Bro I actually have a list when my Aldi has the fastest cashiers working, means no Wednesday grocery shopping because they know the bread code and everything 💀
They know their codes? Usually it's me who knows the codes. I help them! Like sometimes they need the code for cola and only cola for somereason lol. Bread is understandable, you can't stick a barcode onto it
When I visited a really nice elderly man showed me some tips while we shopped and he recommended starting with the individual veggies so the cashier can get it over with and also give time to load up the conveyor for convenience on both ends.
@@tanelehala6422 That used to be the case everywhere in Germany, but our discount-cashiers are so OP that the discount-supermarkets have mostly changed it to those items being typed in at the checkout, so customers won't block the narrow isles waiting for their turn at the scales (and to keep people from cheating by lifting the bag or something). However, some cashiers are so OP, they are hardly slowed down by even that obstacle at all!
@@JuMiKuMore scales. Lifting doesnt work but you could weight the stuff and put extra after that. But that would be stealing, and not very profitable stealing
I worked at ALDI and LIDL in Germany and, at least at ALDI, we need to get a number of items scanned per hour. If not the management will have a talk with you. It is very hard to keep the balance. But I can cornfirm PLU items will slow you down, especially when you have to enter many different items. Also they sometimes test you with a "test costumer", who will hide products, place two different products in one bag and more, only to test your accuracy. You will have a problem when you failed twice.
Yeah I've worked at Aldi in NL and we also had the speed thing but it was more like a guideline because my fellow temp employee was the son of the store manager and he was slow af but they wouldn't fire him so as long as you were faster than him you were good 😅
@@LivingTheMusicLife thats how it is with these "vitamin b" - relationship (having a relative in the position, who either got you the job or who is treating you better..) Or even both lol
@@majibento if it was only speed that mattered. They jugde the quality too. Like if you have two almost identical looking items, but they run under different EAN numbers (so basically two different items). And you scan one of them twice you would cause a difference in the inventory. And thats what gets you in trouble too (if you do this to a test costumer). Normal costumers do this too and complain "its the same price" but the management wouldnt know it was you.
@@LivingTheMusicLife Omg yes! One of my coworkers was a contestant in a national tv show, and everybody (except for me) apparently watched that show and he was slow AFFFFF. Talking to everybody and making plans and following each other on Insta. They couldn't fire him 😂
European here. Whenever I go back to Northern Europe I feel I’m in a race to to place the items on the belt and bag them at the same time. My American husband stands there in confusion as to why I’m in such a damn hurry. There should be a special event for this in the olympics.
So just place the sensitive tomatoes next to the hard can goods? What if he bags them in the same bag.... Okay, yeah i know you germans bag your own groceries.
@Fenseher is this true everywhere? I'm new here, but in every supermarket I've been to, I have to put them in covers and weigh them in machines in the vegetable aisle beforehand, that generates a sticker I should attach that the cashier just scans like normal
@Fenseher You weigh.... BREAD!!! why?!?! Bread is such a basic food that has more or less consistent weight. Its a man made good. I understand variable weighted items like meats and plants they grow up in life and have different weights by the time they get sold at the market. But BREAD?!?! Its a baked good like cookies, brownies, cakes, etc. The baker can set the price by the TYPE of baked good. Germany is weird. I love it, but you guys just got bumped down from 100% cool to 99% cool.
Here is a short guide from memory: So you want to outperform a cashier, first of all the obvious make sure you have the dividers Bothe ahead and behind you some May try leavomg those Out hoping the cashier would ask however they are pros IT IS far more reliable to Just usw dividers. Also obviously make sure you Put all your items in the Arena. Furthermore place grocery items in Intervalls Not jusr on the end. IT can really kill morale when there are ONLY 2 items left and you are Not even halfway done. Additionally don't group items so If you buy 3 bags of Rice one in the Front one in the middle and on in the Back groups of 2 are fine. When Packung your Things i prefer to Go for the slow and safe Others Like to Go fast honestly Just do what Is comfortable to you and Note your time used. Pay in Cash with the largest bill you have and don't useChange. Lastly: Focus on improvement and don't get hung Up on failures. These are Professionals you aren't expected to Win but you can learn and do better next time.
You bag after you left the register. I always bag at my car for example. Furthermore, there are areas after the register where you can bag without stress.
I live in France but this is what shopping at ALDI is like 😅 Theyre in a rush to finish with you at the till so they can go black to shocking shelves, cleaning or whatever whatever else. Poor employees... Squeezed like lemons as we say
Aldi in the US is the same. So much pressure! I always feel inconsiderate and slow as I use the credit machine, even though I don’t control the speed of their connection to the internet.
Aldi in Australia is the same. We're told to chuck everything back into the trolley and bag it at the Magical Bagging Bench on our way out the door. Ikea also has this tendency...
German here... Always put buns/bagels/bread roll at the end. Also at the end, put all fruits/vegetables which need to get weighed. This slows them down as well :-) Or just go to Edeka :D
I remember when we visited germany that they actually did scan them on a speed of like its life death game, but it didnt bother me because Finlands cashiers do the kinda same thing. And the funniest thing is that in lidl they need to type it on their own so its always hilarious to watch them try to figure the item out like a seed bagel
my sis be like lol she worked at a Lidl once and was so tired one day that she was struggling to identify the "loose" items. so there was this woman with a loose celery root or something, and she literally just gave up and went: "is that cabbage or ...😑😮💨" and the lady was like: "not sure🤨?" so they both just stood there for a minute like 🤔🧐🤌🥦
Completely the opposite in Romania. I recently went back on holiday and I nearly had a mental breakdown at the supermarket. The cashier was taking her sweet time that I couldn't help but think that in Germany I would have already been on my way home from how much it took her to scan the items of the only person ahead of me.
I mean there is a menu, but it is a pain to find the bread on the list. I still remember the almost all of the bread after 2 years😅 I am a fast cashier in my opinion, but I do try to match the pace of my customer. I am there all day so customers that are in a hurry are not my problem, just go to the self checkout or I’ll call another cashier to open up
@@floraflowers really depends on the store and cashier. At Aldi it's always really fast, but at Rewe or Edeka, mostly the elder cashiers are veeery slow. But I'd prefer way too fast over way too slow anytime. Bc if they're too fast, I don't care, I just take the time I need and not stress just to save a few seconds. I don't slow it down either, but I don't act like I'm a robot, but an actual human being haha
And then there are the boss-level cashiers. Those who know all the numbers and names of the items instantly and type them in light speed :D Then you have to begin to load your items on top of each other, so they have it more difficult to grab them haha
@@MeVSGravity1 Exactly, if you don't turn it around, they will have memorized the content from one gaze across the whole market and pre-entered it as soon as the client before you is done paying.
