No way to get out of some supermarkets! (NETTO for example!)

Johntea

I went to Netto yesterday looking for a special offer item. 5 minutes later and I come to the conclusion there is none in stock. No problems I thought, I'll just get on with my other tasks for the day.

But I then realized the only 'exit to the exit' was through a open checkout till - Easier said than done! The store was heaving with people and therefore all the checkouts had huge queues. I eventually bought a few cans of Coca Cola just so I had something to go through the till with! (I would have probably looked a right idiot otherwise)

Why don't they realize sometimes people don't buy anything and are simply wanting to browse?!

Altarf

Netto and Lidl do seem to make it quite difficult, with the gates on the closed tills having a non-obvious catch locking them. The first couple of times I went in their stores and wanted to leave because they had run out of the advertised offers, I just used brute force to open them (with some horrible sounds coming from the mechanism). Goodness knows what would happen if there was an emergency and they needed to evacuate the stores.

IvanOpinion

The reason they do it is because of the low ifes and scum that continually shop lift. Rather than vandalising the shop (which you could be held responsible for) use the words 'excuse me' and most people (or at least anybody with any manners) will let you past .. alternatively locate a shop worker and ask them to let you out.

Why is that sometimes the simplest solutions are the best?

ivan

Altarf

IvanOpinion wrote:

alternatively locate a shop worker and ask them to let you out

In Lidl! - Funniest thing I ever heard.

IvanOpinion wrote:

Why is that sometimes the simplest solutions are the best?

Such as not having locked gates across the exits?

scheming_gypsy

go out of the entrance then

Altarf

scheming_gypsy wrote:

go out of the entrance then

And that would be the automatic door that opens if you are outside, but not inside and has no handle on the inside either, wouldn't it.

And before you suggest it, no I am not going to wait for someone to come in.

wirm

my local lidl is just as bad! and most of the time one till is open so theres a massive queue and i have to squeeze past them all.

soolin

It's the same in my Lidl, the in door only opens from the outside and the non working tills are securely locked so the only way out is through the open tills.

Even saying 'excuse me' doesn't help as there simply isn't room to get past the trolleys so the only time I ever got stuck I had to send youngest son on the floor to get under the barrier (and he got filthy) to go round to the front door to let me out of the in door!

Soo

scheming_gypsy

Altarf wrote:

And that would be the automatic door that opens if you are outside, but not inside and has no handle on the inside either, wouldn't it.

And before you suggest it, no I am not going to wait for someone to come in.

why not? you've just complained that it's always busy so you won't have to wait that long.

IvanOpinion

Altarf wrote:

In Lidl! - Funniest thing I ever heard.

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: They are a rare breed often seen hanging around the freezers huddled in little groups in blue polo shirts ... sometimes one occasionally sticks their head out of the store room to see if the shop is still open ... on other occasions you see them scurrying when the dominant male arrives .. the one in the white shirt and tie.

The easiest way to get the attention of such a breed is to send a kiddie into the alchohol area ... the magical good fairy will appear (aka security guard) to chase him away from satans broth ... quickly capture this magical fairy and demand that he release you from the spell of low pricing and value for money advertisements.

Ivan

Altarf

scheming_gypsy wrote:

why not? you've just complained that it's always busy so you won't have to wait that long.

I don't think that I said it was busy, and to be be honest it isn't. The problem is there is always only one till open, and several people queued with vast amounts of shopping. Oh and half a dozen empty tills with locked gates.

I only ever go there on the odd occasion, and then they usualy are out of stock. I prefer to shop somewhere they don't feel the need to lock their customers in.