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We have both but we are required to bag in plastic unless the customer requests paper. A big peeve I have is when someone feels compeled to go on about how if they get plastic, their groceries end up all over their car blah blah blah. Sorry, but I get plastic all the time, and I don't have that problem.
The BIGGEST "Paper Bag" peeve is the following conversation....
SC: "Paper please"
Me: "Paper bags?"
SC: (snotty and pissy) "Yeah....what other paper would there be?"
Me: "Sorry, maam, but some people say the exact same thing when they want a newspaper. I learned the hard way, and the customer wasn't very nice about it, so I appologize if it bothers you that I like to be sure."
It really happened. I used to just assume "Paper please" meant paper bags, and thats what I did for this real sweetheart one time. So he got all his $200+ of groceries bagged in paper. Then as he left, he grabs a paper off the newstand. I informed him that I didn't charge him and he goes ballistic, because he told me!
Grrrr....please, just say "Paper Bags" or Newspaper"
Otherwise, I will confirm.
Don't get pissy if I confirm.WELCOME
Be Nice or I'll Make the Sun Go Away.
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Quoth Banrion View PostWhat I wanna know is, what do all the school children use for book covers now that most grocery stores are being stingy with paper bags?
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My local store is a Stater Bros (way cheaper than Albertsons, which is way, way cheaper than Vons) and they have paper, but never ask which you want, so if you want it, you have to ask for it.
I used to love making my book covers. With the brown paper, you could scribble all over the damn things, and if they fell apart, you'd just put a new one on and start all over.
I always get plastic, myself, then reuse them for stuff like the bathroom wastebasket, especially now that I'm in an apartment and can't just dump the basket itself into the garbage bin for collection.
^-.-^Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others. - Dresden
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My store still has paper and plastic. And if you're lucky, paper IN plastic.
What is the point?!
And, yes, my store has both options.Teach a SC to fish... and they will whine about you not catching, filleting, frying, and serving it up on a silver platter for them. - EvilEmpryss
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Quoth OfficeSlug View PostI DO NOT GET THAT COMBO! WTH?
What is the point?!Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
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Quoth OfficeSlug View PostI DO NOT GET THAT COMBO! WTH?
What is the point?!
[/geezer soliloquy]Some days, it's just not worth chewing through the restraints...
TASTE THE LIME JELLO OF DEFEAT! -Gravekeeper
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[/geezer soliloquy]
We get a LOT of boaters in my store - they're stocking up for a day out on the water (lucky bastards) so I guess the double-reinforced thing KINDA makes sense for them...Teach a SC to fish... and they will whine about you not catching, filleting, frying, and serving it up on a silver platter for them. - EvilEmpryss
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Our superWalmart only has plastic. Copp's has both and will ask, "paper or plastic?" I'm glad they do because I prefer paper bags. I put my paper/cardboard recyclables in them and just toss into the dumpster. There's another grocery I go to where they don't ask, but I'd rather have plasic there because the paper bags have no handles. My complaint about plastic is that I have to go out of my way to recycle and I end up with a gazillion of them that I don't know what to do with."Is it hot in here to you? It's very warm, isn't it?"--Nero, probably
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