on my last trip to walmart,  i knew i had a new cashier, cause when i got home the butter was in bag with the cat litter. 

Sounds like my experience - bananas in the same bag with canned goods!

Years ago, when we still shopped at Wal-Mart, we bought 5 soda's that were  bottled in glass.  The checker bagged them in a single bag when I wanted them bagged in several bags.  My dh had not taken two steps when the bag broke and the glass bottles shattered on the floor.  After all these years I still remember that incident and I still scratch my head wondering what that person was thinking.

 

      Zig

angelrose:

Sounds like my experience - bananas in the same bag with canned goods!

 

Hi ! I don't like them either ,but you will use them , if you live here. They don't have any check out lines open after certain hours except the self -scan. There are 6 self scan & one person at the end of that watching things& doing the coupons etc.Just no choice then , use them or go to different store 10 miles away.This is a Kroger.

 One of my grocery stores (Giant Food) there is an option where you can use a handheld scanner and scan the items as you put them in the grocery bags in your cart.  

 So when you pay you can either hand the scanner to a cashier or go thru the self-checkout.  No need to unload everything out of your cart and put it on the conveyer belt.  I love it.  So you are bagging your own groceries how you want them bagged as you are putting them in your cart. And the scanner is totaling up your items so there is no surprise at the end.

 You can even scan the veggies as you weigh them, you can delete things off the scanner if you change your mind on an item etc. etc.  I've been doing the handheld scanner thing for several months now so that now when I go to a different grocery store and they don'thave handheld scanners, it seems weird.

I wish we had that option at our grocery stores.  If they did I think we would probably use it for small purchases.

 

     Zig

Think i've posted this before, but I cant remember! I know I know.. my mind is a terrible thing :)

Anywho.. on both issues. We have a little IGA supermarket in the next town over (Boyd) and they insist on walking you to your car and unloading the groceries. One of their guys is always a little rough with tossing the bags in the trunk, and I dont like paying for tomatoes that are fresh and whole, coming home to finding them cracked and leaking. So I finally told him I could unload them myself. He said I have to, store policy. I said well sweetie, you tend to toss them in a little roughly, so I understand you may have to walk out here with me, but unloading them into my own trunk is my policy. haha Fortunately he had a good sense of humor and laughed, and promised to be more gentle.   I suspect since they just started this policy not long ago it may have been put in place to reduce what stores call 'shrinkage'. It's a little market in a very small town, so I doubt they have the security cameras like the mega mart stores.

As far as checking yourself out at a store.. I can understand them not wanting to raise prices. I mean, if they have to raise prices they will no longer be the best deal (walmart) and I know I would definitely go to a store that is kept cleaner, and has shorter checkout lines (albertson's) if the walmart prices were just as high as theirs. At the same time, I hate using them. They mess up on me too and I buy a lot of fresh produce and it seems like there is always at least one item I buy that isn't on their list and someone has to look it up manually, and I stand there watching my frozen food reach room temperature. Ugh!

We're definitely too automated, but I think this may have been how people felt back when gas stations started going self-service. I was born in 1965 so I dont remember much about it, I have a vague memory as a child of seeing someone clean the windshield, but this generation now has no idea what it was like to have someone put gas in your car, check the fluids, etc. Unless they live in one of the states that dont allow people to put gas in their own cars, like Oregon. But, that's another topic! lol

 

Cheryl:

We're definitely too automated, but I think this may have been how people felt back when gas stations started going self-service. I was born in 1965 so I dont remember much about it, I have a vague memory as a child of seeing someone clean the windshield, but this generation now has no idea what it was like to have someone put gas in your car, check the fluids, etc. Unless they live in one of the states that dont allow people to put gas in their own cars, like Oregon. But, that's another topic! lol

 

 I was born a few years after you and I can still remember full service gas stations and I wish they were still around.  As for the baggers putting the groceries in the car.  We let them bag them but after that we do it ourselves.  My dh likes the groceries put in the trunk in a certain way that is why we don't use the baggers to put the groceries in the car.

 

         Zig

Well, my memory may be fuzzy because I didnt see it much. I was in an orphanage/foster care for a few yrs during my childhood.

I can relate, but I'm the picky one in our house LOL!! It irritates me if the tomatoes get damaged, or blueberries crushed, or the bread has a big dent in the side because someone put something heavy on it, or something heavy rolled on it in the trunk.   DH teases me about being particular as his mother (I take it as a compliment!) and I tease him that he could eat a peach with a worm on one side, and he'd eat around it. haha

 

Cheryl:

I can relate, but I'm the picky one in our house LOL!! It irritates me if the tomatoes get damaged, or blueberries crushed, or the bread has a big dent in the side because someone put something heavy on it, or something heavy rolled on it in the trunk.   DH teases me about being particular as his mother (I take it as a compliment!) and I tease him that he could eat a peach with a worm on one side, and he'd eat around it. haha

 

 

I take my dh's quirks with a grain of salt.  He is the organized one and I"m the messy one.  If I want something to be organized in a cabinet or drawer or room I ask him to do and then I go from there.

 

       Zig