Walmart cashiers...is putting the sacks in the cart no longer a job duty???

[carlydenise]

I have found more and more over the past couple of months that the cashier doesn't put the sacks in the cart anymore? Anyone else witness this phenomenon?


Carly

[pitohui]

1. you're expected to load them yourself

if there's some reason you can't, ask the cashier and she will do it, but you are sort of expected to do it yourself now if you're not holding a baby, leaning on crutches, disabled, or what have you

[murielm99]

19. I had my arm in a cast, and I did it

myself.

I did not ask for help. The cashier seemed so unfriendly, that I did not bother.

I was trying to load a big bag of dog food in the cart, and the guy in line behind me saw what I was doing and helped me.

[yy4me]

2. Same at the grocery store. If you wait for a bagger, your food

will spoil. There is very little service in the big box stores any more. I had to bag my own purchase at Kohl's a few days ago. The cashier was too busy to complete her job. She turned from me and continued a chat with the girl at the next register. I have issues with that store anyway but that is another story. This was just frosting.

[begin_within]

3. So they've outsourced the bagging of goods to the customer?

Shouldn't they then lower the prices since they no longer need to pay for baggers?

[pitohui]

6. they have lowered some prices

altho to be honest i think they have raised others, but with much ballyhoo they have indeed lowered some prices

our walmart had some whiskey gift boxes, such as crown royal, that were so well-priced i thought they fell off a truck

want a bottle of crown royal for xmas?

[begin_within]

8. I don't drink, but thanks anyway. Would you like a bag for that?

[trof]

4. It's all part of the 'you-do-our-job' thing.

I think it started with self-service grocery stores.
Then gas stations.
Then ATMs.
And check-yourself-out Home Depot and such.
Pretty soon you'll be asking "Do you have any more Campbell's chicken soup?"
"Sure, there are a couple of cases in the back. If you want to grab them and stock the shelves that'd be fine."
:eyes:

[flvegan]

5. Bigger sacks of cheap plastic crap are more of a liability.

Seriously, have you noticed how the plastic bags doubled (at least) in size? When full, from behind a counter (rather than at the end), putting these sacks, when moderately full, into a cart with one hand, leaning, is little more than a few dozen injury lawsuits each year. Even if not the sacks, anything more than 10 pounds lifted in such a way (again, over a counter and into a cart) is just asking for the cashier to hurt him/herself. Besides, once you pay for it, it's your stuff. You get hurt lifting it, too bad. Your junk, just WalMart's dirt you're standing on.

[pitohui]

7. they'll call someone to help you lift

i am one who cannot lift a lot of weight, and i can and have requested help when something needs to be lifted

they have young strong men working there in some capacity who can lift, you might just have to ask for one of them

don't assume they won't help you, they will, just ASK

walmart has its issues but i don't think refusing to help older or disabled customers is one of them!

i don't understand why, in an aging society, there are still 40 pound bags of potting soil but sometimes that's what there is, and you just gotta get help

[radwriter0555]

9. LOL. Honey, in france we have no baggers and we don't even have sacks anymore..

we bring our own to the store and put our own groceries in them, and the cashiers SIT DOWN IN CHAIRS.

Imagine that.

[idgiehkt]

10. that's the way it is at Aldi

I totally believe they should stop providing sacks for people. Make people bring their own. Sam's uses boxes, I think

[uppityperson]

12. Seems proper. And you have to pay for the cart also with a little token (refundable)

I do like how it is done there, makes sense that you get to /have to handle your own groceries rather than using a brazillion flimsy plastic bags. Less litter too.

[radwriter0555]

17. YES that token keeps the carts from ending up down the street and along

curbs and outside buildings.

I like that the workers can sit down. It's very humane.

[bicentennial_baby]

18. Yes indeed

Good thing I knew that before I went there....backpack came in handy :)

[caty]

11. I never shop at Walmart.

http://www.geocities.com/northstarzone/WALMART.html

:nopity:

[Kali]

13. Our town just got a walmart and now the formerly sole grocery store has

really upped the service! I can't wait for the free massages.:rofl:

I try to avoid Wallyworld, but the one in Tucson I occasionally hit has these carousel sort of bag racks that the cashier fills and then spins to the next bag, think there are maybe 6 "slots"? but they spin around to where you can grab them pretty easily and put them in the cart. about thigh high, I would say.

edit to relocate the smiley

[graywarrior]

14. In Sarasota, Wal-Mart has t-shirts for the Cart Crew.

I'm impressed.

[cwydro]

15. In Germany

You have to pay for your cart (money refunded when you return it) and you bring your own bags and load them yourself. I learned this the hard way. I am still embarrassed and that was almost 10 years ago...:blush:

[caty]

16. Many, many years ago,

I lived in a small town in Tennessee for two years. At the grocery store where I shopped, a worker would unload my groceries from my basket to the counter, bag them, and then walk me out to the car and put them in the trunk of my car. When I got pregnant and was really showing, a worker would walk with me through the store and if I wanted anything from a high or a low shelf, he would get it for me. That was service. But, those days are gone.

[donheld]

20. How the hell should I know

I don't shop there. If I was treated the way those employees are treated you'd be luck to get it in a bag let alone a cart. :banghead: