Cashier not putting your items in the bag

Sykk · 06-03-2012 06:15PM #1

So I've noticed this in a few places now. Mainly in a Tesco express I frequent but also in other shops.

I have my few items, and leave them by the till for the cashier to scan in, I ask for a bag and they give the bag usually after all the items are scanned in.

I then need to take out my wallet and put the card in the machine, wait for it to load, select laser, put in my pin. Meanwhile the dopey cashier is standing there looking at me waiting for me to finish with the machine, I take my card, insert back into wallet, insert wallet into pocket THEN I need to pack the items into the bag myself, much to the annoyance of myself and the people standing in the queue.

Could he not have packed it while waiting the 20 seconds for me to pay? Do some men just want to see the world burn?

dan1895 · 06-03-2012 06:16PM

If they did you'd be here complaining that they didn't do it right.

biko · 06-03-2012 06:17PM

Just pack it yourself.
Pay in cash.

msg11 · 06-03-2012 06:18PM

I only go as far as opening the bag out, most people go hysterical if you start packing the bag without asking them for permission !

lastlaugh · 06-03-2012 06:18PM

You should ask for a bag at the start next time and start packing it yourself as the person is scanning the items in.

Don't be such a lazy complainer.

06-03-2012 06:19PM

why can't he make my dinner while he's just sitting there as well

06-03-2012 06:21PM

Eh you ask for the bag first, before they start scanning through the stuff. Pack the bags yourself you lazy git.

Teyla Emmagan · 06-03-2012 06:21PM

I agree, this drives me nuts. The young ones in my local shop will stand there rolling their eyes and sighing while I try and pack up to move away from the till. Is the height of ignorance. I have started just saying 'could you help me with this please?' as the person behind me breathes down my neck.

It's just bad training and is only something that has happened in recent years, previously in shops you would always be helped to pack your bags.

Dunno what this means tho:

Sykk wrote: »

Do some men just want to see the world burn?

LordSutch · 06-03-2012 06:22PM

Sykk wrote: »

Cashier not putting your items in the bag.
So I've noticed this in a few places now. Mainly in a Tesco express I frequent but also in other shops.I

Noticed it myself recently in Spar, some staff just can't be arsed.

Teyla Emmagan · 06-03-2012 06:23PM

lastlaugh wrote: »

You should ask for a bag at the start next time and start packing it yourself as the person is scanning the items in.

Don't be such a lazy complainer.

I have tried this, they will still produce the bag last.

Edit: The point is not packing your own bag, I have no problem doing this. The issue is the cashier will stand there doing nothing while you're trying to put your cash etc away and then you have to turn around then and pack the bag. All the while there is a queue of impatient people gathering behind you. It's wasting PRECIOUS SECONDS!! That's what annoys me. Also, it's just plain rude.

MrStuffins · 06-03-2012 06:23PM

I'm pretty sure that in places like Spar and ESPECIALLY in Tesco (Express or not) the fact they will bother to bag your items for you is a courtesy to you and not an obligation!

Do it yourself!

lastlaugh · 06-03-2012 06:25PM

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

I have tried this, they will still produce the bag last.

Have you tried saying "Give me a bag now"? It usually works for me.

biko · 06-03-2012 06:26PM

Lifebag ftw!

admiralofthefleet · 06-03-2012 06:26PM

dan1895 wrote: »

If they did you'd be here complaining that they didn't do it right.

or 'ill put my own shopping away thanks'

Blinky D · 06-03-2012 06:26PM

Boycott an place that does not accept laser! Especially if there is no atm in the vicinity.
Cash is the way of the past.

token101 · 06-03-2012 06:27PM

Sykk wrote: »

So I've noticed this in a few places now. Mainly in a Tesco express I frequent but also in other shops.

I have my few items, and leave them by the till for the cashier to scan in, I ask for a bag and they give the bag usually after all the items are scanned in.

I then need to take out my wallet and put the card in the machine, wait for it to load, select laser, put in my pin. Meanwhile the dopey cashier is standing there looking at me waiting for me to finish with the machine, I take my card, insert back into wallet, insert wallet into pocket THEN I need to pack the items into the bag myself, much to the annoyance of myself and the people standing in the queue.

Could he not have packed it while waiting the 20 seconds for me to pay? Do some men just want to see the world burn?

No he couldn't. He was having too much fun watching your expectations beng dashed.

Chuck Stone · 06-03-2012 06:27PM

6 or 7 items and I would not expect help and be thinking GTFO if a customer expected it if I was a checkout attendant.

With a 'big shop' trolley full of groceries I would expect the checkout attendant to help me bag 'em.

