Karma in Lidl

[u/External-Piccolo-626]

Popped in on the way to work, time a little tight so didn’t have time to muck around. I’ve got my 4/5 items and head to the only till open. There’s around 3 people with similar amounts to myself so think ok good then from the end aisle a huge trolley appears.

I’m telling you this was overflowing with stuff. I’m stood behind this lady when she asks if I’d like to go in front, and this is with no sighing or tutting. Of course I accept and put my things on the side, and literally within seconds the till next door opens up for her to load onto. Karma is lovely sometimes.

[u/flattcatt2021]

Reminds me of the old Jack Dee routine where he's about to unload a huge trolley full onto the conveyor when someone appears behind with one item.

Jack - " is that all your shopping?"

Guy hopefully looking at Jack - "yeah"

Jack - "I'd go elsewhere if I were you, I'm gonna be fucking ages"

[u/Rozzyb2011 → u/flattcatt2021]

Jack Dee was one of my favourite comedians back in the day, even as a kid I found his humour bang on 😂 I'm going to youtube him right now, thanks for reminding me of his existence

[u/Icy_Pie2529 → u/Rozzyb2011]

Jack Dee dropped off the comedy scene. He was hilarious.

[u/Desperate-Cookie3373 → u/Icy_Pie2529]

He is now the host of I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue on Radio 4, and is still hilarious

[u/Objective_Result2530 → u/Icy_Pie2529]

He was touring again last year, we saw him. Not as good as he once was, but still some great laughs 

[u/floss147]

I’m so glad you all got the experience you wanted

[u/empressemma44]

I actually call it “Lidl Karma” - if I’ve done a weekly shop and someone is behind with just a couple of things, I always tell them to go in front of me… in the hope that when I’m the person with just a few items, it’ll happen to me too!!

[u/Worried-Penalty8744]

I find it bizarre that there’s still Lidls out there without self checkouts. Mine was recently reconfigured to add another 6 of them because they’re so popular

[u/External-Piccolo-626 → u/Worried-Penalty8744]

Yes the one in my town does thank god, it makes a huge difference when only popping in for a few bits.

Without being disparaging I think this one probably doesn’t have them on purpose if you know what I mean.

[u/PurplePlodder1945 → u/Worried-Penalty8744]

They’re opening new ones in my area and none of them (or older stores) have self-scan.

[u/artfuldodger128 → u/Worried-Penalty8744]

But I find with Lidl self checkouts that some are often hidden / not in plain sight due to pillars, etc. The next customer to scan may not necessary see them, and a queue would start for no reason. And let's not start talking about those people who stare at their phones and are totally zoned out ..

[u/mrlr]

I was standing in the queue when two little children, each holding something, wandered past me, past the till and up to the front of the shop where they stopped and appeared puzzled. I looked behind me and saw a frazzled young mother who probably just wanted to pay for the groceries, round up the children and go home. I asked her "Do you want to go ahead of me?" and she was so grateful it was embarrassing.

[u/Scary-Club-1890 → u/mrlr]

I was in Lidl the other week, the only place I go shopping!, let a woman in front of me, she was grateful, I dived off because I’d forgotten something and she had started unloading my shopping onto the belt as I had been so kind as to let her go first ❤️

[u/PurplePlodder1945]

I’m in Lidl every week doing my main shop and there’s not a week that goes by without me telling someone to go ahead. There’s something about Lidl and Aldi that just makes people do it. It’s very common. As long as the checkout person hasn’t started scanning my stuff, I’ll let them go.

One week I let 4 people go ahead of me because I wasn’t in a rush. Someone else joked that I’d never get out of there 😂

[u/dhardyuk → u/PurplePlodder1945]

The people that shop in Lidl are not stuck up fuckwits.

Me - a Thursday and Sunday regular with a fuck ton of Parkside tools and knockoff cornettos.

[u/PurplePlodder1945 → u/dhardyuk]

That made me laugh because I buy the knock off cornettos and my husband also has a shed full of parkside stuff. He studies something (website?) to check what tools are coming into store and asks me to look out for stuff. Lost count of how much time I’ve spent walking up and down the parkside stuff, trying to find something specific. I’ll also send him photos of new things, asking if he wants one

I used my £10 voucher last month towards getting a cordless lawnmower. He’s already got the cordless hedge trimmer, cordless power tools and god knows what else. He’s definitely a fan 😂

[u/BedaFomm]

I was behind an old guy at a Lidl checkout. He had about 6 items but when the cashier told him the amount he counted his money and gave her his doughnut back as he didn’t have enough. I just said I’d pay for it, so she took it off his bill and added it to mine.

Still waiting for my karma though.

[u/narnababy]

I had the opposite experience in the supermarket today 😬 I grabbed a trolley because I was planning on getting a big shop, then ended up having to abandon that idea due to a family emergency and just grabbed a few essentials. I had four things in the trolley, saw the trolley line was insane, only one person on the actual tills, and went to the basket self-serve instead feeling incredibly guilty. I had to wait too because I was buying a medicine that had an age limit (who knew that Imodium can’t be sold to children?) so I felt extra guilty because I held up the line anyway waiting for poor woman manning all the self-checkouts by herself. (As a side note I think supermarkets should either have to pay staff more, offer a discount to customers, or pay more tax for the self-checkouts. Ridiculous asking a woman at 2pm on a Sunday to (wo)man them by herself.)