/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>12052051
Just buy mesh bags and reuse them
You get the quarter back if you put your cart back and aren't a nigger who leaves it in the middle of the parking lot

I don't even shop at Aldis but come on bro

>>12052072
>You get the quarter back if you put your cart back and aren't a nigger who leaves it in the middle of the parking lot

I once made $5.25 by collecting the Aldi carts lazy nigs left in the parking lot

>>12052082
Based homeless man

>>12052051
You should be using cloth bags dumbass. Also you get the quarter back when you put your cart back.

>>12052051
the point of putting a quarter into a shopping cart is to ensure you put it back where you got it. never been to an aldi's because they don't have them in my country, but i'm assuming they don't hire cart pushers to save on costs. stop being a nigger.

anyone else here just take the paper bags
cashier doesnt do shit lol

>>12052051
hopefully they'll charge your fat arse a dollar to use the mobility scooter
return the trolley and click it into the other one to get your quarter back you fucking animal

>>12052082
At my Aldi people put the carts back but don't actually link them together to get their quarter back. I like it, it's like getting a little tip for not being a dumbass.

>>12052051
>What's next, 10 cents to use the bathroom?
You wouldn't believe it, but in Europe they actually charge people a Euro or two to use public restrooms, its ridiculous

>>12052108
>You should be using cloth bags dumbass
cloth bags are the fucking worst for bagging, not enough structure and always end gross super fast

>>12052206
You’re supposed to wash them once a week or so.

>>12052206
>not enough structure
They literally fold out into a nice rectangle which is perfect for bagging nearly anything but bananas. You're a fucking autist who can't into shapes probably.

Where I am they've banned those lightweight shopping bags so if you forget to bring your cloth bags they sell you these thick plastic ones that you're supposed to reuse but you don't because they're still nasty. So now I have all these thick-ass plastic bags lying where before I had these thin ones I could use as garbage bags AND I have to buy fucking garbage bags.

>>12052198
Are they at least clean?

>>12052229
oh great, just what I want, another load of laundry

>>12052238
a small percent of them are well designed and hold structure, but the vast majority of cloth bags are utter trash

>>12052249
I guess I don't have a lot of experience with different types of cloth bags. Most of mine are from Stater Bros. and theirs are pretty damn good.

>>12052254
I was a grocery store cashier in High School so I got plenty of experience with all sorts of bags. Cloth bags were almost never as good for bagging as regular paper or plastic bags. I definitely don't doubt that good reusable bags exist, its just that they are very rare

>>12052268
I too have worked grocery and checking and I always liked bagging in cloth bags the most since they held the most.
The only time they were inconvenient was when it was a 90 year old woman who would ask for a single item per bag and you had to use her 400,000 bags for her order.

>>12052198

I like it, a public bathroom niggers and druggies can't use might actually be usable. In before pay-toilets become "racist" and they crumple immediately to the pressure, leaving them to become where mudslime guys suck each other off and do heroin.

>>12052292
like 90% of cloth bags are from sickly super thin vegan women that specifically request light bagging

I liked using plastic by far the best

>>12052300
I have literally never had a problem with drug addicts in a public bathroom

>>12052310

must live someplace nice, then

>>12052268
>"Paper in plastic. Put the paper bag INSIDE the plastic bag!"

>>12052051
im still mind fucked that aldi owns trader joes desu

>>12052082
Based Tom Hanks

>>12052412
I cannot fucking wait for the Boomers to start dying off.

>>12052051
>>charges you 25 cents for a shopping cart

Actually they are selling you a shopping cart for 25 cents, you can choose to return the cart or keep the cart.

This has literally never happened to me are you all just Californians?

>>12052051
I don't even use a bag.
I just load it into my cart and then put it directly into my vehicle.
If I have a lot of little items, I have this big light net mesh clothes sack I can put everything in and make one trip.

>>12052051
>>12052082
>25 cents cart deposit
In Germany it's 1€, but people always return their carts anyway. What kind of lazy and entitled person thinks he should just be allowed to make a mess and not clean it up?

