Aldi's Supermarket Secrets - 8pm Monday

VfM4meplse

Ilona wrote: »

I hate being rushed through the till at Aldi. I feel that my shopping is being thrown at me. I use a basket and not a trolley, you have to leave them on the floor once you have unloaded onto the belt. I then go down to the other end and put my own shopping bags on the floor and hurriedly try and pack them in some kind of order, while the operator is waiting with drawer open to take my payment. There's no way I can get to the packing shelf with my loose items. Cash or card they ask, mostly it's cash with me. They have the change ready even before I have taken the money out of my purse. Not a nice experience.
Ilona

Granted, the staff are very fast but they are also very polite! I can't grumble.

maman

VfM4meplse wrote: »

Granted, the staff are very fast but they are also very polite! I can't grumble.

I've been to Waitrose today and the woman who served me was a right miserable c*w. Well served is hardly a word I'd use. She didn't look at me or speak to me once. She spent all her time moaning to the person on the next till that they should staff the self-serve checkouts as someone had the audacity to ask her for help. All that and a grumpy face thrown in.:rotfl:Maybe she didn't like the fact that I was using a Sainsbury's carrier bag!

VfM4meplse

maman wrote: »

I've been to Waitrose today and the woman who served me was a right miserable c*w. Well served is hardly a word I'd use. She didn't look at me or speak to me once. She spent all her time moaning to the person on the next till that they should staff the self-serve checkouts as someone had the audacity to ask her for help. All that and a grumpy face thrown in.:rotfl:Maybe she didn't like the fact that I was using a Sainsbury's carrier bag!

Maybe she's not fully bought into the co-operative model. I would not be happy with her attitude if I were a colleague, let alone a shopper.

williacg

Kernow666 wrote: »

was following the discussion on twitter and 99% of the comments were the same this was a hatchet job on Aldi probably sponsered by Asda/Tesco/Sainsburys the journo was totally biased

i wouldnt be surprised if Aldi's takings are more this weekend by people wanting to see bread chucked on the shelves and staff falling through freezers

I agree.

I popped into my local Aldi on Friday afternoon, I couldn't resist the temptation to ask my cashier if the comments (insinuations) made by the programme were correct, she just chuckled and said that she didn't actually watch it, but the rest of the staff who had watched it were all convinced that it was a hatchet job perpetuated by Tesco, she said it was a load of tripe!

It seems that desperate times indeed call for desperate measures!

A._Badger

williacg wrote: »

I agree.

I popped into my local Aldi on Friday afternoon, I couldn't resist the temptation to ask my cashier if the comments (insinuations) made by the programme were correct, she just chuckled and said that she didn't actually watch it, but the rest of the staff who had watched it were all convinced that it was a hatchet job perpetuated by Tesco, she said it was a load of tripe!

It seems that desperate times indeed call for desperate measures!

I'm really surprised to see suggestions that a television company would slant its programme to please a rival or, worse, for money from that rival.

However rotten it may have been, the motivation will have been to poke a stick into the ants nest of Aldiphiles, give it a good stir, sit back and watch the ratings.

Sounds like it worked, too.

williacg

A._Badger wrote: »

I'm really surprised to see suggestions that a television company would slant its programme to please a rival or, worse, for money from that rival.

However rotten it may have been, the motivation will have been to poke a stick into the ants nest of Aldiphiles, give it a good stir, sit back and watch the ratings.

Sounds like it worked, too.

That may (or may not) be the case, I am simply stating the comments made by an actual employee of Aldi and not pulling something out of thin air.

kerri_gt

A._Badger wrote: »

I'm really surprised to see suggestions that a television company would slant its programme to please a rival or, worse, for money from that rival.

However rotten it may have been, the motivation will have been to poke a stick into the ants nest of Aldiphiles, give it a good stir, sit back and watch the ratings.

Sounds like it worked, too.

I'm not sure why you're surprised given the slant of the programme, or is it only politicians and international football associations that are open to bribery and corruption?

A._Badger

kerri_gt wrote: »

I'm not sure why you're surprised given the slant of the programme, or is it only politicians and international football associations that are open to bribery and corruption?

Because the people who make television programmes are subject to infinitely more scrutiny. They are also a lot easier to get rid of if they are caught.

amstel2

I really don't see why they can't just put proper use by/best before dates on their produce like the other supermarkets. Until they do i won't be shopping their again even if it costs me a couple of quid more. I don't want food poisoining. These cryptic codes they use must mean they are hiding something.

Cornucopia

They only omit a best before or use by date on the small number of products where there isn't a legal obligation to have one - mainly fresh veg that is not cleaned or cut, but is pre-packed.

Obviously Aldi are unusual in having very few loose fruit & veg lines compared to other supermarkets.