Aldi shopper shares tip to get checkout staff to slow down so you can pack your bags

We all need tips to packing our bags at Aldi, and one mum has shared the perfect one. 

Everybody knows you have to psych yourself up for a big Aldi shop, ready for the final Olympic hurdle at the checkouts. 

Paying for your weekly shop becomes an absolute challenge in Aldi with the cashier’s scanning the items faster than lightning. It is, unfortunately, a challenge we almost always lose. 

Some people have taken it as far as scrunching up the packaging around the barcode so cashiers have to slow down and scan the item a few times. 

Others think teamwork is the best option, with someone feeding the items slowly onto the belt one at a time while the other person packs.

It’s definitely a stressful time, and from experience the best thing is to just let it happen and pick up the pieces (or eggs and bread) afterwards – just put your trolley at the end at let them fire everything right in, and head to the window to pack.

That’s not good enough for one shopper, though, who has the perfect example of ‘if you don’t ask you don’t get’. 

Sharing on the Aldi Mums Facebook Page, one mum simply put ‘ask them to slow down, I do’. She added that: “they don’t mind. And never had a rude checkout operator either”. 

Plenty of other people, it turns out, have a lot more confidence than me, with many others saying that they do the same.

One wrote: “I always ask the checkout workers at my local ALDI to slow down a bit, so I don’t get overwhelmed.

“They always say yes and it’s always very pleasant, never had a problem.”

Other’s explain that the sheer panic and dread of packing your bags at Aldi is all part of the experience and ‘should be an Olympic sport’. 

Do you ask the checkout staff to slow down, or do you grit your teeth and bare it?