Was I Sucky?

[ExArtShopSlave]

Hi!

I haven't posted in a while. About an hour ago, I had to make a run to the grocery store across the street to buy some girly items... (Hubs and I have been trying for our first baby for a few months and we keep getting a monthly disappointment. ). I asked the cashier for a bag and she rolled her eyes at me. Yea I know it was two items and I usually wouldn't ask for a bag for two things. There is a Tim Hortons inside the store and I was going to be buying a coffee and a bagel so I would've been juggling everything without a bag and walking home.

Was it sucky for me to ask for a bag?

ExArtShopSlave.

[tigger222]

No you weren't. If someone asks for a bag to put their items in they should be given one.

[AmbrosiaWriter]

Nope, cashier was total suckster here. There are any number of reasons why you'd want a bag for two items, heck even for one item, it's none of the cashier's business to be all judgmental and bitchy because, oh no, she has to do 3 seconds more of work.

[Pixilated]

Cashier needs some retraining ... or possibly a layoff notice. I almost always get asked "Do you want a bag?" even if I've only got a couple of items, at least in grocery stores. Not her business why you want a bag.

[Sandiercy]

I will say it now, someone is only sucky when they make a bigger deal out of what is not a big deal. If you shout and make a scene, then you are an SC. Normal people know that it is not polite to yell and shout when they dont get their way.

[sms001]

My eyes are on gimbals I roll them so much. And I had customers at the c-store who would demand a bag for a candy bar, step away from the counter with it, remove the candy and throw the bag away in the store.
But I still wouldn't have done so here. You're a customer, you ask for a bag, you get a bag from someone w/o attitude, the world moves on.

Suck: EASS - 0 Clerk - 1

And btw, I do the same. When I shop I'll bag my own groceries and have one bag with just one or two things in it, as I stop somewhere else on the way home and know I'll fill it there. I'm a very good recycler and nice person, and I'M the one to "judge" what bags I need.

[KatherineB]

Quite apart from the suckiness of the cashier, best of luck for you and hubs!

[b2addm]

No you weren't. Even if a customer only has one or two items, I'll ask them if they would like a bag. They usually don't but if they do, no big deal. For the cashier to roll her eyes at you over such a small request, that was sucky.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

It never has, and never will be, sucky to ask for a bag for one's purchases.

Cashier was being a buttpimple.

[fma_fanatic]

I'm sorry - sucky for asking for a bag so the whole world doesn't know you've buying personal girly items? I don't think so. I wouldn't want the world to know what I was buying either and I'm not all that girly (most of the time anyway).

I would have been tempted to ask if it was that time of month for the cashier.

[BrenDAnn]

Um no. You were in no, way, shape or form sucky. Proper response from a clerk, when a customer asks for a bag, is "Sure!" or "Of course!" NOT an eyeroll!

[dragon_wings]

I always ask customers if they want a bag when they have one item or several small items. Even for feminine products. I have some customers that do and some that don't. I've had customers get snarky with me for even asking. I mean if you have several small items that you brought to the register in your hands I know you can carry them. But I'll still ask. And when customers get pissy and say 'Of course I want a bag!' I just plainly state that I ask everyone. If I forget to ask and someone asks me I'll gladly give them a bag. /rant
Sorry your cashier was a jerk.

[Ironclad Alibi]

I don't know about the OP's area, but many places have instituted a tax on shopping bags, or have outlawed some bags altogether. I have seen news reports from Montgomery County, Maryland, about customers going ballistic over the 5 cent bag tax. I think it makes perfect sense to ask a customer if they want a shopping bag. But we all know customers that don't know what "perfect sense" means.

[ExArtShopSlave]

I don't know about the OP's area, but many places have instituted a tax on shopping bags, or have outlawed some bags altogether. I have seen news reports from Montgomery County, Maryland, about customers going ballistic over the 5 cent bag tax. I think it makes perfect sense to ask a customer if they want a shopping bag. But we all know customers that don't know what "perfect sense" means.

Bags are not outlawed or taxed here. There used to be a five cent tax on bags, but they got rid of it. I do believe however that bags will be outlawed come the new year though. That is ok. I'll just have to try to remember to bring my reusable bags with me. I am always forgetting them lol

Thanks for all your replies, everyone.

ExArtShopSlave.

[PepperElf]

nothing wrong at all. there's plenty of reasons to need bags even for small items.

you could be shopping more, elsewhere, or taking a bike etc