People who don't bag their own groceries are the most irredeemable scoundrels

Do you also pay for your own bags? We have to: five cents per plastic bag.

― Nathalie (stevienixed), Wednesday, March 30, 2011 6:19 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

It was a long time ago (I was there for a couple of months in 1994), but I don't remember any disposable bags being present at all. I think I had to buy a reusable tote bag or two.

i like the self-scanners because the cashiers often don't notice that i have obsessively picked the cheapest produce out of the all the different variations. that is not a SWEET ONION that is a YELLOW ONION, there is a FORTY-CENT PER POUND PRICE DIFFERENCE!!!!

This EXACT thing happened to me last week, same onions and price diff! Obviously being English I didn't say anything, just looked a bit grumpy about it when I realised.

Me too, a couple weeks ago. Picked the Jazz apples explicitly because they were 79 cents/lb (and I'd never had them before), got charged for Fujis at $1.79/lb. Not that big a deal with ~2 lbs, but still pissed me off.

it adds up.

i've entered organic apples as regular ol apples on "accident"

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.

it's the implanted microchip

The Manchurian Cashier

"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!"

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_D1ZZyTOG7tQ/SPe79j-_U3I/AAAAAAAAC3E/AxtnFvTrnfE/s400/The_Stepford_Wives_1975_Grocery_Store.JPG

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.

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?

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.

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

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.

People who let incompetent buffoons bag their groceries are the most irredeemable scoundrels

http://i.imgur.com/iltZs6j.jpg

I support this

Make bagging great again