Good and Bad Buys at Lidl and Aldi stores (***Please don't expire***)

maman

Totally agree about Aldi customer service compared with Lidl. I think the staff training must be better in Aldi. They all seem to be able to do any task around the store and without fail they will try to help locate products and help any way they can. 

Sea_Shell

Has anyone else's Aldi put up notices reminding customers to empty all their bags onto the conveyor AND then having their shopping bags searched, before they start scanning.🤔

Or maybe we just have a local light-fingered problem 😉

Doc_N

Sea_Shell said:

Has anyone else's Aldi put up notices reminding customers to empty all their bags onto the conveyor AND then having their shopping bags searched, before they start scanning.🤔

Or maybe we just have a local light-fingered problem 😉

I’d be extremely surprised if that’s national.

maman

No @Sea_Shell, nothing like that here.

When a new branch of Aldi opened a couple of years ago, they used to remind/nag people to pack at the shelf. They soon gave up. Most Aldi customers are rapid packers! 😁 Although, to be honest, the cashiers seem to have stopped flinging everything through at a rate of knots. 

greyteam1959

If I use my own shopping bag in any supermarket as a matter of courtesy I show the checkout operator the inside of my bag.

Rosa_Damascena

Sea_Shell said:

Has anyone else's Aldi put up notices reminding customers to empty all their bags onto the conveyor AND then having their shopping bags searched, before they start scanning.🤔

Or maybe we just have a local light-fingered problem 😉

Sounds like some people may have tried to take advantage. The team at my local Aldi are unfailingly polite and friendly, and wave me on when I show them the content of my shopping bag.

There is no point in being dishonest, I would like to think if people choose to pilfer at the self-service tills it's because they are genuinely desperate to feed their kids. I've just read about an aggravated robbery of 10 bottles of wine in a local convenience store, it must have really shaken the staff up. It's thought that 2 teenagers are behind this senseless act.

Brie

I don't empty my bags.  Normally I'm buying in multiples of something - like orange juice.  So I put 1 on the belt and tell the teller "I've got 5 of those" with the bag available in case they want to check.  Mostly they don't bother.  I think thought that some stores have more issues than others.  There's a very busy Lidl in town near where all the uni students seem to live, as well as drug addicts, hookers and rough sleepers.  Very tight security.

Sea_Shell

Brie said:

I don't empty my bags.  Normally I'm buying in multiples of something - like orange juice.  So I put 1 on the belt and tell the teller "I've got 5 of those" with the bag available in case they want to check.  Mostly they don't bother.  I think thought that some stores have more issues than others.  There's a very busy Lidl in town near where all the uni students seem to live, as well as drug addicts, hookers and rough sleepers.  Very tight security.

Aha.   So we've probably had a spate of "I've got 5 of those 😉" when they've actually got more.

Stock check then shows a discrepancy.

olgadapolga

Sea_Shell said:

Has anyone else's Aldi put up notices reminding customers to empty all their bags onto the conveyor AND then having their shopping bags searched, before they start scanning.🤔

Or maybe we just have a local light-fingered problem 😉

Yes, all of the stores in my town have the signs up. I haven't had my bags searched but that maybe because I invariably forget to take the bags with me...

Sea_Shell

For the record, we weren't using our  bags to shop.  We had a trolly.  They were hung on the hook.

We'd unpacked onto the conveyor (someone in front), then readied our 3 bags (the big rectangular Aldi ones) in the trolley to receive.   We have it down to a fine art.😇

They said it was now policy to check all bags (nothing personal) and they've put up notices.

Not a national policy then it appears.