Upside-down Groceries

ROFLMAO!

Now that you mention it, Deb, I'm going to start paying more attention to this.

As another fun addition to this thread, I am absolutely ANAL when it comes to organizing all goods in the pantry with the English side out.
 

Does everyone here remember (back in the day) what great packers the young men and boys were at the supermarkets?

It was all large heavy-gauge brown-paper bags. They'd open and stand up the bags, and everything was expertly placed into the bags, maximizing every inch of space impeccably, and when they were done, the bags stood upright on their own.

It was almost an art.
 
debodun said:
Yep, nowadays things are done just to get it over with a quick as possible. I remember seeing grocery bag packing competition on TV. The clerk would bag assorted items in a brown paper bag, then they'd tear down the sides of the bag. If nothing moved or fell out, they were deemed a good packer.
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It's the little things like this that I miss from the past.

Nowadays, so it seems, people change jobs like most people change their underwear, so few actually learn a job well, unlike in the past where people put in a full career doing what they did, and it showed.

Also, pride (as far as I'm concerned) was more prevalent in the past. Seems pride has fallen by wayside today.
 
It’s called laziness. It takes effort to turn the box over and put it in the bag with the top of the box to the top of the bag.
 
Ruth n Jersey said:
I don't mind if the cereal box goes in upside down but please don't put the canned string beans on the top of my bananas and do you know who is doing this? The hubby,that's who.
He says he helps the store clerk out so he can get out faster.
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Having grown tired of crushed bread loaves and bruised bananas and apples, I've come to leave the likes of off the conveyer counter.

I now pass these items to the checkout girls to be scanned, and I place them back in the shopping cart on their own.
 
LOL.. we have to pack our own items at the checkout, there is no packing service, although if you're disabled then the cashier will help with the packing if requested!!

They tend to throw things down the belt so fast that after first uploading the trolley full onto the belt, then having to pack it at speed as it comes whistling along the belt because there's a queue behind , I have now decided it's far less exhausting to use the Scanner ( scan -bag & Go) much easier to just place all the items in the trolley and scan them myself, then no need to upload them again at the checkout, only to have to bag them all again ... far simpler and less stressful to just scan in the trolley and take them straight through the very fast dedicated self service checkout, and straight into the car
 
I have certain preferences that I tell them right up front, like not putting all the cans in one bag, distribute them, do the eggs *& bread a certain way, etc.Also I put things that open& might spill out into an extra plastic veggie bag. I always put a rubber band around the egg carton as soon as I pick it up.
 
Hey guys take it easy on the fussiness and neatness.

I'm starting to think excessive neatness leads to mental problems because it becomes an obsession.

People I know. When they hang clothes in the closet have to have them all face the right way. Like all the t shirts have to face in the same direction and the clothes hanger has to be just right as well. What difference does it make?

Don't get me wrong. I admire people who are neat and organized. It's just not my bag.

There was a furniture refinisher that I knew and his workshop was a mess. But the finished product he completed was a masterpiece.

If you gave him a cracked tabletop and he repaired it you couldn't see where the break was.

I asked a friend how he did it and he told me he was a master with a spray gun.
 
debodun said:
Why do so may bagging clerks at the supermarket or convenience store upend packaged items (boxed and bagged) before putting them in the grocery bag?

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What difference does it make if the package is not broken? They are enclosed in a plastic bag. When you turn them over they don't know the difference. They are careful with liquids however making sure they are right side up. :giggle:

I'm fussy with beer however. If you turn the cans over, they spray all over the place when you open them.

Ketchup now is designed to be stored upside down.
 
Camper, before opening your can of beer or pop, turn it over and tap it on the bottom a few times. Seems to work. No blow ups.
 
Why do so may bagging clerks at the supermarket or convenience store upend packaged items (boxed and bagged) before putting them in the grocery bag?

The clerks are consumed by doing precise mental calculations to ensure that the crummy plastic bags rip exactly when you get to the parking lot.
 
peramangkelder said:
@Aunt Marg I too do not like 'concertina' bread or my egg carton full of smashed eggs
I was a 'checkout chick' 50 years ago in the brown paper bag days and we were taught how to pack groceries properly
Always always put bread or cake or eggs or softer vegetables on top never under cans or boxes
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ROTFLMAO, over your "concertina" remark! :)

Oh yes, I recall (at times), the packer would have two or three brown paper bags setup, that way there was no fussing as the items came down the line (the counter). Bag on the left held tins, bag in the centre was for produce, and the bag to the right was for smaller square type packed products, things like Twinkies, Ding Dongs, boxed cereal, you name it.

When it came to milk, ice cream, etc, a bag was reserved for the likes of these, and surprisingly enough, the heavyweight brown paper bags did an excellent job at keeping things semi-cool until one arrived home.

Heavy items on the bottom, lighter things on top. Ah... the memories.
 
Camper6 said:
Hey guys take it easy on the fussiness and neatness.

I'm starting to think excessive neatness leads to mental problems because it becomes an obsession.

People I know. When they hang clothes in the closet have to have them all face the right way. Like all the t shirts have to face in the same direction and the clothes hanger has to be just right as well. What difference does it make?

Don't get me wrong. I admire people who are neat and organized. It's just not my bag.

There was a furniture refinisher that I knew and his workshop was a mess. But the finished product he completed was a masterpiece.

If you gave him a cracked tabletop and he repaired it you couldn't see where the break was.

I asked a friend how he did it and he told me he was a master with a spray gun.
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Too late for me, Camper! LOL!

I went over the deep-end a long time ago. Been a fuss-nut all my life... took after my mom in that regard.
 

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