Numpties at checkouts

bairn7

esuhl wrote: »

If I came back and saw you moving all my stuff to the back of the queue, I'd tell the cashier not to serve you, move your stuff out of the way, and put mine back. Either that or forcibly eject you from the shop. I wouldn't put up with such chavvy petulant aggressiveness at all.

:rotfl::rotfl:

Pincher

I was in Costco. A couple with two trolleys, each with two bin liners. Keeping frozen stuff cold, I thought.


So two bags on the conveyor belt. Obviously the check-out person has to take the items out to scan: they were cartons of cigarettes!
The guy whipped out his phone, and started discussing which ones go on which bill, presumably he was buying for someone else.


When it became beyond a joke, I moved onto another conveyor belt.


I thought the cigarettes were done in a secure area. They must have changed the system.

trukdiver

Kate/Bob wrote: »

Had a strange one today that I've never had happen before.

Got to an empty checkout with my full trolley and started to unload.
Someone else then came up and started unloading further down the conveyor belt, causing me a real problem as I needed all the room for my shopping.

The checkout operator started to scan my shopping but that didn't help as obviously it just moved his further down, he just stared at my shopping as it got down to his and didn't move his until asked.

I was in the queue at Aldi with a couple of items. There was a woman in front with a big trolly load and several people in the queue behind me. Then, a woman came along with a few items and asked the woman in front of me if she could go first, as she didn't have much. The woman with the tolley let her in. I complained that she hadn't asked the rest of the queue if they minded and was told not to be cheek and wait my turn! :rotfl:

pvt

trukdiver wrote: »

I was in the queue at Aldi with a couple of items. There was a woman in front with a big trolly load and several people in the queue behind me. Then, a woman came along with a few items and asked the woman in front of me if she could go first, as she didn't have much. The woman with the tolley let her in. I complained that she hadn't asked the rest of the queue if they minded and was told not to be cheek and wait my turn! :rotfl:

You should calmly and politely tell the cashier that if she serves the customer who has pushed into the queue ahead of you, before she serves you, then you will leave all your groceries in the trolley (or even better if they're already on the conveyor) and walk out of the shop. It's then the cashier's decision whether to let the customer queue jump. No need to engage in any conversation with the person who has pushed in.

flipperni

Tigsteroonie wrote: »

Roughly £74? Am I close?

I know that's not "to the penny" but fortunately I no longer have to account on a penny by penny basis, so can afford to do rough arithmetic.

At a very rough count i got £74 also.

Money-Saving-King

pvt wrote: »

You should calmly and politely tell the cashier that if she serves the customer who has pushed into the queue ahead of you, before she serves you, then you will leave all your groceries in the trolley (or even better if they're already on the conveyor) and walk out of the shop. It's then the cashier's decision whether to let the customer queue jump. No need to engage in any conversation with the person who has pushed in.

To be honest it's not the cashiers fault if someone else lets them it. You're more cutting your nose off to spite your face here. At the end of the day then YOU have to go somewhere else and do all your shopping from scratch. The shop won't have anywhere near as much trouble having to put your shopping back as they don't have to drive to another location and remember what it was they'd got before.

System

Regarding the customer asking another customer could she go in front of them in Aldi

I never ask but sometimes the other customers do let me through. I then ask any other customers in the queue too.

The thing is with Aldi is they don't any X items or less, self scans or basket only tills so everyone buying 1 item or 91 items all have to go through the same tills.

I rarely go to Aldi because of this. Plus they seem to have a severe lack of small trolleys. A few weeks back, I returned my trolley and there were five customers (all elderly) fighting over my trolley. The elderly ones can't use big trolleys as cannot reach the bottom due to back problems etc. I use a small trolley as to control my spending.

