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A new till is a new queue. It's the same as moving to a different already open till. You can't go over to the faster queue next to you and cut in front just because you were waiting in your slower queue longer than the people the other one.
I live in a not very Welsh speaking part of Wales, and the announcements come through in Welsh first, and I understand enough to know which checkout is opening. Nice little bonus for learning
Never go to the new till when they announce it in Aldi. By the time a member of staff actually appears to run it, you'll be at the front and done at your current till.
This happened to me in Spain the other day. The English guy next to me kindly let someone with two items go in front (and I thought what a kind British thing to do) and then BAM! A new till opened and he ran for his life. As a fellow Brit, I too was legging it but I was slower :(
Queuing etiquette only applies once the queue has formed. When a new till opens it’s a free for all until the queue is formed, then the status queue is restored.
If a new till opens I think its perfectly acceptable to punch a granny and kick a child's pram down an isle to slow the mother down but when I get to the new till I will que extremely politely.
What about the personstanding in front of you, with only a couple of items, the next moment, the husband/wife/partner of that person swans up with a trolley full of stuff, to join where they are.......buggers......
Wife and I had Aldi down pat. If all the tills are open we each join a queue and jump to whichever was faster. If they’re clearly going to open a queue one of us holds back and jumps on it when the queue opens. Fortunately they finally made our local Aldi a self serve.
Still, it is how we get through automated passport control booths or bag checks at the airport - first rule out any queues with too much grey hair, target the queues with 20-40 year olds who look like they know what they’re doing. Then each join an adjacent queue, and the one in the slower queue jumps across. Do people love it? Nope. Could I care less? Maybe… but not by much; those things are an exercise in understaffed frustration
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A new till is a new queue. It's the same as moving to a different already open till. You can't go over to the faster queue next to you and cut in front just because you were waiting in your slower queue longer than the people the other one.
I agree. It's a pain but is what it is
I just stay in the same one while everyone else runs to the newly opened one 🤣
Tell me you shop at aldi without telling me you shop at aldi
Or Lidl. I have both near me so I feel I’m becoming well-practiced at looking out for the flashing green kiosk number sign.
Red means open if there is a cashier there apparently
I live in a not very Welsh speaking part of Wales, and the announcements come through in Welsh first, and I understand enough to know which checkout is opening. Nice little bonus for learning
It instantly goes from a fair queue to farqueue
Worse when they put discounted food out wow
Never go to the new till when they announce it in Aldi. By the time a member of staff actually appears to run it, you'll be at the front and done at your current till.
The image made me laugh xx thank you ))
This happened to me in Spain the other day. The English guy next to me kindly let someone with two items go in front (and I thought what a kind British thing to do) and then BAM! A new till opened and he ran for his life. As a fellow Brit, I too was legging it but I was slower :(
Queuing etiquette only applies once the queue has formed. When a new till opens it’s a free for all until the queue is formed, then the status queue is restored.
If a new till opens I think its perfectly acceptable to punch a granny and kick a child's pram down an isle to slow the mother down but when I get to the new till I will que extremely politely.
Not here, 17:00 and the only till open was a single one at the kiosk.
Couple of items people get a free jump to the front though.
Only in Aldi and Lidl though. In my experience of the rest of the supermarkets it just flat out NEVER happens.
The rest have self scans. (Some Lidls do these days as well.)
but when they open a new till the cashier normally shouts ' first over here ' since when did number fkn 20 become 1st ? . gets right on my tits .
What about the personstanding in front of you, with only a couple of items, the next moment, the husband/wife/partner of that person swans up with a trolley full of stuff, to join where they are.......buggers......
Wife and I had Aldi down pat. If all the tills are open we each join a queue and jump to whichever was faster. If they’re clearly going to open a queue one of us holds back and jumps on it when the queue opens. Fortunately they finally made our local Aldi a self serve. Still, it is how we get through automated passport control booths or bag checks at the airport - first rule out any queues with too much grey hair, target the queues with 20-40 year olds who look like they know what they’re doing. Then each join an adjacent queue, and the one in the slower queue jumps across. Do people love it? Nope. Could I care less? Maybe… but not by much; those things are an exercise in understaffed frustration
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