>>12052268
I've been reusing two bags for more than 5 years now, proper mesh bags are great and only a dollar here.

>>12052110
>>12052072
Is it weird that for me as a germany these carts are the most normal thing in the world?

>>12052051
fucking eurohomo scum I don't even shop there I just fuck of their carts for fun

>>12053446
>german subhumans can't be trusted unless you make them sacrifice money

Meanwhile in the US I have never seen a disorderly cart corral. Americans are much more moral than the subhuman germans clearly, and you don't need to threaten them with a down payment to do it.

>>12053738
hahaha you only do this cause you're afraid you get shot bootlicker

>>12053710
It’s not, for Germany. The system is virtually unheard of in America though, and no stores other than Aldi use it. The norm in America is simply to have sections in of the parking lot reserved as “cart returns” and send an employee out every couple hours to “corall” the carts and bring them back up to the front of the store. Honestly the German system makes a fuckton more sense but Americans expect employees in retail and service industries to do basically everything for them. Not getting their groceries bagged for them is literally a foreign concept. Nice Americans will tell you it’s no problem and do stuff themselves, but there’s a lot of rude and lazy Americans out there.
>t. Aldi US employee

>>12052310
when i worked at a public library, there was someone unconscious or dead from an OD in the toilets at least weekly
this was in the white part of suburban DC, so make of that what you will

I always tell the workers at mine that "work shall set you free"

teehee

>>12052051
Here in the UK single use bags are outlawed and you get imprisoned if you dont bring reusable bags

Jews know

>>12052244
bro fuck off you're actually such a retard there is no way one or two cloth bags will be the tipping point

>>12052198
>>>12052051 (OP)
>>What's next, 10 cents to use the bathroom?
>You wouldn't believe it, but in Europe they actually charge people a Euro or two to use public restrooms, its ridiculous
This simply has not been a practice in the US in 20 years. You used to see it in high traffic areas like train stations or museums. When you go to a nightclub where I guess there's drunk people or drug users, sometimes there is a bathroom attendant that doles out toilet paper, or goes into stalls after each guest to clean up. They'll have a bowl out for tips as a courtesy and usually have about 400 bottles of perfume, packs of gum and other crap people might be encouraged to use in order that they feel obligated to give a tip.
In the US, there's some kind of laws with food service and bathrooms. You can't have a restaurant without some kind of access to bathrooms with sinks to wash hands freely. There's never this "it's for employees only" or "customer's only" kind of nonsense because you'd want to clean up and wash before even ordering. It could even be from handicapped laws to make them accessible. who knows?

But, you do see pay restricted stalls all the time in Europe esp in tourist areas mobbed by people with actual bathroom lines. I guess businesses are getting some funds for toilet paper and water bills. They might dole out codes on receipts like other people do with WiFi passwords. In fact, when traveling in some cities, you need to think ahead about where you'll be using the bathroom and absolutely use it everywhere you are a customer, like all meals. I think about buying drinks just to become a customer somewhere. It's the single only reason I usually ever walk into a McDonald's where you know the bathrooms will be american style normalcy with actual normal toilets, stalls, normal sinks, tissue dispensers, and all. I still bring tissues in my bag, just in case.

I used to go into Starbucks in the US, but their bathrooms are homelessness now.

aldi is fine in my cunt, but FUCK old people and FUCK early pensioners that are so fucking retarded they think they are allowed to take the shopping cards home like holy fucking shit dont buy a metric ton of groceries if you cant get it home you actual fucking piece of shit and fuck off i dont wanna see a shopping card in random gardens and on the sidewalk like how is there not a 1000$ fine for loitering that shit

>>12053778
You say that about everything, and that everything adds up to a mound of bullshit. If it's no big deal then you can do it all for me.

>>12053787
who is 'you'? like fuck off, you have a laundry pile or a laundry bag that you can just throw it in and this isn't like calories or gas money, it's not something that 'mounds up'

>>12053745

30 + years ago the system in the US midwest was that the shopping carts never left the grocery store.

The carts were in their own room right where you entered the grocery.

