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Do Aldis in the U.S. bag your groceries? In Ireland, you would have to bring your own bags, or buy their thick plastic ones. And then the cashier would tut-tut
by herge 10y ago
Do Aldis in the U.S. bag your groceries? In Ireland, you would have to bring your own bags, or buy their thick plastic ones. And then the cashier would tut-tut you if you took too long bagging your own groceries.
- donjh 10y agoYou have to bring your own bags over here too - not sure if they sell them, I haven't been to an Aldi in a while.
- joezydeco 10y agoThey do sell bags, from cheap plastic ones to sturdier paper ones for $0.10. You can also buy reusable bags right there as well.
- sdtransier 10y agoIt's the same here in the U.S, bring your own or buy their plastic reusable ones. The locations I've been too sometimes had spare boxes you could use, but that was pretty rare.
- joezydeco 10y agoFinding empty boxes is an artform. Aldi has no problem with you reshuffling the stock on the shelf to create an 'empty' box out of two partially filled ones. I've gotten really good at this. When you think about it, it also keeps the shelves a bit more organized when people are walking away with the cardboard that would normally have to be recovered and packed up by the employees.
- PeanutNore 10y agoYou bag your own. Generally the cashier puts the scanned items in an empty cart sitting there for that purpose, then you swap your empty cart for the one with your purchases in it and wheel it over to a counter against the wall to bag or box them up - at the counter there is a stockpile of empty boxes that you can take.
- vermontdevil 10y agoYes. We bag on our own. Also we have to deposit a quarter to use the shopping cart. And it seems these stores have only 2 or 3 employees at any given time.
- bluedino 10y ago>> And it seems these stores have only 2 or 3 employees at any given time. Interestingly, Aldi's starts the payscale at double the minimum wage, or about $18/hr in the US
- LgWoodenBadger 10y agoThe Aldis near me is looking for employees at $11.25 an hour.
- arundelo 10y agoYou bag the groceries yourself in the U.S. too. The cashier puts them in a shopping cart which you take to a nearby long counter where you bag them. (They charge for bags but sometimes there are empty cardboard shipping boxes at the counter that you can use.)
- Broken_Hippo 10y agoYou do have to bag your own. Or buy paper or plastic. You also have the option to pick up empty cardboard boxes or bring your own bags. Oddly, here in Noway, you nearly always bag your own groceries regardless of the chain. You pay a little for plastic bags, which are always decent quality. Most people turn around and use those bags for their household trash. I have gotten much faster at bagging groceries since I've lived here. I have never really had a cashier tut-tut at me for being too slow: but the bagging are is divided into 2 sections and sometimes they won't switch back to my side. There is some social pressure to be quick about it, but folks seem to understand if one has a lot of groceries.