When they first opened our first Lidl, there was a rumour that the till staff were paid a bonus relative to their average item scan speed. The rumour must have been true because many of the till jockeys would launch your shopping through the scanner and into your trolley with no heed to the items resulting condition. You really didn't have time to pack, even if your IQ was 140.

These days it's a fair bit more chill. I tend to pack as the items are coming through; if i get behind I'll dump it in the trolley, pay, then continue packing at the 'packing station' while comfortable watching the traffic in and out. No sense doing it in a rush and breaking your battery farmed eggs.

Do you remember the kerfuffle when we found out they charged for plastic bags? Outrageous!

>>436939

The correct Alidldi procedure is to keep bags in your car, then put everything straight into the trolley, take it to your car and pack it into the boot.

>>436944
What if it's raining?

>>436950

It's only water, get over it.

Or use the boot lid as cover.

>>436944
What if you're walking? Just take the trolley?

The other day in Lidl the guy in front of me got to near half his shopping scanned, left to go search for something else, come back, didn't pack anything, was asked to pay, then started rifling through a big wad of notes, then started packing then said actually can I get a bag before being told they were under the side of the conveyor belt.

Definitely his first time.

>>436961
Why would you take a trolley if you're walking? Take a handbasket so you know the weight of what you'll be carrying.

I shop at Aldi all the time and you do see a lot of mental midgets in there.

- The ones that try to pack everything at the till and do so extremely slowly. holding everyone else up like the selfish cunts they are.
- The ones that leave because they've forgotten something, and take fucking ages to find whatever they're lacking
- The ones that stand and read through each item on their receipt at the till to make sure it wasn't scanned twice
- The ones that try to strike up a full blown convo with the cashier.
- The one who huffs that a specialbuy from 3 weeks ago is no longer available and asks the cashier to check in the back

It's gotten to the point now where I go shopping at 9:00pm just to avoid the brunt of the brain donors and ol'juns.

I don't understand, where the fuck are you meant to pack the things you've just purchased?

>>437034
That 4 1/2 foot tall shelf at the back with empty cardboard boxes on it and a battery bin at one end.

>>437033
>The ones that stand and read through each item on their receipt at the till to make sure it wasn't scanned twice

To be fair there's been at least a couple of occasions where I've been to Aldi and they've scanned the same item twice.

>>437034
Big Brain move 1: plot out the order to put your shopping in the conveyor, have your bags open in your trolley ready and put them straight into them. You will need to have large rectangular bags, like the Sainsburys bags for life ones.

Big Brain move 2: leave the bags in the car and do the packing in the boot.

Regardless of other shoppers and any other problems I really can't fault Lidl.

Their fruit and veg could be a bit better quality but when you get what you'd pay 30 quid for in Tesco and they say 'that's £10.25 please' you'd take anything.

I find Aldi to be both poor quality and a bit grim inside, not sure why it's so popular when Lidl always exists nearby and is clean, bright and welcoming (and their baked goods are pretty tasty too).

>>437048
You have to really examine fresh produce from Lidl and Aldi to ensure it hasn't gone off or is on the turn. From what I can recall the difference is because other supermarkets tend to use produce treated with preservatives or forced to ripen en route whereas with Lidl and Aldi it tends to have been recently picked. In that sense, what you get from those two is a lot closer to what you'd get from a farmers' market.

>>437048
I can attest this is also true in das Vaterland. The parent company of Lidl owns a chain called Kaufland, which was dingy and had really narrow aisles last time I was in one, and as you might've guessed, pushed bigger German brands. Honestly? I don't know if it was because I shopped at a Lidl in the UK before going to Germany, but I still preferred a lot of the Lidl own brands over there to the bigger name brands. The price differential is pretty much the same too.

>>437048

I do prefer Lidl but the Aldis round ours are all new builds and are quite nice inside.

Lidl is still better though, especially if you like euro foods. You can't even buy fucking sauerkraut in Aldi, it's ridiculous. And the self check out at Lidl was a game changer.

Lidl had the best doughnuts I have ever had.

>>437054
Yum yums > doughnuts.

>>437050

I went to a large, two-story supermarket called Real once when I was in Berlin. Which is apparently another big chain there. They seemed to have everything from fruit and veg to bicycle tyres and budget refrigerators. I do remember getting a claustrophobic feel from the place as well. Just pretty crammed.

Wal-Mart with its signature wide aisles actually failed in Germany. But I think that was down to an incompatibility of their business culture with German labour laws.

>>437078
Narrow aisles seem to be a thing over there except in the Lidls, or it might just be the choice of light colours and having loads of windows on one side. I never went to a Real. Going into a Rewe gave me serious Makro/Booker's vibes as far as the layout, shelves that seemed to reach for the ceiling went, but again with the really narrow aisles.
I think it might've been because I was in the far East of the country and people there were generally more used to using state/co-op corner shops and things hadn't changed much in the intervening 20 odd years since the tragic event.

