Numpties at checkouts

System

Yesterday, my Dad went into Aldi with a trolley with 15-18 items. I was queuing patiently when a customer barged past him and 3 other customers with two items without asking.

Dad was the only one that spoke up 'Excuse me there is a queue and queue up like me and everyone else' whilst I heard another customer tut. The barging in customer isn't going to hear a tut! For me speaking up it shows everyone else's anger, frustration to both that customer and the shop staff in Aldi and hopefully embarrass and shame the barging in customer.

Dad and another customer showed their disgust by abandoning their trolleys and walking out empty handed.

Aldi should tell their staff not to serve barging in customers. The Customer Isn't Right on this occasion.

As Aldi have skeleton staff, time would be wasted for them putting 50 odd items back as Dad said the other customer had about double of the number of items.

I once worked as a cashier at a bank and there was one customer who use to barge in by hanging between the reception and first till - as they were next to each other separated by a column.

We asked her to queue up like everyone else. We could see the queue from the cashier desks. 'Ooh its rainy and cold' said the customer as most mornings the queue was outside the branch. Everyone else has been waiting in the rain and cold too.

esuhl

usefulmale wrote: »

That might work in a soft southern supermarket but up here in the north, you would find that it's YOU that would be ejected from the shop with your shopping and trolly inserted in your rectum.

Well, it sounds like Northerners are much more thuggish and uncivilised. But I guess that's because all the intelligent and educated people have moved down South.

usefulmale

esuhl wrote: »

Well, it sounds like Northerners are much more thuggish and uncivilised. But I guess that's because all the intelligent and educated people have moved down South.

If your actions in the supermarket are representative of 'intelligent' and 'educated', then I am proud to be classed as an uncivilised northerner.

Azari

esuhl wrote: »

Well, it sounds like Northerners are much more thuggish and uncivilised. But I guess that's because all the intelligent and educated people have moved down South.

It's just stupid 'willy waving' by the same sort of chavvy twerp who is just as much in evidence here in the South.

How anyone (unless they are Lennox Lewis or somesuch) can imply that they will take physical action against someone, sight unseen, and not expect to be seen as a mouthy blow-hard escapes me.

And yet people do it on the internet all the time.

Silly little keyboard warriors! :rotfl:

bairn7

Azari wrote: »

It's just stupid 'willy waving' by the same sort of chavvy twerp who is just as much in evidence here in the South.

How anyone (unless they are Lennox Lewis or somesuch) can imply that they will take physical action against someone, sight unseen, and not expect to be seen as a mouthy blow-hard escapes me.

And yet people do it on the internet all the time.

Silly little keyboard warriors! :rotfl:

It doesn't take Lennox Lewis to stand up if someone is being ignorant and selfish. You'd honestly stand and wait whilst some idiot, who couldn't perform simple arithmetic calculations whilst shopping, leaves the checkout to complete the final 1/5th of her complete shop (which is what the poster was doing - £40 spent, needs £50 to use voucher)? I bet you'd tut and mumble under your breath instead, right? If that makes me a thuggish northerner then fair enough...better than a pansy southerner :rotfl:

If someone has forgotten something then fair enough, it's annoying but we've all done it. Going back to find a final £10 of shopping, not knowing exactly what you're going to buy, is taking the p*ss. At least it is up here in the north!

Azari

bairn7 wrote: »

It doesn't take Lennox Lewis to stand up if someone is being ignorant and selfish. You'd honestly stand and wait whilst some idiot, who couldn't perform simple arithmetic calculations whilst shopping, leaves the checkout to complete the final 1/5th of her complete shop (which is what the poster was doing - £40 spent, needs £50 to use voucher)? I bet you'd tut and mumble under your breath instead, right? If that makes me a thuggish northerner then fair enough...better than a pansy southerner

You completely misunderstood the just about every point in my post.

I wasn't saying you shouldn't 'stand up' to people behaving in an anti-social manner.

I was laughing at the morons who make a big noise about what they'd do in those circumstances - where they were saying theay would take physical action. - implying that either:

a) The are harder than anyone they are likely to be up against.
b) They don't mind taking a right pasting.

Both options imply someone with more mouth than sense.

System

My Dad contacted Aldi about customers pushing in not bothering to ask everyone in the queue.

The staff have been told not to serve them. No chance of having a till for small transactions


I visited Aldi at half seven pm and I walk to a till. If these impatient customers cannot queue don't go between 8:30am - 7pm