Bags, Bigots and Bloody Meat

[Ezio]

Bag Woman

SC is in her mid-to-late 50's and has a cart crammed to the top with stuff. She starts putting her order on the belt and the checker (teenage guy) tells me that she sent her granddaughter out to her car to get her reusable bags, 10 minutes ago. The line is already three deep and the lady is taking her sweet time unloading. All of a sudden she exclaims "The chicken! I forgot the chicken!" and the checker sends me to get her a BBQ rotisserie chicken, we've run out of that flavor. I go back and tell SC. She rolls her eyes, mumbles under her breath about someone taking the one she'd put in the back of the case and I end up bringing her a Lemon Pepper one.

When I get back, the granddaughter has brought the bags and the woman is yelling at my manager. From what I could tell, my manager had filled her cold bag with the cold stuff and since the woman had only two regular bags (one had produce and the other had bread) my manager went ahead and used the remaining cold bags for the cans. The woman by the way is acting like a spoiled two year old. Slamming her purse down and huffing the way a child will. She finishes the transaction and goes over to customer service with her granddaughter trying to avoid her fury (SC yells at her about something) and she continues her tantrum by yelling at the new customer service lady.

Homophobic Man in The Pink Shirt

This one happened a few years ago. At the time we had a checker named "Paul". Paul is in college for movie editing/filming (don't know the exact course name) and is a real nice guy. The SC in question is one of the more affluent customers that come to the store. He drives a sports car, has two kids in a $$$ private school, and wife that has sent a plastic surgeon on a vacation to Cancun.

Of course, he needs a carryout. From what I remember:
Man: Is that tall kid with the red hair a *homosexual slur*?
Me: Paul, the guy who did your order?
Man: Yeah, him. He was talking about going to Hollywood and making movies. He talks and acts like a girl.
Me:Whats wrong with that?
Man: That's disgusting!

You're Killing the Planet!

Guy has an order that, from what I remember, consisted of a few cans, boxes and a cold item and raw bloody beef. I put the raw bloody beef in its on little bag and then put it in the bag with the cold item. Guy finishes his order and then walks away. Two minutes later I hear him ranting at a manager about how we're "killing the planet" by using so many bags.

[XCashier]

Guy has an order that, from what I remember, consisted of a few cans, boxes and a cold item and raw bloody beef. I put the raw bloody beef in its on little bag and then put it in the bag with the cold item. Guy finishes his order and then walks away. Two minutes later I hear him ranting at a manager about how we're "killing the planet" by using so many bags.

And after his smug little rant, he hopped into his Hummer and drove home the long way...

[Pixilated]

And if you hadn't been so keen to kill the planet, he'd have been whining that his chunk of edible carcass had bled all over everything else and he wanted replacements plus something for his trauma/inconvenience/you name it ...

For the record, I'm an omnivore -- just rushed off to buy two packages of bacon to beat the worldwide bacon shortage that's on the way -- but I do understand why grocery staff double-bag meat. Those bags can either be re-used or, in many places, recycled.

XCashier:

[telecom_goddess]

For the record, I'm an omnivore -- just rushed off to buy two packages of bacon to beat the worldwide bacon shortage that's on the way -- but I do understand why grocery staff double-bag meat. Those bags can either be re-used or, in many places, recycled.

XCashier:

at the Winco I usually go to they have plastic bags at all the meat counters to wrap your meat in so it doesn't leak on stuff. Common sense. And as for reusing those bags no they tend to stink of rotten meat way too soon.

[AmbrosiaWriter]

And as for reusing those bags no they tend to stink of rotten meat way too soon.

We typically reuse them by picking up doggie poopie. The smell doesn't matter so much when you're picking up a turd.


Also, I really get annoyed with people who hide items they want. I was looking to grab a 2% milk gallon and a 1/2 gallon of whole milk. I notice there is no more 2% then I notice a differently colored cap hiding way behind the 1% milk gallons. I yank it out and low-and-behold... 2%!

A couple minutes later I saw someone pawing through the 1% gallons - I cackled and rubbed my hands together gleefully.

[telecom_goddess]

We typically reuse them by picking up doggie poopie. The smell doesn't matter so much when you're picking up a turd.

Oh well good point there! hadn't thought of that

[scruff]

Bag Woman
Man: Yeah, him. He was talking about going to Hollywood and making movies. He talks and acts like a girl.
Me:Whats wrong with that?
Man: That's disgusting!

I'd have looked blank and said something about how I'm sorry he finds movies disgusting.

[thehuckster]

I'd have looked blank and said something about how I'm sorry he finds movies disgusting.

I'd have also asked why he thinks Steven Spielberg and George Lucas are gay.

[Food Lady]

I'd have looked blank and said something about how I'm sorry he finds movies disgusting.

Or you could ask him to define the slur he used. Or just keep repeating it, as in, "I'm sorry, is he a what? Oh, is he a slur? I'm not sure. Hey, [coworker], is so-and-so a [slur]?" And just keep getting louder. Of course, you'd probably get fired. But one can dream....

As for bloody meat guy, someone should tell him meat-eating is taking a far worse toll on the earth than plastic.

[Pixilated]

Oh well good point there! hadn't thought of that

Something similar here ... I use it to dispose of the kitty litter.

[Sleepwalker]

Ha, I was about to say that. You can't make cat scat smell much worse than it already does!

[PepperElf]

at the Winco I usually go to they have plastic bags at all the meat counters to wrap your meat in so it doesn't leak on stuff. Common sense. And as for reusing those bags no they tend to stink of rotten meat way too soon.

my boyfriend uses the produce bags for this.

[An Haddock]

Or you could ask him to define the slur he used. Or just keep repeating it, as in, "I'm sorry, is he a what? Oh, is he a slur? I'm not sure. Hey, [coworker], is so-and-so a [slur]?" And just keep getting louder. Of course, you'd probably get fired. But one can dream....

I would have done the same... although followed it up with "Would you like his phone number, sir? I can't guarantee you're his type but you never know..."

[telecom_goddess]

Ha, I was about to say that. You can't make cat scat smell much worse than it already does!

cat scat huh....allrighty then

[Flying Grype]

The double bags on the meat stay on the meat while it's thawing in the fridge, around here. Then if they're not too drippy to put in the cupboard, they get put in there and used later to pick up various sorts of poops left by pets.

Honestly, if it's store policy to double bag meat, why aren't they just double wrapping it in the meat department when it's cut? Customers wouldn't complain because they wouldn't know it.