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Post by amom23 on Feb 12, 2022 14:11:40 GMT
I always use the self checkout no matter how full my cart is or isn't. About the only place I grocery shop where I have to let them pack my bags is Trader Joe's.
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Post by SweetieBsMom on Feb 12, 2022 14:57:42 GMT
I would never ask the lady to put the dog food in my bag, I would do it myself. and we're off... I’m sorry but that had me giggling
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Post by sassyangel on Feb 12, 2022 16:08:40 GMT
I expect you buy a lot more than I do, so it isn't practical...but I always do self checkout for that reason. Occasionally I shop at Aldi and it drives me nuts when they reach over and pick random things from further back on the conveyor belt...they aren't even packing the bag...so why are the messing with the order?? Some of them will keep reaching around the heaviest item and put all the light ones through, while I stand there with everything piling up because I'm waiting for the heavy thing to put at the bottom of the bag. Self service is just so much easier because everything gets put in the bag in the *right* order. I keep hearing about the ones where you scan the price as you shop and then just pay as you leave, and supposedly they've done trials but I don't know why those have never been implemented. I'd love to scan and pack my bag as I go. Sams club (warehouse club like Costco) here has that. It’s called scan and go, you scan the barcodes of your items with your phones camera as you put them in your cart, and once your finish you pay using the app and show the receipt on your phone when you leave.
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Post by sassyangel on Feb 12, 2022 16:13:19 GMT
And whilst I'm complaining about trivial issues........ I try to put my items on the belt in the order I want them packed. All of the cold stuff together, all of the tinned goods together, all of the fruit and veg together, all of the soft things together, all of the toiletries and cleaning things together. But they never seem to stick to my layout! They will put some tins in one bag, then reach over to grab some fruit, then add some bread on top of that..... I even leave gaps on the belt between each 'category' to make it obvious how I want it packed. If I am doing a big shop, I try to get all of my goods on the belt quickly, then tell them that I will pack (and make it seem like I'm doing them a favour, not that I am some kind of OCD freak hahaha!). I worked at woolies while I was at uni, (in the before times of plastic bags and us packing them for you 😅) and I always packed them how I’d want them packed, like mum did. Cold/frozen stuff together, cleaning stuff together. Heavy stuff together and first. Light stuff like chips and stuff last. Bread, produce and eggs in very last so they could be put on top and not squished. You would’ve been my favourite customer. 🤣
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Post by Eddie-n-Harley on Feb 12, 2022 16:28:06 GMT
I always use the self checkout no matter how full my cart is or isn't. About the only place I grocery shop where I have to let them pack my bags is Trader Joe's. Same. Because bananas should not be placed on top of my frozen food.
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Post by grammadee on Feb 12, 2022 16:28:51 GMT
my bugaboo is.. I want as few bags as possible as I haul them up stairs.. so put that random bottle of shampoo in with the produce. the other is putting blueberries at the bottom. I am always telling the bagger to please put them on top!!! I do like separating fridge stuff from nonfridge.. sometimes i just leave a bag in the car, cause I can only haul so many bags up at a time. I bring separate bags (actually boxes with carry handles) and ask the clerk to please separate refrigerated/frozen from the rest. I actually put one of my bags on the moving belt, then put the stuff to go in that one, then another container and stuff for that one, and so on. And I STILL have to repack when I get to the vehicle. When they hand me a bag, they will say "Didn't want it to be too heavy for you". Let ME worry about that. I know I can lift the groups I have chosen from cart to vehicle. Easy enough when I am parked in the garage to take a portion into the house at a time. Oh, and why would someone put bananas in the same bag as canned goods?
