Grocery Packing

the grocery store we go to is a place that we have to pack our own groceries (the prices for food are somewhat cheaper - its a bare bones type of grocery stores. no bags, no staff packing the bags for you, no frills at all). but we dont mind packing them because like you say, we can pack as we like.

I don't worry much about packing of grocery. I should be careful when I buy liquid things, but those bottles will be sealted and liquid won't come out. The people at super markets have their own way of packing things. I have seen that they pack vegetables and fruits seperately from other grocery items. Also, they pack meat sepeartely from other things.

I would SO rather do it myself, because I want the dairy isolated from other foods, the frozen things together, the vegetables NOT in with heavy cans and jars so that they get crushed and wilted, etc. I don't like to say anything to them, but sometimes you have to. The other issue is their handling my food. That I do not like at all. It is bad enough that the other customers go around touching everything. Yes, and I get really grossed out when cashiers lick their fingers and then touch money.

Most of the grocery stores that we go to - we have to pack our groceries ourselves. Like, the cashier puts them down a conveyor and we have to pack them into bags ourselves at the end of it. I like this. I'm with you - however I can pack the groceries to get them in the smallest amount of space possible.. is how I'm going to try to do it. I personally am NOT fussy about how things are, so long as obviously things like bread and eggs and chips aren't at the bottom of a bag (common sense stuff - no one likes smushed bread!) But other than that, I'm not picky at all!

I am not picky about grocery packing as long as my bread is separated so it doesn't get squashed, my eggs don't get broke and that non food items are not in with food items...okay so maybe I am a bit picky but with those three things I feel like if one of the above things were to happen that the food would be ruined. What good are eggs if they are broken? What good is bread if the pieces are all smashed to where you can't spread anything on it? What good or safe is bread if it is placed in a nag with floor cleaner, bleach or bug spray? I think though that the things I ask are a mandatory know when you are trained as a packer because I have never really had to ask a packer to do it they always seem to know to do it.

I don't tell them how to pack my groceries. I do try to keep my bananas "safe" from being thrown around. As for my eggs they usually wrap them in a bag separately or with just a loaf of bread on top. Otherwise everything else can be packed as they wish. I do usually add more stuff to certain bags because I too don't want to bring home more bags then I need. They sometimes pack a bag half empty which is a waste of space.

Here in the UK most grocery stores ask if you are OK with your packing, and if you say "YES" then they simply leave you to pack your own bags. I always say yes, but ocassionally a checkout operator will pack the bags without asking. I often get the bags, move away to one side and end up repacking the whole thing. I cannot credit how many people working in a supermarket have no idea how to pack a bag and often put round items at the bottom or large products on top of smaller ones. I hate badly packed bags because if you put down the bag then everything simply collapses into a heap.

My grandson was a bagger for a while and he had to take some training for before he was allowed to bag any groceries. he was taught not to put non food items with food items, to rebag meats especially if they might leak, and to only put the bread on top so not to get squished. I have noticed that most of the grocery stores have their bagger doing the same thing. We do have an ALDI'S and one has to bag those groceries one's self. Most of the time I'm satisfied with the way my groceries are bagged.,

I'm really not that picky. I hate having too many bags myself so if the cashier can combine my items into a few bags instead of 10 that'd be wonderful. Also, the only thing that truly bothers me is when they put something like a chemical type product in with a food product. I feel like the person should know better. I usually don't say anything but I do remove the item as quickly as possible whenever I leave the checkout lane.

When my mom was alive we would give the cashier the frozen first and then the rest . So we Knew that all the frozen was together.But now I go to a supermarket where you can scan your groceries while you shop and bag them in the bags you bring in from home. I have this huge bag that keeps frozen food cold and that's where I pack the frozen.So when you are finish , you get to the check out and wand you order and there is your order. for each bag you bring in , you can take 5 cents off.so Now I pack my goods myself.i like to make each bag easy to carry so I use many bags.

Ha.. good discussion here. I know what you mean. My only particularity are with the eggs and detergent. They have to be in different small bags and separated from other items. But normally, I think the cashiers are really good and they will know what to do; like not putting say, in insecticide in the same bag with say, a bag of nuggets. If anyone does that, I'll surely give them a knock on the head..

I can´t remember the last time I had someone offer to help me to pack my groceries! Unless I´m holding up the queue by trying to pack whilst holding onto my toddler in which case the cashier sometimes helps me to shove things into bags. To be honest, if there was someone there to help me I wouldn´t care in the slightest how they packed, providing that they weren´t squashing my tender veggies under the tins or something obviously stupid. I´d be too grateful to moan about how they did it! I wish my local supermarket made boxes easier to grab though. I don´t like using plastic carrier bags so I do tend to take my own. On those occassions where I forget them I like to use cardboard boxes which I can at least recycle when I get home. I have to go rummaging through the bin outside to get them though!

Here in our country, we don't need to tell the grocery packers what to do. They already know exactly how to pack. They separate meat, soap, or cosmetics to other groceries. They don't need to be reminded. They're the best. :p shadow41

We usually have one grocery store where we do our groceries. The crew already knew us and knew that I (mostly) would react if I knew that the bagger would do the wrong packaging. Yeah, they knew it too. They also knew that we have a separate bags for our groceries. I also talk to the Supervisor once and a while to give my inputs and tell something good or anything that would make their service more pleasant to their customers. I am contented about it for several years now and had to admit that this store had make their customer fell the priority.

I've bought meat before, but I never would think about blood dripping on my other stuff. It's always sealed, and then they have those thin clear plastic bags to put the sealed meat in. I never really pay attention to how they pack my groceries. Although if I ever bought bread (which I don't), I'd probably watch to make sure they don't put it in the bottom of the sack.

I'm like you, I don't care as long as nothing gets broken, throw it all in together! The less bags I have to carry the better. That's one thing I don't get about this harp about plastic this and plastic that, it doesn't save any money and it's harmful to the environment so why don't they make these canvas bags for us shoppers to use and reuse and not have us buy them. I mean, we're buying the groceries, isn't that enough with the sky rocketing prices, they should give us the bags plus, it would be an incentive to keep coming back.

I used to pack groceries for a living so I do sometime pack my own bags unless they are already packed already. I may repack the groceries if they are packed badly. Ainge

I prefer to pack my own. I can do it quicker than the checkout operator in that while he or she is running the items over the barcode scanner, I can be putting it away in the bags. That way the whole queue moves quicker. I put heavy things on the bottom of the bag like cans, potatoes or packs of things which don't damage easily but things which can squash like soft fruit, tomatoes, cakes, bread - or can break easily like eggs, I put those at the top.

Hi coffeeshot, When we do our shopping, we normally pack it ourselves and that way its quicker, no chance of meat dripping any anywhere as we buy our meat seperatkey from the butchers. Tamara

I always pack groceries by myself but the few times it happened someone did for me, I just let him or her do, it's nice to not have to work, just for one time! Besides, the few times that happened, I found out they are much more careful than me, it's really me the one who has bood dripping through my groceriws, while the operators at the stores are so careful with things. I'm a savage!