When you have a family of three and you’re shopping for them by yourself and have to put them on the conveyor belt without help, it’s a big time saver.
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cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Never understood (or experienced) having my purchases bagged for me when I do groceries
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 months ago
cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The people i see who have loaded carts, usually just pop everything back into the cart and repacl either when they offload into the car or before they exit the store
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 months ago
That sounds like a great way to piss off other shoppers considering the lack of space for everyone to take the time for either of those activities in many supermarkets.
cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I guess we must accept that things work differently in different parts of the world. It works fine here and no one gets either pissed off or is in the way.
Risus_Nex@lemmy.world 6 months ago
That’s the way!
nifty@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It creates jobs.
cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 6 months ago
You’re not the first one to say so, but a job that exist just to create jobs sounds like a bad excuse. Why would a store just create jobs?
Syltti@lemmy.world 6 months ago
To create cheap (overworked) labor to make a customer’s shopping experience better, in hopes of them coming back to spend more money.
HardNut@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Checkout baggers are not overworked…
aidan@lemmy.world 6 months ago
A lot of the time it exists to provide jobs essentially.
Uncle_Bagel@midwest.social 6 months ago
From the grocery store’s perspective, at least in the US, it keeps the checkout lines moving way faster when some kid who is trained to bag groceries does it, rather than waiting for the customer to figure out how to pack it.
ExLisper@linux.community 6 months ago
All grocery stores where I live have this device consisting of swivelling plank separating the packing area into two. If someone is slow at bagging the clerk will simply move the plank and all groceries go into the second half where the second person can bag them. It gives the first person time to bag and the next customer again has their groceries place in the first half.
2piradians@lemmy.world 6 months ago
We have these in my area as well, though these stores are mostly considered vendors for poor folk.
Funny enough, the upscale stores have tons of self-checkouts and fewer cashiers. It’s as if bagging one’s own groceries with a cashier is for unfortunates, but doing both jobs yourself is in fashion.
cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 6 months ago
You say this, but it never seems to be an issue here. Its a cultural thing i guess but people seem to manage without
Syndic@feddit.de 6 months ago
And yet somehow this isn’t a problem at all in countries where we don’t have people bagging our groceries. Checkouts very rarely have any downtime where we need to wait on people to finish bagging. Even with old people.
Pazuzu@midwest.social 6 months ago
Big difference between being walking distance from groceries and needing to drive there. Bagging a few days worth of groceries is a lot faster than 2 weeks worth
Syndic@feddit.de 6 months ago
A lot of people here go shopping by car for a whole week as well and we also have people living in areas where the next shopping isn’t in walking distance. And it still works just fine. It’s really easy because of course you don’t have to stand in front of the checkout the whole time but can already bag stuff. As long as you can bag your groceries as fast as they are being scanned it’s really no big problem. And if you’re a 90 year old granny who isn’t as fast, they still can bag their groceries while the next costumer is being processed since the packaging area is usually divided into two sections.
I’m really sorry, but the US didn’t invent some special kind of super grocery shopping which no other country can understand. You just like the convenience of not bagging your stuff yourself. It’s really not some top secret technique to make shopping 150% more efficient or something.
calavera@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Since most US people go to the market by car why do they need to pack? When I shop by car I just throw everything in the cart and then everything in the trunk, I only pack meat and some other moisty stuff
theangryseal@lemmy.world 6 months ago
We have a cultural practice here in the states where we display dominance to our neighbors by carrying all of our groceries in one trip.
I’d look like a total bitch juggling and dropping everything from the car to the front door.
As it is right now, I deadlift my groceries and walk about 20 feet looking totally rad and dominant. I do this while loudly reminding my woman to “git” (which means something totally different from the git you’re used to) so the neighbors know that I’m a man’s man who doesn’t need any help from a female. That also shows her that I respect her weakness and don’t want her to get injured, which gets me laid later in the day. She rolls her eyes, but she knows how it is. This is why I have a pile of children by the way. All weak female children, but one day I will have a son and I will train him in the ways of his ancestors.
Everyone always listens for their neighbor’s car too so they can step outside to giggle while they struggle and drop their groceries. Of course we also gotta help the ladies whose men have abandoned them to deadlift groceries by themselves.
Makiterr@iusearchlinux.fyi 6 months ago
But seriously, why not put a bag or box in your car, put the groceries from the shopping cart in there and then carry that bag from the car to your home?