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Originally posted by ShaedyKD
Spin off from the gas thread, because someone in there got me thinking.
At a certain grocery store here in Houston, the cashiers actually take your groceries out of the cart for you. There's no conveyor belt, you just push your cart up, and everything is done for you. I have been to grocery stores in at least 10 different states, and I've never seen this before, except maybe at the Costco/Sams Club.
In FL, half the time, there's no bagger, so you bag your own groceries - which didn't bother me, because that way the eggs and bread doesn't end up in the same bag as the huge laundry detergent bottle, or canned goods. But here, it's like once you pull an item from a shelf and put it in your cart, you can't touch it again until you leave the store. People will stand there and wait for the cashier to not only take the items out of the cart, ring them up, and then bag them. This takes forever, I don't see why people can't bag their own groceries.
Is this common in grocery stores in Texas? Anywhere else?
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It's very common; we actually have this at the store i work at - It's actually a little easier for the checker to just do it themselves, but yall, seriously feel free to help them out with the 40 lb bag of dogfood and the 20 lb box of cat litter!
Ok..my little rant:P:
I work in a large, busy store, and I can't tell yall how many times I've hopped on a checkstand to help out, and get a customer with a huge load of groceries and all they do is stand there. Now when i hop onto a register, I pull people out of lines and check them out, which really, i don't have to do, I just do it to help out! Now if I pull you out of a line,and you have so many items and if the conveyor is so loaded down items are falling off, PUT DOWN THE PEOPLE MAGAZINE that you're technically stealing since you aren't paying for it (Yep, it's considered that-at least by our policy) and give me some help!
I can sort've understand, since they're not only paying for groceries they're paying for a service, but keep in mind, a checker really only gets paid to check.