@@TheHimbeerjoghurtthe same cashier is still around, attending to self checkouts and helping out with problems. Kaufland I go to has 6 self checkouts and there's always someone sitting there, and shopping is now EXTREMELY fast, because there's barely any line to wait
I was recently in Germany, I found the cashier's speed perfectly normal, compared to the speed in my country. During the trip, I almost lost it when I asked a DB conductor if he spoke English and he responded exactly like Liam's character: "just a little bit" 😂
@@lucyk.5163 Then you shouldn't go shopping in germany plz! One possibility is to join a so called Einkaufsgemeinschaft. That way you wont be shouted at in the supermarket. But it is the only way 😢
@@lucyk.5163 What about going with a friend, parent, grandparent, sibling? Well, if you have any and they live close by... I live in sweden but anyway, the cashiers are pretty quick here too... I more often than not go with my mom actually! (She lives alone now too since I moved).
My dad doesn't give af, he takes his sweet time packing everything in the shopping bags strategically. Not until the last item is placed perfectly in the bag does he take out his wallet to pay😅
As a German, I did a 4 week work placement in a supermarket and worked my 1st week as a cashier. This shit was uncomfortable af. People don't apply etiquettes (scannable codes) on their bags because they didn't weigh this shit and then they look at you furiously because you don't fucking pull the number out of your ass root. So you basically look through the big ass book and can't find the stupid number and you finally make a call to the office in the supermarket where they tell you the number. Some mfs also have tons of discount codes and look at you with this goblin grin while a 10m row is waiting behind them. Other mfs want cashback and you have to sign this shit and it's a ton of paper work sometimes. Old people are getting so mad for no reason. They don't have to fucking work anymore and can't weigh stuff and expect you to be Lightning McQueen. It's a job that makes you feel stupid af sometimes. Experienced lots of unfriendly customers at the info gate. Employees making sexual comments about big booty mommas while being a father as he told me. Some people there are weird af and you experience funny shit. A homeless guy basically emptied a hole palette of water to convert it into deposit money (0,25€/bottle). Hood language I know. It just triggered my summer trauma from last year.
i'm a cashier, and literally yesterday this happened to me: (premise: 90% of customers don't even greet, and that gets particularly annoying after a while) me: "good morning" customer: "..." he needs to pay €14,53, and proceeds to give me a €50 banknote "won't you maybe happen to have a €5 banknote?" "i need it" "well, i don't have any left" "i said i need it, also i'm not the one with a constant supply of cash" "ok see you again (in hell)" if i were a more outspoken person, i'd have told him "what i do have is coworkers who are busy doing their own and it's not like i can constantly annoy them with me needing more cash because of people like you"
Bro, I feel you LOL I worked as an attendant for an ice cream company up until recently to get out because they squeezed their employees like lemons, all things are related to my experience, I've got some trauma from those kinds of jobs though LOL
What an inspirational video. I loved the moment when the German guy said "It's shopping time" and proceeded to shop all over the place. Truly one of the shorts ever made!
That's a worldwide thing, it's rare to find a receptionist who's not forgotten her job as a Frontline customer service person rather than a robot, it's the management and lack of work ethics from the company that make them this way, some are just b****** 😂😂😂😂
@@anima00789 no, can't relate to that, where I come from and they places I've been before the receptionists are usually very nice, or they talk to you to tell you to wait while they're busy and not just ignore your presence, Germany was a shock to me at the beginning
At this point I am just punching down the like button as soon as my brain registers that it is one of your shorts. Approved unseen bc to me you are a German already. Thank you for exposing us to the world with this huge amount of love in your heart. Weitermachen!
Yah, it's the in-joke about how Germans do not usually show emotion in public. Or speak loudly if at all, especially to strangers without a very good reason. They will LOOK at you, STARE at everyone else, especially if there is something, ANYTHING unusual, but "no reaction" is the default (other than intense but "polite" eye-lasers/eye-movement, haha)
It's true, you have to be strategic about the order of your items on the belt. And about picking left-handed or right-handed registers, so you can move that stuff back into your cart quickly.
It becomes even more funny if the bread looks totally different in the register pictures. and the worst part of it all: the other cashiers themselves don't even know what bread type something is. while i, an apprentice, remembered most of the bread, bun, sweets and snack numbers.
@@ICantSplel and then, you ask the customer what type of bread it is. and they don't know the different bread types themselves but the price, instead. the problem is: the brown sourdough bread and the white sourdough bread have the same price.
I'm German and I must admit: yes, it is exactly like this! :D The sick thing about it is, that YOU'RE ALWAYS THE ONE thinking: oh man if I don't keep up with the cashier's speed, everyone in the line will be pissed at me...
I just put all the well/safely packed (already dead) not destroyable items first. So i can put them away fast. Things like Bananas, lettuce, avocados and eggs at the end so they don't get squeezed. Being organized helps a lot to go with the flow calmly 🍵😌
Yeah you kind of have to do that, even if you let people with only a few items go ahead in line, it still seems like nothing makes a cashier happier than a fast customer who also responds in genuine friendly way to whatever they say (NO SMILING ALLOWED, but "thanks" or "have a nice day/afternoon/whatever" seem to be acceptable... they say it, you say "thanks" or "you too"... but you better not slow down to talk, hehe. GTFO of the way for the next person ASAP or you can FEEL the blank faces projecting Frown Energy LOL
@@sumi3000 see 😁💡, thank you. Now I understand why I always use a shopping cart. Even when I just need a few items. I need my hands free. And the cart to hold my bag. Now I no longer think of it and just grab one without asking myself why do I need one when buying so little. Good to know. Have a nice day 😁
That’s just…. So true omg 😭😂 I am a trainee shop assistant in Germany and sometimes I’m a bit too fast…. Well the best way to slow me down is with vegetables or bread 🥲👍
Große Sachen zuerst aufs Band und dann immer kleiner werden. So auch in den Wagen legen. Das passt meistens so. Dann an den Taschenbänken gemütlich alles in den Rucksack packen:P
The Icelandics are like this too. I was actually sweating when the guy scanned all my stuff in an instant and I was holding up the line asking to buy bags.
@@ZT_Performance Ya, it's crazy the difference from US to DE. i've worked on a package-shipping-company conveyor-belt where they unload pick-ups to be re-loaded for shipping to another center or airport and it's a similar feel... management is always like SCAN FASTER, LOAD FASTER, WHY IS THE BELT NOT MOVING?! (it is slam-full so the human loaders are having trouble building the perfect walls of boxes inside the trailer that you told them they must do, meanwhile scanning every box as it enters, or the guy who manually pulls the box off the moving belt and transfers it to the rollers into that trailer is also sorting by eye and scanning anything that goes by, or jammed up somewhere physically). Problem is the union contracts often mean the workers are part time and paid hourly while management is totally the opposite. Battle every day LoL, but it could be seen as getting paid to work out, and actually helped prepare me for German grocery check-out (i swear i wouldn't have survived the humiliation without being fast at packing & sorting).
