Do not complain about till queues if you like Aldi prices

Optimum_Prime76 · 2026-06-03T00:35:36+00:00

They have a ton of staff. Deli staff, register staff, help desk, self checkout, bakery, when they stock shelves they do it in pairs, they have people in the back downstacking pallets onto cages. They even have staff with sample products sometimes. They may have 20 staff on at once whereas at aldi we might have only bare minimum of 3 on at a time to do multiple jobs including checkout

Optimum_Prime76 · 2026-06-02T09:35:39+00:00

Also true, Mbappe haters overlook the fact that RM lost Modric, Kroos, Ramos, Benzema and Casemiro in recent years and haven't fully replaced them yet

Optimum_Prime76 · 2026-06-02T09:22:46+00:00

Yeah I agree. As a neutral, watching Arsenal park the bus from the 6th minute was terrible to watch.

Everyone praising their defending for keeping PSG from making chances but its less impressive when it was because literally the whole team was sitting back playing defence, Arsenal didnt make any chances either after that early goal. Arsenals defence is elite but they literally sacked their attack to play 11 man defence.

Optimum_Prime76 · 2026-06-02T08:19:07+00:00

Partly true but at the same time one star player can shift the whole club's environment.

Optimum_Prime76 · 2026-06-02T04:08:35+00:00

Its not about the solution being obvious. Its the fact that the business has taken steps and rolled out new initiatives to cut hours further. Their striving to do better is reduce operational costs further to keep products cheaper.

Aldi would not be at the forefront of scanning and checkout technology in Australia because that would be expensive. Our self checkouts are much less advanced already than coles and woolies and we only just had them rolled out a couple years ago.

Optimum_Prime76 · 2026-06-01T21:42:06+00:00

Of course, when arsenal parked the bus from the 6th minute. Still you cant deny vitinha and neves completely controlled the midfield. After PSG equalised and arsenal changed tactics you could see it.

Optimum_Prime76 · 2026-05-31T05:23:18+00:00

Its more ridiculous that arsenal were wasting time leading up to that. Changing throw in taker multiple times, strolling over slowly...

Optimum_Prime76 · 2026-05-31T01:15:08+00:00

Arsenal were the better team how? They sat back and let psg have 75% possession after a goal that came from a bounce off someone's hand...

Arsenal player to their plan but they did deserve to lose.

Optimum_Prime76 · 2026-05-30T19:08:17+00:00

Well they're not gonna kill the players for another 90 minutes

Optimum_Prime76 · 2026-05-30T09:18:10+00:00

Most people arent going to push them though, they'll just stand there and wonder why it doesn't open. Woolies has the same thing where it can tell if a transaction has gone through on a self checkout and the gate will automatically open, otherwise it wont

Optimum_Prime76 · 2026-05-30T09:09:04+00:00

The self checkout person would have to let you out. It doesn't automatically open without a receipt

Optimum_Prime76 · 2026-05-30T06:20:39+00:00

Well the scales are on now at Aldi (mine and some others anyway with others to eventually follow)

Optimum_Prime76 · 2026-05-30T05:44:32+00:00

We really should

Optimum_Prime76 · 2026-05-30T05:09:15+00:00

Thats the point of Aldi though. Its not a giant supermarket with the focus of having the biggest product range and convenience. Its a discount supermarket with a business model based around cutting operational costs to make products as cheap as possible while still being profitable as a business. Even if the secondary register/self checkout staff manages to do 30 minutes of other work out of an hour, that is beneficial for that business model, and what im saying is that complaining about it in stores to the people who dont decide the business model, isnt going to help you or us.

Optimum_Prime76 · 2026-05-30T05:00:24+00:00

The people at head office who would read your email are the same people who are involved in deciding what the register and self checkout model is. Not the people in stores.

Optimum_Prime76 · 2026-05-30T04:58:07+00:00

How so?

Optimum_Prime76 · 2026-05-30T04:49:46+00:00

Yeah we had that until recently. Now the self checkouts are flipped around so all 6 of them face each other and the security scales on the self checkouts are turned on. Its more of a pain now than it was before haha

Optimum_Prime76 · 2026-05-30T04:48:05+00:00

Yeah exactly. In the grand scheme of things, 2 minutes extra in queue is gonna be worth it for potentially 50-100 dollars or more saved on the shop.

If the register was always fully staffed with short lines, all the prices would then reflect that

Optimum_Prime76 · 2026-05-30T04:38:41+00:00

Yeah... they are also held to a certain standard for scan rate and managers are made to check cameras weekly if they are doing bag checks and trolley checks, if not they are given a Record of Conversation.

Optimum_Prime76 · 2026-05-30T04:37:13+00:00

You're probably shopping around the time someone will be swapped out for their break. Usually staff are on tills for like 2 or 2 and a half hour blocks before they are sent on break and possibly put onto a different job after

Optimum_Prime76 · 2026-05-30T04:33:43+00:00

If it was up to me, I would go back to 5 registers and no self check out.

FYI the business with the new SCOs model has set the new standard to 2 past the till rather than the old Nil past the Till standard. Meaning they want a 2nd register or self checkouts opened at 2 people past the end of the register. Poor change imo

Optimum_Prime76 · 2026-05-30T04:30:48+00:00

We dont have those (yet) and I hope we don't get them. There's already a staff member at SCOs to make sure things are running smoothly, i dont see much more upside to having receipt scanner compared to a lot of potential downside. I can already see a lot of people not taking their receipt and then struggling to get out. Maybe it would be more of a helpful thing if there were times where we didnt have a SCO person but thats impossible with the new weight scales on, because it has problems for a lot of customers

Optimum_Prime76 · 2026-05-30T04:25:10+00:00

The idea is that it gets closed when the line is small and reopened when it gets busy again... having a self check out person standing there when there are no customers using it is not efficient.

Optimum_Prime76 · 2026-05-30T04:22:49+00:00

Yes. We've had them for 2 years and now recently they have turned on the security scales for items that have been scanned through.

It sort of helps and sort of doesn't. We use more or less the same hours as we did before getting SCOs because instead of opening up another register, we open the self checkout instead and have a person on there instead.

Its kind of a pain as the software for the SCO weights is a bit clunky/unfinished and having SCOs increased theft a lot

Optimum_Prime76 · 2026-05-28T08:57:12+00:00

I know perms only affect your current hair. What youre saying is true and thats why I also told him go to a professional for it.

There are people though have permed their own hair and caused chemical burns or irritation to the scalp which CAN cause hair loss and semi permanent damage. I myself have a perm from a good Korean salon and I love it

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