Skid · 06-03-2012 06:28PM

Bring a bag with you, I couldn't be arsed spending money on the Plastic Bag levy. Enough taxes to pay already, bah humbug ...

admiralofthefleet · 06-03-2012 06:28PM

oh the cries of retail

Teyla Emmagan · 06-03-2012 06:29PM

None of you people have any idea what it's like to deal with REAL PROBLEMS.

I like to be SERVED god dammit!!!

hardCopy · 06-03-2012 06:31PM

In Aldi they just make you pack your bag at a separate counter so that nobody has to wait for you.

Rocky_Dennis · 06-03-2012 06:32PM

I think it is common courtesy for the cashier to pack the bag. I used to work in a shop and I would always pack the customers bag. Firstly, they are paying for a bag so I think the least you can do is pack the bag for them so they are getting some "value" for money and secondly they will come back to the shop again.

lastlaugh · 06-03-2012 06:32PM

Teyla Emmagan wrote: »

I have tried this, they will still produce the bag last.

Edit: The point is not packing your own bag, I have no problem doing this. The issue is the cashier will stand there doing nothing while you're trying to put your cash etc away and then you have to turn around then and pack the bag. All the while there is a queue of impatient people gathering behind you. It's wasting PRECIOUS SECONDS!! That's what annoys me. Also, it's just plain rude.

In Roches stores up until a few years ago they would have staff at the end of a check out just to help people pack away their shopping and put it in the trolley. This is a thing of the past.
The only time you will get help like this in Tesco is if there are people looking for a hand out, which you are guilted into giving them.

If you feel like you are under pressure, next time just start packing your stuff up pretty slowly and ask the cashier would she mind giving you a hand.

Better still, bring your own bags, preferably one of those IKEA ones that you can fire everything into!

admiralofthefleet · 06-03-2012 06:33PM

hardCopy wrote: »

In Aldi they just make you pack your bag at a separate counter so that nobody has to wait for you.

thats german efficiency, hitler had the right idea

Sykk · 06-03-2012 06:34PM

biko wrote: »

Pay in cash.

No, I prefer not carrying cash with me. Tbh I don't really care that much, it's more the people in the long queue behind me that have a longer wait because the staff can't be arsed going the extra mile.

MrStuffins · 06-03-2012 06:38PM

Sykk wrote: »

No, I prefer not carrying cash with me. Tbh I don't really care that much, it's more the people in the long queue behind me that have a longer wait because the staff can't be arsed going the extra mile.

Don't you mean it's the people in the queue behind you who suffer because you can't be arsed carrying a little bit of cash in their pocket like a regular person and expect the staff of a shop to put your items in a bag for you!

You're probably peeved they don't carry it home for you too!

ejmaztec · 06-03-2012 06:38PM

admiralofthefleet wrote: »

thats german efficiency, hitler had the right idea

They also make you wear a yellow star if you pay by Laser, and a red one for cash.

lastlaugh · 06-03-2012 06:38PM

Sykk wrote: »

No, I prefer not carrying cash with me. Tbh I don't really care that much, it's more the people in the long queue behind me that have a longer wait because I can't be bothered packing away a few things myself the staff can't be arsed going the extra mile.

That's more like it.

jluv · 06-03-2012 06:40PM

Ah remember the days of Good ole Customer Service..

booboo88 · 06-03-2012 06:42PM

Sykk wrote: »

So I've noticed this in a few places now. Mainly in a Tesco express I frequent but also in other shops.

I have my few items, and leave them by the till for the cashier to scan in, I ask for a bag and they give the bag usually after all the items are scanned in.

I then need to take out my wallet and put the card in the machine, wait for it to load, select laser, put in my pin. Meanwhile the dopey cashier is standing there looking at me waiting for me to finish with the machine, I take my card, insert back into wallet, insert wallet into pocket THEN I need to pack the items into the bag myself, much to the annoyance of myself and the people standing in the queue.

Could he not have packed it while waiting the 20 seconds for me to pay? Do some men just want to see the world burn?

would you like them to carry them to door aswell? use your head and ask for the bag first. you could also continue packing while card goes through.

numbnuts

ejmaztec · 06-03-2012 06:47PM

Worse are the old feckers at the checkouts who stand their while a mountain of groceries is stacked up on the conveyor-belt, and expect the person on the till to pack everything for them. This generally takes about 5 hours, including one hour for the old fecker to sort out a bag full of coupons that they've been collecting, and another hour to find the money or debit card.

Meanwhile people are dying of old age waiting behind them.

Cashier not putting your items in the bag

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