What Aldi Employees Want You To Know Before Shopping Without A Cart – Mashed

What Aldi Employees Want You To Know Before Shopping Without A Cart – Mashed

Never, we repeat never, take a shopping cart from an Aldi cashier if you didn’t have a shop cart in the first place. Aldi cashiers’ carts are reserved strictly for customers who have their own cart to begin with. As Aisle of Shame meticulously explains, Aldi cashiers transfer goods from customers’ carts to their own carts to speed up the bagging process. That’s why, per one Aldi employee on Reddit, “Taking our cart slows us down, slows down the line and is just annoying.”

Turns out, Aldi employees’ Reddit vexation isn’t just about the inconvenience of finding another cart. Another employee explained, “We are basically timed at how quickly we can ring up and if we aren’t hitting our numbers, we get reprimanded with negative evals.” This means (not to be dramatic or anything), if you steal an Aldi employees’ cart, you’re potentially affecting their employee evals. Don’t expect an Aldi employee to just loan you a quarter, either. As a third Aldi employee on the same Reddit thread explained: “9 times out of 10, we loan out carts and quarters we never see again. And we have to maintain our money drawer. That quarter you’re borrowing counts against my drawer. I’ve been short $5+ dollars just from ‘loaning out’ quarter.” Ouch!

We know, we didn’t realize Aldi shopping cart etiquette was so complicated, either. But now we do, and you do, too. Happy shopping, Aldi customers!

Published at Wed, 16 Jun 2021 21:10:00 +0000