Does anyone else arrange their groceries on the conveyer belt?

[seaglass]

I always arrange my groceries on the conveyer belt according to where I'm going to put them away at home. You know cans together, freezer foods together, produce together, snacks together etc.

Today was the first time in my 20 years of grocery shopping that the person bagging actual bagged the groceries how I laid them out.

And I went back into the store to let the manager know that the kid did a good job.

Do you think they were laughing their asses off when I left?

[proud patriot]

1. Yes I do

It's easier to bag that way :hi: I bag my own

[7th_Sephiroth]

29. think

tetris :evilgrin:

[SOteric]

2. No, I rather arrange them for logical bagging.

I like all the frozen foods grouped together so I don't have to fish through several bags looking for them, I like the heavy items on the bottom of the bags and I like the bread and the eggs set aside carefully so I don't have to pay for useless product. But that's just me. I never make a stink if they don't put it together that way, I just rearrange them in the back of my car before I leave for home.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

28. Yep

I had too many baggers destroy things by just throwing them randomly in the bags. So I try to make it impossible to do wrong.

[GOPisEvil]

31. I do the same thing.

Frozen and refrigerated items together. Poisonous things away from food.

Other than that, I'm pretty flexible in my food arrangement.

[DuctapeFatwa]

3. No, that is sick and unnatural. When you do that, the terrorists win

All right-thinking Americans just hurl the stuff up there while looking at their watch, tapping their foot, and talking on their cell phones.

[ScreamingMeemie]

4. Me too. Cept they never bag them that way. Plus I build a little

wall with the pop cases between wet things like vegetables and magazines and the like. ;)

[seaglass]

13. For some reason I always end up getting boxes in the

same bag with cans.

It was almost like a miracle that I could put my groceries away without having to stroll back and forth across the kitchen. Gee, am I lazy!

I don't expect it to ever happen again in my lifetime.

[Padraig18]

5. Well...

I always put cold stuff together and the 'squishable stuff' (bread/chips/eggs/etc.) together, and the market seems to do a decent job of keeping it together.

[Nailzberg]

6. You have to.

Otherwise you got five bags with frozen stuff all melting, and a jug of apple cider on top of the eggs.

[xray s]

7. Yep

Heavy solid stuff goes first, squishable stuff goes last...

[XNASA]

8. Absolutely.

Heavy stuff first that doesn't need to be bagged.

Then big stuff that does, like cereal. Or Liquor.

Then the frozen food, then the fresh meat, then fresh veggies.

Lastly, the bread and other "crushables".

[Blue-Jay]

9. I do!

I arrange them so that they take up the least amount of space on the conveyor. That way the person behind me has more room to work with.

[ScreamingMeemie]

10. Aww, that is very thoughtful of you. I always hand back the little

divider thingy to them.

[Blue-Jay]

12. I hand the divider back too.

Then, as I'm leaving, I fart so that they have to stand in it. ;)

[seaglass]

16. Were you at Shop and Save today around noon?

[Blue-Jay]

17. ummm.

[Catshrink]

11. Yep, I do it too.

I try to keep items sorted by where it ends up. I usually have things for mom as well as myself, or stuff for school.

[JanMichael]

14. Yes. And I'm NOT a control freak either.

My wife is...<prays (even atheists beg for help) that she gets home too late to see this>

[alphafemale]

15. Yep. Heavies first. Frozen together. Meats together. etc

I also keep packages of meat separate from produce or anything else eaten uncooked. They often leak don't we know.

I keep any household chemicals separate from all food.

To me it's just a health thing.

[rucky]

18. I'm a checker, and you are a dream customer...

1) Canned/boxed/pop/beer&wine
2) Frozen
3) Meat/Dairy/Deli
4) Produce
5) Bread/Eggs

Keep the heavy stuff (dog food, charcoal, etc) in the cart - we have codes for 'em....

And start writing your check as I'm scanning, dammit!

[DemoTex]

19. I live in the wilds. I carry a cooler to the grocery store.

Most of the baggers are good. I'll say that I need the meat and dairy in the same bags, and frozen foods too, the few I buy. All that will go in the cooler with a freeze-pac. The grocery stores here even sell dry ice! The problem is, they don't warn the consumer as to the potential hazard of CO-2, boiling off in the cooler in the back of your Subaru, as you wind down that narrow, curvy mountain road on the way to supper at your timber-frame house.

If I remember correctly, I think we were limited to 8 pounds of dry-ice in the cargo hold of the MD-80 per Hazmat requirements. My dad was a professor of entomology. I used to watch as he anesthesized boll weavils in coffee-like cups with holes in the bottom for the CO-2. Those squirmy bastards went to sleep quick! Just like you or I will do with leaky CO-2 in the back of the Volvo! Verb sap.

[trof]

33. Hey, me too!

We keep an electric cooler in the back of our minivan and usually pack all the cold (not frozen) stuff in it. Milk stays fresh longer if it stays cold on the way home.

[PapaClay]

20. Even worse

I have all the items in my Pda, sorted by aisle. I one-hand the Pda while using the other to push the cart and scoop stuff off the shelves. I can one-hand the cart through a 180 turn (sliding) while working the Pda. I usually cover 14 aisles and score $200 of groceries in 12-15 minutes. I get dirty looks but most folks stay out of my flight path.

I arrange on the conveyor in order of bulk, weight, perishable, fragile. And I always tip the bagger.

My wife won't grocery shop with me. Says her nerves can't take it.

:evilgrin:

[Lars39]

21. My missing twin!!!!!

PDA's were just made for shopping! I can't claim 12-15, but I'm pretty darn fast!

[PapaClay]

25. My 3X worked OK

But my Tungsten rules for one-handed shopping!

[Lars39]

27. Force to be reckoned with!

I can just visualise all the wide-eyed folks you leave in your wake!
:)

[DemoTex]

22. Spewed Merlot on my keyboard, PappaClay!

You should warn us fellow RVN VETS! Hell, I wouldn't want to be behind you in your anal-retentive check-out line either! Too funny.

Welcome home soldier!

Mac

[PapaClay]

24. Thanx!

Since I shop at a base commissary, most just figure me for another crazy retiree. Don't know how it would go over at a local grocery store.

Have achieved ramming speed on many occasions, but the brakes always hold. Multiple cart slalom can be tricky but satisfying. I hafta ease up in the turns though. Too many 12-packs can bring the CG (Center of Gravity) up way to high.

Never get out of the cart.

:evilgrin:

[The Lone Liberal]

23. Yes, by weight, then in alpha order according to the food groupings.

then I try for the esthetic by arranging items with the most brilliant colors to the center then graduating to the outer edge of the conveyor with the lesser colors. One must keep in mind the bagging of the aforesaid items, so that one achieves a certain joie de vie as the packages are delivered to your vehicle.

[Ellen Forradalom]

26. Yes! I arrange them by weight and fragility

A holdover from bicycle-shopping days.

[jonnyblitz]

30. so do i. i put stuff that will squish on the conveyor last. n/t

[Loonman]

32. I am forced to

I am always in line behind some college kid who doesn't know how his ATM card works, some old lady digging through her purse for pennies, or a person paying with a personal check.

[radwriter0555]

34. Of course. How else does one put items on a conveyor belt? There's

an order to the universe and it's my job to put it there.

[trof]

35. You have OCD*.

*Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
;-)
Just kidding.
I do the same thing out of force of habit.
My first "real" job was as a grocery bagger/toter. Back then we also unloaded the cart. I soon learned to keep from getting my ass chewed by the cashier by grouping like things together with prices "up".

My Winn-Dixie allows NO tipping.