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Post by Eddie-n-Harley on Feb 12, 2022 16:29:14 GMT
And whilst I'm complaining about trivial issues........ I try to put my items on the belt in the order I want them packed. All of the cold stuff together, all of the tinned goods together, all of the fruit and veg together, all of the soft things together, all of the toiletries and cleaning things together. But they never seem to stick to my layout! They will put some tins in one bag, then reach over to grab some fruit, then add some bread on top of that..... I even leave gaps on the belt between each 'category' to make it obvious how I want it packed. If I am doing a big shop, I try to get all of my goods on the belt quickly, then tell them that I will pack (and make it seem like I'm doing them a favour, not that I am some kind of OCD freak hahaha!). I always did that too, but the baggers never took the hint.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2022 16:36:01 GMT
My small vent is flow of cart traffic. Follow the laws of the road. And for gosh shakes do not stop in the middle of the isle. Like wwhhyyyyyy
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Post by greendragonlady on Feb 12, 2022 16:41:40 GMT
I don't think I've ever had a cashier bag up for me - it's not the norm here. I've been doing a lot of Click and Collect (order online and collect in the supermarket carpark from the refrigerated van into the boot of my car) and what pees me off with that is that I opt for no bags. I have tons of my own which I take and I pack everything as I want from the crate into my bags...but they will insist on putting things like a garlic bulb, shampoo, cold meat etc in small, thin plastic bags. I could understand fresh meat as it might leak but not ham or smoked salmon. And why can't they go in together? Last time I had 7 of these little bags ( which are no good for using for anything else really) each with one thing in. Cooked cold meat can at least go together. I try not to get those bags, either (but when I'm getting a pound of green beans...I'm not putting them loose in my cart!) But at home I use them for little wastebasket liners, poopy diaper toss bags for the grandbabies, kitty litter scooping bags, etc.
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Post by malibou on Feb 12, 2022 16:44:19 GMT
I would never ask the lady to put the dog food in my bag, I would do it myself. Actually I would not have handed over my bags at all, I would have packed those 3 things myself. It's not the norm here for people to pack their own bags. It's part of the job of the cashier at most supermarkets, except at Aldi. It was that way when I was a check-out chick back in the early 80s, and it still is now. I have been packing my own bags recently though. I started during COVID, in one of the lockdowns. We had to pack our own bags for a while, and I have continued to do it (sometimes). This is interesting, when covid hit here, we were no longer allowed to pack our own groceries nor use our own bags. They didn't charge us for bags during this time.
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Post by Darcy Collins on Feb 12, 2022 17:20:02 GMT
There's only a few baggers at our grocery I let near my stuff, usually I just do it myself. I want them HEAVY and most don't pack them that way. I want delicate items on top, but don't care if a bottle of shampoo is with my cans. It drives me crazy when they use a single bag for something. In general when stores went from paper to plastic, they trained tehm to just put a handful of things in a bag. Even though I use reusable, half the baggers treat them like plastic bags and it's just a bigger pita then doing myself.
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Post by Darcy Collins on Feb 12, 2022 17:20:29 GMT
It's not the norm here for people to pack their own bags. It's part of the job of the cashier at most supermarkets, except at Aldi. It was that way when I was a check-out chick back in the early 80s, and it still is now. I have been packing my own bags recently though. I started during COVID, in one of the lockdowns. We had to pack our own bags for a while, and I have continued to do it (sometimes). This is interesting, when covid hit here, we were no longer allowed to pack our own groceries nor use our own bags. They didn't charge us for bags during this time. This was true for a while, but they've gone back to letting us use or own bags again.
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Post by huskermom98 on Feb 12, 2022 17:21:58 GMT
I mostly do online order/pick up these days, but that doesn't stop the poor bagging. Yesterday was fun--I got home and as I was unloading a (paper) bag I realized they had put a loaf of regular white bread next to two 64oz juice bottles...yup, the juice bottles had tipped over onto my bread, smushing over half of it. Needless to say I took a picture (before even moving anything) and sent it in an email to the store. I got a call soon after that and they said they will be using my photo for training purposes and that they would be sending me a new loaf of bread via Door Dash as requested (I pick up at a store close to work which is 20-25 minutes from home).
