Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I loathe self-checkout because it puts people out of work and me at the mercy of an unforgiving and frequently unreliable robot. It really pisses me off to be expected to look up, e.g., produce codes that even a minimally competent checker would have memorized.

I put my stuff on the checkout belt in the order I want it bagged.

It drives me crazy when the checker takes things out of order to bag them some other way. Particularly since they’re now charging for bags, and the bags typically are astonishingly fragile.

Two other off topic things that degrade my shopping experience are aisles jammed with stand-alone displays, merchandise waiting to be shelved, people shelving during the day, etc.; and expired food still offered for sale so that I constantly have to check things before buying.

Yikes. You sound pleasant

Anonymous wrote:I loathe self-checkout because it puts people out of work and me at the mercy of an unforgiving and frequently unreliable robot. It really pisses me off to be expected to look up, e.g., produce codes that even a minimally competent checker would have memorized.

I put my stuff on the checkout belt in the order I want it bagged.

It drives me crazy when the checker takes things out of order to bag them some other way. Particularly since they’re now charging for bags, and the bags typically are astonishingly fragile.

Two other off topic things that degrade my shopping experience are aisles jammed with stand-alone displays, merchandise waiting to be shelved, people shelving during the day, etc.; and expired food still offered for sale so that I constantly have to check things before buying.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I almost always purposefully choose a line with someone in front of me so I have time to unpack my cart and organize before my stuff is ready to be scanned specifically so I can pack my own stuff (using self checkout at Wegmans at least is for those with small amount of items). Anyway today I got ushered into a newly open line and of course that meant that the person was scanning as soon as I got stuff on the belt and packing for me. Didn’t matter how I grouped things on the belt, she decided they needed to be all mixed up. I like packing like with like, with cold stuff in the cold bags — 1 cold bag for raw meat and the other for all other cold. I like all my produce in one bag. I organized as such on the belt but now I’m left with a mishmash of stuff. Call me particular but this super frustrates me.

Am I alone in this? Sure I could’ve asked her to stop but I didn’t want to hold up the growing line behind me.

You are not alone. I specifically unload my items so that
(1) the cold items get packed into the insulated bags
(2) they are organized for quick and easy unloading and putting away when I get home and
(3) they don't pack bags too heavily (ie, putting all the cans and jars in the same bag) because I have neck and shoulder and wrist issues.

I even layout the insulated bags followed by the cold items, then the non-insulated bags followed by the rest of the items. And I specifically separate the canned/jarred items into smaller groups with lighter items/boxed items/breads in between so they can go on top of some cans and jars in each bag instead of all the cans and jars going into the same bag. Despite this, cashiers bag items according to how they see fit - usually by putting all of the canned and glass jarred items - and maybe even cartons of milk - in the same bag; filling each bag as much as possible regardless of with what while also being perfectly happy to put one bag of chips in its own bag; and just sticking random items wherever they might fit.

I guess the other commenters on this thread will find me even more impossible a person than OP because I also find it very annoying that cashiers can't figure out the simplest of bagging logic of how to fill a bag of just boxed items like pasta and cereal. Or not to put grapes or strawberries on the bottom underneath heavier items.

I self-check out at Aldi; but Safeway and Giant, not unless I have to. There isn't enough space and there is always an issue, and as I already noted, I have neck and shoulder and wrist issues. Aldi affords more space for multiple bags and maneuvering everything - I don't know, it just does for me so please don't start criticizing me. Sometimes if the cashier hasn't started bagging stuff and I'm done with the unloading and payment machine, I will start bagging or grab bags before they're too heavy. I also ask for certain things as they scan, like "please don't make the bags too heavy" or "could you please put the ____ in the _____ bag" or even "I'll take that" or "that can go in here."

Groceries USED to train their employees how to efficiently bag. When everyone resorted to stupid plastic bags, that stopped and cashiers started putting one already-bagged bread product in a flimsy plastic bag by itself. Now they don't know how to pack a proper bag of groceries.

Unless you live somewhere where it is a 3-hour drive to the grocery store, this is completely unnecessary, bordering on insane.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You might have OCD. Learn to let go what you can't control.

Being annoyed by something does not make someone OCD.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I almost always purposefully choose a line with someone in front of me so I have time to unpack my cart and organize before my stuff is ready to be scanned specifically so I can pack my own stuff (using self checkout at Wegmans at least is for those with small amount of items). Anyway today I got ushered into a newly open line and of course that meant that the person was scanning as soon as I got stuff on the belt and packing for me. Didn’t matter how I grouped things on the belt, she decided they needed to be all mixed up. I like packing like with like, with cold stuff in the cold bags — 1 cold bag for raw meat and the other for all other cold. I like all my produce in one bag. I organized as such on the belt but now I’m left with a mishmash of stuff. Call me particular but this super frustrates me.

Am I alone in this? Sure I could’ve asked her to stop but I didn’t want to hold up the growing line behind me.

You are not alone. I specifically unload my items so that
(1) the cold items get packed into the insulated bags
(2) they are organized for quick and easy unloading and putting away when I get home and
(3) they don't pack bags too heavily (ie, putting all the cans and jars in the same bag) because I have neck and shoulder and wrist issues.

I even layout the insulated bags followed by the cold items, then the non-insulated bags followed by the rest of the items. And I specifically separate the canned/jarred items into smaller groups with lighter items/boxed items/breads in between so they can go on top of some cans and jars in each bag instead of all the cans and jars going into the same bag. Despite this, cashiers bag items according to how they see fit - usually by putting all of the canned and glass jarred items - and maybe even cartons of milk - in the same bag; filling each bag as much as possible regardless of with what while also being perfectly happy to put one bag of chips in its own bag; and just sticking random items wherever they might fit.

I guess the other commenters on this thread will find me even more impossible a person than OP because I also find it very annoying that cashiers can't figure out the simplest of bagging logic of how to fill a bag of just boxed items like pasta and cereal. Or not to put grapes or strawberries on the bottom underneath heavier items.

I self-check out at Aldi; but Safeway and Giant, not unless I have to. There isn't enough space and there is always an issue, and as I already noted, I have neck and shoulder and wrist issues. Aldi affords more space for multiple bags and maneuvering everything - I don't know, it just does for me so please don't start criticizing me. Sometimes if the cashier hasn't started bagging stuff and I'm done with the unloading and payment machine, I will start bagging or grab bags before they're too heavy. I also ask for certain things as they scan, like "please don't make the bags too heavy" or "could you please put the ____ in the _____ bag" or even "I'll take that" or "that can go in here."

Groceries USED to train their employees how to efficiently bag. When everyone resorted to stupid plastic bags, that stopped and cashiers started putting one already-bagged bread product in a flimsy plastic bag by itself. Now they don't know how to pack a proper bag of groceries.