From somewhere on twitter:
So l am at Walmart scanning and bagging my almost $300 worth of groceries while the employee that wants $15 an hour “monitors” and then this happened.
Her – why are you double bagging all of your groceries?
Me – excuse me?
Her – you are wasting our bags!
Me – if you don’t like the way I’m bagging the groceries, feel free to come on over here and bag them yourself.
Her – that’s not my job!
Me – okay, then I will bag my groceries how I please if that’s all right with you.
Her – why are you using two bags?!
Me – because the bags are weak and I don’t want the handles to break or the bottoms to rip out.
Her – well that’s because you are putting too much stuff in the bag. If you took half of that stuff out and put it in a different bag then you wouldn’t need to double bag.
*10 seconds of me just staring at her.
Me – so you want me to split these items in half and put half of them in a different bag so that I don’t have to double bag.
Her – exactly.
Me – so I would still be using two bags to hold the same number of items.
Her – no because you wouldn’t be double bagging.
*me pressing two fingers to my left eye in an attempt to make it stop twitching.
Me – okay so here I have a jug of milk and a bottle of juice double bagged. If I take the milk out and remove the double bagging and just put the milk in the single bag and the juice in that single bag I’m still using two bags for these two items.
Her- no because you are not double bagging them so it’s not the same number of bags.
I should be stunned by that, but I’m not.
The Wally CCP-Mart are the worst.
Locally the Dollar-O-Rama will put each individual item in one bag and ask if you want your drink left out put or bleach off separately as if the container was leaking.
I love how the Sack-N-Save acts like the dollar circus doesn’t exist with overpriced whipped cream, trash bags, bleach, paper items but they do have a killer manager’s end of aisle closeout and picked up canned pecans earlier for a song!
First job was grocery store sacker and it was all paper bags back then and like Devo said…hold the pickles, hold the lettuce, special orders don’t upset us.
I have cloth grocery bags that are over twenty years old and I am still using them.
I got one of them stories too.
Went to get some groceries at wal mart and thought I would grab some beer. My daughter was with me that day. Got to the checkout and the girl wanted to see my id. Ok np. Then she asked for my teenage daughter’s id. I said she didn’t have one she’s 15 and my kid, the beer is for me. She tried to act like she wasn’t going to sell it to me. Called the manager over and explained how stupid the clerk was. The manager told her to ring it up and then apologized to me. I got just loud enough that some folks could hear what was up as I explained to the clerk just how ignorant she was. The little blue haired, nose ringed, neck tattooed slut looked so pissed and defeated.
@ Anon, the slow kids got caught at the local liquor store by the undercover excise police and anything taboo will be obtained by any means necessary.
Later I rocked the pop machine back and forth to pass out to them after they got a good lashing from parents.
Skated off on my Jeff Grosso Santa Cruz board.
The best part of self-checkout is the people who couldn’t operate a digital cash register or make change and they vote!
We’ll be lucky as a species to survive terminal peak stupidity.