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I'm not trying to sound snobbish or better than anyone, and I'm certainly not trying to make cashiers at Wal-Mart and grocery stores seem like peasants, but honestly, who is teaching these people how to bag?!!?!
When I worked at the grocery store, we had a bagger training video (yes, of course, extremely corny, but I now realize how necessary it was). Once I got out on the floor, bagging was easy! Soft items go with soft items, bread goes on top of eggs, cleaning supplies do NOT go with leaky meat, all frozen/cold foods go together, non grocery items should go together.....it's COMMON SENSE!
Well blas, go to Aldis, everyone says. No, I can't stand Aldis food.
When I do my weekly-bi weekly shopping, I organize everything in the cart (I'm a loser, I know). Any makeup or hair, or any cleaning supplies...anything non grocery and relatively small go in the front of the cart. All frozen foods go together. All boxed items go together.
Organizing them that way in the cart allows me to easily and effortlessly place the items in that order on the conveyer belt in just the same amount of time it'd take anyone else to put their groceries on the belt. I started doing things this way the first time I saw my frozen ravioli in the same bag as my toilet bowl cleaner
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One can assume that since I have taken it a step up, it's even easier for the cashier to bag, because there's no skipping around items, they can all be bagged in order and bagged properly. It will make the transaction go a whole lot faster for both of us.
But no, no no. It never fails. I watch as the cashier always puts my cleaning supplies and bug poisons with my frozen foods! I've seen cashiers put frozen pizzas and ice cream with PAPER plates and notebooks! I've had cotton balls get squished (and wet) when the cashier places a big family box of lasagna on top of it!
No, these aren't "stupid kids" (16 to 20 year old cashiers). These are usually adults who you'd imagine would have been doing this long enough to know better. Even if they are in a hurry....look how easy I just made everything. Everything is placed in the conveyer belt grouped up how I want it bagged!
It's my fault for not speaking up, I know, I know. I need to be more assertive with people. But I remember a certain bitching at that I got as a bagger at the grocery store when I dared put all of one woman's fruit together (and etc etc etc etc, it was embarrassing everyone heard it), and I haven't wanted to say anything because I don't want to be that woman saying, "No, no no no! You don't know what you're doing! You do this THIS way! I bagged groceries for a year and half and I know better!".
If I do speak up....how do you politely say that you want everything packed in that certain order? Maybe it's my own fault for assuming that the cashier will automatically know that everything is organized and should go that way, maybe not.
When I worked at the grocery store, we had a bagger training video (yes, of course, extremely corny, but I now realize how necessary it was). Once I got out on the floor, bagging was easy! Soft items go with soft items, bread goes on top of eggs, cleaning supplies do NOT go with leaky meat, all frozen/cold foods go together, non grocery items should go together.....it's COMMON SENSE!
Well blas, go to Aldis, everyone says. No, I can't stand Aldis food.
When I do my weekly-bi weekly shopping, I organize everything in the cart (I'm a loser, I know). Any makeup or hair, or any cleaning supplies...anything non grocery and relatively small go in the front of the cart. All frozen foods go together. All boxed items go together.
Organizing them that way in the cart allows me to easily and effortlessly place the items in that order on the conveyer belt in just the same amount of time it'd take anyone else to put their groceries on the belt. I started doing things this way the first time I saw my frozen ravioli in the same bag as my toilet bowl cleaner
. One can assume that since I have taken it a step up, it's even easier for the cashier to bag, because there's no skipping around items, they can all be bagged in order and bagged properly. It will make the transaction go a whole lot faster for both of us.
But no, no no. It never fails. I watch as the cashier always puts my cleaning supplies and bug poisons with my frozen foods! I've seen cashiers put frozen pizzas and ice cream with PAPER plates and notebooks! I've had cotton balls get squished (and wet) when the cashier places a big family box of lasagna on top of it!
No, these aren't "stupid kids" (16 to 20 year old cashiers). These are usually adults who you'd imagine would have been doing this long enough to know better. Even if they are in a hurry....look how easy I just made everything. Everything is placed in the conveyer belt grouped up how I want it bagged!
It's my fault for not speaking up, I know, I know. I need to be more assertive with people. But I remember a certain bitching at that I got as a bagger at the grocery store when I dared put all of one woman's fruit together (and etc etc etc etc, it was embarrassing everyone heard it), and I haven't wanted to say anything because I don't want to be that woman saying, "No, no no no! You don't know what you're doing! You do this THIS way! I bagged groceries for a year and half and I know better!".
If I do speak up....how do you politely say that you want everything packed in that certain order? Maybe it's my own fault for assuming that the cashier will automatically know that everything is organized and should go that way, maybe not.
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