r/mildlyinfuriating • u/CinnySugar • 6h ago
Infuriatig Cashier at Aldi threw away my onions
Listen. I know capitalism has us all by the balls, but there has to be some room for common sense.
I went to Aldi today for pot roast ingredients. It's a Sunday evening, so the store is, more or less, picked clean. They sell onions in 3lb bags but the bins were empty, save for a few lonely, unbagged onions. I grabbed two beautiful bulbs, the rest of my ingredients, and went to check out.
Cashier says "We dont sell them individually, sorry."
I offered to scan another $3 item again. He said no. I offered straight cash. He said no. I offered to pay for a whole bag just to get the 2, he said no.
I asked, "So, what, are you just going to throw them away??"
"Yes." He said, "Its policy. For your safety."
I said, "My safety?? They literally grow IN the dirt."
He threw them away.
I'm now parked in my car at a second grocery store, typing this tale.*
Instead of coming home with me, the onions are going to sit alone in a plastic trash bag for the rest of time. Instead of going straight home, I'm using more gas and resources to make an extra stop just for two onions that I already held in my hands.
This world doesnt make sense anymore. Im already PMSing, and this interaction has sent me into an existential spiral.
I miss my onions.
I should have just stolen them.
*Edited for clarity, pls don't text and drive <3
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u/MydogisaToelicker 5h ago
Pretty sure most Aldi cashier s near me would have just told you to take them.
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u/Klightgrove 2h ago
Please delete this post OP. If Aldi’s finds out they will execute that cashier.
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u/pumog 3h ago
Well, the cashier in this fictional ChatGPT generated story would not sell them to the customer.
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u/Hermiona1 1h ago
The grammar in story ain't good enough for chat gpt lol. This happened.
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u/CinnySugar 1h ago
This is my favorite comment. Like yes, thank you, I was literally reporting live from the scene. But also, heyyy :(
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u/MarmaladeMarmaduke 6h ago
They shoukd have just given them to you if their policy is that stupid.
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u/StreetsofGalway 5h ago
The problem with doing that is some people are cool and understand its just a dumb policy, other people are stupid and now think "oh if the onions aren't in a bag, they're free!' And then they come back and do things like take the onions out of the bag and demand to be given them for free. And if the same employee who did them a solid and let them just have the onion is present they might even point at that person and claim they gave them permission, and then that person can get written up.
I work in a grocery store, if you couldn't tell.
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u/ExplanationOk6391 2h ago
Exactly. The policy is to throw them away because when the policy was to just give them to the customer for free, people were intentionally removing them from bags in order to get free onions.
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u/DipschitzContinuous 1h ago
Clearly, implementing a price per lb for loose onions would solve all of this dumb ass shit.
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u/RusDaMus 5h ago
Then a tiktok meme starts by telling people to pick out the onions at the bottom of the bin and the cashier will give them to you for free.
Next we are tearing open the bags so that the newly freed onions are now being brought to the cashier and expected to be given away free.
Followed by people starting to scream at the cashiers because they're not getting the free onions that they expected to get.
See how these death spirals of internet stupidity work?
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u/MarmaladeMarmaduke 5h ago
So you don't give away free onions unless you literally don't have onions anymore. But yeah people are gonna bitch. It's what they do.
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u/Darkchamber292 57m ago
How is the cashier going to know that they are out of onions? Is she going to go check the onion basket every 30 minutes?
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u/chriswimmer 4h ago
That's the policy everywhere. You know how much food waste occurs at gas stations? It's crazy.
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u/LukeHeart 5h ago
Well it’s not the cashiers choice on what the policy is. If the manager found out that cashier could get fired or face consequences of some kind.
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u/MarmaladeMarmaduke 5h ago
I get it and it's dumb imo how managers and companies are being. I've been a manager at a few places but not a grocery store and I would have given the onions away.
