Shopping without plastic bags

[cshenk]

So, here's my experience.

I goofed when I tried to go all 'my own bags' due to design.

What I had where these:

<https://www.amazon.com/Trolley-COOLER-Reusable-Grocery-Eco-friendly/dp/B071YTZ86J>

And these:
<https://www.amazon.com/Reusable-Foldable-Shopping-eco-friendly-Washable/dp/B07V2RWST5/>

What I did was load the trolley set then go to the checkout. This left
the lady trying to ring stuff in each bag and put it back. Took a bit.
Next time, I grab an extra cart and have it at the foot and load as she
rings. I put 2 of the loose form totes in each cart bag (weighs less
then) at the end cart as she empties the main one. End result, we leave
a spare cart at the foot for another to use.

(In Japan, you bag your own groceries and you get fast at it. I am
faster than the average cashier at it.)

[itsjoan...@webtv.net]

On Monday, January 10, 2022 at 6:47:14 PM UTC-6, cshenk wrote:
>
> So, here's my experience.
>
> I goofed when I tried to go all 'my own bags' due to design.
>
> What I had where these:
>
> <https://www.amazon.com/Trolley-COOLER-Reusable-Grocery-Eco-friendly/dp/B071YTZ86J>
>

I use something very similar to these but they are not cooler bags.
https://i.postimg.cc/D0q8kp7v/Cart-Helper-Bags-1.jpg

>
> What I did was load the trolley set then go to the checkout. This left
> the lady trying to ring stuff in each bag and put it back. Took a bit.
> Next time, I grab an extra cart and have it at the foot and load as she
> rings. I put 2 of the loose form totes in each cart bag (weighs less
> then) at the end cart as she empties the main one. End result, we leave
> a spare cart at the foot for another to use.
>

I'm trying to understand why she was trying to put your items back in
the bags; it's not a clear picture. I unload my bags onto to the belt but
bags stay in the cart. Cart is pushed to the end of the belt where my
items come down after ringing up and then reloaded into those bags.

[Dave Smith]

Yes. Ghe Ghe Ghe :)))))))))))
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[Cindy Hamilton]

On Monday, January 10, 2022 at 7:47:14 PM UTC-5, cshenk wrote:

After a couple of years of using plastic bags (for a while they weren't
allowing customers to bring their own bags), I saw someone else
using them, so that restriction must be lifted.

I decided to get some washable bags. I rejected these:

> <https://www.amazon.com/Reusable-Foldable-Shopping-eco-friendly-Washable/dp/B07V2RWST5/>

because they seemed too large. The checkstands at my grocery
are like this:

<https://www.roystonllc.com/products/checkstands/189-carousel-1>

My old bags (which were large) were troublesome.

I ended up with these:

<https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07M6JPJR5>

Cindy Hamilton

[bruce bowser]

On Monday, January 10, 2022 at 7:47:14 PM UTC-5, cshenk wrote:

Well, that's in many areas, but sometimes, you can also have the store enter your building and actually stock your apartment while you are away.

[Sheldon Martin]

I leave my reusable bags in my car. I prefer the checker return my
checked groceries to my cart. Then I wheel it to my car and pack the
reusble bags how I want, according to where they go in my house.
Otherwise they just make a lot of extra work for me... they have no
way to know where I put things. A lot of items go to the counter near
my kitchen sink, I wash items before putting them away... cans, jars,
and bottles are fogged with insecticide in the warehouses.

[Cindy Hamilton]

On Tuesday, January 11, 2022 at 1:00:31 PM UTC-5, Sheldon wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Jan 2022 02:51:26 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton
> <angelica...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >On Monday, January 10, 2022 at 7:47:14 PM UTC-5, cshenk wrote:
> >
> >After a couple of years of using plastic bags (for a while they weren't
> >allowing customers to bring their own bags), I saw someone else
> >using them, so that restriction must be lifted.
> >
> >I decided to get some washable bags. I rejected these:
> >
> >> <https://www.amazon.com/Reusable-Foldable-Shopping-eco-friendly-Washable/dp/B07V2RWST5/>
> >
> >because they seemed too large. The checkstands at my grocery
> >are like this:
> > https://www.roystonllc.com/products/chec
> ><kstands/189-carousel-1>
> >
> >My old bags (which were large) were troublesome.
> >
> >I ended up with these:
> >
> ><https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07M6JPJR5>
> >
> >Cindy Hamilton
> I leave my reusable bags in my car. I prefer the checker return my
> checked groceries to my cart.