I need to stop doing the online ordering/pick up because last week I would have gotten home with only half of my order if I didn't have a van--I could tell the kid only put 4 bags and 2 gallons of milk in the bag, but I had ordered 3 gallons and even at today's food prices, my $150 order would not fit in 4 bags. If I had been using DS's car and they had put the groceries in the trunk I would never had known until I got home.
The chain I shop at now has a scan & go system at several stores in the metro area. I should try it out since I love using it at Sams, but I tend to spend more than I plan on when I shop in store. I don't want to do self-check out for my big weekly trip, but I would do scan & go because I could use my reusable bags again and bag as I go.
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Post by gar on Feb 12, 2022 17:31:27 GMT
I don't think I've ever had a cashier bag up for me - it's not the norm here. I've been doing a lot of Click and Collect (order online and collect in the supermarket carpark from the refrigerated van into the boot of my car) and what pees me off with that is that I opt for no bags. I have tons of my own which I take and I pack everything as I want from the crate into my bags...but they will insist on putting things like a garlic bulb, shampoo, cold meat etc in small, thin plastic bags. I could understand fresh meat as it might leak but not ham or smoked salmon. And why can't they go in together? Last time I had 7 of these little bags ( which are no good for using for anything else really) each with one thing in. Cooked cold meat can at least go together. I try not to get those bags, either (but when I'm getting a pound of green beans...I'm not putting them loose in my cart!) But at home I use them for little wastebasket liners, poopy diaper toss bags for the grandbabies, kitty litter scooping bags, etc. I have some reusable mesh bags that I use for beans and things like that. They’re not big enough for my waste bins but I could use them for the grand babies nappies I guess - good idea - but I’d rather not have them at all.
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Post by maryland on Feb 12, 2022 18:54:32 GMT
How do they think I'm going to carry all these loose items into the house if they're not in a bag? I would have tossed the coriander in my purse/tote bag, and just carried the other two items in my arms. The baggers will ask if I want certain bulky items (dog food, drink 6 packs, jug of laundry detergent, etc) in bags. Usually I say no as it is just easier to grab them and put them where they belong at home. No need to have another bag to toss. My vent is with how they pack the bags. They tend to really load up the bags to use as few as possible. However, with arthritis in my hands it's a challenge to lift them at times. And apparently no one has ever instructed them on the proper way to bag bananas, tomatoes and other soft produce (hint, they don't go in the bottom or middle of a bag, and not in the bag with the frozen foods). I've turned into a cranky old woman directing them to spread out the weight and not to bruise my bananas! Unfortunately the store I prefer for produce/fruit is the only one around here that doesn't have self checkout, otherwise I'd use it. I feel like the plastic bags at our Walmart and Target are so thin now, that some items poke a hole in the bag. Here too they put as much in the bag as possible. I try to bag myself as I go to self checkout most every time.
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Post by Gem Girl on Feb 12, 2022 19:29:33 GMT
So, I've gleaned 2 things from this thread.
1. Being a cashier is a thankless job (having done it as a young adult, I knew that, but it's worse now), full of conflicting instructions from management vs. the preferences of customers. 2. Everybody has her own way that she likes to pack her items, and for a variety of reasons.
I just remind myself how lucky we are to have such an array of affordable and wonderful food so readily available.
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Post by katlady on Feb 12, 2022 19:34:47 GMT
My small vent is flow of cart traffic. Follow the laws of the road. And for gosh shakes do not stop in the middle of the isle. Like wwhhyyyyyy My vent are the workers at Walmart filling pickup orders. They have these big carts that they leave in the middle of the aisles, and they are in such a rush to fill orders. I almost got ran over by one. I was walking down a main aisle and the employee came speeding out off a side aisle. She almost t-boned me!