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u/RaisedByAMoose 2h ago
What would you have done if that same customer started coming back every day looking for loose stuff and expecting it for free? Then the other customers on your belt saw you give them to her, and they started doing the same thing? This is why grocery stores can't give away their waste.
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u/Spare_Iron127 6h ago
This the type of shit that would have me finding another grocery store
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u/Low-Palpitation-9916 6h ago
But this is already the cheapest, shittiest store there is that actually sells produce, other than Dollar Tree.
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u/FeelingReserve1459 5h ago
Cheapest, most of the time. Shittiest? Nope. I go there especially for specialty cheeses, charcuteries and other stuff that you either can't find in other grocery stores, or if you do, they're in the high end isle, overpriced and most of the time not as good.
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u/gfense 5h ago
I like Aldi, but when it comes to produce they are definitely at the bottom. I can never rely on them having what I need if I'm making a specific recipe. The store as a whole is good otherwise.
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u/IrrawaddyWoman 3h ago
I shop at Aldi from time to time. I like that they always have different things. But I never buy their produce because I’ve been burned so many times with rotting stuff. And their pre prepared foods are 50/50. Sometimes they’re good but sometimes they’re inedible. They clearly don’t go through the same market research process as pretty much anywhere else and it shows.
I want to love Aldi so bad but their quality control is non existent.
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u/Louis049 5h ago
Dollar Tree sells produce by y'all? Here you're lucky to find any seeds let alone produce.
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u/DJLeafygreens 6h ago
All other grocery stores will have a similar policy unless it's one of the few remaining mom and pop stores.
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u/Heavymando 6h ago
absolutely not. Every grocery store would just ring them up as regular onions
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u/HailSaganPlantNative 6h ago
For real. What kind of grocery store doesn't sell individual onions? That's stupid. So single people have to buy 5lbs of onions? WTF?
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u/LuceLeakey 4h ago
They don't sell single lemons either. I just had to buy a 1-pound bag. At least I can freeze them for later.
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u/wlake82 6h ago
Pretty much all of grocery store I've ever been in in the states allows for the sale of individual produce. Even if they don't have a scale it can be individually marked.
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u/InternalCultural447 6h ago
Where are you that doesn't sell onions individually?
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u/Mission_Fart9750 5h ago
Both Aldi and Lidl don't sell single produce (for most things).
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u/twelfthfantasy 5h ago
Both of the large chain grocery stores I've worked at would throw these in the bin of loose onions or put them on a manager's special clearance. If you just brought them up to the checkout without saying anything, they'd ring them up as onions. Because they're onions.
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u/DJLeafygreens 5h ago edited 5h ago
You guys are misinterpreting what I'm saying. Most grocery stores sell individual onions, yes, but most grocery stores won't be able to take an item that is sold in a pack of 6, let's say, and break them into individual items to sell. It throws off the inventory and therefore they have policies against doing such things.
Edit: For clarification, I'm not saying I agree or disagree with this practice, I'm simply stating how it is.
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u/picklemunch 5h ago
I understand that, but how would the cashier know that these onions were originally in a bag? Couldn't the customer just say that they were individual onions?
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u/NodensInvictus 5h ago
“ throws off the inventory”
Most POS systems have an automatic control that breaks up larger groups of items into individual items.
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u/DJLeafygreens 5h ago
I haven't seen that at any of the retail/grocery stores I've worked at and I've worked at a few of the top retail/grocery stores in the world.
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u/Spare_Iron127 6h ago
Definitely need more independent farms and farmer markets around.
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u/Furdiburd10 5h ago
It is actively failing in Hungary at least and has the worst quality products so here is that.
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u/Celebrimbor96 6h ago
If you have to go to another store anyway, I would’ve insisted on voiding that transaction and letting them handle all the other food you were going to purchase
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u/anaraparana 6h ago
that might feel good but you're giving extra work to some miserable minimum wage worker over a policy drawn by corporate
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u/lawman9000 6h ago
When I worked in customer service, shitty policies got changed when enough customers bitched me out about how shitty they were and I reported it up the chain.