@@eadred9164i think the reason why they are locked is bc people could easily steal them if they arent but restrooms with a toll are bs 100% agree with you there they need to be banished into the shadow realm along with paper straws, bagless vacuum cleaners and pineapple pizza.
I actually always get so stressed when I go grocery shopping especially when I buy a lot of things because I never manage to pack them in time and then there’s just a line of people waiting impatiently and the annoyed cashier 😭 I just end up half stuffing it into bag and carrying it in my hands to some other places to properly put it in my bag
I' m German and I hate that speed, too. I try my best to put the hard things below and then salads on top. An all in the same time the cashiers scan all the products. Sometimes it is too fast for me. And then I learned to turn, look at the face of the customer behind me or the cashier and say I'm so sorry to be not faster. And this is the magic formula. Suddenly they smile and are more patient.
Same here. I'm lithuanian living in Lithuania. And people are as impatient as it is portrayed here. They are all like looking at me and waiting till I finish. So I do the same as you, I carry the goods away in my hands to some other place to put everything into bag properly.
I just love the fact that Germans don't smile unnecessarily & don't pretend to be happy for customer satisfaction. That bullshit makes cashiers, Walmart attendants and restaurant waiters to be harassed in the US.
Que? Não! Esse "sorriso falso" mostra gentileza, você não sabe o quanto isso faz bem as pessoas! Você não precisa estar sentindo alegria o tempo todo para poder sorrir involuntariamente para alguém. Assim como eu não preciso sair por aí enfiando uma faca nas pessoas quando estou com raiva.
Now I know why when I went to Germany I got got told in a funny accent “are you buying a ticket or are you just looking” at a ticket machine by an old lady
Ooohh it's so accurate! I am still learning but I work at lidl and have to be a cashier, I have to be fast, but I am still not fast enough. The worst thing that happens for me, when people bring many fruits, vegetables and bread, because every little item, where you can't print a code on it, has a specific number that we have to type in. I still don't know all the numbers, even when I'm supposed to, so I have to look which one what is and it's stressing me so out, but even if you know them, it takes more time to type them in, even when they just have two to three numbers. Not all people know about that, and then be pissed when you take to long, even when they don't know how this is, so everytime when I'm at the checkout, I'm stressed and have a bpm of 115 to 125. So I don't know how this is possible but well, please have mercy with us.😥😅😅😂😂
Former Lidl employee, a tip for your mindset: don’t stress out, you are not in a hurry. Even if the customer is and the line gets long, just open up another cashier and direct some to the selfservice when it is too busy. Take your time.
Don't stress it out and start taking notice of which produces come more often so you memorise their code first. You just started, it's perfectly normal need some time to learn!
@@LaNoir. omg yesss!!! This exactly. Though I think it is also the country where you live in. In The Netherlands, going to the supermarket is not really a social trip, so most people are in a hurry and don’t really have time to idly chat around at the cashier. So everything is streamlined. Its the downside and upside of living in a country where time is considered precious with the no nonsense mentality
@@ZhannArt I also don't do the social interaction - but I have small hands. Doesn't help that they start throwing your shit at the floor if you're not fast enough Back in my childhood days, every register had two separated item trays where you could take all your time to put the items in your shopping cart, they're acting like that extra meter would ruin their business
Just for those outside Germany - Most german supermarkets have no outfeed conveyors, the register just ends after the cashier with no room and you have to pick up stuff as fast as possible. And there is no one helping you pack.
I’ve worked as a cashier at lidl and that wouldn’t have stopped me much, we are supposed to memorize all of the fruit/vetegable and bakery codes and still go fast. Though at least for me, I slowed down if I noticed the customer being anxious or needing help and I’d help them bag their groceries as well if needed (also helps with speed, the earlier they’re gone the earlier I can start with the next)
*@Liam:* The trick is to put no manual items in the front (so the items get stuck at the cashier due to physical space) and then put some in between and some at the end. This buys you plenty of time.
Yeah, you gotta disrupt the flow in their mind. Throw some produce and bread throughout so that they are never able to be to efficient with their movements!
As a cashier who almost memorized all of the PLU numbers we have I can proudly say that the only weakness I have is the speed at which my Scale weighs the non bar code items that need to be weighted at the cash register. Sometimes the machine just can't figure out fast enough if its 0,464 kg or 0,465 kg of carrots, and you are just sitting there awkwardly waiting. But yes, if you want to slow us down then put a "break" in the middle of your products in form of non packaged fruits and vegetables, it works most of the times.
Ni son pequeñas, ni las pasamos por alto Es una vergüenza la mala experiencia que es ir al súper en Alemania Tan rápidos, tan exigentes y tan lentos en evolucionar como humanos
@@kaibecker6408 Wäre eine Möglichkeit. Aber in der Realität bin ich eine der sehr schnellen Kundinnen. Packe schnell ein und zahle immer schnell mit Karte. Vorbildlich. Aaaaaber, würde mich jemand stressen wollen......könnte ich anders :-DDD
as a german Verkaufshilfe who the last few weeks mostly worked at the cash registers I can also confirm manually typing plu for things like Vegetables or bread slow things down, how much it slows down depends on how many of the plu's you've learned and how many you rely on the camera or a list of all the plu's xD I try to do these things while the customer is putting things in his cart or backpack to reduce the impact it has on the other customers from a times perspective xD
My local supermarket introduced those self-scanners that allow you to put your groceries in the bag _while_ shopping It's the best invention ever for people with fast-packing anxiety
Maybe very far out, but in my experience, you can only chat if there is NO ONE ELSE in line or the store is not near closing-time. Otherwise you must move as fast as you can to get out of the way (as you chat).
It's the same at Lidl and Aldi in the UK. I pack as quickly as I can, but put all my items that need to be weighed or looked up in the middle which gives me a little bit of extra time half-way to get my bags in better order!
My boyfriend likes to cook with semi-exotic vegetables etc, and they need aaaaages, and often have to ask us or a coworker what that even is 😂 but sometimes they don't even have a clue about some very normal vegetables 😅
i once had this odd-looking figs in front of me. i thought those were figs but they looked totally different. after a lot of thinking, i gave up and asked the customer what that was. turns out it was a fig. looked it up in the register, problem solved. the next time, i saw some green shrumpled thing in front of me. i immediately asked: that is a cherimoya, right? they said yes, i typed in the number and had no problem at all. Like, i seem to remember more numbers of exotic fruits. like, Kaki, Nashi, cherimoya, and dragon fruit. but i seriously did not think that was a fig.
