Where are the grocery baggers?
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Anonymous
| We just moved here from Southern California where the grocery stores have baggers at every check-out line except if you go at a really slow time of the day, and then maybe the cashier will do the bagging. Here, I have yet to see a bagger, even during the height of the after-work rush. Since the cashiers are always doing double-duty, the lines here are always long and slow-moving. Has that always been the case in this region? I just find it so weird. In CA, it's one of the main jobs for high school students. |
Anonymous
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Help bag
Don't be lazy |
Anonymous
| Where are you shopping that even has cashiers? |
Anonymous
| Wegmans will sometimes have them on weekends when it's really busy. |
Anonymous
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My supermarket has baggers. (Cathedral area of DC).
If you don't want to bag, you don't have to. The cashier will bag if there are no baggers. |
Anonymous
Welcome to the world of entitlement - most High School kids in the area do not work. |
Anonymous
Wow, thanks of the advice. I'm actually not lazy. I just wanted to know why there aren't ubiquitous grocery baggers here like there are in other parts of the country. |
Anonymous
Which one? Giant in Cathedral Commons? |
Anonymous
| Harris Teeter often has naggers helping the cashiers. Same at MOM's. |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
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Moms baggers bring it out to your car.
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Anonymous
| It's directly impacted by differences in minimum wage and union laws from location to location... that job is usually non-necessary so it's the first to be cut (you still need stockers, etc.) |
Anonymous
| Also directly impacted by how much delivery/online businesses stores are doing (Fresh direct, peapod, etc), and whether people are going in for smaller things or major shopping. |
Anonymous
| Giant has baggers, but they're usually developmentally disabled and just slow down the process. |
Anonymous
 Yikes! Just caught my typo!
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