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I've been to quite a few Aldis and the flow in all of them is that the items get scanned and immediately placed in a cart, then there's a separate bagging area

I've been to quite a few Aldis and the flow in all of them is that the items get scanned and immediately placed in a cart, then there's a separate bagging area (a large counter along the wall near the exit door, a couple feet across from the cashier section) to actually move the items from your cart into your bags however you please. Are there Aldi stores which don't work like this? I can't imagine trying to bag fast enough to keep up with the cashiers...

DominikPeters 7y ago
In all countries I've seen, except the U.S., Aldi cashiers move items into a small buffer area, and the customer then transfers them back into their cart, in sync with the cashier. In some non-German countries (e.g. UK), customers often don't cooperate or are slower than the cashier, which reduces efficiency. The U.S. system is different, where the cashier directly pushes items into the cart, and also there seems to be a weird cart-switch going on, where you get the cart of the person who used to be in front of you. My guess is that Aldi couldn't educate U.S. customers that they have to work in sync with the cashier, and then they came up with this solution. U.S. checkout shape: https://www.trbimg.com/img-589b8178/turbine/ct-aldi-expansion-remodeling-0209-biz-20170208 https://www.trbimg.com/img-589b8178/turbine/ct-aldi-expansio... Non-U.S. checkouts: https://www.lebensmittelzeitung.net/gallery/media/852/15994-detailp.jpeg https://www.lebensmittelzeitung.net/gallery/media/852/15994-... http://www.wochenanzeiger-muenchen.de/media/archive/wsp/5634/aldi-haar_kasse.jpg http://www.wochenanzeiger-muenchen.de/media/archive/wsp/5634...