Don't use baskets as tend to buy heavy stuff

jaylee3

trukdiver wrote: »

I was in the queue at Aldi with a couple of items. There was a woman in front with a big trolly load and several people in the queue behind me. Then, a woman came along with a few items and asked the woman in front of me if she could go first, as she didn't have much. The woman with the trolley let her in. I complained that she hadn't asked the rest of the queue if they minded and was told not to be cheek and wait my turn! :rotfl:

This happened to me the other week! :eek:

I was 3rd in the queue, and I had about 7 people behind me, and I had 2 items. There were 2 big trollies in front of me (about 50-60 items in each probably!) and this woman waltzed over to the woman at the front with the first big trolley full (who would have been next to be served,) and asked her if she could go in front of her as she only has 5 items!

So the bloomin' woman said OK! Me and the others in the queue were incensed! I actually had 3 items less than her, and most of the 7 people behind had only 1 to 5 items. Yet this woman thought it was acceptable and reasonable to go barging in front of 10 people (more than half of them who had less items than her!!!) and get served first!

I actually said loudly 'excuse me but I have only got TWO items, and I am waiting my turn! And so is everyone else in the queue!'

The woman just ignored me, and paid and left the store! (This was LIDL by the way!) I think the people with the trolleys really should have said 'no, because all these people behind us are before you!' But I think not only were they taken unawares by her, but also, they weren't sure if she had been just in the queue just slightly behind them, and the people had let her through. Personally, I would have looked back, and said to the queue 'where was this woman in the queue then? And are you all OK with her pushing in front?'

And I agree it is flippin' annoying that in LIDL;whether you have 1 item or 91 items, you must go in the same queue. There should be a couple of self serve tills for people with a basketful, or at least a couple of '10 items or less' tills.

What a cheek though to be made to wait your turn, when the woman who pushed in couldn't do so. You should have said 'why should I wait MY turn when SHE isn't waiting HER turn?!' Easy to say that now eh? :rotfl:

powerful_Rogue

jaylee3 wrote: »

This happened to me the other week! :eek:

I was 3rd in the queue, and I had about 7 people behind me, and I had 2 items. There were 2 big trollies in front of me (about 50-60 items in each probably!) and this woman waltzed over to the woman at the front with the first big trolley full (who would have been next to be served,) and asked her if she could go in front of her as she only has 5 items!

So the bloomin' woman said OK! Me and the others in the queue were incensed! I actually had 3 items less than her, and most of the 7 people behind had only 1 to 5 items. Yet this woman thought it was acceptable and reasonable to go barging in front of 10 people (more than half of them who had less items than her!!!) and get served first!

I actually said loudly 'excuse me but I have only got TWO items, and I am waiting my turn! And so is everyone else in the queue!'

The woman just ignored me, and paid and left the store! (This was LIDL by the way!) I think the people with the trolleys really should have said 'no, because all these people behind us are before you!' But I think not only were they taken unawares by her, but also, they weren't sure if she had been just in the queue just slightly behind them, and the people had let her through. Personally, I would have looked back, and said to the queue 'where was this woman in the queue then? And are you all OK with her pushing in front?'

And I agree it is flippin' annoying that in LIDL;whether you have 1 item or 91 items, you must go in the same queue. There should be a couple of self serve tills for people with a basketful, or at least a couple of '10 items or less' tills.

What a cheek though to be made to wait your turn, when the woman who pushed in couldn't do so. You should have said 'why should I wait MY turn when SHE isn't waiting HER turn?!' Easy to say that now eh? :rotfl:

You sound like a barrel full of fun to go shopping with!

trukdiver

Money-Saving-King wrote: »

To be honest it's not the cashiers fault if someone else lets them it. You're more cutting your nose off to spite your face here. At the end of the day then YOU have to go somewhere else and do all your shopping from scratch. The shop won't have anywhere near as much trouble having to put your shopping back as they don't have to drive to another location and remember what it was they'd got before.

There would have been no point in leaving my stuff on the conveyor. It was only a couple of of items and I'd specifically gone to Aldi for the "Thursday specials" (it wasn't on my usual route home). I did end up shopping at a different Aldi, after that one refused to take something back, even though the head office customer services had told me to return it..::mad: