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If you're packing it, place it on the belt in the order in which you want to pack it. If the cashier is packing it place it on the belt in the order in which you'd like it packed. Almost all the cashiers I deal with are very nice and I'm rarely vexed by them.

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Our cart is usually way too full to be able to put stuff up in the order of packing.
Apart from the blokes and their slowness, I don't get irritated at them either.

It's just quite obvious that I can put, say, half a dozen packs of butter down first and instead of picking them up from the front causing the belt to move, allowing more stuff to be added, they'll leave the ones at the front as long as they can so it doesn't move.

I'd probably do the same :nod:

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A lot of times guys work elsewhere in the store most of the time and then get pulled to the front.... When I worked retail every so often I would get pulled to the front, and because I did it so infrequently, I had to think about every step, it just wasn't natural, those who did it daily, could do it automatic and not have to think what the next step/button was...lol

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Glad its not just me!

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If you see my post above, you will see that is exactly what I do. Unfortunately, some cashiers seem to ignore that and pick and choose what to put in each bag.

:(

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Yep, I too place it all in order on the belt and then they ignore it. No I don't want smelly toiletries in with the veg, yes I do want all the frozen and chilled together. No don't put that hot chicken on top of the chocolate! This just happened, I'm a little shaken but I'll be ok thank you.

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Apart from keeping frozen/ chilled stuff together, my only priority in packing is sturdy stuff at the bottom and fragile stuff at the top.

Where I shop the toiletries come in sealed packages.... :-/

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Grab as many plastic produce bags as it takes and slide meat, poultry, etc (anything that could leak/cross-contaminate) into them, the cashiers will pull the bags back far enough to scan and it keeps your grocery bags cleaner.

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They're still stinky.

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I don't buy toiletries at the grocery store normally, highest prices for those items most of the time, better to go elsewhere for those items.

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Not if you have to drive 85 km round trip when you've run out of laundry soap.

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True. We don't have that issue for toiletries. We do have that issue for shoes and other clothing especially for men, but the only choices in town is Mark's and Wal-Mart for mens shoes, so if your not into the styles (and poor quality in one case) you have to trek 60-70km into the city.

Women have more choice in town for those items.

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Oh dear.

Sobeys today, where packing is normally an art form.

The cashier was really slow with the person in front of us.

For my mother in law's turn she had all her small bottles - not heavy, not glass - at the front clearly put there to go in her bag together. She had three bags and not enough items to fill all three.

They were picked up in a way that left some there to prevent the belt moving.

A few more things were added from further back.

Then the cashier started removing some of the stuff he (yes, of course it was a he) had put in the bag and started re-doing it.

I had my stuff lined up for a small backpack with plenty of room for what I had.

Thin box on its side followed by carton of OJ and jars of mayo and pickled onions (Haywards of course) to hold it there, then frozen veg to go in the space next to it and two loaves of bread on top, not getting crushed.

I'm lifting MIL's bags onto cart so he starts before I can do it the logical way or intervene. Frozen stuff first, then jars, then box and no room for bread on top.

Part of his slowness with the person in front was looking over the stuff ready to scan. What for, if he's not seeing the obvious way to pack?

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‘The plunging loonie is juicing food costs’ - National | Globalnews.ca


"Supermarket prices rose 3.7 per cent last month compared to November 2014, led by rising costs for produce, which saw prices climb 8 per cent last month, and meat. Meat prices rose at a rate that was a tick shy of 4 per cent – still higher than headline inflation but well down from the double-digit jumps consumers were seeing earlier in the year."

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There are exceptions of course but I feel almost exempt from these increases. Perhaps I'm really a millionaire. :lol:

I can still buy joints of beef for as little as $3.99 lb. Bought one two days ago in Sobeys. Not a best before date approaching, just a flyer price. Even Prime Premium was down to $6.88 and my step daughter came back with two of those the other day.

The xmas Butterball Turkey "normally" well over $2 lb is now $1.49 several times a year whereas in 2005 it was $1.29 several times a year.

But even the Walmart ones around 99c cook really well if you're careful.

Pepsi can be had most weeks for the same $1-$1.25 for 2l as back in 2005. My whisky is about $36 instead of $33.

Eggs at Shoppers are still (mostly) $1.99 just as when we moved. Butter can still be had for the same price there.

So many things are available for the same reduced prices as years ago.