Not really feasible with the kind of checkstands used at my grocery store:
<https://www.roystonllc.com/products/checkstands/189-carousel-1>

The cashier is nowhere near the cart.

Anyway, do you stand around in the cold, rain, heat, whatever bagging
your groceries while standing net to your car? Just bag your own groceries
in the store. What a maroon.

Cindy Hamilton

[Dave Smith]

On Tue, 11 Jan 2022 13:00:23 -0500, Sheldon Martin <penm...@aol.com>
wrote:

[Sqwertz]

I don't get it. Why aren't you unloading your cart onto the
conveyor belt like a normal people do?

-sw

[itsjoan...@webtv.net]

On Tuesday, January 11, 2022 at 12:00:31 PM UTC-6, Sheldon wrote:
>
> I leave my reusable bags in my car.
>

I do, too.

>
> I prefer the checker return my
> checked groceries to my cart. Then I wheel it to my car and pack the
> reusble bags how I want, according to where they go in my house.
>

While you are standing there why don't you put your groceries in your
reusable bags instead unloading them once again and THEN repacking????

[Sqwertz]

On Tue, 11 Jan 2022 13:00:23 -0500, Sheldon Martin wrote:

> I wash items before putting them away... cans, jars,
> and bottles are fogged with insecticide in the warehouses.

No they aren't. The FDA has very strict rules about what you can
and can't use for different situations. Fogging and even most even
spot spraying is out of the question with food in the warehouse. And
before any food goes back into the warehouse the warehouse must be
thoroughly cleaned.

This is just more bullshit you made up to try and explain yet
another paranoid, irrational phobia of yours.

-sw

[cshenk]

Do you shop small? IE, barely fill 1/2 a cart? I shop less often and
fill it. THat means it *can't* stack at the end for loading after the
cart is empty.

Think of someone shopping for 4 and what the cart would look like and I
expand that to 2 over 4-6 weeks.

[jmcquown]

I had the same question, Joan. It is not common to put loaded cloth
bags onto the conveyor belt and expect the checker to unload them, ring
the items up and put them back in the bag. That doesn't make any sense.
Then again, she tends to forget she's not is Sasebo.

It certainly doesn't make any sense to take up to the checkout stand
lane an extra cart, one to unload from and another empty one to load
things into. That's just blocking the lane and preventing other
customers from getting in and putting their items on the conveyer belt.
It would slow things down for everyone. I'm not sure but I think
she's picturing a Commissary checkout line.

Jill

[ItsJoan NotJoAnn]

On Tuesday, January 11, 2022 at 6:32:59 PM UTC-6, cshenk wrote:

>
> itsjoan...@webtv.net wrote:
> > >
> > I'm trying to understand why she was trying to put your items back in
> > the bags; it's not a clear picture. I unload my bags onto to the
> > belt but bags stay in the cart. Cart is pushed to the end of the
> > belt where my items come down after ringing up and then reloaded into
> > those bags.
> >
> Do you shop small? IE, barely fill 1/2 a cart? I shop less often and
> fill it. THat means it *can't* stack at the end for loading after the
> cart is empty.
>

It depends on the time of the month if I have a full cart or not. But you
can't load your bags as she's ringing you up??

>
> Think of someone shopping for 4 and what the cart would look like and I
> expand that to 2 over 4-6 weeks.
>

Your choice to shop so infrequently.

[ItsJoan NotJoAnn]

It doesn't make sense to me either. Why stand there like a bump on a
pickle when she could empty her bags and put them on the conveyor?
Go to the end of the conveyor with her cart and as items are rung up
put them back in her bags in her cart.

[Thomas]

I put everything on conveyor as full as it gets and run down to bag my own and stick in the cart.
I have no job below me like those the gov has brainwashed into believing they are better.
The checkout gals and guys despise the self rightious I.Am.Better.Than.You lazy.
So do the customers behind as they watch and wish they chose a different lane.
Start writing a check when everthing is done to add to the greatness.

