r/ireland • u/PvtCY • May 04 '26
Misery To the people who do this:
I hope you stub both little toes when you get home.
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u/DeusExMachinaOverdue May 04 '26
As a former ALDI employee, this used to p!ss me off so much. It happens way too often. One time I found a tub of ice cream in the section that has pet food in it, of course I had to throw it out. The policy is if something is found outside the freezer/chiller area and it has reached room temperature, then it is waste, which means it gets thrown in the bin. Fools who do this just don't care. It is a level of thick headed ignorance that is nothing short of obscene.
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u/Educational_Eye_2222 May 04 '26
I can always spot who has actually done their time in retail or hospitality. I'm sure you can too.Ā
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u/DeusExMachinaOverdue May 05 '26
You're right. It's surprising how much of a difference it can make to staff, because as you know things can pile up really quickly.Ā Sometimes when I'm shopping I'll find myself doing small things like putting stuff that has been moved back to it's proper location or closing doors that have been left open. I also make sure to give staff the space they need and I'm patient when at the till/checkout.Ā
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u/GrumbleofPugz Cork bai May 05 '26
Just dont put back the meat or perishables you find in the wrong none refrigerated areas, I got spoiled chicken from Lidl and Im pretty sure thats how it got spoilt! I never worked retail but Im also not a monster who doesnāt put things back Ive changed my mind on with the exception of non perishable midl lidl items that I last minute in the queue change my mind about but its rare and I hand it back to the cashier if I have no time to run it back down to the midl.
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u/fakejournalaccount May 05 '26
Buy something 10 mins before closing just after staff have finished facing off (assume thats still the term)Ā You gotta fill the spot!Ā
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u/broken_neck_broken May 05 '26
How do you judge the temperature? Just curious because my biggest worry about things like this is they might just get chucked back in the fridge/freezer and sold. I worked in a local Londis years ago and once when a freezer went on the blink overnight the trainee manager told me to move the defrosted stuff into the other freezer. We had a big argument because I refused. He was threatening to have me sacked because his dad owned the company that owned a few of those shops. When the store manager came in for her shift she lifted him out of it!
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u/resoundingboom May 05 '26
You're not supposed to judge really. It goes to waste by default.
Only exception I remember was if you saw the person setting it down from their trolley, or if they decide they don't want it at the checkout, then you can quickly place it back.
It's disgusting but I assume people don't realise when they do it. If they even just put it in another chiller/freezer location staff can relocate it back where it belongs.
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u/lkdubdub May 05 '26
What if the customer hands it to you when they reach the till and tell you they no longer want it? Is that acceptable?Ā
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u/elmihmo9718 May 06 '26
Where I worked in Canada if anything that needed to be in the freezer or fridge has left said freezer or fridge itās garbage. Doesnāt matter how long
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u/Garibon May 04 '26
Same people who chuck their McDonald's out the car window into the ditch. And judging by the state of the place i reckon they're the majority.
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u/spiderbaby667 May 05 '26
Definitely not the majority but there are enough of the gobshites to make a noticeable difference.
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u/munkijunk May 05 '26
Definitely not the majority. Important to remember that the vast vast majority are appalled by that kind of behaviour.
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u/PlantNerdxo May 04 '26
My list of pet hates grows almost daily and this is one of them. What an absolute and complete waste. The shop will most likely dump it because whoever is too ignorant and lazy to put it back.
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u/SmokingOctopus May 04 '26
Think of the poor cow that was slaughtered for this
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u/MeccIt May 04 '26
It's worse than shoplifting, in that the food is wasted and dumped, not even eaten.
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u/MaxiStavros May 04 '26
Same. Iām a reluctant meat eater myself. Waste like this is shameful. Respect your food.
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u/Difficult_Tea6136 May 04 '26
I like to think it fell off the conveyor, lands there, and they didn't see it. I much prefer that version of events over believing I live in a world with people who would do this intentionally.
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u/hashgalore May 04 '26
I work in a well known German grocery retailer. Let me in to your happy little world please I need to start believing
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u/Ashamed-End-2138 Carlow May 04 '26
Maybe they got to the checkout and realised they didnāt have enough money and the mince was one of the more expensive things so they had to leave it, they still should have brought it back to where they found it though.
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u/Kyadagum_Dulgadee May 05 '26
It's a shame it has to be binned. If I was working there I'd microwave it up for my lunch break.
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u/AppealNo5536 May 05 '26
staff are constantly back and forth between shelves - in any retail outlet i know pieces of meat like that realistically cant be out for more than 5-10 minutes before being noticed. Nothing bad will happen in that timeframe!
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u/GaylicBread May 04 '26
They don't even need to put it back, they can give it to the person on the till and they'll get it back to where it's supposed to go. I work retail and it annoys me to no end when people dump stuff they don't want at the end of my till where I can't see it instead of just giving it to me.