Go through and shop

At checkout your bagged groceries were put in a tall shelved rolling rack with a number.

You were given a large plastic tag with this number as your groceries where wheeled away by an employee through some double doors

You'd leave the store with only this tag, go out to your car and bring your car around to the covered loading area at the side of the grocery where you'd give the attendant your number tag, they'd bring out the rack holding your groceries and you could either load your own car, or they could load your groceries into your car for a tip.

This system of grocery'ing went away, and now we have carts down ravines, off the side of the highways, and shopping-cart retrieval employees getting hit by cars in the parking lots.

Amusingly the new Kroger "pick click" system seems a lot like the old system

>>12053808
Publix still does it right.
I enjoy that I can park there without any carts sailed into the paint of my wide-spaced, angle parked car. If it's raining, no problem, I can drive right off, and the bag boy is gonna take care of holding an umbrella for me.

>>12053741
>german calling anyone a bootlicker
now put the euro in the basket ackmed

please send elderberry stuff to Texas ALDIs. Can only find the stuff at Ikea

I honestly feel bad for the kids who have to go out and get buggies from the corals in the parking lot. I had this job when I was 16 and I don't remember it sucking as bad as it looks today.

Mainly due to people who use those faggy little "mini-carts" and leave them in the corals. You only have about 3-4 bags if you're using those things, so why bother wheeling out your groceries? Now the poor fuck has to pull out six regular buggies just to get out the one mini, then get the three regular ones and make a separate trip to go back and get the minis because you can't stack them in a row with the regular ones. That has to be a major pain in the ass.

Don’t Eurofags already pay for public bathrooms?

>>12053857
Pretty much. On every street corner there is a grandma with a bucket. Piss for free. (I actually tip them)

>>12052051
You’re supposed to go to the box cage and take some out to carry your stuff with

>>12053857
Only idiots. Just walk into any restaurant/bar/pub/cinema/museum and go to the fucking toilet.

>>12053816
I’m still gonna key your car if you park like that.

>>12052082
In Australia it's a dollar to use the cart. You could probably make a lot of money here putting the carts back.

>>12052502
The boomers were bad but zoomers are going to ruin the west entirely.

>>12053978
Fake and gay

>>12053738
>no disorderly cart corral
you are a fucking liar

>>12053869
That’s kind of you anon but you are still paying to use the bathroom even if it’s completely voluntary

>paying money to do someone's job for them
>paying money for paper
never heard of this shithole, is this in the third world?

>>12052051
That's good. Less pollution.
I live next to some white negros who bring those carts all the way home and plant them in the street here. Fucking assholes. This used to be a nice neighborhood.

>>12052198
it's based it keeps the homless and french out

>>12053738
You either live in the friendliest neighborhood in the world or you are completely full of fucking shit.

>>12053785
This

>>12053823
can't understand you with that sole on your tongue m8

>>12054645
It's probably true because in my whitetrash town people are too lazy to walk the cart to the corral and just leave the carts strewn about the parking lot so the cart corral is always empty and never disordered.

>>12054575
>Less pollution
soy

>>12052051
you get the quarter back when you return the cart
bring reusable bags

>>12052051
Wasn’t aldi supposed to be the cheap no-bullshit store? Now they all look like whole food ripoffs and everything is almost as expensive as regular sores

>>12054837
it was
till people started to post articles about how cheap and wonderful Aldi is
thus attracting suburban soccer moms
and since they don't wanna go to the ghettos for Aldi
they gotta build them in the suburbs and tailor them to the sensitivity of suburban moms

>>12054863
fuck that, i remember all my aldis having 70s yellow tiled floors and woodpaneled walls but who gave a fuck, i could get milk for 1.50 and bread for 1.25 and eggs for 90cents.
Now I go there and its all LED lighting, buzzwords all over the walls and prices that are nearly un-competitive anymore for shit brands like mama cozzi.

>>12054937
My aldi’s is still a good deal. Do you live in California or something?

>>12055167
chicago

>>12054937
> i could get milk for 1.50 and bread for 1.25 and eggs for 90cents.
Are those supposed to be good prices

>>12054740
>this is your brain on /pol/
oh great, I'll dump all my garbage where you live. You seem to enjoy it.

