ALDI protocol

[Coastal99]

I hardly ever go in ALDI so I'm not familiar with the protocol of shopping but from my observations yesterday they appear to be:

When looking at the cakes on the left of the entrance you must squeeze each one. A minimum of 10 cakes must be squeezed. Placing a cake in the basket following this test is optional

Moving onto the Bread section, the labels on each loaf on the shelf must be inspected prior to deciding which one, if any, to put in the basket.

In the meat section, elbows must be fully extended prior to looking at the products

Under no circumstances select a meat product nearest to you. It is mandatory that packets of meat at the front of the shelf are pushed to one side and only those at the very back of the display should be considered. A minimum of 10 packets must be moved prior to choosing one from the rear to purchase. It is not necessary to move packets back.

Moving into the centre of the shop, when looking at any item in the isle items must be rummaged through and it is not obligatory to replace those removed back where they came from. Any side within 3 ft will do.

Finally, beer & wine section, and I think this one is optional as I only saw 1 gent doing this, when selecting a bottle of wine take one from the back of the shelf not one nearest to you.

My apologies if I upset regular ALDI shoppers yesterday by picking items at the front of the shelf, I'll try harder next time

[gazaprop]

I hardly ever go in ALDI so I'm not familiar with the protocol of shopping but from my observations yesterday they appear to be:

When looking at the cakes on the left of the entrance you must squeeze each one. A minimum of 10 cakes must be squeezed. Placing a cake in the basket following this test is optional

Moving onto the Bread section, the labels on each loaf on the shelf must be inspected prior to deciding which one, if any, to put in the basket.

In the meat section, elbows must be fully extended prior to looking at the products

Under no circumstances select a meat product nearest to you. It is mandatory that packets of meat at the front of the shelf are pushed to one side and only those at the very back of the display should be considered. A minimum of 10 packets must be moved prior to choosing one from the rear to purchase. It is not necessary to move packets back.

Moving into the centre of the shop, when looking at any item in the isle items must be rummaged through and it is not obligatory to replace those removed back where they came from. Any side within 3 ft will do.

Finally, beer & wine section, and I think this one is optional as I only saw 1 gent doing this, when selecting a bottle of wine take one from the back of the shelf not one nearest to you.

My apologies if I upset regular ALDI shoppers yesterday by picking items at the front of the shelf, I'll try harder next time

Are you by any chance bald, named Victor, married to Margaret, visited frequently by Mrs Warboys and live next door to Patrick & Pippa?

[bambi275]

Are you by any chance bald, named Victor, married to Margaret, visited frequently by Mrs Warboys and live next door to Patrick & Pippa?

Love it!

[gsgsgs]

I'm an Aldi convert from being an outrageous food snob and yep all of the above

[Little Londoner]

When you watch the Traffic Bobbies on TV struggling to block in cars they are trying to stop it makes you wonder WHY don't the get 2 or 3 women with shopping trollies to do it. Get 4 and one whole carriageway of the M6 could be blocked off in double quick time.

[jonnybgood]

When you watch the Traffic Bobbies on TV struggling to block in cars they are trying to stop it makes you wonder WHY don't the get 2 or 3 women with shopping trollies to do it. Get 4 and one whole carriageway of the M6 could be blocked off in double quick time.

That is possibly the reason why there are'nt any supermarkets next to a motorway ?

[MICK/GILLY]

Sounds like savvy shoppers are looking for the freshest stuff by sell by dates, I often do this in Tesco.
Today I went to Tesco in Birkdale and bought a bag full of stuff (freshest bread and ham from the back included) a tray of liver and bacon in gravy and proceeded to the checkout, after paying I noticed this brown liquid on the inside of the bag like a syrup, perplexed I mentioned it to the checkout lady and asked her for a new bag. She gave me a new bag and suggested that I re pack my shopping into it, upon re packing the bag I discovered the corner of the tray of liver, bacon and gravy was not sealed properly and it was this gravy that had caused the mess. The checkout lady suggested that I change the tray for a new one and went to the fridges at the back of the store to do so whereupon I found 2 more trays that were not sealed and one that was, so I took the one that was sealed put it in my newly packed clean bag and off I went walking home. It wasn't until I got round the corner that I noticed the gravy from the initial unsealed packet had spilled onto me and had ran down my light coloured trousers making it appear to all that I had shat myself.
This was the first time in 10 yrs that I had bought liver from Tesco as the last time I bought liver from the big store ( and cooked it to death ) I got campylobacter from it and spent a week in the toilet, by the time I got downstairs I had to go back up again night and day, yes for a week in pain with my winking walnut feeling as hot as a car cigarette lighter,
should have known better than to buy meat from Tesco but fancied a bit of liver for tea, anyway I ate it tonight from a sealed packet so heres hoping.