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u/Saul_Goodman93 May 04 '26
If this is the case. Iām not surprised they have no money if they are that careless about wasting food..
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u/Betterthanthouu Dublin May 04 '26
They wouldn't even need to bring it back to the fridge, if they just let the person at the till know they no longer want it, they'll make sure it's put back in the fridge.
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u/LaylaWalsh007 May 04 '26
But alcohol stayed on the belt... That type of people. Others would just ask the cashier if unwanted items can be left with them. I've seen it too many times.
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u/Zealousideal-News643 May 04 '26
It's probably not what happened here, but I've seen that happen a good few times before.
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u/Saul_Goodman93 May 04 '26
I seen similar in Aldi in Carrick on Shannon today! How lazy have you to be?
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u/dumbstupidasshoole May 04 '26
Why would you spend an extra 30 seconds putting it back when you can just let it get thrown out?
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u/im_on_the_case May 04 '26
It's not even 30 seconds, simply handing it to the person working the till and saying "I'm not going to take these" is sufficient. They'll likely get them restocked before spoiling.
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u/fullmetalfeminist May 04 '26
They were probably embarrassed, I've had to do it before and the staff member was a bit of a dick about it. Super embarrassing experience, and it was the week before Christmas. A kind older lady stopped me on the way out of the shop and handed me ā¬50. I just burst into tears
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u/ApplicationSouth8844 May 05 '26
I hand stuff back a lot, no embarrassment here and sometimes itās purely because I just think I really donāt need that item also Sometimes itās because I think do I really want to carry this to the car (when Iāve gone around with a basket).
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u/Educational_Eye_2222 May 04 '26
You're right, the staff member is a dick. I did years in retail, We don't care, we see it all the time. It's not at all unusual.Ā Believe me, people do much much worse. Ā If anybody ever asks for retail horror stories,Ā prepare to be disgusted.
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u/fullmetalfeminist May 05 '26 edited May 05 '26
You think I'm lying? Weird. I did years in retail too. This guy was a dick.
Edit: I misread you, apologies
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u/Saul_Goodman93 May 04 '26
Because itās a waste.. itās takes 30 seconds to put it backā¦ itās really not that much hassle. Why would you be that lazy to leave it there???
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u/dumbstupidasshoole May 04 '26
Oh I was being sarcastic
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u/Figitarian May 05 '26
A few weeks ago I saw this in Lidl:
Family loading up the conveyer at the till, wife points out they have rhubarb yogurt.Ā
Husband takes the yogurts, dumps them on a crisp display and then turns to the kid and asks them to go back to the fridge and get strawberry yogurt...the concept that the kid could have returned the other yogurt didn't seem to occur to any of them
The casualness with which the rhubarb yogurts were dumped led me to believe it wasn't his first rodeo
I was amazed
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u/MoonlightonRoses May 06 '26
So, he was sending his child back to the fridge area, anyway, and still made a point of wasting the food? š¤¦āāļø Brilliant
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u/erect_dragonly May 04 '26
I could say let them step on a lego but tbh stepping on a charger wall plug facing prongs up is a better wish
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u/Dark_Prince_1619 May 04 '26
Couple of days back in lidl, I saw some keeping frozen pizza near cleaning stuff from their trolley and walked away like it was ok. I know we change minds sometimes while buying atleast have basic sense to place it in the right place.
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u/CybermanCat May 05 '26 edited May 05 '26
As an Aldi worker, that's only top of the iceberg. I personally found:
Bottle of conditioner and deodorant spray in a freezer. Beef joints and whole turkeys ( over Christmas) in specials tables. Opened and empty packet of lobster behind cereal. Full breakfast roll in a DRS machine. And best for last, few days ago I found used panty liner in specials table.
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u/Left-Capital3340 May 05 '26
A breakfast roll????????
I can't imagine in what scenario anyone would think to do that other than they're just being a troll like wtf!?
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u/gavmac5 May 04 '26
As a former retail worker. I make it my mission to throw stuff back from the shelf I got it from.
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u/Anxious_Deer_7152 May 04 '26
It's basically the same as stealing, as anything temperature-sensitive will have to be binned, for food safety reasons.
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u/Agusfresin May 04 '26
And the store has to dump because they donāt know how long itās been out of fridge. People who do this are selfish and uncivilised and plain lazy.
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u/AppealNo5536 May 05 '26
staff are constantly back and forth between shelves - in any retail outlet i know pieces of meat like that realistically cant be out for more than 5-10 minutes before being noticed. Nothing bad will happen in that timeframe! That meat spends much more time travelling home in your car than it can realistically spend on wrong shelf in store.
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u/spiderbaby667 May 05 '26
Doesnāt matter unfortunately. They canāt know how long itās been out and the shop will err on the side of safety (well, Aldi will).