>>12053741
>Americans are the bootlickers
>Says the fag tidying up shopping carts for a megacorporation

>>12055210
weak bait

>>12052051
>paying for bags
>not using boxes

>>12055491
Coastal cuckold detected

just get a box and take the quarter out with pliers and leave the cart on the road

>>12055517
this. if you can't simply take a box from one of the shelves and be a man, you deserve to get taxed $4 every time you shop

>>12052082
>>12052104
I kek'd.

Considering the size of my Aldi's that would be about 15 USD/hr. Also, I'm a single male. I can carry groceries out. How much do you guys consume?

>>12055885
around $20 a week for groceries - $50 at the most for special occasions.

>>12052051

I got a bunch of reusable bags and i'm not a sperg and always put carts where they belong because i'm not some lazy fuck who enjoys damaging cars. Aldi is pretty good for some basics and some canned goods. It's in my route when I do groceries and will remain that way. Lower prices on some goods than Walmart without all the Walmart.

>>12053978
that's actually incredibly based of her.

>>12052051
It's a German chain, so the charging you for random shit policy comes from Germany.

They also charge to use the restroom in Germany, so I'm kind of surprised Aldi doesn't charge to use the bathroom.

>>12052051
Quit being so poor and you can shop at a grocery store that doesn't nickel and dime you.

>>12052198
And it's fucking based because niggers don't use them

>>12052300
>>12052310
>>12059095
All it takes is a homeless guy to find 50 cents once and destroy the bathroom out of spite by shitty everywhere

>>12052051
ALDI employee here.

Jesus christ you can bring your own bags or use the ones you buy again.

You get the quarter back at the end and if you don't have a quarter you can just come in and ask the cashier and they'll let you have one.

Half the comments I get are from smoothbrained old people like "Well I never done had to pay for a buggy in all my dern life".

I hate my job

>>12052051
The 80s were a truly wonderful time in the US. At Lucky's market the cart return area would thank you for doing so with a coupon for a free big mac.

>>12052082
someone post that burger king webm from The Terminal

I love Germany for bringing aldi to the burger land.

>>12052051
I'm a cashier at a grocery store and I don't charge people for bags unless you're an asshole, then I'll charge you for as many as you take + one more

>>12053808
>and shopping-cart retrieval employees getting hit by cars in the parking lots.
If they would stop staring at their phones as they made minimum wage it wouldn't happen so often.

>>12052051
Who the fuck uses a bathroom in a supermarket?

>>12052198
Do they have the guy who hands you towels and stuff?

>>12053745
Here in aus literally no one uses the aldi carts. We just grab another store's cart from the car park cart return. They have all these pay carts sitting untouched outside the store.

What is there to buy at Aldi besides Ramen in bulk? It's basically poverty Trader Joe's

>>12062204
Depends on the region. Sometimes meat is pretty good.

>>12062204
By American standards, an efficient grocery shopping trip. TJ and Aldi’s are owned by the same company.

>>12059321
This, it doesn't fucking work. They don't even have to pay for it if they're smart.

Once had to shit real bad so I paid to get in one and what do I see, two gypsies doing drugs frantically trying to close the auto-opening door. They didn't pay, they just sneaked in after someone else had used the loo.

Ended up rushing inside a pub asking to use the bathroom, it didn't even have a toilet seat but I had no other option.

>>12062103
What the fuck aldi stores are you shopping at? I have 4 stores in my local area and 3 of them are basically stand alone stores or in a small shopping centre with no other store that needs big trolleys, and the 4th is inside a huge shopping centre but it's on the other side of the place to the woolies so you have to use their carts unless you've got some from the woolies first, in which case why the fuck are you shopping at both stores.

>>12062204
Staples.
Oil, flour, beans, frozen vegetables, etc.

>>12052051
Fuck you, Aldi's is comfy as fuck

At my Aldi's people are nicer than Walmart plebs, and they always push back their cart, no matter what size, color, gender, or religion, everyone that shops at Aldi's is nice.

