A new Woolworths ‘hack’ for shopping baskets has gone viral and it’s dividing the opinions of Woolies staff and shoppers.
The video, posted to the official Woolworths TikTok page shows a Woolies employee telling customers once they’re done with their shopping, they can place their basket underneath the shelf that you use to hold all your goodies while you scan.
Now whilst this revelation does seem to check out since the space is the perfect size to fit a basket – almost too perfectly for it to be accidental – some Woolies staff are begging people not absolutely not do this.
@woolworths_au Replying to @Benharrold No matter how you checkout, you now know to wear to put your basket. #Woolies #Woolworths #Wooliesgang ♬ original sound – Woolworths_au
“Simply scan your item, place it in the bagging area and put your basket down here” Woolies’ TikTok guy Liam Kirley said as he put the basket underneath.
“Nooo don’t put it underneath leave it on top kills our back bending down to pick every basket up,” one TikTok user wrote.
Another Woolies staffer chimed in with a similar experience.
“Self serve attendant here!!” They wrote. “Please put it in the holders or even ask the attendants to put it in the holder for you!! it hurts our backs having to bend down to grab it and trolleys are unable to use that shelf if there are baskets underneath!”
Another TikTok user and former Woolies staffer said, “As someone who used to work at Woolworths please jsut [sic] put in that little bit of effort and put it in the basket holder.”
It seems the self serve attendants have spoken. If you don’t want to be a dickhead and want to make the lives of the staff a little bit easier, the best place to leave your basket is in the rack where it belongs.