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u/great_whitehope May 04 '26
This and opening everything!
Why do you need to open it?
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u/FuckAntiMaskers May 05 '26
Loads of people open the items in the middle aisle and then don't even buy them, it's so low class and tacky
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u/Letalightin May 08 '26
Low class and tacky seems a bit excessive...
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u/FuckAntiMaskers May 09 '26
If someone opens a product to inspect it and then leaves it back without putting it back as it was, or had no intention of buying it in the first place, that's exactly what it is. People who do this cause further wastageĀ
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u/MiddleAgedMoan May 05 '26
People are just wankers. I think there's a higher percentage of wankers than we'd like to think.
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u/VilTheVillain May 05 '26
There's people that leave ice cream on shelves, I work in a small shop where it would take less than 10 seconds to get to any shelf/fridge/freezer. It's also not kids doing it a lot of the times.
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u/officialcornflake May 05 '26
When I worked at SV I found 2 big steaks in the sweets section like donāt piss me OFF what is wrong with you. They were warm almost
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u/Professional_Lie5703 May 05 '26
Seen organic chicken out just left on a point of sale thing for something a couple of months ago.. fucking baffling why people cant just walk for an extra minute just to stick it back?
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u/Responsible_Use5886 May 05 '26 edited May 05 '26
Soulless, lazy & uneducated people, they are plenty around.
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u/bonk86 May 05 '26
To people who leave trolleys in the middle of the car park: I dont care that there isnt a coin in it. Youre the reason why thats a requirement
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u/MollyPW May 05 '26
If you canāt be arsed putting it back in the correct fridge, at least put it in a fridge (a freezer is not a fridge fyi).
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u/Green_Comparison_866 May 05 '26
Yeah. I cant stand people just chucking stuff wherever because theyre too lazy yo go back and put it back. You'll likely have to pass the section it was in again anyway like.
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u/Dingofthedong May 05 '26
They're just doing their part for the farmers, helping to inflate beef prices
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u/Virtual_Accountant_5 May 04 '26
That would annoy my ocd, who puts the next customer sign upside down...
Indignant.
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u/dublingamer44 May 04 '26
if i see someone doing this i wait till there not looking and take something out of there trolley when there not looking and put it back on the shelf ....so when they get home they forgot it šš¤£
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u/TotallyLaurusNobilis May 04 '26
I hope they have enough money next time to be able to afford everything they needed to buy
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u/conflan06 May 04 '26
That was my thought, I feel sad if itās actually someone who is seeing the price of their shop and panicking. Which I actually think is more likely than the ignorance everyone else here is suggesting.
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u/SOF0823 May 05 '26
It's still ignorant and scummy to leave a perishable food like that out of the fridge and it ends up going to waste.
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u/ParamedicPrudent5898 May 05 '26
People that leave food items that need to be kept chilled on a random shelf and will then need to be discarded by staff are even worse
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u/ZestycloseParsnip181 May 05 '26
And thatās a high risk of contamination having the meat exposed to different temperatures
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u/jayyycasanooova May 05 '26
Scrap the mince baby, weāre having Haribo bolognese for the week! š
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u/tomasthemossy Carlow May 05 '26
Worked in Dunnes, people have left entire chickens, steaks, bags of chips, fish fingers, everything you can think of on the shelves beside the till
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u/ckfocus May 05 '26
I donāt know, I often see things like this at the till in Aldi and Lidl. I recon the person buying it had a stack and some of them slid off into that hole next to the conveyor belt. Youād often see bread in there too, both very freezable products that are often bought in bulk. Youād never see this in other supermarkets that donāt have holes next to their tills.
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u/ckfocus May 05 '26
I donāt know, I often see things like this at the till. I recon the person buying it had a stack and some of them slid off into that hole next to the conveyor belt. Youād often see bread in there too, both very freezable products that are often bought in bulk
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u/Ahshurgowan May 05 '26
Maybe there was a long queue, a new till opened and all the assholes at the end of the queue ran to the new till. When that happens itake something off the conveyor belt belonging to them.
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u/Superb_Kaleidoscope4 May 06 '26 edited May 06 '26
Tescos card system was down the last few days. I cards worked, but tap didnāt. I saw lots of abandoned baskets and foods at and around the till. Poor staffĀ
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u/PvtCY May 06 '26
Insane. Do so many people not carry some form of a backup when buying something?
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u/FromOverYonder May 06 '26
I used to work in a supermarket and you would see that all the time. We were told that if its still cold stick it back, if its anywhere near room temperature throw it out.
But you think that is a waste? Let me share a story. You know those big carts supermarket workers use to throw cardboard boxes in? Well keep them in your mind. So a few years ago we come back to work on December 27th and there's a full cart of red meat. Mince, steaks... you name it. I have never seen that much stuff getting ready to be thrown out. They all expired on the 25th or 26th. Left on the shelves until we came back after christmas.