The “mhmm” after no response when you greeted killed me! Cause I do exactly the same! 🤣🤣🤣 Germans and Austrians must be siblings because I sometimes get no response from the Kasse, when I greet. 🤣
For everyone who didn’t knew, back in the day when Aldi didn’t had scanner the cashiers memorized all product codes / prices and were faster than all other store cashiers with scanner. They went on training for that and typing.
Yeah they do that in a lot of countries tbf. Simple solution, pack extra slowly. Why should I stress myself packing when cashiers used to do that in the past on free carrier bags and shopping prices are insane. Supermarkets have been hitting massive record profits, stop stressing yourself using their services lmao
SAME HERE. Having worked in production line situations, I put all the soft stuff at the back and canned stuff at the front, get the trolley around and just start hurling. I have had an actual German cashier in aldi (Australia) who has said "ohhhh, that was fast" and sigh because I was just frisbeeing the whole lot in the trolley
for Context: Some Items require the Cashier to weigh them or type in a Code that has to be looked up. Those are usually: Loose Vegetables, Selfserve Bakery goods, anything else without a Barcode and Pfand Tickets.
That's one step in qualifying for german citizenship. Knowing how to slow the cashier to have time to actually bag your groceries.
Bro I actually have a list when my Aldi has the fastest cashiers working, means no Wednesday grocery shopping because they know the bread code and everything 💀
They know their codes?
Usually it's me who knows the codes. I help them!
Like sometimes they need the code for cola and only cola for somereason lol.
Bread is understandable, you can't stick a barcode onto it
as a Bulgarian I can safely say that German cashiers are extremely slow
@@DimiDzi Then you weren't shopping at Aldi.
@@nitroobmbe they were even shower than in Rewe
As a germany cashier, I can confirm. Things without a barcode are a speed killer.
That's true for any place lol
Many stores in Estonia have you yourself weigh them and push a button for a barcode label.
When I visited a really nice elderly man showed me some tips while we shopped and he recommended starting with the individual veggies so the cashier can get it over with and also give time to load up the conveyor for convenience on both ends.
@@tanelehala6422 That used to be the case everywhere in Germany, but our discount-cashiers are so OP that the discount-supermarkets have mostly changed it to those items being typed in at the checkout, so customers won't block the narrow isles waiting for their turn at the scales (and to keep people from cheating by lifting the bag or something). However, some cashiers are so OP, they are hardly slowed down by even that obstacle at all!
@@JuMiKuMore scales. Lifting doesnt work but you could weight the stuff and put extra after that. But that would be stealing, and not very profitable stealing
I worked at ALDI and LIDL in Germany and, at least at ALDI, we need to get a number of items scanned per hour. If not the management will have a talk with you. It is very hard to keep the balance. But I can cornfirm PLU items will slow you down, especially when you have to enter many different items. Also they sometimes test you with a "test costumer", who will hide products, place two different products in one bag and more, only to test your accuracy. You will have a problem when you failed twice.
Yeah I've worked at Aldi in NL and we also had the speed thing but it was more like a guideline because my fellow temp employee was the son of the store manager and he was slow af but they wouldn't fire him so as long as you were faster than him you were good 😅
@@LivingTheMusicLife thats how it is with these "vitamin b" - relationship (having a relative in the position, who either got you the job or who is treating you better..) Or even both lol
If only they tested the speed of construction projects like they did cashiers…
@@majibento if it was only speed that mattered. They jugde the quality too. Like if you have two almost identical looking items, but they run under different EAN numbers (so basically two different items). And you scan one of them twice you would cause a difference in the inventory. And thats what gets you in trouble too (if you do this to a test costumer). Normal costumers do this too and complain "its the same price" but the management wouldnt know it was you.
@@LivingTheMusicLife Omg yes! One of my coworkers was a contestant in a national tv show, and everybody (except for me) apparently watched that show and he was slow AFFFFF. Talking to everybody and making plans and following each other on Insta. They couldn't fire him 😂
European here. Whenever I go back to Northern Europe I feel I’m in a race to to place the items on the belt and bag them at the same time. My American husband stands there in confusion as to why I’m in such a damn hurry. There should be a special event for this in the olympics.
I would watch that event for tips!! 🧐
You are not supposed to bag them there, just throw them back into your shopping cart...
I'm dutch but thats why i like the self checkout machines. I can just pack on my own time.
Come to Bulgaria...while I was in Denmark I was so happy that things are so slow there :D
@@beatrixaltenberg5135 whuuh?
Finally, he figured out the German grocery shoppers trick!
Hahaha so true 🤣
So just place the sensitive tomatoes next to the hard can goods?
What if he bags them in the same bag....
Okay, yeah i know you germans bag your own groceries.
@@londazh There are too many low class people who scammed on the vegetables and fruits, so they implemented it. In the past it was not like that.
@Fenseher is this true everywhere? I'm new here, but in every supermarket I've been to, I have to put them in covers and weigh them in machines in the vegetable aisle beforehand, that generates a sticker I should attach that the cashier just scans like normal
@Fenseher
You weigh.... BREAD!!!
why?!?! Bread is such a basic food that has more or less consistent weight.
Its a man made good. I understand variable weighted items like meats and plants they grow up in life and have different weights by the time they get sold at the market. But BREAD?!?! Its a baked good like cookies, brownies, cakes, etc. The baker can set the price by the TYPE of baked good.
Germany is weird. I love it, but you guys just got bumped down from 100% cool to 99% cool.
You need to strategically place bakery items and fruit throughout everything you buy. Every time there is a pause you can catch up on bagging items.
Here is a short guide from memory:
So you want to outperform a cashier, first of all the obvious make sure you have the dividers Bothe ahead and behind you some May try leavomg those Out hoping the cashier would ask however they are pros IT IS far more reliable to Just usw dividers. Also obviously make sure you Put all your items in the Arena.
Furthermore place grocery items in Intervalls Not jusr on the end. IT can really kill morale when there are ONLY 2 items left and you are Not even halfway done.
Additionally don't group items so If you buy 3 bags of Rice one in the Front one in the middle and on in the Back groups of 2 are fine.
When Packung your Things i prefer to Go for the slow and safe Others Like to Go fast honestly Just do what Is comfortable to you and Note your time used.
Pay in Cash with the largest bill you have and don't useChange.
Lastly: Focus on improvement and don't get hung Up on failures. These are Professionals you aren't expected to Win but you can learn and do better next time.
You bag after you left the register. I always bag at my car for example. Furthermore, there are areas after the register where you can bag without stress.
Is this really a line of thinking in Germany? How to be faster than the cashier?!
@@dealwolfstriked272 NO, it is NOT. It's a funny exaggeration, nothing more. We are normal people.
@@dealwolfstriked272 yes and No.
You don't want to hold Up the people behind you but you wouldn't Sabotage the cashier. At least that's how I feel.
