I cannot imagine a world where people don't come with bags or something to the counter. Are people actually just purchasing bags as they go?
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Short answer: yes
Slightly longer answer: depens on where you live
I'll repeat this.
ProTip: Leave a bag of bags in the car. When you shop, use a cart. Skip the bagging at the cashier and have them just put everything back in the cart. Bag at your car in peace and at your own pace. The cashier will appreciate you. The bagger will appreciate you. The other shoppers in line will appreciate you. Most of all, your nerves will appreciate you.
+1 on leaving bags in the car
And this concept of bagging at the car just blew my mind
It’s not even extra hassle to me because I hate how the cashiers were bagging items anyway. Problem solved. No waste. Exactly how you want it every time.
Other people bagging stuff for you is a thing? I have never seen it in my life in Europe. Unless you have a disability then to me it just seems like adding extra work to the workers for no real purpose
We usually have dedicated baggers in the US, though many stores switched to having the cashier do it due to the 'labor shortage' during the pandemic. It's basically a jobs program, usually given to disabled or older applicants that management wants tax credits for, but don't actually have a use for; also teens that otherwise would be too costly to train if they're only being employed for the summer.
Capitalism breeds innovation in how to pretend labor is necessary for everyone to do.
We have this awesome thing in a lot of places where you can use a scanner and scan as you shop. You can put the bag in the cart and bag while you shop. When you get to the self checkout, you can use the scanner and instantly pay for everything and be out within seconds. I pay with my phone so just a touch is needed and I'm out of there. If you are the carry bags kind you can even take the bag out of the cart, return the cart to the correct place and walk to the car with the bag. It's so fast and efficient.
I've become so spoiled I actively avoid places that don't have such a thing. And I hate people who have a full cart at the self checkout and scan everything much much slower than the regular checkout with a person who's job it is to do that. It's fine if you have like 5 items and just scan them quickly at the self checkout. Anything beyond that really should be scanned during the shopping or just go to the regular checkout which is designed to handle a lot of stuff.
This is genius! thanks for sharing 🙂
Some places have banned single use plastic grocery bags, its not uncommon in my area to see at least a few people use reusable bags now.
Not banned in my area, and I use reusable bags anyway. So do other people, though it's still uncommon.
My area is so conservative they banned bans on single use plastic to own the libs.
Republicans love to take away freedoms.
You’re using it wrong!
Yeah, it's been banned in New Jersey for the last couple years. It was a cool overnight shift and it's just second nature to just leave reusable bags in my car now for when I need them.
Lol i started seeing people in my store use the same kind of trolly bag. I feel like a trend setter.
Why America tho? There have been reusable only bags in grocery stores for a long time now.
In Austin, there was a short period of time where all grocery stores were legally required to ditch plastic bags.
A successful campaign strategy for city council right after that was to run against the plastic bag ban because people kept forgetting their reusable bags. Everybody agreed they are bad but individualism and a sense of laziness prevailed. This is America.
I'm not sure Texas counts
Where do you live?
Yeah, but depending on the state, they're not widely adopted. A lot of people aren't going to spend the extra money for reusable bags unless they're forced to.
How dare you taking away jobs from the people that put your groceries in plastic bags at Walmart /s
It’s OK my local Walmart will force you to do your own checking out in the future anyway.
I went to stay a couple of months in the US and of course I brought my reusable bag to the übermarket. The cashier didn't want to fill it. She insisted to use single-use bags :|
I have these reusable nets for fruits & veggies, and I always figured I'd encounter a cashier at some point, who'll say "Excuse me, you need to be destroying the environment, otherwise I cannot weigh these".
Thankfully, I have not yet (here in the Europes), but the self-checkout register at one of the shops genuinely has a step programmed in where it asks you, if you're using a reusable net or similar. If you click "Yes", it has the nerve to ask you to remove it before weighing. And it's just like:
Thankfully, self-checkout registers can be easily lied to, so I just tell it that my veggies are unpacked.
Those reusable nets have weight unlike the nearly weightless cling wrap-like ones. Of course you could ignore the instructions when going through self-checkout, but they're literally trying to charge you less via a more accurate weight! Based on your meme I realize you understand this, but I'm emphasizing it for others...
My local grocery store doesn't have a self checkout and I swear they must assume they heard me wrong when I ask them not to bag things. :(
I bring my own reusable bag nearly every time I do grocery shopping. But I also live in NYC, which might as well be a different planet compared to most of the US. It's a five minute walk (on sidewalks! Big ones!) to the grocery store.
every bag is a reusable bag
I use them all a second time as a wet bag, refuse bag, etc. not perfect but better than just tossing them right away
I usually have to double or triple bag them because of how easily they tear, especially for wet bags.
I have some reusable plastic bags at home. Perhaps I should use them to take the pile of reusable plastic bags to the trash
The paint/dyes used in the reusable bags are far worse for the environment than the plastic from even 10 bags
I mean I've been using the same reusable bag for a few years now, and I also have some others that I'm not using that much anymore (only when I have a lot to buy at once), so they've been used way more than 10 times, and they will keep being used for a very long time
I wouldn't have known if you had meant it or not without you mentioning that you meant it, perhaps I should have extended the same candor to the readers of my original comment by putting an indicator in that selfsame comment, and subsequent replies, were sarcastic and not meant to be taken to heart
What bags aren't reusable?
I reuse disposable grocery bags all the time as little trash bags. For stuff like bathroom trash cans or messes like cat vomit.