[Dave Smith]

On Tue, 11 Jan 2022 17:54:14 -0800 (PST), Thomas <cano...@gmail.com>

[Michael Trew]

On 1/11/2022 13:00, Sheldon Martin wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Jan 2022 02:51:26 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton
> <angelica...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> On Monday, January 10, 2022 at 7:47:14 PM UTC-5, cshenk wrote:
>>
>> After a couple of years of using plastic bags (for a while they weren't
>> allowing customers to bring their own bags), I saw someone else
>> using them, so that restriction must be lifted.
>>
>> I decided to get some washable bags. I rejected these:
>>
>>> <https://www.amazon.com/Reusable-Foldable-Shopping-eco-friendly-Washable/dp/B07V2RWST5/>
>>
>> because they seemed too large. The checkstands at my grocery
>> are like this:
>>
>> <https://www.roystonllc.com/products/checkstands/189-carousel-1>
>>
>> My old bags (which were large) were troublesome.
>>
>> I ended up with these:
>>
>> <https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07M6JPJR5>
>>
>> Cindy Hamilton

I need to find some of those. They don't have to be fancy like the last
link, but I'd like at least one or two large insulated ones. I'm tired
of dealing with all of the shredding plastic bags by the time I get home.

I would, however, have to find a new bag for my bedroom and bathroom
trash cans (I use the plastic shopping bags as a can liner).

> I leave my reusable bags in my car. I prefer the checker return my
> checked groceries to my cart. Then I wheel it to my car and pack the
> reusble bags how I want, according to where they go in my house.
> Otherwise they just make a lot of extra work for me... they have no
> way to know where I put things. A lot of items go to the counter near
> my kitchen sink, I wash items before putting them away... cans, jars,
> and bottles are fogged with insecticide in the warehouses.

I wish that they would allow me to pack my own bags in the grocery
store. I'm typically more efficient than the bagger, but it seems that
sometimes the bag boy just insists that I step aside and watch him jamb
things into the bags. Perhaps I'll give ALDI another go... you have to
pack your own bags/boxes there.

[Dave Smith]

Can you go into more detail? I don't get it

[Sqwertz]

You can't kick a bag boys ass?

> Can you go into more detail? I don't get it

Don't let him try and press your buttons for somebody to play with
too, Michael. We got enough suckers already.

-sw

[Dave Smith]

On Wed, 12 Jan 2022 00:02:36 -0600, Sqwertz <sqwe...@gmail.invalid>
wrote:

This is not my frogger.

[Gary]

Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> Anyway, do you stand around in the cold, rain, heat, whatever bagging
> your groceries while standing net to your car? Just bag your own groceries
> in the store. What a maroon.

In Harris Teeter (my normal store), they keep the cart and bag items as
they ring them up. (You can't help them bag).

Maybe I'm lucky as I only live one mile away. Even with cold food
purchased on hot days...a quick drive home and put them away properly.

[Dave Smith]

[Dave Smith]

Yes. Ghe Ghe Ghe :)))))))))))

[Michael Trew]

On 1/12/2022 1:02, Sqwertz wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Jan 2022 22:48:47 -0700, Bruce the Troll Wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 12 Jan 2022 00:44:51 -0500, Michael Trew
>> <michae...@att.net> wrote:
>
>>> I wish that they would allow me to pack my own bags in the grocery
>>> store. I'm typically more efficient than the bagger, but it seems that
>>> sometimes the bag boy just insists that I step aside and watch him jamb
>>> things into the bags. Perhaps I'll give ALDI another go... you have to
>>> pack your own bags/boxes there.
>
> You can't kick a bag boys ass?

Well, then I don't think that I could go back to that grocery store.
With my luck, as I tried to run before the police got there, whatever
flavor of car for the day wouldn't start, and I'd be trapped in their
parking lot.

>> Can you go into more detail? I don't get it
>
> Don't let him try and press your buttons for somebody to play with
> too, Michael. We got enough suckers already.
>
> -sw

I don't know if that's Bruce or Casa now, nor do I care. I don't even
glance at the content anymore, as soon as I realize that it isn't
actually Dave Smith I move on.

Whatever little bit of rapport that Bruce had was lost when he insisted
on trying to take away *MY* choice to ignore him, by forging another
person out of spite. I don't let troll annoyances win.

[Dave Smith]

That's not what you said a week or so ago. You stopped talking to me
when I reminded you that the Drifters were black. As if there's
anything wrong with that.

[Dave Smith]

Uhm, Ghe Ghe Ghe.

Uhm, Dit is mijn kikker. Ghe Ghe Ghe.

