[Bubba Gump Shrimp]

-—I do everything I can to use the self-checkout lines at the supermarket.
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I like them as well. I use paper bags, and can bag my own groceries nice and neat (you know they way they used to do it), instead of sticking two items in each flimsy cling wrap bag. The wife loads the conveyor and I bag at the end of the conveyor.

I even double bag them (the paper bags are free at the end of our self checkout, or you can use plastic), and I swear the younger people behind me look at me like I’m nuts.

Proper bagging is a lost art, once mastered by all teenagers working at a grocery store.

[CodeJockey]

When I was a teenager I bagged groceries at the commissary at SJAFB. This was in the mid 1970’s. No plastic bags, just thick brown paper bags that we would often double.

There was a “follow you” system. You would ask to follow someone. Eventually your time came to bag. You would go from bagger two, to bagger one and then you would be the one who carted the groceries to your customer’s car.

A one dollar tip was an awesome feeling back then! When you came back you started asking “follow you”? If some said yes you would follow them through the bagging and carting routine.

If your folks were checking out it was standard protocol to let their kid cart their groceries out. I miss those days.

[Mears]

“Proper bagging is a lost art, once mastered by all teenagers working at a grocery store.”

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Two of my grandsons work as cashiers at grocery stores.

They are great baggers.

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