We are not a fan of theirs, prefer to go to the other close by stores near our home.  Like ICA, Coles and Woolies.     Plus we have Big W and now Super K Mart that sell lots of similar things that this store sells.

I never shop at Aldi as their product never have where they are from-- they don't even have a bar code -- AND the money goes back to Germany

I like to shop where I can choose to buy Aussie owed and grown

Woolies and Coles are outragious in price. Too many manufactured foods. If shoppers can't pack their groceries then they should go to woolies and pay extra for that.

Why in gods name would you want to slow the check-out down. You want to get in, do shop and get out as fast as you can, it's not a holiday camp. All your doing is making a nuisance of yourself and holding up other customers who obviously have better things to do. Grow up and get a life. Jacka.

Many of Aldi products are clearly marked produce of Australia. I have generally found their fresh fruit and veggies to be better quality than Woolworths.

The stunt with shopping on the belt is ridiculous as says a lot about those who do it. There is an area set aside for packing your shopping away from the cash registers so grow up and stop being precious. 

Wow!! Such a First World problem. Next time you shop think of those who go hungry every day. May I suggest you all get a life

A member of my family only shops at Aldi, I only shop at Woolies (love the staff there)......we find that many items I purchase at Woolies are way cheaper than she pays at Aldi.....don't believe all the hype.

Well said Tom Tank. And as for Woolworths prices being cheaper than other supermarkets, you must be smoking something very funny. Woolworths are the dearest followed by Coles with quite a gap down to Aldi. Unfortunately Aldi do not have quite the variety of products, however price wise they win hands down. Jacka.

I love Aldi. Yes I get flustered sometimes that my groceries are stacking up, but I put them in my trolley as fast as I can & repack them either at the bench or into my bags in the car.

As for where the groceries they sell... they source their goods from Australia if possible. The fruit & veg, dairy & meat come from Aust. More than you say for some of the other stores. I only shop elsewhere for anything Aldi don't sell ... like hot chicken.

If you don't like the checkout... don't shop there... that'll give us that don't mind a chance to get served faster.

Inconsiderate people everywhere. "F you lot, you can wait until I'm finished at the check out." that's their attitude, selfish & inconsiderate. If someone did that to me I'd be pushing their purchases down the belt myself using the little customer divider.

What I do is have a couple of largish plastic buckets in the back of my car. Put everything in them & it's just as easy to carry inside the house that way, or if a few items then I use a bag or 2

but not at the check out.

My husband and I usually shop together.  So at the checkout, one holds the bags open and the other quickly puts the items into the bags.  

I shop alone and have never been hassled by any Aldi checkout operator to hurry up and pack.  What a storm in a teacup!

I have an interesting anecdote about Aldi, but before I share it with you I need to make it

clear that I don’t like shopping at Aldi for the reasons detailed below.      

Unfortunately, I have no choice because it is essential that I do the shopping for a friend

who is mobility-impaired since she can’t shop personally for her favourite Aldi products.

These are the reasons I don’t like shopping at Aldi:                         

* There is rarely more than one register open, even at peak times, so the wait time to

  check out can be extremely frustrating.                                                                             

   Aldi are the only supermarket that doesn’t have self-checkouts, so you’ve no choice

   but to wait.                                                                         

* When there is a rare PA announcement of a register opening, there is a typical five

   minute wait for the operator to actually get to the register.                                                                                                               

   I used to rush with others on seeing the displayed register number change from red

  to green.                                                                   

  However abandoned doing that because I found it better to stay in the now-depleted 

  current queue and let others waste their time waiting for the other register to open.

* Register operators do not bag your products.                                                    

  Aldi obviously reasoned that it would improve register operators productivity by not

  bagging.                                                                                              

  However the operator takes the same time in sliding the scanned product towards

  you as they would in dropping it into a bag.                                                                                                        

  So the result is that there is no benefit to Aldi, but extra work for the customer.                                                                                                              

  To keep up with the operator’s scanning, the customer has to frantically throw the

  products into their trolley; then go to the customer counter to do the bagging: a

  classic case of double-handling.                                                                                             

* There are no product category signs in the aisles.

  There is thus a continual need to find an Aldi staff member to enquire where a

  particular product is located (if you can find a staff member!)                                                                                                       

Now the anecdote.                                                                                  

All Aldi’s products are priced to end in 9c.                                                 

Historically in all retail outlets, a $10 product for example would be priced at $9.99.                                                                                                

The philosophy was that naïve customers would regard the price as $9 instead of

$10, so thinking they are getting a bargain.                                                                                          

That marketing ploy started in pre-history before credit cards, so the store got it’s

1c back as the customer had to pay $10 in cash.                                                                                                        

Now that cash is in the minority, that practice has largely been discontinued because

the store is losing 1c per sold item on credit card payments which adds up to a most

significant sum on the total annual sales.                                                                                                            

The exception is Aldi where EVERY product is priced to end in 9c.                                                                                                      

So Aldi naively believes that a customer seeing a product priced at 29c will think it’s 20c. .                                                                            

Recently as I was walking down an aisle at Aldi my eyes nearly popped out on seeing a

product priced at 75c.                                                           

They nearly popped out again on seeing an Aldi staff member further down the aisle;

I rubbed my eyes; yes it was an Aldi staff member actually on the sales floor!                                                                                         

“Excuse me” I said, with pointed finger, “There's a price error on a product down the aisle”                                                                                       

 “Where about?” he said as he started to walk down the aisle.                       

We walked together to the shelf with the 75c price tag.                              

“Look” I said, pointing to the product “It should be 79c”

“Oh” he exclaimed, “thanks very much for letting us know, I’ll get it fixed straight away!”

If you are a habitual Aldi shopper, you would know where the item is that you want arer located. I'm not a habitual Woolies or Coles shopper so I have to ask sometimes where a certain product is. When I do  go to Coles now, I know where the waffles are. I live in Tasssie, and this state doesn't have  Aldi, stores, but I recall being in my local Aldi store in Deception bay , when i lived  in Qld., a couple were packing their bags at  the checkout  and taking their time about it. They ignored the fact that items were piling up in the small section at the checkout used by the cashier to place scanned items,. and they had over half a trolley full. Pure selfish action. I admit that the . As regards the 99 cents  ar gument, why don't ALL store do away with that stupid nonsense, and price the items at a rounding figure of whole dollar or 5 cents. This is as stupid as Hare Clark election preferences, which should be done away with.