>>12053710
leaf nigger here, every store uses the coin carts basically

>>12062204
What can't you get at aldi?

>>12053854
it is trust me it is, and then sometimes fuckers leave the like carts for little kids with cars and stuff in the corrals too which is also miserable

>>12062601
not much besides AIDS maybe

>wheel groceries out to my car
>take everything out and put it in my trunk
>cart corral is far away
>give it a strong shove in the general direction
>it veers to one direction
>smashes hard into someone’s car
>leave

>>12062397
>auto-opening door.
A bathroom door?
Explain.

>>12053446
There's one Lidl I frequent where people often take the cart otuside the premises to the bus stop a few hundred meters away, and leave it there. They had to put signs that you may not take the cart outside property area. It still happens.

That area has lots of people with higher than average melanin levels. And drunks. And drug addicts. It's acceptably safe because of high traffic and good visibility, but I would never live in that area.
The only reason I go to that Lidl is convenience, it's halfway between work and home.

>>12053446
>In Germany it's 1€

50 cent coin works too.

>>12052051
fucku=ing libertarians can't handle fucking any part of modern human life.

>>12052051
Inferior Aldi

>>12053854
Fucking cuck carts

>>12052198

they're pretty awesome, as some other anons have said it keeps the malcontent away.

primarily, i like them because i've seen a few girls do pee dances, and they idea of them ending up with wet panties because they didnt have loose coins is literally the best fetish.

>>12064407
Based wet panty fetish anon. I know the feels

>>12053738
I live in the US and I see carts left 10 feet away from the corral.

>Aldi
>Bathroom
doubt.jpg
Can Americans not hold it in for 5 minutes so they need a bathroom at the supermarket?

>>12064644
shart in mart is a meme for a reason

>>12064644
Diabetes, an amerilard national emergency (lol), requires frequent pissing.

>>12064644
>doubt.jpg
>Can Americans not hold it in for 5 minutes so they need a bathroom at the supermarket?

American law mandates that all places open to the public have a public restroom and a free to use water drinking fountain.

>>12064644
Almost all businesses in America have bathrooms as a courtesy to guests. We're sorry you're so backwards. Also, probably this >>12064950

I always return the cart and leave the quarter, unless someone intercepts me in the parking lot and gives me a quarter for it. One time someone chased me down to return the quarter I left. Why are ALDI shoppers so nice?

>>12052051
are you retarded? 25 cents you can get when you return the cart. 7 cents kills you for a bag? fucking retard complaining about pennies...

>>12052412
Worked at a liquor store and fucking boomers would make me do this all the time, because it was "stronger" that way. But then would have me take out the second plastic bag since I always double bagged everything.

Just find an empty isle to shit in

>>12059005
Aldis in Germany don't have public restrooms at all. But we don't shit ourselves every couple of hours either, for lack of fat absorption blocking obesity "medication"

>>12063095
My guess its one of those bathrooms with multiple stalls and urinals.

>>12062361
>TJ and Aldi’s are owned by the same company.

stop fucking saying this
it is not true
stop being an asshole

>>12058968
oof, shockingly cringe.

LOL, who shops anywhere other than Trader Joe's and Whole Foods.
There are a bunch of FUCKING MORONS in this thread lol.

>>12053446
>What kind of lazy and entitled person thinks he should just be allowed to make a mess and not clean it up?

>>12068801
I don’t want to be stuck in a parking lot with crazed soccer moms.

>>12055511
good man

>>12061943
who would shart in a mart?

aldi is the first classless grocery store, which means the poor feel out of their element and don't stir anything up, while the rich shop elsewhere and don't drive up prices

>>12053808
Whole Foods in SF, on California ST used to do this. they probably still do, but i haven't been to that particular store since they started sprouting up all over the city

>>12052051
I acutally bought two of the insulated bags, and now I'm wondering what the fuck I'm going to do with them. I forget to bring them most of the time, and 1 is usually enough for a trip to the store.

>>12069499
kek
backstory on this??