Bro I am addicted to your shorts. That German smile with the music, every time, it's amazing. Gimme more
I think the music was from some American supermarkets in the70s forgot what it's called
Edit: Muzak
czcams.com/video/8sgycukafqQ/video.htmlsi=VLs8fuxZvNCcgYcn
Song is from transformers
@@stefanoyt9837its linkin park bro…
@L3g0m4nn He's talking about the other music playing before What I've Done starts. We all know Linkin Park.
I live in France but this is what shopping at ALDI is like 😅
Theyre in a rush to finish with you at the till so they can go black to shocking shelves, cleaning or whatever whatever else. Poor employees... Squeezed like lemons as we say
Aldi in the US is the same. So much pressure! I always feel inconsiderate and slow as I use the credit machine, even though I don’t control the speed of their connection to the internet.
Aldi in Australia is the same.
We're told to chuck everything back into the trolley and bag it at the Magical Bagging Bench on our way out the door.
Ikea also has this tendency...
Same Aldi in UK
So basically what y'all saying is that I should avoid working in Aldi regardless of in which country it is. Gotcha. :D
Bring your own product the shop doesn't offer and let them deal with it while you bag your groceries.
🤣🤣
I always go to comments for life hacks and tricks
This guy: My goals are beyond your understanding
uhhh sir we dont sell ladders where did you find that from?
Most barcode scanners have settings that are configurable via different barcodes. Do with that information as you wish.
German here... Always put buns/bagels/bread roll at the end. Also at the end, put all fruits/vegetables which need to get weighed. This slows them down as well :-)
Or just go to Edeka :D
😂
Depends. Put some in the middle, if you are a beginner ☺️👍
You have to place them strategically all over "so you think you can go back to speeding with the dairy? ... take this bag of mixed bread rolls!“
Who can afford to go to Edeka these days, stuff gets more expensive by the minute 👀
Danke für denn Tipp hilft mir sehr😂
Liam's little smile always looks like an assassin spotting his target.
Love the senior citizen. These ate hysterical. Thank you.
I remember when we visited germany that they actually did scan them on a speed of like its life death game, but it didnt bother me because Finlands cashiers do the kinda same thing. And the funniest thing is that in lidl they need to type it on their own so its always hilarious to watch them try to figure the item out like a seed bagel
my sis be like lol
she worked at a Lidl once and was so tired one day that she was struggling to identify the "loose" items. so there was this woman with a loose celery root or something, and she literally just gave up and went: "is that cabbage or ...😑😮💨"
and the lady was like: "not sure🤨?"
so they both just stood there for a minute like 🤔🧐🤌🥦
@@Natalija379 Dobar dan
Completely the opposite in Romania. I recently went back on holiday and I nearly had a mental breakdown at the supermarket. The cashier was taking her sweet time that I couldn't help but think that in Germany I would have already been on my way home from how much it took her to scan the items of the only person ahead of me.
I mean there is a menu, but it is a pain to find the bread on the list. I still remember the almost all of the bread after 2 years😅
I am a fast cashier in my opinion, but I do try to match the pace of my customer. I am there all day so customers that are in a hurry are not my problem, just go to the self checkout or I’ll call another cashier to open up
@@floraflowers really depends on the store and cashier. At Aldi it's always really fast, but at Rewe or Edeka, mostly the elder cashiers are veeery slow.
But I'd prefer way too fast over way too slow anytime. Bc if they're too fast, I don't care, I just take the time I need and not stress just to save a few seconds. I don't slow it down either, but I don't act like I'm a robot, but an actual human being haha
And then there are the boss-level cashiers. Those who know all the numbers and names of the items instantly and type them in light speed :D
Then you have to begin to load your items on top of each other, so they have it more difficult to grab them haha
AHAHAHAHAHAHAH XDXD
This is why you gotta put multiple *different* pastries in one bag. Make them harder to identify, and gives the cashiers more to type in.
@@__-fm5qv Also turn the bread around if you're buying one, so they have to look closer when just seeing the bottom of it ;)
Hmhhh grab a single bag and mix pastries and brotchen... Let them figure out how many of each type
@@MeVSGravity1 Exactly, if you don't turn it around, they will have memorized the content from one gaze across the whole market and pre-entered it as soon as the client before you is done paying.
That’s why i love Netto‘s self checkout. A cure to my anxiety and the cashier is probably happy to have to deal with one person less
I'm sure the cashier is very happy to be out of a job
Yeah if you wanna support the cashier, go to a different shop.
@@TheHimbeerjoghurtthe same cashier is still around, attending to self checkouts and helping out with problems. Kaufland I go to has 6 self checkouts and there's always someone sitting there, and shopping is now EXTREMELY fast, because there's barely any line to wait
@@gorz9013
So you want to tell me that Kaufland replaced 6 check-outs with 6 self check-outs and still kept all 6 cashiers?
@@TheHimbeerjoghurt No, they replaced ONE regular checkout with SIX self checkouts.
I was recently in Germany, I found the cashier's speed perfectly normal, compared to the speed in my country.
During the trip, I almost lost it when I asked a DB conductor if he spoke English and he responded exactly like Liam's character: "just a little bit" 😂
Always take someone with you. One puts groceries quick in cart, while the other gets ready to pay!😂
What happens when you're single and living solo?
@@lucyk.5163 Then you shouldn't go shopping in germany plz! One possibility is to join a so called Einkaufsgemeinschaft. That way you wont be shouted at in the supermarket. But it is the only way 😢
@@lucyk.5163 What about going with a friend, parent, grandparent, sibling? Well, if you have any and they live close by...
I live in sweden but anyway, the cashiers are pretty quick here too... I more often than not go with my mom actually! (She lives alone now too since I moved).
@@lucyk.5163 Then you are doomed!😂😂😂
My dad doesn't give af, he takes his sweet time packing everything in the shopping bags strategically. Not until the last item is placed perfectly in the bag does he take out his wallet to pay😅
that smile
that damn smile
I like the part when you don't take it personal and just cherrfully react to the way he doesn't react to your Hallo 😄 and I love the smirk in the end!
Epic smirk as a signature move and Linkin Park. So good!
As a German I have to say the pressure is real
I’m from Germany and I just love your videos (mostly how relatable they are)😂
Jaaa, ich weiß, was du meinst XD
Hahhaha ja
I'm Malaysian and I LOVE this channel. He makes cool ways to learn German culture while being fun
As a German, I did a 4 week work placement in a supermarket and worked my 1st week as a cashier. This shit was uncomfortable af. People don't apply etiquettes (scannable codes) on their bags because they didn't weigh this shit and then they look at you furiously because you don't fucking pull the number out of your ass root. So you basically look through the big ass book and can't find the stupid number and you finally make a call to the office in the supermarket where they tell you the number. Some mfs also have tons of discount codes and look at you with this goblin grin while a 10m row is waiting behind them. Other mfs want cashback and you have to sign this shit and it's a ton of paper work sometimes. Old people are getting so mad for no reason. They don't have to fucking work anymore and can't weigh stuff and expect you to be Lightning McQueen. It's a job that makes you feel stupid af sometimes. Experienced lots of unfriendly customers at the info gate.