>>437055
Yeah, shite dough scraps coated in shite powdered sugar slurry definitely beat out proper yeasted doughnuts. Fuck right off.

>>437085

This is the angriest I've ever seen anyone get about pastries, are you fatfetishlads girlfriend?

Also the yum yum is a laminated dough similar to a cronut, which is just as, if not more labour intensive than a risen doughnut, so you don't even know what you're on about.

Add another vote to the "yumyum>doughnut" tally.

Yum yums practically are doughnuts, what are you even arguing about.

>>437089
I've never seen a yumyum with custard filling.

>>437090

There's no reason there couldn't be. Lidl do caramel ones.

>>437089
Yum yums are doughnuts but with greater consideration to not being messy while you eat them. Therefore they are better.

I refuse to eat anything called a "yum yum", I'm not a child I'm a man-child, learn the difference.

They're not doughnuts they're fucking cronuts

>>437095

My local Lidl had what they sold as "German-style Berliners" once. They're essentially doughnuts that are missing the hole. And they've got a blob of jam inside them.

They only had them frozen in boxes of ten, complete with some faux sounding German brand name. I'm not sure where they were made.

But the "fresh" actual donuts they sell in Lidl usually come frozen as well. Sometimes when you go to Lidl early in the morning, they're still frozen on the shelf and then when you bite into one, it's still rock solid and ice cold.

>>437099

>They're essentially doughnuts that are missing the hole. And they've got a blob of jam inside them.

So they're jam doughnuts then?

>>437099
Have you tried their strudels? Probably gone up from being a quid, but they're excellent.

Found this little review of the Lidl doughnuts:
http://lidlmiddleclasses.blogspot.com/2015/10/jam-doughnuts.html

>>437100

Basically, although berliners would traditionally have a richer, eggier dough akin to brioche.

>>437099
>But the "fresh" actual donuts they sell in Lidl usually come frozen as well. Sometimes when you go to Lidl early in the morning, they're still frozen on the shelf and then when you bite into one, it's still rock solid and ice cold.

I think it depends entirely upon the site. I worked at a Tesco with a full bakery but I know another store used to get them in parbaked and would just heat them up; they used to have a few complaints from customers who bought bread that was still frozen inside.

>>437104
Ich bin ein Berliner!

Also I wish to declare my love for Morrison's doughnuts.

>>437107
I find that Morrison's doughnuts take a bit more care when you eat them as if you don't bite into the hole first they'll leak sticky jam all over the place. For that reason alone I prefer Sainsbury's for their greater utility even if the sugar isn't nearly powdery enough. I'm surprised I have such opinions on this considering a pack of doughnuts won't last 5 minutes from me getting in the door.

Anyway, price alone answers the yum-yum v doughnut debate:
If you look at it from the cheap industrial section you're paying 20% more for less product with yum-yums.
If cost efficiency doesn't matter then you could pick up a Belgian bun or something dead fancy from the counter.

Anyone who argues with this is just looking for a cunt-off and probably buys cookies anyway.

>>437115
We're not having another cookie cunt-off again.

Custard doughnuts are nice, but would you believe that there are actually some sick fucks out there who prefer custard doughnuts to jam doughnuts?

>>437115

>If you look at it from the cheap industrial section you're paying 20% more for less product with yum-yums.

THE DOUGH IS LAMINATED THAT TAKES LONGER TO DO AND IS MORE LABOUR OR MANIFACTURE INTENSIVE WHY THE FUCK WON'T YOU PEOPLE LISTEN?

>>437127
I hear there are some of us them who even dislike jam doughnuts altogether but do love the custard ones.

>>437152
How is that even possible? Custard doughnuts remind me of watching an abscess being popped at the vets.

>>437155
Ruin them for the rest of us, why don't you!

Big brain move.

>>437161
We have taught you well.

>>437155

Custard doughnuts remind me of watching an abscess being popped at the vets


Wait until you see custard and jam doughnuts.

https://www.taste.com.au/recipes/custard-raspberry-jam-doughnuts/03b605a2-21dc-4d29-b604-78e3e0622356?nk=3d25789bba0c3cce50fbdfdd497ebecd-1589913667


I have popped zits that looked like that

My girlfriend said today, apropos of nothing, that she'd read a tip online that you should pack your Lidl shopping at your car rather than using the packing shelf. That means she's either been snooping on me here or the scheme to recruit new posters here has spread to posting shit on Facey.

My main concern is jigjogs waiting for dem KFC. Even peeople that aren't jigjog are wanting KFC,

(A good day to you Sir!)

>>437219
I've never gone for a jog in my life and I'd kill for some KFC. Perhaps these two things are related.

>>437218

That's very worrying, she's definitely bugged you. I hope she doesn't find all those posts about you wanting to piss in her arse.