[Dave Smith]

On Wed, 12 Jan 2022 21:11:48 -0500, Michael Trew

This is NOT my frogger.

[Dave Smith]

Uhm, Ghe Ghe Ghe. This is NOT my frogger. Yes. Ghe Ghe Ghe
:)))))))))))

[cshenk]

ItsJoan NotJoAnn wrote:

> On Tuesday, January 11, 2022 at 6:32:59 PM UTC-6, cshenk wrote:
> >
> > itsjoan...@webtv.net wrote:
> > > >
> > > I'm trying to understand why she was trying to put your items
> > > back in the bags; it's not a clear picture. I unload my bags onto
> > > to the belt but bags stay in the cart. Cart is pushed to the end
> > > of the belt where my items come down after ringing up and then
> > > reloaded into those bags.
> > >
> > Do you shop small? IE, barely fill 1/2 a cart? I shop less often

> > and fill it. THat means it can't stack at the end for loading after

> > the cart is empty.
> >
> It depends on the time of the month if I have a full cart or not.
> But you can't load your bags as she's ringing you up??

No room in the cart for them. Did you see the picture of them? I
posted the link but can do it again.

> > Think of someone shopping for 4 and what the cart would look like
> > and I expand that to 2 over 4-6 weeks.
> >
> Your choice to shop so infrequently.

Yes, now the topic was about going shopping with no plastic bags. I
passed on experiences.

[bruce bowser]

Some places HAVE paper bags, but the cashier no longer has the strength to recommend them (or anything else) after the fifth or sixth customer. So you have to ask for paper every time. Good thing to at least try keep in mind.

[cshenk]

Where did you get the idea the bags were lifted out of the cart? They
were not.

> It certainly doesn't make any sense to take up to the checkout stand
> lane an extra cart, one to unload from and another empty one to load
> things into. That's just blocking the lane and preventing other
> customers from getting in and putting their items on the conveyer
> belt. It would slow things down for everyone. I'm not sure but I
> think she's picturing a Commissary checkout line.

What part of an empty at the end of the lane instead of in the line did
you miss?

[Dave Smith]

[Dave Smith]

[Dave Smith]

[cshenk]

I hand my store card over, then slip to the end and bag as fast as the
cashier can ring it. WE don't have baggers often so the alternative is
to wait for the cashier to do it.

I adapted it to the new bags already.

For those looking to swap habits, this is fast and easy. Faster than
waiting to have it bagged. Just needs a second cart at the foot if
getting a larger volume, not 'oh, 2 chicken breasts, a stick of butter,
4oz cheese' etc.

[cshenk]

Gary wrote:

> Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> > Anyway, do you stand around in the cold, rain, heat, whatever
> > bagging your groceries while standing net to your car? Just bag
> > your own groceries in the store. What a maroon.
>
> In Harris Teeter (my normal store), they keep the cart and bag items
> as they ring them up. (You can't help them bag).

They start that way but I tell them to just pass it down then I bag it
myself. I'm faster than they are.

Don is with me so he gets the second cart while I'm in line and is
ready as it comes through. About twice as fast as the average time if
the cashier does it all.

[dsi1]

On Monday, January 10, 2022 at 2:47:14 PM UTC-10, cshenk wrote:
> So, here's my experience.
>
> I goofed when I tried to go all 'my own bags' due to design.
>
> What I had where these:
>
> <https://www.amazon.com/Trolley-COOLER-Reusable-Grocery-Eco-friendly/dp/B071YTZ86J>
>

> And these:
> <https://www.amazon.com/Reusable-Foldable-Shopping-eco-friendly-Washable/dp/B07V2RWST5/>

>
> What I did was load the trolley set then go to the checkout. This left
> the lady trying to ring stuff in each bag and put it back. Took a bit.
> Next time, I grab an extra cart and have it at the foot and load as she
> rings. I put 2 of the loose form totes in each cart bag (weighs less
> then) at the end cart as she empties the main one. End result, we leave
> a spare cart at the foot for another to use.
>

> (In Japan, you bag your own groceries and you get fast at it. I am
> faster than the average cashier at it.)

We don't have the option to use plastic bags on this rock - we have to use paper bags. Now I know why people say we're #49th.

[GM]

Use kitty litter liners...

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[Dave Smith]

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[Dave Smith]

Ghe? Can you go into more detail? I don't get it

[Dave Smith]