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u/thetempleofdude 6h ago
Change cant happen until people are inconvenienced. Management has a ladder that purposely keeps them insulted against the grievances of day to day interactions. They are not free of the rage of their employees
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u/DapperDan30 5h ago edited 5h ago
As someone who has worked minimum wage customer service (and has moved up the ladder and is now a manager at that business), company policies arent law. They should be enforced, but within reason. Unless people are getting fired for selling an occasional individual onion, there was no need for this
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u/Efficient-King-8760 5h ago edited 5h ago
Unless theres literally no sku to be able to sell individuals in their system, in which case the employee would be giving it away for free, which most employers would unfortunately classify as theft even if its going in the trash.
ETA none of you have ever been cashiers because even charging a customer for a whole bag in place of one item would be at the very least a write up for not following store policy. As much as I hate food waste, im not gonna blame someone making wages that are probably hovering around the poverty line for covering their own ass
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u/DapperDan30 5h ago
OP offered to pay for an entire bag. On top that, theyre just throwing them away regardless. It also doesnt appear to be policy as there are other people in the comments saying their Aldi does the exact thing OP was asking for
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u/Intelligent_Ad_4163 5h ago
which would be true if OP didn’t state they offered multiple ways to pay for it including paying for an entire bag
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u/Desolate-Dreamland 5h ago
Please, try deciding to change policy for a customer without management approval and see where that goes. Truly not worth being bitched out or fired over 2 onions...
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u/Exact_Sprinkles3080 5h ago
This mentality is why things never get better.
Sorry to the employee but I would have voided the sale and never gone back to that Aldi.
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u/Louis049 6h ago
So protesting has never worked, right? You're only making life harder for the normal man when it's those in power drafting the laws... wait a second...
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u/HoneyParking6176 1h ago
the worker there is going to be doing something regardless, and they are paid by the hour, so doing this basically now makes the store instead of having a profit on the sale, now have to pay someone to put it back costing the store money.
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u/Intelligent_Log_1017 5h ago
This may be petty - but if I was forced to go to a second grocery store, I would have left that entire transaction for that dopey clerk to deal with and bought it all at the second store.
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u/psbales 4h ago edited 2h ago
I almost left a basket of groceries when my (valid) coupons wouldn’t scan. At first, the cashier said they couldn’t do anything. When they saw I was about to leave my entire basket, they ‘suddenly’ could manually enter the coupons after all.
Path of least resistance, I guess. (Restocking vs entering in the discounts)
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u/GiftedAfterAll 4h ago
The power of walking away. Works in all areas of life, not just the checkout lane.
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u/Fickle_Ad_8653 4h ago
I've done this before with frozen food in the cart. Walmart closed the isle I was in and didn't have another person come. The wait was super long. I got tired of it, and just left and said "hey, there are refrigerated items in that cart" and left. But now, Walmart has self-checkout and it keeps the lines reasonable.
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u/Hellament 5h ago
Next customer: “Man, that guy was pissy, amiright? Say, what are you going to do with all those groceries?”
Cashier: “Throw it away.”
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u/MoreJelly661 5h ago
I would have done the same, left eveything and walked out.
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u/programming_flaw 1h ago
Well that’s stupid. Then you have to do all the shopping again. You’re just inconveniencing yourself. Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face.
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u/wolfe1924 4h ago
While I see your point the cashier wouldn’t be the one to have to deal with what’s left behind unfortunately.
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u/QuentinEichenauer 1h ago
At my Aldi they would have. They have a morning crew who stock the store for four hours, and then two cashiers for the rest of the day. Once the morning crew leaves, there's usually ONE cashier on duty all day, and if it goes empty on the floor, that's it, there's no mid day restock. You couldn't pay me to work at Aldi. You couldn't pay me to shop at Aldi.
