At grocery store yesterday I smiled young couple in front of me.

[Duncanpup]

The wife unloading groceries from the shopping cart in how she wants them bagged. Hub’s totally clueless hey I been there clueless with my wife just tossing stuff on conveyor belt to get priced and bagged. She actually said to him stop I have a system ,I understand completely you do not mess with the system get with her program.

[MissB]

1. I rarely take Dh grocery shopping with me

I did recently- I think it was our first outing after a snow storm.

The store was super busy as folks could finally drive around safely. I used one of the newer self checkouts- the kind where you scan and it sends it down the conveyor belt.

He grabbed our reusable bags and set them up at the end of the conveyor, but *on* the conveyor. Apparently the conveyor has a scale system as well, so at some point it wouldn’t let me scan an item. I kept entering the code for the bananas, setting them on the conveyor and then the conveyor would reverse and bring the unentered item back to the scanner.

I finally read the screen and it said to bag items up, which he was doing. I’m pretty sure at that point I was a bit irritated and snapped at him to please move the bag off the conveyor as it was holding up the scanning of more groceries. He didn’t figure out what I was clearly saying, so I repeated it until he moved the bag to the solid metal bagging area. I’m sure the other shoppers thought I was a bit of a raging bitch.

[Duncanpup]

2. Miss B

I understand us men we are always behind our wives in learning curve

[MissB]

4. Happy wife, happy life?

You’re one of the good guys!

Dh is just the best right now. I’ve been sick since Friday and he’s been doting on me. Love that guy to pieces.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

5. This is an example of why I despise self check-out.

I always find it far more complicated and slower than going through an employee staffed check out.

Plus, I want to help provide employment for others.

[MissB]

8. Yep

The whole city was out shopping that morning. I prefer actual employees checking me out but the lines were ridiculously deep. Poor excuse.

[blueknight73]

26. I refuse to use them

I will set all my stuff down and walk out before I will use one.

[Croney]

13. I learned about the scale the hard way.

My four-pack of protein shakes split open in the grocery cart, so I put the shakes in my reusable bag and kept the cardboard wrapper with the bar code out to scan.

As soon as I sat my bag on the bagging platform, all hell broke loose. "Unexpected weight in the bagging area!" Not one, but two employees rushed over to me. I had the cardboard wrapper in my hand and I explained what was happening. They stepped off, but I felt a lot of eyes on me.

[Captain Zero]

16. I sometimes use self checkout but I talk back to it

If it can talk to me, I figure I can talk to it loudly, and like a loon.

I especially talk back when it is saying things insinuating I'm not going fast enough. Like, "if you expect me to work faster than this you are going to have to double my pay!"

I get some laughs from it.

[Tetrachloride]

3. Another 6 months and he can graduate to paper napkins

[Joinfortmill]

18. Lol

[2naSalit]

6. No shit...

Same here.

I put all the heavy stuff up first, bottom of bag stuff, then all the cold stuff goes together so it will get bagged together. Then all the stuff you don't want smashed on the way home goes last. That way, even if the bagger (could be the cashier or not) is inexperienced, they will only have those items at hand in a systematized way that it's hard for them to fuck it up and so that the avocados and bread are unscathed on the journey home.

It troubles me that people don't get that avocados bruise even before they get ripe.

I keep a 20gal. cooler in the back of the car so I can put all the cold and fragile stuff inside so it is safer and doesn't roll around.

It's a system that helps keep stuff fresh until it gets used. Food storage is important and making sure all those things you carefully selected aren't trashed before they get to your home is a big part of that.

[Duncanpup]

7. You and my wife definitely from same tribe

[2naSalit]

9. I feel honored!

[SallyHemmings]

15. I stay out of the hubby's way

This is a task I want no part of…..

He shops, I cook. So i put away the groceries.

[Duncanpup]

23. I know my wife trained me to cook

[csziggy]

25. My husband does most of the shopping

It started when he was still working since the grocery store was only a few blocks from where he worked so it made more sense for him to shop on the way home than it did for me to drive the fifteen miles (one way) to do it when I was still running the farm.

He still does most of the shopping even though we've both retired. He goes into town at least three days a week to play RPG games with his friends, so brings home the shopping on his way home.

[nightwing1240]

11. That's exactly how my wife taught me

The way you do your groceries. Many great memories with her and I shopping together.

[malaise]

14. Sounds like me although Indon'r use the cooler unless

I’m not going home immediately. That said the cold stuff goes on the ground and never on the car seat.

[Diamond_Dog]

22. My system is pretty much just like yours!

[twodogsbarking]

10. Hell is one big grocery store with bad intercom music.

[Hope22]

12. LOL!

My husband does all of the grocery shopping with the bulk of it still pick up orders. He has kept us organized and fed for the last four years. But yes, he has his process and don’t mess with it! I’m thankful for all of it as my peopling has gone to hell! 😁

[Joinfortmill]

17. Lol

[underpants]

19. As I've said many times, if you don't follow the system

the system breaks down. Then, you have no system.

[Victor_c3]

20. There are things that constantly remind me why I'm so happy being single

Putting up my with ex’s constant barrage of odd ways is one of them (and the way she would berate me for not understanding her)

There was the right way, the wrong way, and my ex’s way to do everything. My ex’s way was completely arbitrary and changed based on her emotions, the seasons, and any other random factors. I was supposed to intuitively know what she wanted done in any given moment.

I don’t miss being married at all.

[Alpeduez21]

21. Self checkouts have become a HUGE security/loss issue

at some of the bigger stores, Walmart especially comes to mind. The number of those charged with shoplifting has increased dramatically.

Anymore, it seems the only option at Lowe's is the self checkouts. The stations for a cashier aren't even open. For a while the self check there only took cards. It seems as soon as they put in cash options the cashier lines closed.

[Duncanpup]

24. I read article awhile ago about self checkout and accidentally shoplifting

[jcgoldie]

27. I've learned so much from this thread!

I'm a serial conveyor belt chucker. Tomatoes before the canned goods... sure why not?! It never even occurred to me to try to control the process by ordering the items on the belt in some logical sequence. I feel like I'm going to need some cognitive remediation therapy now.