Do you let the person at the supermarket checkout pack your bags for you? (bit of of a rant)

[emkana]

I prefer packing them myself and always say "no" if asked if I want any help. It's just so much quicker that way. Only time I appreciated help was when dd2 was tiny and screaming and I had to rock her while they packed my bags for me.
Today at Asda the woman at the checkout just started packing for me without asking, and then I'm too shy to say "I'll do it myself, thanks." So I let her do it, but it was soooooo slow. When she started to get one of those small plastic bags to wrap the already wrapped cheese and the I can't believe it's not butter before putting them into a bigger bag I had to stop her. They always seem to put so little items per bag, and do extra wrapping with little plastic bags, I mean what is the point? Madness, if you ask me.
Just had to get that off my chest.

When I was pregnant I always said no as I liked to be martyr woman who never made a fuss. Have since realised I am a complete and utter fool so always agree to any help if offered . Does anyone else find that while they are emptying their trolley the person behind starts loading their food onto the belt? This has happened to me several times and when I've said sorry not finished yet they just put thier hand on their food - therefore I end up with food mountain pile and blood pressure problems.

Well I like help if I have little ds with me, who doesn't "do" supermarkets very well. I try to use Ocado wherever possible. I LOVE having all those bags put down right next to my fridge.... However, while pregnant the sort of help that was more welcome was always having someone unload the trolley to save me bending awkwardly. So if offered help then I used to see if they would do that instead. Sometimes they did, then I didn't have to get stressed watching bags of salad or boxes of eggs having tins of tomatoes hurled on top of them. Btw I'm in the "not too much in one bag" camp. Things get squashed and the bag gets v heavy.
To change camps, I once had a summer job on the food tills at M&S. Usually it was the well to do people who were rudest/sneakiest, eg. not nipping back to tha aisles once to pick up something forgotten (we all do it don't we), but 3 or 4 times, keeping the queue waiting. Fgs you're obviously nowhere near finished shopping, don't clog up my conveyor belt and make all the other customers pd off with me !! Or the well dressed man who bizarrely swapped the barcode labels on 11 (!) packets of untrimmed spring onions onto the trimmed ones, trying to get away with paying the cheaper price. Mean old