Working at the Grocery Store

NaBloPoMo Day 4

I don’t work in a grocery store.  I never have.  Undoubtedly, I am too sensible and incredibly overqualified.  But I shop a lot, and I’ve noticed that the people who work in grocery stores don’t get very good training.  It’s possible they’re shown how to use the scanner/cash register.  Ok, I’d say it’s likely that they’re trained on that piece (those pieces?) of equipment.

But who teaches them how to bag groceries?  You’d think something like that would just be common sense, but since most of the people who do that job don’t possess common sense, somebody needs to teach them.  No matter how you arrange things in those dumb plastic bags, if you put my bunch of bananas in the same bag as my loaf of bread, the bread is going to get squished.  But I bring along my handy cloth tote bags, so that shouldn’t be an issue.  And it usually isn’t.  However, just because my bag is big enough to hold my entire grocery order, that does not mean you need to fill the thing up so that it weighs more than a small child.  Yes, yes!  Those 12 cans of soup will fit in the bag.  But even the stupid bagger can’t lift it… why should it make sense that I would be able to lift it?

One other thing.  Don’t put the people who suffer from Diarrhea of the Mouth at the checkout area.  When the cashier and the bagger are babbling incessantly with each other every single time I go into their lane, that  is rude.  I don’t want you to babble at me either… but continuing your fascinating conversation about your coworkers (rude in any case) and pretending the customers aren’t even there makes me want to smack you upside your head with the bag you just filled with 12 cans of soup.  Just saying.