So remember back a looooooong time ago, like, oh say, last year, when we’d go to the grocery store, buy our food, and come home with 13 or 14 plastic bags of groceries. I want to know why now it is acceptable for baggers to shove the exact same amount of groceries into 4 of the bags I brought from home. It’s ridiculous. I realize that I don’t have “lifting restriction” tattooed on my forehead, but seriously, I could only bring one bag in at a time. It’s not like I bring the bags for the 5 cent refund either. I brought 8 bags. Use them.
Seriously.
Rant over.
October 7, 2009
throwslikeagirl74
Throws Like A Girl 
9 responses to “2 minute rant”
donella
October 7th, 2009 at 11:31
I agree! They pack those things ridiculously full. It’s gotten so that I choose my checkout lane based on who’s bagging, because I know the worst offenders now. Hrmph.
Gina
October 7th, 2009 at 11:59
I have that problem a lot when I bring my bags ’cause I tend to buy more than will fit…weird that they wouldn’t use all the bags you brought.
aftercancer
October 7th, 2009 at 12:44
Here’s what I say to the checkout boy, “I am not a 16 year old boy. These bags are very strong and are able to hold more than I can. I need to be able to both lift carry these bags up the stairs. Pretend they’re plastic!”
Repeat as needed!
Mommy Bee
October 7th, 2009 at 13:44
yeah, I’m always telling them “just put whatever fits into these bags, it’s ok if you need to use a couple of plastic ones too” (I mean, I do use the plastic bags to line my bathroom garbage can!) But they seem to think that fabric bag=can hold a million pounds. I’m really pregnant, and can’t lift heavy stuff…also, no matter what the fabric is, eventually stress CAN tear it, especially on a seam like, oh, where the handle is sewn to the bag!!!
Dumb baggers. When I was a bagger they had me go through a 3 hour training which included not just making sure stuff didn’t get broken/squished, but also things like filling each bag to about 10lbs, and keeping all bags at comparable weights to each other. Obviously my local grocery store doesn’t train their baggers. (Or else the trainees don’t remember…when I was a bagger there was one checker who always would look for the line I was on because she knew from watching all of us that she wanted me to bag her groceries because I would do it right. LOL!)
sophanne
October 7th, 2009 at 16:52
Take 8 bags. Use 7 of them. Give them the extra one to start with. Pack your bags how you want them.
Michelle Page
October 8th, 2009 at 07:49
Where I live everyone uses the “re-usable shopping bags”. Of course, after 10 trips they are disgusting and need to be replaced – so what takes up more resources: ten trips worth of cheap plastic bags, or one re-usable bag used 10 times and thrown away. If you are using plastic bags at my store, people give you dirty looks. I’m envisioning that 5 years from now, when the “green” fad is fading, and the mountains of energy efficient light bulbs which are filled with mercury, are filling the land-fills, and they have produced a 20/20 segment on the number of germs on your re-used shopping bags and it exceeds what you find on a public toilet (thereby increasing your health care cost and resource use far more than a set of clean bags), we will laugh at all of this. But for now, your 16-year old bagger, is just doing his part.
Suzanne
October 8th, 2009 at 08:40
I guess I am spoiled here in South Carolina, because my Publix baggers are ever-so-agreeable to bag exactly as I ask them to. Seriously, they are the best.
Lisa
October 10th, 2009 at 08:10
Weird. They still underpack all my bags here and always end up resorting to too many plastic. I tend to only utilize the self check-out as they *might* be able to put three items weighing 16 oz per bag. Stupid. I’d rather do it myself.
lydee
October 25th, 2009 at 06:47
i need to quit shopping at walmart. they don’t use the reuseables. it doesn’t fit on their circular bagging thingy.
funny, i’m not sure how many reuseable bags i own, but it’s a lot, lol!