Employees making sexual comments about big booty mommas while being a father as he told me. Some people there are weird af and you experience funny shit. A homeless guy basically emptied a hole palette of water to convert it into deposit money (0,25€/bottle).
Hood language I know. It just triggered my summer trauma from last year.
i'm a cashier, and literally yesterday this happened to me:
(premise: 90% of customers don't even greet, and that gets particularly annoying after a while)
me: "good morning"
customer: "..."
he needs to pay €14,53, and proceeds to give me a €50 banknote
"won't you maybe happen to have a €5 banknote?"
"i need it"
"well, i don't have any left"
"i said i need it, also i'm not the one with a constant supply of cash"
"ok see you again (in hell)"
if i were a more outspoken person, i'd have told him "what i do have is coworkers who are busy doing their own and it's not like i can constantly annoy them with me needing more cash because of people like you"
Rest easy soldier.
Bro, I feel you LOL
I worked as an attendant for an ice cream company up until recently to get out because they squeezed their employees like lemons, all things are related to my experience, I've got some trauma from those kinds of jobs though LOL
Also sort the items already in the right order to pack them in your bag 😉
Your comment deserves more likes!
It's so accurate how when you put down the last item the elderly people IMMEDIATELY put the seperator behind your groceries
I'm not an elder yet but I only use the separator to help the person behind me get started on his unloading and move the process along
What's the problem with that? That's nice.
...and the way they're looking at you as if you breaking the rule and should be punished😂
Hey I do that too!
And then I do that for the next person even if there is no one behind me, just to make a point.
What an inspirational video.
I loved the moment when the German guy said "It's shopping time" and proceeded to shop all over the place.
Truly one of the shorts ever made!
A german would never say “It’s shopping time”
We speak german here
OMG its here, THE Meme is here!
When he said "it's shoppin' time", I was in tears. Such a breathtaking quote. Truly one of the videos ever.
Es ist Einkaufszeit
I burst into tears when he said that. So inspirational
The cashiers are usually nice and answer you, receptionists are terrible, they act like you don't exist till they have "time" for you
That's a worldwide thing, it's rare to find a receptionist who's not forgotten her job as a Frontline customer service person rather than a robot, it's the management and lack of work ethics from the company that make them this way, some are just b****** 😂😂😂😂
@@anima00789 no, can't relate to that, where I come from and they places I've been before the receptionists are usually very nice, or they talk to you to tell you to wait while they're busy and not just ignore your presence, Germany was a shock to me at the beginning
That smile at the end was like a cinematic masterpiece
At this point I am just punching down the like button as soon as my brain registers that it is one of your shorts. Approved unseen bc to me you are a German already. Thank you for exposing us to the world with this huge amount of love in your heart. Weitermachen!
On point!
What????? He's actually english? LMFAOOO I'm neither english nor german but I could swear he was german
Dem ist nichts mehr hinzuzufügen!
@@Zaluskowsky
The smile at the end always makes me feel like there is something more.
Yah, it's the in-joke about how Germans do not usually show emotion in public. Or speak loudly if at all, especially to strangers without a very good reason. They will LOOK at you, STARE at everyone else, especially if there is something, ANYTHING unusual, but "no reaction" is the default (other than intense but "polite" eye-lasers/eye-movement, haha)
It's true, you have to be strategic about the order of your items on the belt. And about picking left-handed or right-handed registers, so you can move that stuff back into your cart quickly.
I never thought about the left-handed/ right-handed thing
I love that little tiny smirk in the end so gooddddd
Liam now says accentfree "hallo" milestone they grow old so fast 🥺
I work as a cashier beside my studies and I can tell you we hate bread. It is by far the most annoying thing...They all look the same!!!😂😂
It becomes even more funny if the bread looks totally different in the register pictures.
and the worst part of it all: the other cashiers themselves don't even know what bread type something is.
while i, an apprentice, remembered most of the bread, bun, sweets and snack numbers.
Can relate. We just got 4 new breads and they're impossible to tell apart. The brown sourdough is brown, but the white sourdough is also brown.
@@ICantSplel and then, you ask the customer what type of bread it is.
and they don't know the different bread types themselves but the price, instead.
the problem is: the brown sourdough bread and the white sourdough bread have the same price.
@@kafragnichtmichduidiot Yeah inventory isn't a concept customers care about 😅. "6 donuts in there, think theyre all the same price".
That smirk is my fav
I'm German and I must admit: yes, it is exactly like this! :D The sick thing about it is, that YOU'RE ALWAYS THE ONE thinking: oh man if I don't keep up with the cashier's speed, everyone in the line will be pissed at me...
I just put all the well/safely packed (already dead) not destroyable items first. So i can put them away fast. Things like Bananas, lettuce, avocados and eggs at the end so they don't get squeezed. Being organized helps a lot to go with the flow calmly 🍵😌
Yeah you kind of have to do that, even if you let people with only a few items go ahead in line, it still seems like nothing makes a cashier happier than a fast customer who also responds in genuine friendly way to whatever they say (NO SMILING ALLOWED, but "thanks" or "have a nice day/afternoon/whatever" seem to be acceptable... they say it, you say "thanks" or "you too"... but you better not slow down to talk, hehe. GTFO of the way for the next person ASAP or you can FEEL the blank faces projecting Frown Energy LOL
Только одно но это не спокойствие
Not at Aldi though xD always too fast and no space to put things unless you have your shopping cart
@@sumi3000 see 😁💡, thank you. Now I understand why I always use a shopping cart. Even when I just need a few items. I need my hands free. And the cart to hold my bag. Now I no longer think of it and just grab one without asking myself why do I need one when buying so little. Good to know.
Have a nice day 😁
LMAO, the woman left her Baby for getting milk
She went buying milk.
Gender equality
She threw her baby to be precise 🤣😂
In a way, I feel like I'm watching a phone game demo, and now I wanna try too
Damn. That smirk at the end always gets me.