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u/CutPsychological1407 5h ago
Wow thats honestly just sad. They sh9ukd have at the very least let you pay for them. I work at an aldi and I wouldn't do that. My store is chill so maybe their manager is truly a dick, (which iv heard alot if them are) but like literally the bags do open by themselves alot and there is no reason to throw them away in this situation. Now people breaking open bags to just get 1 onion. That pisses me off and the person isn't getting it. But its still going to the food pantry for people who need it, not to the garbage.
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u/NanoRaptoro 2h ago
Now people breaking open bags to just get 1 onion. That pisses me off and the person isn't getting it.
Aaaand that is why the cashier wouldn't sell OP 2 loose onions. They don't want to encourage people to open multipack products. Just because other stores sell individual heads of garlic, single sweet potatoes, single bagels, bulk beans, or single protein bars, doesn't mean Aldi is required to do so.
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u/Drum_Eatenton 6h ago
Free the onions from oppression. They deserve to be eaten as it’s their lifelong dream.
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u/BJDSM 4h ago
Why didn’t you do through the self checkout and just take them?
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u/gesmith5 3h ago
Aldi is a store with no self checkouts.
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u/BJDSM 3h ago
My Aldi has 5 self checkouts….
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u/Feather_Bloom 3h ago
Not all of them have self checkouts
One town near us doesn't have them, another does
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u/AH_MLP 3h ago
It’s extremely impressive that you’ve been to every single Aldi store in the entire world.
Seriously though I’ve been to at least 5 Aldi’s and they all had a bunch of self checkout stations with a SINGLE actual checkout line staffed by a person.
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u/ZigyDusty 2h ago edited 2h ago
Not true, my local Aldi has 1 cashier checkout and 4 self checkouts.
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u/MaximoAlvarado 2h ago
It’s the same thing with bakery bread. Employees or customers can’t take them home at the end of the day. They have to go to the trash. Can’t believe this policy.
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u/3Gilligans 53m ago
At my bakery, we changed our policy to allow employees to take home unsellable items (broken, disfigured, etc). The amount of "mistakes" skyrocketed. Changed the policy back and we went back to the normal amount of bad items. And, the reason why we no longer donate items is that charities now require all donated goods be fully packed in retail boxes with nutritional labels, expiration dates, lot codes, etc. The packaging and labor to do this is more than the value of the goods. So, to the trash it goes
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u/Artic_wolf817 1h ago
It's probably because when they were given away, someone pretend to choked on them or pretended to get sick off them or something and tried to sue the company.
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u/Internal_Use8954 1h ago
They have laws against that so that companies can donate food without fear of it coming back on them.
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u/Professional_Cry1317 6h ago
Well that’s pretty fucking stupid.
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u/Quiverjones 6h ago
Yeah, I'd probably ask to speak with a manager. There's taboo for that in most cases, but this was probably the move in this case.
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u/georgecm12 6h ago
It's Aldi. There's rarely any more than 1-2 employees working in the entire store. The person at the checkout is quite possibly the highest "ranking" person in the store.
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u/bs0569 5h ago
The manager gonna say the same thing big dawg
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u/omicron-7 1h ago
As a manager nothing gives me more pleasure than telling some Karen the exact same thing my employee just told them.
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u/ariestoaries 5h ago
This is a weird scenario, especially as you offered to pay the price of a full bag. Often that happens because a cashier has been browbent to follow some policy for some reason, so it may not be his fault. Maybe they've had food safety incidents recently?
You can vent your confusion and frustration by emailing Aldi customer service and just asking them about it. I emailed Aldi about a problem once, and while they took 4 days, a rep did get back to me and was very kind and understanding.
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u/RockThe40oz666 6h ago
Any policy that ends with good, edible, untainted food being dumped into the trash is not a good policy. Full stop.