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Post by snowsilver on Feb 12, 2022 20:04:47 GMT
I expect you buy a lot more than I do, so it isn't practical...but I always do self checkout for that reason. Occasionally I shop at Aldi and it drives me nuts when they reach over and pick random things from further back on the conveyor belt...they aren't even packing the bag...so why are the messing with the order?? Some of them will keep reaching around the heaviest item and put all the light ones through, while I stand there with everything piling up because I'm waiting for the heavy thing to put at the bottom of the bag. Self service is just so much easier because everything gets put in the bag in the *right* order. I keep hearing about the ones where you scan the price as you shop and then just pay as you leave, and supposedly they've done trials but I don't know why those have never been implemented. I'd love to scan and pack my bag as I go.
Our local Wegmans has this now, but I'm scared to do it. You do the scan and then go through self-checkout to pay. Supposed to be very quick. But the problem is that there is always a line at self-checkout (even though there is a limit of 20 items for that and there are 6 stations). Seems to me that waiting to get a station to pay would be almost as long as just going through the regular line. But our Sam's Club has it and I LOVE it. You just scan and then show your phone to the guy at the door as you leave. He scans your scan and you're good to go. I can't believe how many people still go through the regular lines when that is so easy.
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Post by sideways on Feb 12, 2022 20:18:37 GMT
At Wegman’s, there was one cashier I eventually avoided because he packed like shit. One time, I got out to my car to find that he had put my two gallons of milk on top of my bread in the cart. My bread was squished and I had to go back in to get new bread. Another time, the same guy was putting my groceries in the cart and the bagged eggs were on the seat. He started to reach over to put a gallon of milk on the seat on top of the eggs. I stopped him just in time.
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Post by KiwiJo on Feb 12, 2022 20:53:51 GMT
Back in the day when I went to a supermarket where you bag your own groceries, I just piled it all back into the shopping trolley, wheeled it out to the car where I had a couple of laundry baskets to transfer it in to. I guess it did mean double-handling, but it meant all the cold & frozen stuff was together for the 1st trip inside. Sometimes I would leave the basket with canned food etc for DH to bring in These days I get all my groceries delivered - it is brought right to my kitchen door in strong paper bags. All fruit & vegetables together, all chilled foods together, all frozen foods together. The meat packs are in recycled ‘plastic’ bags in case of leakage and, if still clean (& they usually are), I can use them again.
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Post by moodyblue on Feb 12, 2022 23:21:19 GMT
I swear that I break into a sweat when bagging a big shop. Yes, that's why I dislike shopping at Aldi! They scan everything so quickly, I can't keep up. It's stressful. We don’t bag as they scan at Aldi, at least at all the ones I’ve shopped at in the US. They scan very quickly and dump every item into a cart and then after you pay you take that cart over to the counter along the wall and pack your bags there. The cart you originally used gets moved into position by the cashier for the next customer's items.
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Post by christine58 on Feb 12, 2022 23:31:28 GMT
I keep hearing about the ones where you scan the price as you shop and then just pay as you leave, and supposedly they've done trials but I don't know why those have never been implemented. I'd love to scan and pack my bag as I go. Wegmans has that...and I use it every time I go
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Post by christine58 on Feb 12, 2022 23:32:53 GMT
Supposed to be very quick. But the problem is that there is always a line at self-checkout (even though there is a limit of 20 items for that and there It's very quick!!
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Post by AussieMeg on Feb 12, 2022 23:52:29 GMT
You would’ve been my favourite customer. 🤣 And you would have been my favourite check out chick! I worked at Woolies too, when I was in high school. That was back in the days pre-scanning, where we had to ring everything up using codes and buttons.
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Post by tanya2 on Feb 13, 2022 0:00:46 GMT
this is why I prefer self checkout or stores where I pack it myself, because I'm so OCD about it
This month I've been doing groceries with DH (give me patience!!!) - and it's definitely not my favourite thing. How many times should I have to tell him not to lay baked goods like pies or frosted donuts on their side! He just wants to get in & out quickly, no thought to how its going to be weight wise or put away. I actually had to tell him not to put the heavy vegetables in the crisper on top of the tomatoes! And yes I know you shouldn't refrigerate tomatoes but here they will go bad too quickly if I don't
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Post by auntiepeas on Feb 13, 2022 0:45:23 GMT
My minor vent is the shocks you can get when reaching for things on the shelves.
