To have refused to do this? (supermarket related)

[LittleRedHenGirl]

Just been to do a huge shop at a local supermarket. Big trolley stacked full.

Got to the till, unpacked it all onto the conveyor belt and the woman at the till asked if I'd like bags. "Yes please" I said, so she handed me one carrier bag. For nearly £200 worth of shopping.

I said "Could I have some more bags please?" and she said that she could only give them out one at a time and that I had to fill one bag before she could give me another. I said that no, this wouldn't work for me as I like to pack frozen stuff together, cold stuff together, tins together etc. She said it still had to be one bag at a time. I said fine, I'd leave it all there then and not buy it, and she reluctantly gave me a load of carriers, whilst saying that in years of working on tills everyone had always filled up their bags one at a time, and it was very unusual for someone to want to pack things in groups.

I don't know about anyone else but I don't want raw chicken shoved in with the bread, and bleach with the bananas!!

Oh, and before anyone says I should have my own bags, I do normally have my own but they are in my car boot, and DH and I have swapped cars for today, hence the need for carriers.

WIBU to want to pack as I did?

And I'd imagine that the manager would be annoyed that the cashier would turn down the opportunity to sell two tickets to one person given that I haven't been in a full cinema in a long, long time.

YANBU at all and I would have reacted the same.

Group stuff on the conveyer! That's hilarious!
You learn something new every day

YANBU, all right minded people pack this way -how can you unpack at home if all the fridge stuff isn't together, the cupboard stuff, the toiletries and so on. I usually find the opposite, if you say yes to bags the checkout person frantically gets out and opens approximately five thousand bags and asks in a flustered tone whether it'll really be enough and am i sure I'm ok, then proceeds to get out another sixteen thousand every time I've filled one, so that the whole process becomes an embarrassing ferago for all concerned...

YANBU next time make sure you ask her to help with packing and them stop and repackage her bags

See this is why I actually like Aldi, no packing at the till. Group stuff in trolley as you shop so it's easy to group on conveyor and then regroup as you put it in trolley at the end. Simples

I pack as you do but I out it on the conveyer belt in order too, so all frozen stuff in one pile..

If you load your trolley right then grouping at tills shouldn't take any time at all.

We live in England but close to the Welsh border and local supermarkets have started handing out bags since the law change in Wales. We were told by an Asda manager that people come and grab handfuls if they don't because they are free here.

I have no idea if that is true or they just use it as an excuse to save bags.

Some staff are more careful with them than others but I wouldn't accept one at a time and I won't overfill the bags either.

The day the manager told us the above, they didn't have any carrier bags at all and they were handing out free bin liners to people who insisted on having bags for their shopping.

Loading trolleys the right way and organising stuff on the conveyor belt? Wish I could be as organised as that! Im usually too busy telling my ds to not run away/picking things up he shouldn't be picking up and generally getting stressed out! Yanbu I would have been bloody pissed off if some checkout assistant had said that to me..wtf?

According to DD who works checkouts for a major supermarket they are always being told to say things are 'the rules' even when they are completely barking and counter to all things sensible.

The bag rationing mentioned by manchestermummy was probably because the store was out of stock of bags. The manager decided to try and dress this up as 'policy'.

Yanbu it's none of the cashiers business how many bags you need at any one time. How ridiculous.

YANBU

I'm always forgetting my bags for life

Wow.. That is odd. I still find it strange that cashiers do not pack as they scan. In Australia cashiers scan and then put in a bag straight away. It does not add any additional time.

They do in the US as well,
In Walmart in Kissimmee they had a metal turny thing that held five bags open and you could spin it around, the cashier packed a bag, spun it a bit packed the next bag and the customer would pull off the loaded bag as it passed by their trolley and put it into their trolley it worked a treat and was very quick!

Once the charge for carrier bags comes in in England this all ends, they just ask you how many bags you want!!
It certainly makes you remember to take bags with you, especially if doing a big shop!