http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100227205505AAMQXrb
― buzza, Monday, 28 March 2011 14:49 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm so confused by the cashier who thinks that taxpayers pay her minimum wage.
― go peddle your bullshit somewhere else sister (Laurel), Monday, 28 March 2011 14:59 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah around here the baggers are right on top of things, if you bag your own they shove you out of the way and smack you with a sack of potatoes
― Get me two meatball sandwiches Utah! TWO! (thebingo), Monday, 28 March 2011 15:28 (thirteen years ago) link
yahoo answers, you are a traet
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Monday, 28 March 2011 15:31 (thirteen years ago) link
If I'm in a restaurant and see my food waiting on the counter, I usually give the waiter a break and just go get it myself. I know where the condiments are and everything.
Why make that couple who just walked in wait to order just because I'm too lazy to get up and get something myself?
― http://tinyurl.com/vroooo0ooooom (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 28 March 2011 15:31 (thirteen years ago) link
sorry, i mean YOU are A TREAT
What is this improbable un-American fairy-land??
We have Aldi here in Chicago, and you have to buy bags — but groceries are super cheap.
― corey, Monday, 28 March 2011 15:39 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm not reading this thread because obviously but publix has baggers so it's all cool, more jobs and such -- you aren't allowed to tip them tho
― wavy g. wavegarten (J0rdan S.), Monday, 28 March 2011 15:41 (thirteen years ago) link
I think I started bagging my own foodz only in NY because the baggers ALWAYS have a bowl out for tips, and I always kind of got the impression that it was an "extra" service and if I let them help me, I would be obligated to tip, and I would just rather not enter into that social contract for additional money, if that's okay...?
― go peddle your bullshit somewhere else sister (Laurel), Monday, 28 March 2011 15:42 (thirteen years ago) link
'cause waiting in line in the supermarket is just as much fun as sitting in a restaurant. hmmm wonder what supermarket line i will visit with my s.o. next valentine's day?
― and the hint of parp (ledge), Monday, 28 March 2011 15:44 (thirteen years ago) link
one of those aldi's is opening up near my office. wtf is it.
― Get me two meatball sandwiches Utah! TWO! (thebingo), Monday, 28 March 2011 15:44 (thirteen years ago) link
I intentionally buy large and awkward items because I enjoy seeing them struggle. Is it cruel? Perhaps.
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Monday, 28 March 2011 15:45 (thirteen years ago) link
cheap off brand goods xp
― Aerosol, Monday, 28 March 2011 15:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Waiting for food in a restaurant can be more annoying than waiting in line at the grocery store. Maybe not on St. Freaking Valentine's Day, but on a lunch break, sure.
― http://tinyurl.com/vroooo0ooooom (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 28 March 2011 15:50 (thirteen years ago) link
I pretty much don't trust checkout people to bag my shopping properly, last time I tried it I ended up with someone half-arsedly chucking several bottles of wine on top of a box of eggs.
― Matt DC, Monday, 28 March 2011 15:51 (thirteen years ago) link
is this aldi stuff quality?
― Get me two meatball sandwiches Utah! TWO! (thebingo), Monday, 28 March 2011 15:51 (thirteen years ago) link
I have absolutely nothing to say on this topic.
― frogbs, Monday, 28 March 2011 15:53 (thirteen years ago) link
But if the fake posters from the "super-ILXor" thread actually started their own threads, this would be one of them.
I'm super-concerned with price accuracy as well; I've learned to strategically sequence my items on the conveyor belt so that even the most idiotic, thoughtless cashier can stack things correctly.
― they call him (remy bean), Monday, 28 March 2011 16:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah I put the heavy stuff at the front and save the light but bulky and/or fragile items for last. But a cashier can still let things accumulate at the end and grab any old item.
― go peddle your bullshit somewhere else sister (Laurel), Monday, 28 March 2011 16:10 (thirteen years ago) link
In most UK shops/supermarkets you bag your own shopping, but if the cashier bags the items as they scan them I let them, otherwse I'm just getting in their way
(I have no car so I am generally only buying at most 2 bagfuls of shopping anyway, in which case there isn't much room for multitasking)
Aldi is v good for stereotypically German things such as cured meats and chocolate imo. but I am not buying fresh veg there again after last time I bought a broccoli which was full of mystery dead bugz which I didn't notice when I washed it
― dimension hatris (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 28 March 2011 16:15 (thirteen years ago) link
People who use the self-checkout stands for an entire cartload of groceries are even more irredeemable scoundrels, IMO.
― boots get knocked from here to czechoslovakier (milo z), Monday, 28 March 2011 16:15 (thirteen years ago) link
I use Aldi for really cheap cereal and pasta stuff, have never bought fresh things from them. I think it varies from store to store though — the one closest by me is kind of dingy-looking, but there's another one on the north side of town that looks like Ikea for food.
