View Full Version : Paper or Plastic ??
ThE BlacK ScoRpioN
08-01-2002, 01:25 PM
just q-ree-us.
thing
08-01-2002, 01:57 PM
What if you bring you own, cloth or mesh?
Just curedious.
Troy McClure
08-01-2002, 02:14 PM
Bring my own, but if I forget or have too much, plastic, it's great for the kitty litter.
Maine-iac
08-01-2002, 02:16 PM
Paper doesn't tip over in the trunk.
Paper can be re-used at home to sort your re-cycling (again, w/o tipping over).
Plastic is easier to carry.
Plastic is less likely to rip.
Paper is re-cyclable.
In my area, plastic is re-cyclable if the use the #2 bags, but not if they use the #5 bags.
Thus, some weeks I go with one, some weeks with the other. :D
Quasi
08-01-2002, 02:25 PM
Sometimes paper sometimes plastic for me....gotta have some paper ones for recycling.
I used to be a cashier during college, the worst are the "paper inside of plastic" people :shake: Takes twice as long to get through their order and they waste/recycle twice as many bags. Make a choice already!
Buru Buru
08-01-2002, 02:32 PM
I used to be a cashier during college, the worst are the "paper inside of plastic" people :shake: Takes twice as long to get through their order and they waste/recycle twice as many bags. Make a choice already!
:lol: I was also a cashier. We could have a whole thread devoted to the annoying things that customers would do.
I don't think that paper is an option in the supermarkets near me, but I like plastic. It is easier to carry.
Han Solo
08-01-2002, 02:50 PM
I used to be a cashier during college, the worst are the "paper inside of plastic" people :shake: Takes twice as long to get through their order and they waste/recycle twice as many bags. Make a choice already!
:lol: I was also a cashier. We could have a whole thread devoted to the annoying things that customers would do.
I don't think that paper is an option in the supermarkets near me, but I like plastic. It is easier to carry.
I prefer paper, but like others, plastic seems to be the only option at the local store.
And I usually end up bagging it myself, so if the plastic bag rips, it's my own fault.
Pillow
08-01-2002, 10:57 PM
And I usually end up bagging it myself, so if the plastic bag rips, it's my own fault.
Sounds like someone needs to watch the "How to bag groceries" video I had to watch when I first started to work at a grocery store. :shake:
*Build a foundation
*Keep like items together
*Tighten lids on non-grocery items
*Try to put 6-10 items in each bag
Pillow
08-01-2002, 10:58 PM
:lol: I was also a cashier. We could have a whole thread devoted to the annoying things that customers would do.
You don't know the half of it if you didn't work in Customer Service. One person brought back some frozen pizzas because they tasted like they had been urinated on. :o Sadly...we did refund her money. :roll:
Elisha
08-01-2002, 11:06 PM
:lol: I was also a cashier. We could have a whole thread devoted to the annoying things that customers would do.
You don't know the half of it if you didn't work in Customer Service. One person brought back some frozen pizzas because they tasted like they had been urinated on. :o Sadly...we did refund her money. :roll:
What do you mean? A cashier is in customer service (CS thereafter). I worked for Slaveway on and off for ~5 years. Some larger stores had a CS booth, but everyone does CS per se. I worked Night Crew, day shifts (Checker/cashier), Deli, bagging (courtesy clerk) and dabbled in produce. I've seen a lot. I've done refunds for ridiculous things, denied liquor sales after 2 AM (in a 24 hr store when they were 1 min late) and much more.
Now to the survey. I had this customer once who would get double paper - around once a year. Then she would reuse the bags. She sold me and I generally reuse my paper bags, unless I forget of course and just get plastic. I use the plastic for recyclables, etc.
Pillow
08-01-2002, 11:11 PM
What do you mean? A cashier is in customer service (CS thereafter). I worked for Slaveway on and off for ~5 years.
As in a CS booth where Ticketmaster, Western Union, money orders, video rentals, merchandise exchange, photo development, lottery ticket sales, postal sales and parcel weighing...that stuff. Sure all the cashiers do some CS at the check-out stands, but I was talking the CS booth/center/department.
ScubaSteve
08-01-2002, 11:50 PM
I used to work at a Sam's Club. There was a lady who came in about every other week to get empty boxes of particular sizes and shapes. She would even ask other customers to give them up if they had one sitting in their cart. I never found out what she used them for, I was always a little curious, but never asked.
openminded
08-02-2002, 12:03 AM
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Pi Man
08-02-2002, 01:17 AM
Silly reason to be proud of my Dad. - My Dad wrote the instruction manual for how to bag groceries for a major grocery store chain. :)
there ARE NO silly reasons to be proud of Dad. just be proud.
Wolverine
08-02-2002, 07:23 AM
Well said Pi, well said. I'll second that. I am very proud of mine.
