Grocery Store Question: Do you push your own cart to your car?

[Sephire]

Push my own. I can't imagine having someone else do it for me.

This.

 

[Bignate603]

Do you know how fragile authentic 100% balsamic vinegar made from the fermented foreskins of ancient prophets is???

Nope, that's not authentic balsamic vinegar. You've got to get foreskins from people living in the right area of Italy for it to be REAL balsamic vinegar. All that other stuff is cheap imitation crap.

 

[Joseph F]

Do you know how fragile authentic 100% balsamic vinegar made from the fermented foreskins of ancient prophets is???

This made me LMAO. Sigged!

 

[Blitzvogel]

Push my own cart, bag when I need to if a bagger isn't around (and I'll still do it when there is if I have alot of stuff). I'm not going to just fucking stand there. I also mow my own damn lawn, unlike so many people here who'd rather just hire some "day workers" to do the work for them. Sheesh. Lazy ass Americans.

 

[duragezic]

Really... bagging on the guy for using a cart??

Sometimes I use a cart and only end up with a few things. Sometimes I carry by hand or with a basket but end up getting a bunch of shit and need a cart. Or it may just be big things like beer or pop, paper products, etc.

I've never been asked if I wanted help and I'm glad I don't live in an area where that is considered normal. If you're just about anyone besides a little kid, disabled or injured, or elderly you are more than capable of taking a few bags or your cart out.

 

[Perknose]

Nope, that's not authentic balsamic vinegar. You've got to get foreskins from people living in the right area of Italy for it to be REAL balsamic vinegar. All that other stuff is cheap imitation crap.

Foreskins? For foreskins, you're thinking of ballsackic vinegar, the scrotum sweat of the Gods!

It's licked off the leathery balls of large, sweaty Italian guys from in and around Modena by hairy lipped Italian peasant women and then tongue scraped into tiny gossamer satchels hand woven out of the finest hummingbird phlegm.

Trust me. A little goes a long way.

 

[Howard]

I have never had anybody offer to push my cart out for me. Or even in for me.

 

[Howard]

Foreskins? For foreskins, you're thinking of ballsackic vinegar, the scrotum sweat of the Gods!

It's licked off the leathery balls of large, sweaty Italian guys from in and around Modena by hairy lipped Italian peasant women and then tongue scraped into tiny gossamer satchels hand woven out of the finest hummingbird phlegm.

Trust me. A little goes a long way.

Would this ballsackic vinegar happen to be acidic enough to stay the growth of assorted cultures, including but not limited to, Fromunda?

 

[PhoKingGuy]

The high dollar whole foods in laguna beach doesn't even do that.

 

[Rifter]

They ask, i decline, every time. I think they have to ask.

 

[zerocool84]

The high dollar whole foods in laguna beach doesn't even do that.

For the prices Whole Foods charges, they should give you a bj in addition to putting your groceries in your car.

 

[DCal430]

The high dollar whole foods in laguna beach doesn't even do that.

Whole foods doesn't even unload your cart for you when you check out. All of the decent grocery stores here do that.

 

[Mr. Pedantic]

No. Not sure I could stand it to be honest. I felt so bad sitting on my GF's couch watching her vacuum her house before she went away, even though she told me to sit several times and in the end had to push me onto the couch. I don't think I could just walk beside someone that was doing something that I could so easily do myself.

 

[PhoKingGuy]

Whole foods doesn't even unload your cart for you when you check out. All of the decent grocery stores here do that.

You have to be trolling at this point, I've seriously been to Gelsons in the middle of 10+ million dollar mansions with practically an exotic car show in the parking lot and no one empties your cart for you. They ask if you want help back but almost everyone says no, even the rich people.

 

[Cheesetogo]

Interesting. I have two grocery stores in my area. The big chain (Giant Eagle) has you take your cart out to your car yourself. At the smaller chain (~7 stores), you leave your cart after checking out, pull your car in front of the store, and they load it up for you.

 

[Mike Gayner]

I live in U-District in Seattle and get asked all the time by the Safeway employees if I would like help out. Of course... getting help out is pointless since I walk to the Safeway and back to where I live.

I've gotten asked in not so rich areas too... ?

Well obviously they're going to ask you - you have the body of a frail nine year old girl.

 

[DCal430]

You have to be trolling at this point, I've seriously been to Gelsons in the middle of 10+ million dollar mansions with practically an exotic car show in the parking lot and no one empties your cart for you. They ask if you want help back but almost everyone says no, even the rich people.

I haven't seen it in SoCal either when I visit, but up here in NorCal it is very common.

They use a special cart were the walls of the basket of the cart are half height. This allows them to easily reach and and grab each item. There is no conveyor belt. One person unloads and rings up the items, a second person bags and ask you if you need help taking it to your car. Each lane always has 2 people working, so if the person bagging does go help someone to their car, a 3rd person will come and replace them.

Here is a picture of the the cart they use at these places.

 

[Bignate603]

The only place I go that unloads the cart for you is Trader Joe's.

 

[Gibson486]

Roche Bros. does not let you take carts out without an employee.

Otherwise, you have to ask.

For some reason beyond me....they have a Roche bros. in West Roxbury.....that is not exactly a rich place to live....

 

[TwiceOver]

There's only one place in town that pushes your cart and unloads for you and that is because they hire the elderly, mentally challenged, and kids under 16.

It's just faster if I do it myself, no offense.

 

[bignateyk]

I worked at a grocery store when I was in highschool. I would always ask old people and pregnant moms if I could help them with their cart.

It wasn't about tipping either. We would get fired if we accepted a tip. (Even though some of the people really were pushy about trying to tip you for it)

 

[lxskllr]

This thread's been enlightening. I've never heard of any grocery store doing anything other than bag, and I'd prefer they didn't do that. I could see offering assistance to a frail old woman, but that's about it. Weird. No wonder Americans can't do anything anymore.

 

[Wyndru]

I always push my own, leave the employees available for someone that needs it.

 

[MotionMan]

Maybe I am missing something in the thread, so I will just start over:

Where I live (So. Cal.):

The only place I know that unloads your cart for you at checkout is Gelson's. All other places require you to put your stuff on a conveyer.

Every place I have shopped in the past 10 years, except Costco and Smart and Final, will offer to "help you to your car", which includes driving the cart (or carrying the bag) and placing your purchases in your car.

I always refuse the assistance.

MotionMan

 

[nanette1985]

The only place I go that unloads the cart for you is Trader Joe's.

Not the Trader Joe's in my neck of the woods. Not common in my area. And it's rich suburbia, too. If I want that kind of service i just would use delivery, or have the housekeeper take care of it.