I’m a Aldi customer and I have a self-checkout hack that can take all the stress out of shopping – it’s so simple
AN Aldi customer has shared a simple self-checkout tip that can take all the stress out of shopping.
Grocery shopping can be pretty hectic, especially when there’s pressure on you to scan all your items quickly so as to not hold up the self-checkout line.
One Aldi customer discovered a great hack for saving time and sanity while ringing up the items in your cart.
The shopper known as u/lwpho2 on Reddit took to the social media platform to share their “pro tip” which should be used if you don’t have a lot of items in your cart.
“Spread out everything in a single layer in your cart with the bar codes facing up,” the Reddit user said.
“Then use the handheld scanner gun to zip-zip-beep-beep through everything with lightning speed.”
The customer listed additional benefits to the hack.
Your “groceries never leave the cart unless you have something that must be weighed, and you never hear the robot voice prompt!”
The robot voice that the Reddit user is referring to comes from the self-checkout machine and tells customers “please scan an item…” if the shopper spends too much time ringing up each item.
Blogger Jill Nystul from One Good Thing has shared another self-checkout hack that will save you time and energy.
Items like fresh produce and bakery goods typically don’t have bar codes, instead, you have to use price look-up, or PLU, codes, Jill wrote.
At self-checkout, you can usually opt to search for produce and bakery items by image, name, or PLU code.
What you might not realize is that the PLU code is usually readily available on the produce sticker or label.
It’s typically only four or five digits.
So instead of having to search for an item and type it in by name, you can enter the PLU code found on your produce.
This can quicken up the self-checkout process, especially if you have a ton of fresh produce to ring up.