15 Items or Less. I Went Over And Heard About It.

hollydolly said:
Our stores have not accepted Cheques as a method of payment since 2008....
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I haven't used them in years in stores but I do think they are still accepted. I write them for rent and some utilities. My cable, cell phone and Covered California medical insurance all go to my credit card now.

I needed to make some copies at the office store and could only use credit or debit on the copier. I don't have a debit card so used the credit card.
 

@Judycat Our local Walmart stopped taking cash at self checkout. I could use my credit card. I've seen the line long at self check out but it moves fast since there are multiple stations.

I don't complain either. I also go to the bank once a month only. Because there is always some hold up with someone. Once a guy was buying a car from a private party so needed a cashiers check. The seller had an usual last name and the man at the counter didn't know he needed the name for the check, so he had to call the guy, get the correct spelling, on and on, wait and wait. I hate the bank. They have someone greeting you on the way in but never enough tellers. đź‘Ž
 
I use a credit card (AMEX or Visa) for everything. It's so fast and easy! Being a card member (input phone number) of the grocery store (Giant or Safeway) saves me money on my groceries. And I also get points redeemable on gasoline (Shell). And using the credit card gives me points redeemable on Amazon. A triple way to save money!
 

Almost everything I buy is at the grocery store or on Amazon. I will use the self-checkout if I have to, but usually the wait in the cashier line is not very long. I guess that I am just old fashioned.
 
The grocery stores where I live all seem to be self checkout anymore .... the big stores are anyway.
The machines take all forms of payment, so much freedom in that area.

At first, I dreaded the self checkout when they were new, but now I love it, even if I have 30-40 items.
 
I have seen entire lloaded carts in express lines and employees say nothing! Just yesterday because of a shortage of checkouts. Stores save money with less checkout lanes. Signs don't mean much and customers know this. I read that brawls occur in Wal-Mart's over this at Christmas time
 
Remy said:
Another WINCO Foods story. I've mentioned I do like self checkout and was at WINCO. 6 self check stations, 3 take debit only, 3 take cash. One cash was closed. I was checking out and a woman loudly exclaimed "you need a sign 15 items or less, he has more, she has more, she has a ton of stuff (me) I'm in a hurry, it's called common consideration." The nice young worker at self check said something to her like "it's about 15 items" She shoots back "now I'm being put down for saying something."

Yikes. I actually counted each item I had as I bagged them: 21. Yes I was over. But I counted each item individually including 2 apples, 2 tomatoes, 4 individually wrapped bulk fig bars. Had I put these items in bags, which I didn't, I'd have been closer to the 15 but since I left those individual, I was over. I have to watch it in the future though, because I don't want the wrath of another one of those customers.
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Sorry, Remy, but I'm with the other customer on this one. Unless you weighed the 2 apples together and likewise the tomatoes and fig bars, you went over the limit. 15 items or less means a total of 15 weight transactions and scans, or fewer. Yes, it's "ish", but at more than a third more, 21 isn't 15-ish.

I worked at a grocery store for a while and my preferred checkout lane was express, mostly because it was cash-only, no checks. (This was before CCs were accepted at our store). Since most checkers hated express, I almost always worked that register.

I took care to keep an eye on upcoming customers in my line. Many times I'd see people with overflowing carts. I'd catch their eye and point to the gigantic sign overhead. 'nuff said, usually. Most hadn't realized it was an express lane and moved to another line. Some would gripe that they were in a hurry, but I'd just shake my head "no" and point again.

I came to realize that a fair number of people very intentionally keep their item count low enough to meet the item count cutoff so they're understandably irritated by those who flout the rules.
 
@StarSong I admit I did go over the limit. That's not what I'm really posting about and I will be more careful in the future. I did weigh the apples together and the tomatoes together but I didn't put them in plastic bags (saving bags) so I did count them individual but didn't weigh them individual.
 
Remy said:
@StarSong I admit I did go over the limit. That's not what I'm really posting about and I will be more careful in the future. I did weigh the apples together and the tomatoes together but I didn't put them in plastic bags (saving bags) so I did count them individual but didn't weigh them individual.
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Each group you process counts as a single item so you were under the limit.
 
Years ago, I saw a cartoon - a photo of a cashier standing under the "Limit 6 Items Only" sign, holding a shotgun with smoke coming out of the barrel.
There were several dead bodies on the floor. A few shoppers were walking away quietly.
The caption said: "All right. Anybody else have more than 6 items?" :ROFLMAO:
 
HoneyNut said:
Yes, I think that is one of my least favorite parts of self-checkout, I always feel I will be suspected of theft, the machines are always fussing and calling the attendant either because there wasn't anymore bag space so I put some of the bags into a cart, or because an item is so lightweight the machine doesn't believe I put it in the bag, or something pushed on the bag spot and the machine is thinking an item was bagged without being scanned. It is not a nice experience.
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We've been fortunate at our Walmart in that the machines are not picky and I can place items back in the cart as I fill bags with no issues. There is an attendant, but they do tend to get busy so if I have to cancel an item, say over $7 for some freaking veggie burgers (seriously?), I may have to wait a bit, but that's no big.
I actually prefer the self-checks as I can bag my own stuff the way I want it and no one crowds me in line. Get up off me, man. LOL
 
Medusa said:
We've been fortunate at our Walmart in that the machines are not picky and I can place items back in the cart as I fill bags with no issues. There is an attendant, but they do tend to get busy so if I have to cancel an item, say over $7 for some freaking veggie burgers (seriously?), I may have to wait a bit, but that's no big.
I actually prefer the self-checks as I can bag my own stuff the way I want it and no one crowds me in line. Get up off me, man. LOL
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I completely prefer to bag my own groceries. In a regular supermarket I have had cans put on tomatoes by some young twit who didn't know what they were doing. Once when it was hot, I asked the bagger to put all the cold things in one bag (I was using my re-usable bags) and she had a tone to her reply "that's what I was going to do!" After that I never said anything and would re-arrange my bags before I left the store.

I too like to take my time bagging. WINCO has a divided bagging area and it can still be a rush to get groceries bagged as the check stand moves fast. At WINCO the only option is to self bag. They don't have baggers.
 
In spring 2019 grocery stores requested customers not bring their own bags into stores. Instead of taking their bags I asked that they put the groceries back in the cart (and have continued that practice). My trunk has three laundry baskets side-by-side. I empty the cart into the baskets, then bring the baskets into my house to unload the groceries.

If it's a warm day and I'm planning to buy refrigerated and frozen foods, or if it's one of the rare occasions when I have errands planned after the grocery store but before getting home, I also bring a small flexible cooler and a block of blue ice.
 
@StarSong 2019? Was the no bags in stores before the pandemic? Here stores didn't allow them for a long time due the pandemic. The time line varied from store to store with Trader Joe's being one of the longer ones. I too had my groceries put back in the cart and bagged at my car. I've been using re-usable bags for years.
 
Remy said:
@StarSong 2019? Was the no bags in stores before the pandemic? Here stores didn't allow them for a long time due the pandemic. The time line varied from store to store with Trader Joe's being one of the longer ones. I too had my groceries put back in the cart and bagged at my car. I've been using re-usable bags for years.
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The "no bag" policy began with the onset of the pandemic and was lifted about a year ago. By the time it was lifted I'd stopped bothering with bags altogether because I'd gotten accustomed to just transferring the groceries directly from the grocery cart to the baskets in my trunk.
 

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