I came in here to talk about Aldi then started tripping out over the very idea of 'bag boys'. I work the register sometimes at work but mostly customer greeter/store security (or as I like to call it "door monkey"). I have never considered it necessary to have someone to put shit in the bag for me. You have the open bag to your left (on a great little contraption that keeps it open), you scan it then drop it in the bag, bag is full, open new bag. It takes two seconds to do. Even when we have people doing christmas shops, buying $700+ worth of crap, have two trolleys, you can still keep up.
Back on topic: You can tell when you're uni friends are skimming it when they do their entire shop at ALDI. Their stuff is mostly okay, they actually have the best Butter Chicken sauce available in our fair town and their faux-pringles are like crack.
The idea of the reusable bags is pretty good, environmentally thinking. All the department and groceries store in Australia (except the really cheap ones like Franklins) sell the reusable bags. They are hella stronger as well, you can get your 6 2 litre bottles of coke home without having the use 3 plastic bags.
