On Sun, 06 Nov 2011 21:37:58 -0500, wrote:

On Sun, 06 Nov 2011 19:28:20 -0500, micky
wrote:

Have you noticed that they used to fill the grocery bags so that they
all weighed about the same?

Then 10 or 20 years ago they got the idea to sort the stuff. Now I
can see putting all the frozen food in one bag, but they do it with
everything.

If I buy 2 2-liter bottles of soda pop, they put them both in one bag,
so that it way outweighs any other bag.

Tonight I bought two 3.2 quart. bottles of clothes detergent, and they
put them in one bag, over 12 pounds, more than everything else I
bought put together. That's the way they do it now. .


We have a good friend who is a regional grocery store manager. He says
the real issue is cross contamination. You don't want chemicals in the
bag with your food, You don't want raw meat with produce etc.
When you are dealing with entry level workers, it is just easier to
tell them to put all similar things together. If the bag ends up
heave, they double it.

Very interesting. I'm glad I posted.

One comment. Casheirs, at least, who do most of the bagging around
here, have a complicated task with a lot of things they have to do.

Bagging otoh is not as difficult. There is one supermarket around
here, the Jewish one I think, which I noticed had hired as baggers a
bunch of people with Down Syndrome, etc. I was only there once or
twice, but they seemed to do a good job.