Do you bag your own groceries?

[Brainonska511]

My daughter, 17, is a courtesy clerk at a supermarket, and she had mixed feelings about folks who bag their own groceries. Some of the time they don't do it correct and squish stuff. Other times they yell at her like she doesn't know how to do her job, which she is excellent at. She will put something like eggs or bread aside to bag last and folks will grab it and toss it in the bag she's filling with something else. Then she gets dirty looks if she takes it back out to bag separately. Several times she's seen folks bring back squished or broken items after they bagged their own groceries.

Her biggest complaint is the folks who bring dirty, unwashed, moldy, bloody, reusable bags and don't put their meat or produce in a plastic bag of it's own. She says the smell makes her sick some times and has to be contaminating the food. Needless to say she is constantly washing her hands.

She says most customers are pretty cool, but just like any other customer service job there are folks who make the job harder than it has to be.

I hated when people brought their nasty bags back. Disgusting to touch.

And I found the same thing: most people are unremarkable or nice. Unfortunately, it's the assholes who stick out like sore thumbs. I used to get back at them just a little by being meticulous with their coupons and bagging. If you were nice and didn't bother me, I'd take pretty much any coupon, even if you didn't buy enough of the item or it was expired and I'd bag fairly quickly. If you ticked me off though, I'd be reading the coupons, make sure they weren't expired, etc..., taking my sweet time bagging stuff...

 

[BurnItDwn]

yep: IN THE PANTS!

check my receipt now, asshole doorperson!

You told me they are "Jams" and not to be called pants. Are you now the pantsperson or something?

 

[Capt Caveman]

My grocery store allows me to scan groceries with a mobile app and I bag them with my own bags as I'm going thru the store. When I'm done, I select check out on the app and go up to a self-check out register. Let it scan the barcode on my phone, pay with my phone and I'm done.

 

[zinfamous]

No, but I bagged your mom last night!



Sorry, took a week but I realized this thread was missing an Alkemyst option.

 

[zinfamous]

You told me they are "Jams" and not to be called pants. Are you now the pantsperson or something?

Yep, I am the pants police. Want to see my badge?

 

[MtnMan]

Why do they hire baggers... that's their job

 

[ra1nman]

I spent some time as a bagger in high school at the Commissary on base. During that time I got pretty good at proper bagging technique (lol). Frozen and cold things in one bag, boxes and cans in another, cleaning and non food items separate from food. Anyways I purposely send my stuff through checkout to make it easier for them to do it. Sadly it usually ends up a mess anyways so I tend to wave off the bagger if they aren't already there and do it myself.

 

[MrSquished]

I like bagging my own groceries just to speed up the process, help the cashier out, and to use less bags. I put way more stuff in a single bag than does the average store employee, and I haven't had one break yet. Of course I did buy a set of re-usable bags to start taking with me but damned if I can ever remember to bring them with me.

 

[BoomerD]

Here in CA we have to bring in our own bags, or pay $0.10 a bag. I usually forget my bags in the car and I am not going to buy anymore. So I just have them throw everything back in the cart and then bag them when I put them in the trunk.

heh...yeah, that surprised the shit out of me when we were there last summer for our grandson's graduation...fortunately, I always have a few of the super-sized Costco bags in the car.

 

[szechuanpork]

the worst is when the cashier is by himself and scans all the items and doesn't even make an effort to speed up the whole cashiering/bagging process to drive home the point that you are not bagging and just watching like some jerk customer who can't even bag his or her own groceries. sometimes they are so good at doing this that i eventually end up bagging my own stuff out of the manufactured guilt.

 

[Newbian]

the worst is when the cashier is by himself and scans all the items and doesn't even make an effort to speed up the whole cashiering/bagging process to drive home the point that you are not bagging and just watching like some jerk customer who can't even bag his or her own groceries. sometimes they are so good at doing this that i eventually end up bagging my own stuff out of the manufactured guilt.

The problem is a lot of places require the cashier to have a certain scan rate and they need to get your order done before they can log out of their account to bag your items.

So you need to bag if they have no bagger or wait until after you are checked out.

 

[Carson Dyle]

The problem is a lot of places require the cashier to have a certain scan rate and they need to get your order done before they can log out of their account to bag your items.

So you need to bag if they have no bagger or wait until after you are checked out.

Huh???

Every place I go, they have an open bag sitting a few inches to the side of the scanner. It gets scanned and then it gets placed in the bag. Odd items get set to the left, bagged afterward.

 

[Newbian]

Huh???

Every place I go, they have an open bag sitting a few inches to the side of the scanner. It gets scanned and then it gets placed in the bag. Odd items get set to the left, bagged afterward.

The problem is we don't know what kind of bagging situation they had as a lot of the normal one with belts take the items down to where the bags are and a cashier cannot bag them then without stopping being a cashier and walk down to bag like it sounds here.

 

[walkur]

We don't have baggers here in the Netherlands (at least not were I shop), and even if they'd have them i wouldn't use them.
I do my shopping on my bike and the bags need to have certain dimensions or they won't fit.

 

[snoopy7548]

They should train monkeys to bag groceries. Ones that were experimented on and need a new home/life. Plus they would be cute to watch, but they might eat the bananas at night.