I noticed my Aldi selling these trolley bag things - they're a tenner and I assume designed so you can pack your backs directly at the till as they're launched at you by the checkout person, but I feel like that might cause some bottleneck issues. They may have shot themselves in the foot here.

>>437223
Asda do them as well, but they'll be aimed squarely at those using scan and go.

>>437222

KFC. When you're too working class for Nando's.

>>437228

They're completely different foods, I don't think that categorisation is accurate.

>>437228

I don't think that's actually a put down on KFC. Nandos is just fast food with extra steps, for people who want to pretend they're fancy restaurant eating types but aren't adventurous enough for somewhere like Wagamama.

>>437230
They really need to construct the Nando's trough >>/nom/9514.

>>437033
>- The ones that try to pack everything at the till and do so extremely slowly. holding everyone else up like the selfish cunts they are.

This irritates me whenever it happens, it's worse that the checkout instructions are on a massive fucking banner behind them and the checkout is designed so that you do not have room to pack properly yet you have these literal brainlets are so ignorant that they completely ignore it and take 3-4 minutes.

You can see the checkout person calling them a cunt with their eyes staring at them, unable to say anything. The one time I told one of these mouth breathers trying to pack a literal full trolleys worth of shopping into bags that the instructions were behind them they looked up at it and then kept doing what they were doing. Ignorant, selfish cunts.

>>437228
I'm middle class and I prefer KFC over Nando's.

Nandos getting a lot of hate consistently, why?

It's no fine dining but if you want something where you know you don't need to book, know you can turn up casually, quickly run off when you're done because you've already paid and want some relatively tasty chicken with a selection of easy going sides I don't see the problem to the extent everybody else does.

Yes there are lots of teenagers in there eating on first dates but it probably suits their budget and level fo relaxation.

>>437416
We've got an entire thread dedicated to it. We don't need to retread old ground.

>>/nom/5883

Paul Chuckle shops at Aldi.

>Aldi shoppers will be all too familiar with the anxiety that comes with attempting to keep up with the speedy checkout staff when it comes time to pay. With a crowd of other customers judging from the queue behind, many people crumble under the pressure - so much so that people have shared ways to slow down the checkout process to tip the scales in their favour.

>Some advise scrunching up the barcodes on the packaging to ensure they don't scan first time, others throw their shopping straight back into the trolley to be sorted in the car park, and one customer said all you need to do is simply ask staff to take it easy. But one shopper who proudly shared their own trick on Facebook faced a bit of a backlash from others, who say the lightning-fast checkouts were one of the main benefits of shopping at the supermarket, and even went as far to say they should be banned from the store.

>A photo shared on an Aldi Facebook group shows individual items spaced out all the way down the conveyor belt, forcing the checkout staff to wait for them to slowly reach the till before being able to scan them through. It was captioned: 'In your face Aldi. Just so we got time to pack' and really divided opinion in the comments below, as people were torn over whether the tactic was genius or infuriating.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/aldi-shoppers-trick-slow-down-24649850

>>436938

Isn't that Pam from Gavin & Stacey?

I buy a very small amount from Aldi. I never get a trolley or even a basket, so I only buy what I can hold in my hands. Once I've paid for it, I just pick it all up again and walk out. I do still feel a bit like I'm being rushed, but quite frankly, checkmate, atheists.

Mum says speed of Aldi cashier left her 'crying and shaking' as food piled high

A Teesside mum says she has been left traumatised by the "aggressive approach" of an Aldi cashier and the "ferocious" speed of the supermarket's conveyor belts.

Nicola Fuller was minding her own business, completing her weekly shop with her three young children, when she became embroiled in tense confrontation with a "disgracefully rude" staff member. She claims the worker refused to slow his scanning even as food fell from the packing area onto the floor "like a slot machine", leaving customers in the Guisborough store "gawping".

The 35-year-old mum maintains that she was loading her shopping "as quickly as possible", but that the worker was taking no prisoners, and "continuously scanning" and "piling the food high". Soon "huge towers" of groceries loomed perilously over the edge of the packing area, as she "frantically reached" to place each item in her bags. "He could see my struggle and when a tin finally fell, I began crying and shaking" she explained.

https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/mum-says-speed-aldi-cashier-21276454

>>445629
My estimation of journalists has increased lately, with a few stories I've seen of reporters either bravely investigating ugly truths at great personal risk or working really hard to uncover scoops nobody else knows about, but it's all been undone by the fact someone was paid to write that story. Journalists are losers, all of them.

>>445629

>>445630
Local newspapers are pretty much on their arse these days.

The checkout woman at Lidl said "y'alright doll?" to me earlier. I'm fairly certain I didn't mishear her calling me "darl" as she called me "darling" when I left and I'd say two "darl/darlings" in one interaction would be a bit too much. I don't think I've ever been called "doll" by a stranger before. I don't know what to make of it.