― corey, Monday, 28 March 2011 16:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Figures this thread would start with a smug Trader Joe's shopper.
At my local grocery if you bag your own they stop you and say "that's what I'm here for."
― thirdalternative, Monday, 28 March 2011 16:19 (thirteen years ago) link
This dilemma seems totally foreign to me. At the stores I go to, either a bagger is expected at the end of the lane, or there will be a bagging apparatus on a carousel right next to the register, so that the cashier can easily bag the items during the scanning process. In my travels, this seems to be the general way of the modern American grocery store. I don't have a Trader Joe's near me, so maybe they are late to the 21st Century in terms of grocery bagging technology/practices?
Also, as a former teenage grocery bagger, I can assure you that tips are just not part of the equation. Not only are they not expected, but in many cases the store's policy will be to encourage baggers to turn them down if they are offered. Where I worked (a prominent national chain), accepting gratuities was a punishable offense.
― Grotjahn in the Moma (Pillbox), Monday, 28 March 2011 16:20 (thirteen years ago) link
The local Walmart tried self-check stands for a year but the combination of scales that couldn't be kept working and the undereducated who constantly needed help using them (cancelling out much of the payroll cost savings) ended that experiment.
― The Louvin Spoonful (WmC), Monday, 28 March 2011 16:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Walmart cracks me up because their express lanes are for "25 Items or Less".
It should be "…or Fewer", but I'm not even going to get started on that right now.
― http://tinyurl.com/vroooo0ooooom (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 28 March 2011 16:25 (thirteen years ago) link
the aldi they just put up here is smack dab in the absolute worst part of town.
― Get me two meatball sandwiches Utah! TWO! (thebingo), Monday, 28 March 2011 16:27 (thirteen years ago) link
People in a hurry = worst of the savages. You're alive, you have the privilege of shopping in a grocery store with fresh food and all, maybe take a klonopin before you go shop or something
― blank, Monday, 28 March 2011 16:33 (thirteen years ago) link
every Aldi I've seen has been in cracktown xp
― (;,;) (rip van wanko), Monday, 28 March 2011 16:37 (thirteen years ago) link
I admire any chain that gives the worst parts of town an actual grocery store to shop in.
― The Louvin Spoonful (WmC), Monday, 28 March 2011 16:43 (thirteen years ago) link
lol i must live in the worst part of town
― Aerosol, Monday, 28 March 2011 16:47 (thirteen years ago) link
xps: I miss the hell out of my WalMart. I would have thought given the working-class skew to my neighborhood that there would have been a Wal-Mart less than a 30-minute drive away, but no. There's a K-Mart, which is like a Wal-Mart but the merchandise tends to be seriously substandard. Then there's a Target not far away which is great, but that's not a Wal-Mart either.
― kkvgz, Monday, 28 March 2011 16:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Ours still has them but I have the feeling they'll be gone soon. In the defense of the undereducated, they are not very intuitive and are a big hassle if you're buying a lot of fruits or vegetables. Plus, it seems like it would be pretty easy to cheat them.
― frogbs, Monday, 28 March 2011 16:50 (thirteen years ago) link
This is usually my favorite part of shopping at Kroger on Saturday:
EMPLOYEE: Attention, everybody! We have three stations open with no waiting in our self-service aisle!CUSTOMERS: [continue to stare straight ahead.]
― http://tinyurl.com/vroooo0ooooom (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 28 March 2011 16:54 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost -- oh yeah, I could always make note of the PLU# of a cheaper variety of apples or whatever and take the Bentonville billionaires for a few cents per trip
― The Louvin Spoonful (WmC), Monday, 28 March 2011 16:58 (thirteen years ago) link
so you stole from the market
― they call him (remy bean), Monday, 28 March 2011 17:01 (thirteen years ago) link
the aldi here is in the projects.
― Get me two meatball sandwiches Utah! TWO! (thebingo), Monday, 28 March 2011 17:02 (thirteen years ago) link
oh wait, I got my verb tense wrong -- I meant to say "I could have made note..."
― The Louvin Spoonful (WmC), Monday, 28 March 2011 17:03 (thirteen years ago) link
haha, okay. i just thought it seemed out of character.
― they call him (remy bean), Monday, 28 March 2011 17:05 (thirteen years ago) link
::whistles tunelessly, walks to car with apples::
― The Louvin Spoonful (WmC), Monday, 28 March 2011 17:06 (thirteen years ago) link
macintosh under your hat
― they call him (remy bean), Monday, 28 March 2011 17:08 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.phlmetropolis.com/2011/02/by-roz-warren-bagging-your.php
― buzza, Monday, 28 March 2011 17:09 (thirteen years ago) link
At the stores I go to, either a bagger is expected at the end of the lane, or there will be a bagging apparatus on a carousel right next to the register, so that the cashier can easily bag the items during the scanning process.