Bro his smile kills me every time😂
😏
Me toooo jajajaj
That smirk Always🤣
Holy shit the linkinpark and the smile at the end make this a masterpiece
I really enjoy your Gemanized vlogs. Not a german not british but its so unique and you inject humor to it.makes me wanna go to Germany
i worked as a cashier few years ago for some time and still remember the codes for all the veggies and baked stuff that shits burned into my mind
Omfg 🤣🤣🤣 You are a true german now
He is german
@@Seiklass i don't think so. But if he actually is german, then he did fool me 🙌
@@MeowMeowMoFu Why wouldn’t he be German if he speaks German in his videos
@@evanj5844 first you can learn german or
If your born in germany or Austria you can go to school that speak german
@@evanj5844 er spricht mit einem leicht britischen Akzent. Wenn ich mich nicht täusche, ist seine Partnerin gebürtige deutsche
That’s just…. So true omg 😭😂 I am a trainee shop assistant in Germany and sometimes I’m a bit too fast…. Well the best way to slow me down is with vegetables or bread 🥲👍
As a former grocery cashier and person who likes a quick checkout, Germany truly does sound like paradise.
Große Sachen zuerst aufs Band und dann immer kleiner werden. So auch in den Wagen legen. Das passt meistens so. Dann an den Taschenbänken gemütlich alles in den Rucksack packen:P
Wir haben immer die robusten Sachen zuerst und die zerbrechlichen danach aufs Band gelegt.
@@maleineperle1770 Ja, genau. Das kommt noch dazu. 👍✌️
The secret is to give a shit and do it in your time. This comes from a German who tried everything. Don't let them stress you.
The trick is to put things on the band in order already. So you have no trouble putting everything together in your bag.
At the Asian market, they just scan the next person WHILE you're bagging, no Fs given.
He now knows the German Secret! Iam so proud of him :D
We had a German mate at school...he was always late
The Icelandics are like this too. I was actually sweating when the guy scanned all my stuff in an instant and I was holding up the line asking to buy bags.
I'm an American, you guys have to buy bags and bag it yourself?
This is why we are lazy 😂
@@ZT_Performance Ya, it's crazy the difference from US to DE. i've worked on a package-shipping-company conveyor-belt where they unload pick-ups to be re-loaded for shipping to another center or airport and it's a similar feel... management is always like SCAN FASTER, LOAD FASTER, WHY IS THE BELT NOT MOVING?! (it is slam-full so the human loaders are having trouble building the perfect walls of boxes inside the trailer that you told them they must do, meanwhile scanning every box as it enters, or the guy who manually pulls the box off the moving belt and transfers it to the rollers into that trailer is also sorting by eye and scanning anything that goes by, or jammed up somewhere physically). Problem is the union contracts often mean the workers are part time and paid hourly while management is totally the opposite. Battle every day LoL, but it could be seen as getting paid to work out, and actually helped prepare me for German grocery check-out (i swear i wouldn't have survived the humiliation without being fast at packing & sorting).
@ZT_Performance yes and you have to pay for restrooms too and often the carts and shit in places are locked. Socialism!
@@eadred9164i think the reason why they are locked is bc people could easily steal them if they arent but restrooms with a toll are bs 100% agree with you there they need to be banished into the shadow realm along with paper straws, bagless vacuum cleaners and pineapple pizza.
Here in Finland it’s the opposite, they are so slow that I can go to sleep while waiting
All the times i watch one of your videos i have to listen again "what i've done". What a song....
I actually always get so stressed when I go grocery shopping especially when I buy a lot of things because I never manage to pack them in time and then there’s just a line of people waiting impatiently and the annoyed cashier 😭 I just end up half stuffing it into bag and carrying it in my hands to some other places to properly put it in my bag
I' m German and I hate that speed, too. I try my best to put the hard things below and then salads on top.
An all in the same time the cashiers scan all the products.
Sometimes it is too fast for me.
And then I learned to turn, look at the face of the customer behind me or the cashier and say I'm so sorry to be not faster.
And this is the magic formula.
Suddenly they smile and are more patient.
Same here. I'm lithuanian living in Lithuania. And people are as impatient as it is portrayed here. They are all like looking at me and waiting till I finish. So I do the same as you, I carry the goods away in my hands to some other place to put everything into bag properly.
@@betula-pendulaexactly, heavy goods should go to the botton, otherwise what happens to the salads, if you put heavy things on top of it?
@@E-plunksna you got salad-smoothie
I just love the fact that Germans don't smile unnecessarily & don't pretend to be happy for customer satisfaction. That bullshit makes cashiers, Walmart attendants and restaurant waiters to be harassed in the US.
Harassment is the best part...that's the only reason I buy in wallmart.
Que? Não! Esse "sorriso falso" mostra gentileza, você não sabe o quanto isso faz bem as pessoas! Você não precisa estar sentindo alegria o tempo todo para poder sorrir involuntariamente para alguém. Assim como eu não preciso sair por aí enfiando uma faca nas pessoas quando estou com raiva.
I'm not gayyy
@@rahuldahoob mmm 🤔
@@rahuldahoob Is never to late..
Now I know why when I went to Germany I got got told in a funny accent “are you buying a ticket or are you just looking” at a ticket machine by an old lady
That's basically German for "Hurry up or get the fuck out of my way, Asshole!".
Ooohh it's so accurate!
I am still learning but I work at lidl and have to be a cashier, I have to be fast, but I am still not fast enough. The worst thing that happens for me, when people bring many fruits, vegetables and bread, because every little item, where you can't print a code on it, has a specific number that we have to type in. I still don't know all the numbers, even when I'm supposed to, so I have to look which one what is and it's stressing me so out, but even if you know them, it takes more time to type them in, even when they just have two to three numbers. Not all people know about that, and then be pissed when you take to long, even when they don't know how this is, so everytime when I'm at the checkout, I'm stressed and have a bpm of 115 to 125. So I don't know how this is possible but well, please have mercy with us.😥😅😅😂😂
Former Lidl employee, a tip for your mindset: don’t stress out, you are not in a hurry. Even if the customer is and the line gets long, just open up another cashier and direct some to the selfservice when it is too busy. Take your time.
Don't stress it out and start taking notice of which produces come more often so you memorise their code first. You just started, it's perfectly normal need some time to learn!
Cashier: *_"I need to be faster!!!"_*
Customer: _"Slow down ffs!!!!!"_
@@LaNoir. omg yesss!!! This exactly. Though I think it is also the country where you live in. In The Netherlands, going to the supermarket is not really a social trip, so most people are in a hurry and don’t really have time to idly chat around at the cashier. So everything is streamlined. Its the downside and upside of living in a country where time is considered precious with the no nonsense mentality
@@ZhannArt I also don't do the social interaction - but I have small hands. Doesn't help that they start throwing your shit at the floor if you're not fast enough
Back in my childhood days, every register had two separated item trays where you could take all your time to put the items in your shopping cart, they're acting like that extra meter would ruin their business
i really like that the cashiers are scanning everything superfast, makes the whole process so much faster
Just for those outside Germany - Most german supermarkets have no outfeed conveyors, the register just ends after the cashier with no room and you have to pick up stuff as fast as possible. And there is no one helping you pack.