[said]

Sounds like savvy shoppers are looking for the freshest stuff by sell by dates, I often do this in Tesco.
Today I went to Tesco in Birkdale and bought a bag full of stuff (freshest bread and ham from the back included) a tray of liver and bacon in gravy and proceeded to the checkout, after paying I noticed this brown liquid on the inside of the bag like a syrup, perplexed I mentioned it to the checkout lady and asked her for a new bag. She gave me a new bag and suggested that I re pack my shopping into it, upon re packing the bag I discovered the corner of the tray of liver, bacon and gravy was not sealed properly and it was this gravy that had caused the mess. The checkout lady suggested that I change the tray for a new one and went to the fridges at the back of the store to do so whereupon I found 2 more trays that were not sealed and one that was, so I took the one that was sealed put it in my newly packed clean bag and off I went walking home. It wasn't until I got round the corner that I noticed the gravy from the initial unsealed packet had spilled onto me and had ran down my light coloured trousers making it appear to all that I had shat myself.
This was the first time in 10 yrs that I had bought liver from Tesco as the last time I bought liver from the big store ( and cooked it to death ) I got campylobacter from it and spent a week in the toilet, by the time I got downstairs I had to go back up again night and day, yes for a week in pain with my winking walnut feeling as hot as a car cigarette lighter,
should have known better than to buy meat from Tesco but fancied a bit of liver for tea, anyway I ate it tonight from a sealed packet so heres hoping.

Have you ever wondered where the flavour in supermarket foods has gone? or why the produce goes off within a couple of days? Fresh food in supermarkets are not exactly 'fresh'. The 'fresh' bread baked daily is baked from dough frozen a year ago - by placing in a hot oven and pressing a button. 'Fresh' fruit varies, apples can be a year old, bananas six weeks old, oranges a year old etc., all kept frozen until required. Even 'fresh' fish can be up to two years old, 'fresh' milk - up to six weeks old, produce several weeks old. Supermarkets purchase such goods at the lowest prices to sell to customers. Individual greengrocer shops price goods on a daily basis depending on the market prices. Bakers price their goods on overhead costs, which are higher than those of supermarkets. True fresh produce stays fresh for some weeks as opposed to the few days for produce from a supermarket.

[MICK/GILLY]

Since my unfortunate incident with the liver years ago I saw a documentary programme on tv about Tesco meat and how bad it was treated. You must be careful buying meat for instance when I was in the recruitment industry I used to take staff to Walton summit to work at a big place called pre pack, the factory styled place used to and probably still does receive wagon loads of meat from all over the world every day and they unpack the meat and just re pack it stamping it with a union flag on it and in small writing under the flag it says packed in Britain, all the shopper NOTICES when they are choosing the meat is the British flag and the words blah blah in Britain and they pick it up and buy it assuming its British meat IT COULD HAVE COME FROM ANYWHERE usually south America like most corned beef does.
Another factory type concern used to make the staff dip nearly off meat in fresh blood then vacuum pack it. so be careful. got to say tho the bread that I routed out from the back today in Tesco was as fresh as a daisy.

[gsgsgs]

I'm lead to believe that Aldi's meat supplier also supply's meat to M&S, also they have fresh fruit and veg deliveries daily.

I remember watching a hidden camera type program in a meat processing factory, the reporter was working on the returns area, meat rejected by supermarkets. The reported asks what happens to the meat, you hear a worker say 'we repack it for Tesco, they accept anything'.

Part of the problem surely must be we dom't eat seasonally anymore, I remember foods only being available during a growing season, you looked forward to them arriving on the shelves, nowadays we have bland forced grown food all year round.

[pedoja]

Glad I don't eat meat after reading the above!

[jamyramy]

haha love it yes the human condition these days has gone nuts.the reality is the aliens are amongst us they've got the tech to tavel light years to get here,but f....d up the hybrid integration program !is it just me or does one go home with a wry smile thinking thought id seen it all til today again!!!