Does your supermarket unload your food cart for you?

[runzwithsizorz]

Originally posted by: Born2bwire

Originally posted by: runzwithsizorz
The Ukrops grocery store chain, run by the Mormons, hire mentally, and/or physically handicapped people to take your cart out to your car, and help you load. They are NOT allowed to take tips. Though I am still fairly physically fit, I find it hard to ever decline their offers of help, it is their job, and they seem to enjoy doing it, always bright, cheery, and friendly. And if it costs me a few pennies more for my groceries, SO BE IT!!! and call me a moron.

Heh, Ukrops is a nice store isn't it? My folks live out in Williamsburg.

Which is where I live.

 

[TridenT]

Originally posted by: cKGunslinger

Originally posted by: ICRS

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt

Originally posted by: ICRS

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
Of course not, only a moron would pay for something like that.

I don't pay for it, infact here the unload everyones carts and bag everyones items. You don't even ask, they just do it. You push your cart to the pay station and the cashier unloads your items and scans it, while someone else starts bagging it. They then places the items back in your cart for you. It is wonderfull. All free of charge. Although this supermarket does charge a little more than others, but the service and selection make it so worth it.

ROFLMAO!! Moron.

There is no explicit charge. They don't say $1.00 to unload your cart and bag.

It's called subsidizing.

Hey, I got an idea. I'll sell you my car for $225k, and throw in a free house!

 

[ConstipatedVigilante]

Originally posted by: BoomerD
When I go to the grocery store, I generally cruise around in one of the go-cart style grocery carts, so yes, MOST stores unload my groceries for me, bag my groceries, and even take them to the car for me. Doesn't matter if I shop one of the "retail-priced stores" like Safeway, Raley's, or Save-Mart, or if it's one of the "discount" grocery stores such as Winco or Food Maxx where you'd NORMALLY bag your own.
I've never asked for such service, and often tell them, "Thanks, but I've got it," but when I'm really hurting and the wife drags my fat-lazy ass to the store anyway, I'll occasionally let them take care of it.

Hi, grandpa.

 

[Canai]

WTF every single store I've been to here in WI has unloaded the cart, scanned the items, and bagged it for me.

owait. No. But the main one here in Madison, Woodmans, who are also the cheapest, do it. I haven't been to one that doesn't in years.

 

[Born2bwire]

Originally posted by: runzwithsizorz

Originally posted by: Born2bwire

Originally posted by: runzwithsizorz
The Ukrops grocery store chain, run by the Mormons, hire mentally, and/or physically handicapped people to take your cart out to your car, and help you load. They are NOT allowed to take tips. Though I am still fairly physically fit, I find it hard to ever decline their offers of help, it is their job, and they seem to enjoy doing it, always bright, cheery, and friendly. And if it costs me a few pennies more for my groceries, SO BE IT!!! and call me a moron.

Heh, Ukrops is a nice store isn't it? My folks live out in Williamsburg.

Which is where I live.

I know. I exhaustively find out all the personal particulars of everyone I meet on the internet. And let me tell you, you really should have rethought wearing plaid today.

 

[Ika]

I think the only time I've been to a grocery store that unloaded food into my car for me was a chinese food store.

 

[Special K]

Originally posted by: cKGunslinger

Originally posted by: ICRS

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt

Originally posted by: ICRS

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
Of course not, only a moron would pay for something like that.

I don't pay for it, infact here the unload everyones carts and bag everyones items. You don't even ask, they just do it. You push your cart to the pay station and the cashier unloads your items and scans it, while someone else starts bagging it. They then places the items back in your cart for you. It is wonderfull. All free of charge. Although this supermarket does charge a little more than others, but the service and selection make it so worth it.

ROFLMAO!! Moron.

There is no explicit charge. They don't say $1.00 to unload your cart and bag.

It's called subsidizing.

Hey, I got an idea. I'll sell you my car for $225k, and throw in a free house!

Heh, I remember people would do that on ebay to get around selling items that were not supposed to be sold on ebay. I don't shop there often enough to know if they are still doing that though.

 

[aesthetics]

They do if you ask.

 

[Old Hippie]

I shop around.

Some bag, some don't.

At the ones that do, I'm a known heavy tipper ( 3 or 4 bucks).

You can see those carry-out kids jockying for position to help me. :laugh:

 

[BoomerD]

Originally posted by: ConstipatedVigilante

Originally posted by: BoomerD
When I go to the grocery store, I generally cruise around in one of the go-cart style grocery carts, so yes, MOST stores unload my groceries for me, bag my groceries, and even take them to the car for me. Doesn't matter if I shop one of the "retail-priced stores" like Safeway, Raley's, or Save-Mart, or if it's one of the "discount" grocery stores such as Winco or Food Maxx where you'd NORMALLY bag your own.
I've never asked for such service, and often tell them, "Thanks, but I've got it," but when I'm really hurting and the wife drags my fat-lazy ass to the store anyway, I'll occasionally let them take care of it.