I’ve worked as a cashier at lidl and that wouldn’t have stopped me much, we are supposed to memorize all of the fruit/vetegable and bakery codes and still go fast.
Though at least for me, I slowed down if I noticed the customer being anxious or needing help and I’d help them bag their groceries as well if needed (also helps with speed, the earlier they’re gone the earlier I can start with the next)
*@Liam:* The trick is to put no manual items in the front (so the items get stuck at the cashier due to physical space) and then put some in between and some at the end. This buys you plenty of time.
Yeah, you gotta disrupt the flow in their mind. Throw some produce and bread throughout so that they are never able to be to efficient with their movements!
The smile at the end i love it
Lmfao that ending music sting always gets me!
As a cashier who almost memorized all of the PLU numbers we have I can proudly say that the only weakness I have is the speed at which my Scale weighs the non bar code items that need to be weighted at the cash register. Sometimes the machine just can't figure out fast enough if its 0,464 kg or 0,465 kg of carrots, and you are just sitting there awkwardly waiting. But yes, if you want to slow us down then put a "break" in the middle of your products in form of non packaged fruits and vegetables, it works most of the times.
I always put some baked goods in between as well so I would be able to catch up in case I fall behind with packing my groceries 😉
Ich liebe es, wie du diese kleinen Dinge siehst, die wir vor lauter gewohntheit völlig übersehen. 😙👌
Ni son pequeñas, ni las pasamos por alto
Es una vergüenza la mala experiencia que es ir al súper en Alemania
Tan rápidos, tan exigentes y tan lentos en evolucionar como humanos
Your music choices 🔥🔥🔥
do u know the first music
So true. I Was on Variation and a man complained that the cashier was too slow. A german one 😂 on vacation😂.
When Linkin Park started playing you got my heart❤
Same I was so happy what I've done was playing
Omg this is so accurate hahahahahaha. Grocery stores gave me so much anxiety
Don't think Aldi cashiers can graduate from their training until their scanning speed is able to break the sound barrier. 😂
That is why, i always put products without a barcode at the end to have time
I swear that smile in the end always gets me 😂 its so hilarious
I don't get stressed. For me, the cashier adapts to my speed. And I'm German.
Wo kaufst du denn bitteschön ein, dass man sich dem Kunden anpasst?
Überall wo ich zum einkaufen gehe, machen die nur schneller
Ah , dann musst du der sein, der immer nen Einkaufwagen im Hacken braucht um Einzupacken ? 😉😄😆
@@monchv.hausen2767 Wenn mich jemand stresst, mache ich absichtlich noch langsamer!!!
@@00ooCoraoo00 Genau! Schließlich dann den Geldbeutel zücken und mit einem sardonischen Lächeln: Ich glaube, ich hab's passend...
@@kaibecker6408 Wäre eine Möglichkeit. Aber in der Realität bin ich eine der sehr schnellen Kundinnen. Packe schnell ein und zahle immer schnell mit Karte. Vorbildlich. Aaaaaber, würde mich jemand stressen wollen......könnte ich anders :-DDD
I worked as a supermarket cashier for about a year and it’s actually astounding how many of those PLU codes you remember at some point.
as a german Verkaufshilfe who the last few weeks mostly worked at the cash registers I can also confirm manually typing plu for things like Vegetables or bread slow things down, how much it slows down depends on how many of the plu's you've learned and how many you rely on the camera or a list of all the plu's xD I try to do these things while the customer is putting things in his cart or backpack to reduce the impact it has on the other customers from a times perspective xD
My local supermarket introduced those self-scanners that allow you to put your groceries in the bag _while_ shopping
It's the best invention ever for people with fast-packing anxiety
....😂...yeee....and scan only half
Live in the countryside, everyone chats with the cashiers so there's more than enough time.
Maybe very far out, but in my experience, you can only chat if there is NO ONE ELSE in line or the store is not near closing-time. Otherwise you must move as fast as you can to get out of the way (as you chat).
My family came from Bavaria. Every time I watch one of these sketches I'm convinced I would LOVE living in Germany.
It's the same at Lidl and Aldi in the UK. I pack as quickly as I can, but put all my items that need to be weighed or looked up in the middle which gives me a little bit of extra time half-way to get my bags in better order!
My boyfriend likes to cook with semi-exotic vegetables etc, and they need aaaaages, and often have to ask us or a coworker what that even is 😂 but sometimes they don't even have a clue about some very normal vegetables 😅
i once had this odd-looking figs in front of me.
i thought those were figs but they looked totally different. after a lot of thinking, i gave up and asked the customer what that was.
turns out it was a fig. looked it up in the register, problem solved.
the next time, i saw some green shrumpled thing in front of me.
i immediately asked: that is a cherimoya, right? they said yes, i typed in the number and had no problem at all.
Like, i seem to remember more numbers of exotic fruits. like, Kaki, Nashi, cherimoya, and dragon fruit.
but i seriously did not think that was a fig.
I’m always pragmatic and arrange myself in peak efficiency. Americans like to take their time. The speed of a cashier is such a welcome change ngl.
The “mhmm” after no response when you greeted killed me! Cause I do exactly the same! 🤣🤣🤣 Germans and Austrians must be siblings because I sometimes get no response from the Kasse, when I greet. 🤣
This is why I love shopping in South Africa. They bag your groceries for you❤
Das Geräusch von der Maus beim Blinzeln
Oh Linkin Park so nice
R.I.P Chester
Song plz
@@mr.h867 What I've done
@@Pyrobanane thank you
For everyone who didn’t knew, back in the day when Aldi didn’t had scanner the cashiers memorized all product codes / prices and were faster than all other store cashiers with scanner. They went on training for that and typing.
Yeah they do that in a lot of countries tbf. Simple solution, pack extra slowly. Why should I stress myself packing when cashiers used to do that in the past on free carrier bags and shopping prices are insane. Supermarkets have been hitting massive record profits, stop stressing yourself using their services lmao
"Them" They truly are their own specimen. 😂😂😂
I don’t need to slow the cashiers down.I just throw all the products as fast as them
SAME HERE. Having worked in production line situations, I put all the soft stuff at the back and canned stuff at the front, get the trolley around and just start hurling. I have had an actual German cashier in aldi (Australia) who has said "ohhhh, that was fast" and sigh because I was just frisbeeing the whole lot in the trolley
lol, that's what I do as well. I try not to even look.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
for Context: Some Items require the Cashier to weigh them or type in a Code that has to be looked up. Those are usually: Loose Vegetables, Selfserve Bakery goods, anything else without a Barcode and Pfand Tickets.
one of the very few channels that makes very good shorts. a man who adapted. thanks for the content.
Facts
that smile is officially your signature now 😆
That smirk kills me every time😂
That’s true, always have fruits, vegetables and break at the back of your groceries.
Haha I never even thought about this strategy 😂