During our first lockdown we were only allowed to go to the closest supermarket which, in my case, just happened to be the worst I’ve struck for static electricity (something to do with the trolleys and flooring, and possibly the shelving, apparently).
I’d get shocks the whole way round.
It didn’t help that this particular supermarket didn’t do anything about controlling the flow of custsomers around the store (what social distancing?!) or the maskholes. So you can just imagine what my mood was like by the time I’d gotten to the end of my list.
Thankfully, the one sanity saver was that you had to put your own groceries into the trolley and wait till you got back to your vehicle to bag.😅
I now know to use a basket whenever I’m doing my shopping in person but I’m also working up to using online shopping + click and collect - it just means switching to a different chain (Countdown vs New World) and finding substitutes for the products I normally get which they don’t carry.
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Post by originalvanillabean on Feb 13, 2022 0:45:54 GMT
If I absolutely have to use a lane with a cashier (b/c I prefer self checkout ) I put items on the belt exactly how I want them bagged and I let them know. I prefer paper (so I can put my recycle in it later) but if it is Trader Joe's I give them the bags and tell them they can make it as heavy as they want.
It's probably tough to know who wants heavy, light, balanced, throw the shampoo in with produce, absolutely do NOT throw the shampoo in with produce, etc....
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Post by Legacy Girl on Feb 13, 2022 2:22:52 GMT
When we vacation in Virginia, I love the fact that our Food Lion has different color bags for cold food (blue) vs. non-refrigerated items (white, I think). I always load the belt with all cold items together and all non-refrigerated together but when I'm at home, they all get mixed in together. Drives me crazy, especially in the summer when I'm on the run and really only want to stop by my house to put the cold items in the 'fridge before they spoil. And yes, I'm sitting on the "old lady complaining about her grocery sorting" bench. Have you been in Virginia lately? We've just put in place that bag tax law so now we have a whole new set of issues, lol. If you don't want to pay a tax per plastic bag you have to bring your own. The cashiers aren't happy because so many people bring an assortment of reusable bags. Then they either hand them to the cashier first and the cashier has to deal with that -- the biggest problem is that some of them don't fit will on the metal thingy that holds the plastic bags so they have to deal work with a floppy cloth bag. At my regular grocery store though some of the cashiers often don't even bother to bag the groceries, they just push them down to the end and expect the customer to do it. I don't really mind unless I've gotten a cashier with an "attitude". We have a few of those and I try to avoid them when I can. I just go about bagging my groceries and if they think I'm going too slowly they can just help. ugh I SO much prefer self-checkout and that's what I do most of them time if I can. Or, if I have to take a cashier line I'll often just tell them no bags and I load the groceries back into the cart like they do at Aldi. Then when I get to my car I pack them up into boxes and bags. I'll often leave non perishable things in my car for a few days if I don't want to haul it all in at once. We were there in January and they probably just charged us the tax since we didn't know about the new policy and didn't take our bags with us. Actually, Virginia will probably love us because we probably won't ever bring our own shopping bags...when we pile everything in the car for a week in the mountains, the last thing we need to worry about is taking our own grocery bags.
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Post by lindas on Feb 13, 2022 3:40:18 GMT
I’m not even going to comment on the bagging groceries debate, what I want to know is do people go to the supermarket for 3 things and actually walk out with just those 3 things? Please, tell me how you do it because I would walk out with 3 full bags.
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Post by pjaye on Feb 13, 2022 5:03:29 GMT
As as result of this thread I just did a search for "scan and go" and one of the big chains is doing it here...you scan with your phone as you shop and pay in the app, then go to a separate check-out & show the code that you've paid and the gate opens to let you out. Sounds promising! Only in one shop that I sometimes go to, but I'm definitely going to try it next time I'm there.
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