Pseudolus
08-02-2002, 09:03 AM
I [...] dabbled in produce.
As long as you didn't wizz on the piazzas. I hear customers hate that.
Buru Buru
08-02-2002, 10:43 AM
Silly reason to be proud of my Dad. - My Dad wrote the instruction manual for how to bag groceries for a major grocery store chain. :)
I'm just curious, how did he land that job?
openminded
08-02-2002, 10:44 AM
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I [...] dabbled in produce.
As long as you didn't wizz on the piazzas. I hear customers hate that.
:lol:
openminded
08-02-2002, 11:02 AM
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Elisha
08-02-2002, 11:58 AM
Pillow,
Yup, my point is that we run into many of the same circumstances.
Dr T Non-Fan
08-02-2002, 12:23 PM
When I go to the high-quality store, I ask for paper. Their paper bags won't wilt with a week's worth of newspapers stuffed inside them. They also have handles.
When I go to the bigger chain, I ask for plastic, double-bagged. Even their plastic bags suck, but we use them for the bathrooms' trash bins and for my sack lunches.
bertuary
08-02-2002, 01:50 PM
I get plastic these days as the stores by me don't even have paper anymore. (I used to be paper when I had a choice.) But I've found that I re-use the plastic bags for other things much more than I ever did the paper. I tend to fold them and keep them for food-type trash... you know, the stuff that will stink in like 1 day. Then I take it directly out to the big trash can outside.
Kitten
08-02-2002, 05:25 PM
Sounds like someone needs to watch the "How to bag groceries" video I had to watch when I first started to work at a grocery store. :shake:
*Build a foundation
*Keep like items together
*Tighten lids on non-grocery items
*Try to put 6-10 items in each bag
Silly reason to be proud of my Dad. - My Dad wrote the instruction manual for how to bag groceries for a major grocery store chain. :)
Can I get a copy of that for the bh? :shake:
Retired Bookworm
08-06-2002, 03:04 PM
Double paper, filled to the top, heavy things first. That way, when I know I'm carrying everything inside ANYWAY, I have fewer trips. I also buy 24 packs of soda for the same reason. Double paper under each arm and a 24 pack in each hand. 8)
Maria Erisa
08-06-2002, 03:09 PM
I like paper. I use it as garbage "can" in the kitchen. It stays up nicely on the floor.
what exam was this on? :-?
Buru Buru Buru
07-27-2007, 09:21 PM
This thread sucks.
Buru Buru
07-27-2007, 10:10 PM
Hey, what happened to Buru Buru Buru's avatar and sig line? I liked it before, but now it's gone.
notmyfriends
07-29-2007, 09:56 PM
where is the option for paper and plastic? that's how i likes it!
GuineaPig
07-29-2007, 09:58 PM
I worked in a grocery store for a while. People who ask for paper are egotistic and need to feel special by having "their own" bags :roll:
GuineaPig
07-29-2007, 09:58 PM
where is the option for paper and plastic? that's how i likes it!
granny sack?
Expunge
07-30-2007, 03:38 PM
Paper in plastic here...
I help bag the stuff and load them up. Once home the are used as garbage bags. I like to have the paper for it's strength, and plastic to catch any leaks that might happen.
Sounds like someone needs to watch the "How to bag groceries" video I had to watch when I first started to work at a grocery store. ...
*Try to put 6-10 items in each bag
Does it also instruct cashiers to put each bottle of juice/soda in its own bag with nothing else in it? Cause that's what cashiers always do to me. I end up with 6 double plastic bags and I have to put them down on the floor and combine them into two.
Sometimes they are ONE-LITER BOTTLES, still bagged separately :swear:
GuineaPig
07-30-2007, 03:49 PM
Does it also instruct cashiers to put each bottle of juice/soda in its own bag with nothing else in it? Cause that's what cashiers always do to me. I end up with 6 double plastic bags and I have to put them down on the floor and combine them into two.
Sometimes they are ONE-LITER BOTTLES, still bagged separately :swear:
no that happens because a majority of people complain if you dont. The video says a bag holds about 14lbs or ~2gals of milk
wally world
07-31-2007, 08:15 AM
Some places we shop don't have the option, but if they do, I pick paper.
The paper bags always seem to stack much more nicely in the back of the van. And the place we usually go to that has paper has handles on the paper bags.
And the cashiers always seem to put 1-2 items per plastic bag. I hate having to empty 25 plastic bags when I go home as opposed to 7-8 paper ones. I'm always checking each plastic bag to make sure I didn't leave anything in it. Takes forever.
notmyfriends
08-01-2007, 02:11 AM
plastic in paper in plastic... no room for errors there...
notreallyme
08-01-2007, 12:39 PM
But my store only has plastic, so now on grocery day I have these reusable mesh things that are shaped like paper grocery bags.
Can I get some Carbon Credits! Yeah!
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