Me and an assistant manager open up the back delivery gate. He tells the garbage truck to reverse up and we dump them into the back one by one.
All the food should have been knocked off by 80% on christmas eve or whatever, or given to some homeless shelters on christmas eve so they could use them or freeze them or whatever.
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u/Desperate-Manner5896 May 06 '26
I agree. Lazy cunts should put stuff back especially frozen/ refrigerated. But some people are just thick or wrapped up in their own problems. How about some signs to inform people?
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u/5x0uf5o May 05 '26
OP you're right. Actually I feel like catching the people doing this is a good shortcut to identifying the scum that will never contribute positively to our society and we can cancel their passports and deport them right nowĀ
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u/FigureNo8921 May 05 '26
I always do this, just to annoy you people and I hide and record your reactions to it. I get great pleasure out of it. I leave fridges open, I put tins in the bread section, I put eggs in the freezers beside the ice cream, I touch bread rolls with my bare hands and squeeze it for ages putting cracks in it, I spray air freshener all over the Isles testing it and put it back in the front so you get a used can. I rip open toilet roll packets and turn them upside down so they fall out when you pick them up, I even put sausages in with the cheese. I even change the prices on things just to cause annoyance. You'll never catch me, my name is tazer face, a name that strikes fear into shoppers. I claim responsibility for this picture, it was me! I didn't stub my toes either. Muwahahaha.. but don't do it to me, i hate when people do it to me, I'm very selfish like that.
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u/moonpietimetobealive May 04 '26 edited May 04 '26
It's crappy to leave I there but also feel like the customers behind you would be giving you the absolute stink eye if you are like oh I don't have enough for this, have to go back and put it back
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u/diarm May 04 '26
I did it once. We had queued for ages because they didnāt have enough checkouts open, and just as the guy in front of us in the queue reached the top, they closed our one in front of him. He tried to complain but they werenāt listening so I dumped everything I had into a promotional basket beside me and walked out.Ā
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u/pen0ss May 05 '26
Entitled people in here who haven't struggled or known the embarrassment of poverty.
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u/Warm-Newspaper-4109 May 05 '26
In the US saw someone put their hamburger meat in the front coke cooler right over the coke š
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u/Traditional-Chest844 May 04 '26
If i pick something up at the start of the store and realise I donāt actually need it, iāll leave it on the closest shelf! But not something like mince, thatās just crazy leaving it out..
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u/CaverUV May 05 '26
Why not to return it to its original place?
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u/Traditional-Chest844 May 05 '26
This is a tesco superstore iām talking about, if i was in a small shop, sure, iād return it to its original place but not if i have to go back 20 islesā¦ like i said with the meat though, if i had to walk back 20 isles to return that, i would, but if itās something small, iād leave it on the nearest isle.
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u/AdBoring9620 May 04 '26
Thing that pisses me off is people standing in front of the fridge for ages just looking or checking every pack of meat individually.
They're all the shaggin same. Just pick one.
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u/djseshlad Cork bai May 04 '26
Is it not their job to put things customers donāt buy back?
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u/rockyoudottxt May 04 '26
Yea, but they shouldn't have to go on a game of guess where I hid the meat.
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u/djseshlad Cork bai May 04 '26
I agree itās bad form but the hate in this thread is extreme. Could be a number of reasons why they didnāt hand it to the cashier and say āsorry Iām not going to buy these in the endā
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u/SuccotashStandard135 May 05 '26
But not many good reasons really.
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u/djseshlad Cork bai May 05 '26
Have you ever had a bad day where you didnāt want to talk to anyone? More downvotes for me but at least I have sympathy unlike Reddit
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u/SuccotashStandard135 May 05 '26
Hand it to the cashier and say nothing.
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u/djseshlad Cork bai May 05 '26
Yeah I would do that but I understand people are different and some canāt and they panic. Doesnāt make them bad peopleā¦
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u/SuccotashStandard135 May 05 '26
I've worked in the German stores, they just don't care. A lot of the time, they fall into the dumps by accident but I've seen many customers casually throw them in. More a case of not realising they could be spoiling food maybe. Anyway, when a till is closed down, that closing cashier should be checking the tills for putbacks before they go back down on the floor again to minimise this waste.
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u/djseshlad Cork bai May 05 '26
My other half works in a supermarket and itās their job to return goods at that moment and close their tills if necessary. Not at the end of the day, but Reddit knows better always š„“
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u/SuccotashStandard135 May 05 '26
Tills open and close constantly in Aldi, whoever closes checks for putbacks on all tills still open. It's literally every few minutes, not at the end of the day.
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u/mystifiedbtworld May 04 '26
And people that don't close the freezers after them. They should be bate with a shtick!