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u/foemangler89 3h ago
Ours usually just gives them at a discount when open. He just didnt want the manger override
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u/Glum-Ambassador-200 4h ago
Don’t give the workers a hard time for a terrible corporate policy that they have to follow, and they’re on camera
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u/recruitzpeeps 5h ago
That would irritate me too, so much.
I hope your pot roast turns out despite stupid policies forcing you to drive around more than necessary.
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u/Still_ImBurning86 3h ago
I used to work produce
You wouldn’t believe how much gets thrown away before opening
At least 80 pounds
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u/jetfan13 2h ago
Yeah, that’s messed up. Was a time when the grocer would have just let you take them for free. No such thing as customer service anymore.
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u/desolatesupernova 4h ago
aldi employee here- we don’t make the policy regarding things like this. if management at that store watched cameras (which some do), the cashier who allowed that would’ve been written up/fired. being mad at the cashier who doesn’t want to possibly jeopardize their job instead of the company who makes the policy is misplaced anger. trust me, we think some of the policies are stupid too but we need our jobs.
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u/Clear_Tom0rrow 5h ago
Lol. I used to work for Aldi. I don’t think there’s any clear “policy” on loose produce that is supposed to be packaged.
I would just tell people “we don’t sell these as loose items. I’m going to just give it to you today, but in the future you’re supposed to buy the whole bag.”
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u/LuceLeakey 4h ago
Not that it will help with the immediate issue, but it might be worth complaining directly to Aldi about this incredibly stupid and wasteful practice. There is a chance they might *at least* donate unbagged produce to a food pantry or something. As a giant corporation they likely throw away thousands of pounds a day across all their stores. Hope the pot roast is amazing!
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u/ZAZOOPITTS 4h ago
I think, unfortunately, you just came across a jackass who didn’t know his job and what the hell he was doing.
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u/that_70_show_fan 3h ago
I am amazed this cahier let you have a full on conversation. Aldi cahiers are ruthless lol.
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u/Daysaved 6h ago edited 6h ago
Something like this happened to me at DG the other day. I was going to a kids birthday party and stopped off and got like a piggy bank, a few stuffies, some crayons and I found this really nice little basket with no price tag and nothing else around it that I liked. Dude behind the counter just threw it in the trash right in front of me. I said "Hey man I wanted that it really ties the whole present together." He raised his voice and said "It didn't have a price tag man those are the rules." After asking can he just put it in no upc and I'll give you 10$. "No." Fine. I went back found the most similar item I could priced at 15$ but it had like large holes and would not be very useful for holding anything like pencils or small items. Brought that up to counter. "Can you just scan this? I'll pay 15$ but I wanted the other basket." "No" so I took the thing I didn't really want and said "Thank you" got this bitchy little "Have a nice day" litterally as I walk out the door. Retail is absolute shit now adays and customer service just does not exist. No effort to help me, bad attitude and just threw it in the trash right in front of me with no explanation until I said something.
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u/OathBreaker0867 3h ago
Giving a minimum wage employee a hard time over a policy they didn’t write is exactly why working minimum wage sucks. We don’t make the rules, we’re replaceable, what the manager says is what we do. I will never put my job on the line, even if a policy is stupid. I’ve got bills to pay
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u/Chilasono 5h ago
The Onion Lovers sŭb will want to know about this travesty.
The onions should have been donates at the very least.
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u/sunbleach_happypants 5h ago
I've definitely had jobs where, "for legal reasons," policy would take priority over very obvious, common sense; irrespective of the suffering, waste, etc it caused. And, I hate to say that I understand why (it's businesses covering their tail)
Yeah, you shoulda just stolen em. Time to go rogue
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u/Adorable_Ad4990 4h ago
If they can’t sell it because of policy, they should just put them to the side with a wink kinda thing. Sorry can’t sell these to you. I’m just going to set them down there and get rid of them later, if they’re still there
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u/Financial_Diver5629 2h ago
I went to a subway the other day and I misheard the employee and asked for montery not knowing it was shredded cheese. I asked for pepper jack instead and if she could just brush the shredded cheese off didn't have to remake it but she just threw the whole thing away and started angrily making me another, like ripped it in half and slapped 2 slices of turkey on one end only Lol like neither of us wanted that sandwich to get wasted but idk why she got so mad about it. I told her she didn't have to remake it just brush the other cheese off ...
