I have noticed after I grocery shop and the clerks are bagging my groceries they get annoyed with me! I will simply place many of my groceries right back in the cart without bagging them. I simply roll the cart out to my car and load them in the trunk. Simple. I will use some bags...but why bag a loaf of bread or a bag of chips....or OJ?? I also live about 2 mins from the store....so I am close. These store clerks look at me like I am from Mars and that I am ungrateful for not wanting bags or their help?? When I ask them kindly to un-bag them....they give me looks to kill!!! I do try to tell them right away and or offer to help with my purchases. I thought we were all trying to be more green?? I just find that odd. I also have had that happen over and over at Wal-Mart. Anyone had that happen to them?? Why do they need to bag my box of tennis shoes or cat liter? Odd to say the least....maybe old habits die hard?? less bags I think is a good thing.
Less Plastic bags
April 12th, 2008 at 02:43 pm
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April 12th, 2008 at 08:47 pm 1208029653
Please remember that a cashier sees hundreds of people every day, and not everyone is as nice as you. There are some customers that come in our store, that will literally look for ANY reason to complain or get rude with you. It's like they don't have any control over how crappy their own day has been, so they're going to take control and make someone else's crappy.
I don't really care if someone wants a bag or not, but it is a little annoying when they sit silently and watch me bag their items, and then end up throwing the bags back in my face because they don't want them. If you are that adament about not taking extra bags, then tell me ahead of time, or recycle them yourself. When you have to unbag stuff, it just makes a huge clutter because they won't go back on the hook after being taken off.
And as for being on autopilot - that's probably a little true, but only for efficiency. If 9 out of 10 people that come through your line want their small bag of kitty litter in a bag, then it saves time and effort to just go ahead and bag it without asking, instead of having to wait for a good moment to ask if they want it in a bag (like when they aren't counting out cash or using the credit card machine).
Plus, alot of people prefer the bags for the handles, because it's much easier to carry 2 liters of pop, kitty litter, milk, OJ, bread, and chips in one trip if you have handles to grab.
But that's just my 2 cents.
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I guess just thinking ahead a bit and being kind---you can never go wrong.