>>12053446
>What kind of lazy and entitled person thinks he should just be allowed to make a mess and not clean it up

>>12059675
>a buggy

>>12068801
>whole foods instead of Costco
G8 b8 8.8

>>12073935
yes I know I say cart but these fking hillbillies yelling "CLEETUS GET BILLY OUT THE BUGGY" has metastasized in my brain

>>12053446
You know what kind of person, Germany. You know. One day you'll think of a solution.

>>12073948
>not Wegmans

>>12073922
is that wegmans?

>>12052082
They're not wasting their time for a quarter, and you're doing menial labour. Who's the real nig?

>>12053446
>>12069499
>>12073989
how can you blame black and muslim when we all know that stressed karens and retards that drive huge trucks are the ones to blame here

>>12074371
>They're not wasting their time for a quarter, and you're doing menial labour. Who's the real nig?

>collect carts lazy nigs won't return for da quarter
> guy makes $5.25 for less than 10 minutes of labor
>that's a $315 an hour wage
/ck/ hates him

This is a example of how poor people stay poor and industrious people get rich.

>>12052198
what the fuck, not at ALDI
I work there, anyone can use the bathroom they just gotta ask

>>12052453
I mean, you gotta realise theres two different ALDIs, and the American ALDI is sueing the one that owns Trader Joes

>>12064111
Agreed, also nice trips

>>12067937
what the frick, the ones in Denmark does

>>12068597
ya TJ Is owned by ALDI, but not the one Americans would know

>>12052051
Their sardines are fucking disgusting

>>12073137
Based, but
>new logo

>>12074243
In Columbia, MD

>>12052051

You are ignoring the fact that you can walk in there and leave with a week's worth of groceries for like $3

I thought you were joking but it's actually real

>>12076072
It's $68 bucks maybe more or less $40 cheaper than what I usually pay

>>12052082
I'm ashamed of the rest of the world right now. My burger Walshart parking lot never has carts out, despite the shitskins and no incentive to put them away.
Maybe because we revere the automobile.
Based Henry Ford tried to save us from the Jew menace, after all.

>>12071898
I know it's trite but literally niggers.

>>12075288
>second part of the logo looks like an E
ANGLO'D

>>12073922
>a cart not in the corral at Wegmans
Affirmative action was a mistake.

>>12068801
>Whole Foods
stop pushing adverts through my letterbox, cunt.

>>12077389
>ALDI
>A
Whole thing was anglo'd from the start

If you have access to metal working equipment you can slice down some cheap steel round stock that's the same diameter as a quarter and now you got some "quarters" that only cost a couple cents a piece. Makes shopping easier at Aldi cause all you gotta do is huck the cart over the curb and into the ditch instead of walking all the way back for 25 lousy cents.

Also works good for laundromats with older machines and those kiosk at the mall that sell candy / gum.

Had to pay to use the bathroom in Thailand. Disgusting country.

supermarket general?

why are people so rude when youre comparing items to pick out item they fucking get right up next to you so you can't choose. wait till i choose my item you fucks

>>12078232
>some dork is taking 10 minutes choosing between Cocoa and Fruity pebbles
>I reach in and grab a box of fruity pebbles during his crisis of faith
>dork’s face contorts in anger and confusion
its a supermarket what do you expect

>>12053738
You've never gone past 6 mile radius of your 97% Mormon community in Utah?

>>12053770
You also need a bag licence

>>12077696
Dude just put a quarter in the cart and bring it back. You get the damned thing back.

>>12075207
>beg on streets
>get money for doing nothing
but people still don't for some reason??

>>12075127
cucks can't keep nigs out of their heads

>>12052198
Europe once again proves it is a complete and total shithole.

>>12052198
What a fucking shithole of a continent.

>>12053738
>what is snow?

>>12080176
>baby don’t freeze me

>>12052051
>rollercoaster tycoon bullshit
kek

>>12075282
All of their canned meat is shit quality, I got some canned chicken to experiment with and it was like 1 bite's worth of meat particles suspended in cloudy water.

>>12052051
>rollercoaster tycoon bullshit