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u/Commercial-Tell-5991 6m ago
Damn. Back in the late 80s I worked at Wendy’s. I vividly remember a customer bring back a burger because it had mustard on it and she said no mustard. Did we make a new burger? Hell no. The line cook just grabbed the filthiest rag he could find and wiped the mustard off.
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u/Jennmonkye 2h ago
I asked to buy onions individually a few months ago because I only needed two at the time. The cashier at my Aldi gave them to me for free so YMMV depending on who is watching.
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u/Low-Implement-820 2h ago
this almost happened to me, but with a picture I found at a discount store I liked enough I decided to buy. I got to the register and they said something similar, that the others had been damaged out and thrown away and they must have missed this one and couldn't sell it to me. I made the same offers, ring up a similar one, I'll pay what you are asking so it doesn't go to a landfill, etc. for a few minutes and they did eventually cave and let me buy it, but made sure to let me know a few times how nice they were being to me and this wasn't the norm. which I did appreciate being allowed to buy it, but at the same time, you were going to turn down me paying for it for it to just go sit at the dump and rot? makes no sense.
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u/Birds-and-stuff 48m ago
Im an aldi cashier, and the amount of food we are required to waste is a little silly in my opinion. I think its because corporate figures its better to waste some food than to deal with lawsuits if something were to go bad and we hadnt followed very strict standards.
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u/Trash-Panda321 6h ago
Ngl i check the dumpster first before buying any produce inside. I needed a single green bell pepper the other week anf what do ya know? I pop the top anf found several packages with one bad one in em, so I plucked out the good ones and home they went!
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u/Evergood1976 5h ago
Welcome to the world of idiots. They're everywhere now. Couple generations deep.
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u/HovisTMM 5h ago
In UK ALDI you still wouldn't be able to buy them but they'd be put in a Too Good To Go box, which is sold extremely cheaply alongside almost outdated food at the end of the night on the TGTG app.
ALDI doesn't sell individual units out of multipacks in any other circumstance.
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u/Melodic-Ad-2639 4h ago
Seems more like a case of an employee who does not know how to apply reasonable judgment. I bought a bottle of cough syrup today and when the cashier (at a large chain) asked for my ID, I said I’d need to run to the car to get it. She said not to worry about it. I thanked her for exercising reasonable judgment for a 58 year old customer who also had many other grocery items
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u/Late_Mixture8703 4h ago
Cashiers can't set policy, and the cashier who let you slide on no ID is likely getting a write up for "using judgement" to go again company policy.
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u/Barrel_o_Nukes 3h ago
This is exactly what it is. I ran this post by my husband who is an Aldi store manager and he said in this situation he or whoever was on register would just let the guy have the onions.
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u/Fxg120xYXDE5 5h ago edited 4h ago
Wait, you're capping it off by mentioning you're texting and driving while annoyed and distracted?
Edit: Error caught, that's on me.
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u/CinnySugar 4h ago
i'm being pranked
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u/Fxg120xYXDE5 4h ago
Nope, I'm nearly blind and miss things even when the phone is 5 inches from my face sometimes.
It's my bad for not reading the post a second time just to verify before making a snarky-ass comment about it.
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u/Rare-Independence329 5h ago
It doesn’t make sense until you look into all the crazy reasons these store get dragged through court.
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u/Church6633 BLUE 6h ago
There's dynamic pricing and then there's this. Capitalism is a plague on society.
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u/Ok-Flight-1504 6h ago
This isn't capitalism doing this. This is government regulations forbidding the sale of individual items that come from a pack.
