Tracym

I'm not fast enough - I can't keep up with the cashier.

When I'm doing it, I have them half bagged - then have to stop and pay, then try to do the rest and I hold up the line.

So if the bagger is there - I'd leave them to it - most effecient way imo.

ugacrew

This is also another reason why I don't use the self-check out lines if I have enough time to use a line with a checkout clerk. I want to justify their necessity.

mayhemuk

Does anyone tip the bagger? Is this not similar to service in a restaurant? I've not seen or heard of baggers being tipped.
I know supermarkets in the UK are very profitable but that comes from high volumes on tight margins and low costs by appearing to provide staff but not actually doing it. (See campaigns to open checkouts if people are queueing etc etc)
Are supermarkets here performing similarly?

Tracym

No, we don't tip the baggers here. They are paid a regular wage.

another bloody yank

The chain I worked for did not allow us to accept tips. It was very seldom they were offered anyway, usually only after helping someone (Milf) to their car and then as I said, it was a rare occurance. I only remember accepting a tip once. It was after I had refused twice already, the woman (Milf) winked and stuck a couple bucks in my pocket (my PANTS pocket). My god, women have no idea what that kind of thing does to the 16 year old male mind.


Anyway, here's a pretty obvious tip, but if you want certain things bagged together, make sure they go down the conveyor together, it really helps the bagger out. Unload all the meat in a group, all the frozen stuff in a group etc...

Redlippie

I often use paper bags - they always have them, but then the one I go to is a posh one full of wrinklie ex hippies......

Redlippie

Dirty cow.

Rushman

Lucky sod.

surly

Doesn't happen in San Francisco.

Paper or plastic? Not anymore in San Francisco.

The city's Board of Supervisors approved groundbreaking legislation Tuesday to outlaw plastic checkout bags at large supermarkets in about six months and large chain pharmacies in about a year.


Mirkarimi's legislation is one in a string of environmentally sensitive measures -- such as outlawing Styrofoam food containers and encouraging clean-fuel construction vehicles at city job sites -- adopted by the city in recent months

ugacrew

You know this sounds like a submission to Penthouse...

Dear Penthouse,

You wouldn't believe what happened to me today....

Rushman

How do you know what those letters sound like? Hmmmm?

ugacrew

That's interesting seeing as the carbon footprint produced for shipping paper over plastic is much bigger. Just imagine the cargo space needed for 100 paper bags v. 100 plastic ones.

I'll have to do some research on my own to figure out what's a better disposable alternative.

ugacrew

I'm not a naive little girl Rushman. Funny that you know about them too.

Rushman

Know about them?? I write most of them.

Redlippie

Pervert.