Hi, grandpa.

Y'little bastard...get the fuck off my lawn!! Yeah...YOU!

 

[pontifex]

costco unloads your cart and put it back in. they don't use bags though, which i find kind of odd.

 

[DnetMHZ]

No, I can barely get the teenager behind the register to stop texting long enough to scan my items.

 

[lokiju]

I totally read unload as upload.

I need to step away from the computer for awhile I think

 

[BoomerD]

Originally posted by: lokiju
I totally read unload as upload.

I need to step away from the computer for awhile I think

When you get home, do you download your groceries?

Great concept...go to virtual grocery store...pay and download your groceries...:roll:
Sounds like sumthin from the Jetson's..

 

[oddyager]

No, none of the stores (at least the major chains) do that here. You either go on the self checkout line or you unload your items on the conveyor belt and wait for the cashier to grab and sweep.

 

[nakedfrog]

Everything costs more at that grocery store. Probably $30-60 more if I did full grocery shopping there.

 

[Gibson486]

Roche Bros.

 

[Saulbadguy]

Originally posted by: ICRS

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
Of course not, only a moron would pay for something like that.

I don't pay for it, infact here the unload everyones carts and bag everyones items. You don't even ask, they just do it. You push your cart to the pay station and the cashier unloads your items and scans it, while someone else starts bagging it. They then places the items back in your cart for you. It is wonderfull. All free of charge. Although this supermarket does charge a little more than others, but the service and selection make it so worth it.

 

[ggnl]

I've never been to a grocery that does that. Half the time I have to bag my own shit because they don't have baggers except for their busiest hours.

 

[Gibson486]

Originally posted by: Saulbadguy

Originally posted by: ICRS

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
Of course not, only a moron would pay for something like that.

I don't pay for it, infact here the unload everyones carts and bag everyones items. You don't even ask, they just do it. You push your cart to the pay station and the cashier unloads your items and scans it, while someone else starts bagging it. They then places the items back in your cart for you. It is wonderfull. All free of charge. Although this supermarket does charge a little more than others, but the service and selection make it so worth it.

What is so hard to comprehend? some supermarkets do not allow you to take the cart out by yourself and they will not allow a customer to bag (ie Roche Bros.). Yes, some items may cost more at those stores, but you have to pay for service somehow.

That said, libing in Natick, MA, that service comes cheap since Stop and Shop has similair prices to Roche Bros.

 

[ICRS]

Originally posted by: Saulbadguy

Originally posted by: ICRS

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
Of course not, only a moron would pay for something like that.

I don't pay for it, infact here the unload everyones carts and bag everyones items. You don't even ask, they just do it. You push your cart to the pay station and the cashier unloads your items and scans it, while someone else starts bagging it. They then places the items back in your cart for you. It is wonderfull. All free of charge. Although this supermarket does charge a little more than others, but the service and selection make it so worth it.

Where I shop we have multiple people working each line. 1 Casher, 1 Bagger, and 1/2 of a person to take carts to cars. I say 1/2 because it is more like 1 person for ever two lines. Having more people work makes it go faster.

 

[daniel49]

you need a sometimes option or occasionlly, or hardly ever.

 

[Jeff7]

I've never seen a store where they unload the cart for you.

Self-checkout + a bagger seems like the most efficient method.

With a regular cashier, you unload your cart and then stand there idle while the cashier (possibly with a bagger) does all the work.

Self checkout: You unload and scan, while someone bags the items. Both people are actively working at the same time. Parallel processing = shorter time to completion.
This is of course dependent on having a good scanning system.

 

[ICRS]

Originally posted by: Jeff7
I've never seen a store where they unload the cart for you.

Self-checkout + a bagger seems like the most efficient method.

With a regular cashier, you unload your cart and then stand there idle while the cashier (possibly with a bagger) does all the work.

Self checkout: You unload and scan, while someone bags the items. Both people are actively working at the same time. Parallel processing = shorter time to completion.
This is of course dependent on having a good scanning system.

Here while the cashier unloads your cart they scan the item. Then hands it over to a bagger who bags it and loads it back into your cart. It is very efficient, similar to your self checkout+bagger, but someone else is scanning the item for you.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: ICRS

Here while the cashier unloads your cart they scan the item. Then hands it over to a bagger who bags it and loads it back into your cart. It is very efficient, similar to your self checkout+bagger, but someone else is scanning the item for you.

Meanwhile you stand there idle. Idle time = lost efficiency.
That efficiency is made up in the form of an increase in operating costs for the company, and they pass the "savings" on to the customer.