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u/feldoneq2wire 6h ago
Bullshit.
No, government regulations do not forbid a retailer from breaking open a bag of onions to sell them individually. In fact, doing so is a standard, legal practice in grocery stores and markets across the United States.
The FDA Retail Exemptions
While federal regulations enforced by the FDA strictly prohibit breaking up packaged, multi-ingredient, or processed foods (because it strips away mandatory labeling like ingredients, allergen warnings, and net weight), raw produce is treated differently.
Under federal packaging and labeling exemptions (21 CFR S 1.24), raw, bulk foods received by a retail establishment are completely exempt from individual net quantity and labeling requirements, provided the food is weighed, measured, or counted in view of the customer or at the register. Because a whole onion is a single-ingredient, unprocessed agricultural commodity, it does not require an ingredient or nutrition label.
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u/Radiant_Lobster_6833 6h ago
I live in a state where you can buy individual onions. I’m not sure what the issue is.
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u/Same_Mood_8543 6h ago
It's only safe if they come in a very large bag or a box, not a smaller bag.
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u/Festive_Jetcar 5h ago
There is no government regulation saying you can't sell onions individually even if they came in a pack.
Knock it off with the misinformation, bro.
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u/aeternumvaga 5h ago
Good reason to not shop at Aldi.
They are cheap because they are inflexible. Employee was an ass, but it's likely he was trained to do that.
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u/sa123xxx 4h ago
You are an ass. Should they lose their job because of someone’s poor planning? WTF?
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u/ElvishMystical 3h ago
I've only used an Aldi a few times. I find it very similar to Lidl. The Aldi's I've used are Kilburn High Road and Maida Vale. I'm fairly convinced that people shop at Aldi not for the prices but for the aggro. You can walk in fine but it seems like you're not getting out of that store without experiencing stress.
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u/rrhunt28 5h ago
Stores throw tons of stuff away. It sucks but they rather throw it away than sell it.
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u/NirvanicSunshine 2h ago
That's crazy. I've gone to a food shelf before that regularly had Aldi's store brand items for selection.
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u/One-Garden-8643 2h ago
Aldi always finds a way to infuriate me. Let me bag while you scan instead of keeping us all in the store longer!
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u/Cool_Farmer7975 1h ago
I literally JUST sat down from cutting onions for an hour (from Costco) to freeze because we never get through a bag lmao. I wish I could have offered you some.
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u/ElevatorOtis 1h ago
I don’t live near any Aldis, that I’m aware of anyway. So, while the comments from users saying their “Aldi would give it for free.” I disagree.
I am fully with you on this! Some people who work in any form of customer service treat the customer like any discount or free onions that the customer gets,the price comes directly out of their paycheck! Like, bro, just give the onions to OP instead of the garbage!
I also wouldn’t label it as part of you PMSing! You made multiple offers/compromises and the cashier is the one that sucked.
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u/scrapsoup 28m ago
I never shop at Aldi anymore. Last time I went I was with my daughter (6 at the time) and she wanted to load the groceries from the shopping basket onto the checkout belt. I was helping too and we moved forward with the basket as the person ahead of us was checking out, and a line formed behind us. When we got to the cashier, we still had the empty shopping basket and the cashier told me to go back through the line of people to place it at the beginning of the belt. There were at least 6 people behind us at that point, and there was a barrier to corral people theough the checkout. Everyone would have had to back out of the line for me to pass through to do that. I told the cashier no, that it wasn't feasible. She insisted and I said "if you want me to pay for these groceries then you put it back." She just said fine then it's ok. But it totally ruined the happy little shopping experience for me and my kid.
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u/thecakeisali 26m ago
Was this person a manager? If you didn’t speak to one you did yourself a disservice.
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u/StreetUnlikely2018 6h ago
My aldi gives them away. Same situation, and she just gave me the onion. She told me that they donate the loose ones. I dont know if she meant to customers or elsewhere