This. There's a metal thing that keeps the bag open, the cashier scans it and it goes straight in the bag. What the fuck happens at other places, everything is scanned and put to the side, and then bagged?
xpost
Er, the point about self scan is you can put pretty much *anything* though for the cheapest weight price, not saving a couple of cents on some apples.
― RuPaul Weller (S-), Monday, 28 March 2011 17:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Well, I was never that bold -- or, er, I would never have been that bold.
― The Louvin Spoonful (WmC), Monday, 28 March 2011 17:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Co-sign to other posts upthread, staff at our grocery store don't like you to bag your own groceries, and a bagger will usually come over and take it off your hands. They have floaters who rotate around for that purpose.
I don't use the self-checkout unless I'm shopping late at night and only have a tub of icecream, or if the lines are crazy and I only have one or 2 items. I don't want to give the supermarket corporation the impression that I would prefer one of those machines over their staff...because I like the kids who work at our grocery store and I don't want them put out of jobs because I'm in a 'hurry'.
Plus self-checkouts are a total trap -- because most of the people going through it are MORANS who try to check whole carts of groceries, have no idea what they're doing and make it 900 times slower than going through the checkout.
― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 28 March 2011 17:27 (thirteen years ago) link
people who decry minor quotidian inconveniences on the internet
― tangelo amour (elmo argonaut), Monday, 28 March 2011 17:31 (thirteen years ago) link
and much as I love Trader Joe's cheap snack foods, I don't love it enough to go there because the whole experience is about as annoying as shopping can possibly be for me. too crowded, parking lots invariably suck ass, carts are spindly and annoying, too crowded, too crowded and too crowded
― VegemiteGrrl, Monday, 28 March 2011 17:31 (thirteen years ago) link
too much unhealthy food masquerading as nutritious
― they call him (remy bean), Monday, 28 March 2011 17:32 (thirteen years ago) link
people who take meaningless hassles personally
― tangelo amour (elmo argonaut), Monday, 28 March 2011 17:34 (thirteen years ago) link
i've entered organic apples as regular ol apples on "accident"
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 20:56 (thirteen years ago) link
The thing that bugs me about Trader Joe's friendly cashiers is that it's so obv a corporate-ordered faux friendliness. I like spontaneous, genuine friendliness, I really do.
I've wondered about this too but whenever I encounter the TJ cashiers out and about in the neighborhood they seem just the same.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 21:53 (thirteen years ago) link
it's the implanted microchip
― whelping at his sandpapery best (DJP), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 22:01 (thirteen years ago) link
The Manchurian Cashier
― San Te, Wednesday, 30 March 2011 22:06 (thirteen years ago) link
"OH HAI EEPHUS! HEY I SEE YOU'RE WEARING LEVIS, HAVE YOU TRIED THE NEW CORDS THEY CAME OUT WITH? THEY'RE REALLY COMFY! OK NICE SEEING YOU, COME AGAIN!"
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 30 March 2011 22:10 (thirteen years ago) link
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_D1ZZyTOG7tQ/SPe79j-_U3I/AAAAAAAAC3E/AxtnFvTrnfE/s400/The_Stepford_Wives_1975_Grocery_Store.JPG
― buzza, Wednesday, 30 March 2011 22:13 (thirteen years ago) link
The memorising of prices definitely *was* the case until they introduced scanners into stores.
...and I guess putting price tags on stuff wasn't an option for some reason.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Wednesday, 30 March 2011 23:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Price tags and guns are expensive. Also, I wonder if having to remember all those prices actually keeps you more alert while you're working the till?
― trishyb, Thursday, 31 March 2011 09:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Ok, so I did this today. I took the plunge. And it wasn't so bad! Just another way in which ilx has improved my life, like enjoying the music of Ashley Simpson or making fun of people in cargo shorts.
― kkvgz, Sunday, 3 April 2011 12:50 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't bag my own groceries, but there's no shame in my game cuz in Publixs in America it's nearly impossible to do that
― San Te, Sunday, 3 April 2011 12:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Did this again yesterday, even though there was a bagger, because it looked like he needed some help. Then when I got home, it turned out that bastard had put my kale on the bottom of a bag of much heavier stuff. I don't think I'm going to let anyone bag my groceries again.
― kkvgz, Monday, 18 April 2011 18:22 (thirteen years ago) link
People who let incompetent buffoons bag their groceries are the most irredeemable scoundrels
― kkvgz, Monday, 18 April 2011 18:24 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/iltZs6j.jpg
― pplains, Saturday, 4 February 2017 03:50 (seven years ago) link
I support this
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Saturday, 4 February 2017 04:44 (seven years ago) link
Make bagging great again
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Saturday, 4 February 2017 04:45 (seven years ago) link