they actually have baskets, this one person had a problem when, presumably, others don't.

He didn't buy that much but carried a load over to the ledge then came back for the rest when he paid as the lady put the items to her right as she scanned them through. I always take my own bags, as I think most people do, as they charge for bags so usually you can pack your things as they're being scanned.

PasturesNew wrote: »

I always walk into Lidl/Aldi empty handed and grab a box along the way .... it doubles up as the way to carry the stuff I buy from the shop to the car. If I can't find a box, I buy less.

A lot of people used to do that in our local one before they had baskets, ours has trolleys now too but they are the ones where you have to put £1 in.

smokey_dave

My local Lidl shop does not have baskets but lets you use your own shoping bags.

I wll be more interested to see if they EVER let me start using a CREDIT card.