I usually only have a backpack, so I have to make sure everything fits in that one backpack. So yea I order my stuff
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I put the heaviest and least breakable things first in line so they end up at the bottom of the bag(s). Canned food, stuff in plastic bottles, then all the cold/ frozen stuff altogether, light and delicate things like bread, chips etc last
Yep. Heavy and dense first, all refrigerated together, etc. I shop at WinCo mostly so I bag my own. It's very satisfying making it a super efficient process up front.
Not really, no.
Fuckin... No!
I also tell the cashier that they can stuff it any which way so they don't stress.
Items in perfect order of robustness on the conveyor, but more than one bag...
First heavy and non breakables or non crushables. Then crushables the veggies then fruits.
Yes, I live a short walk from the grocery store so I normally just put everything in a large backpack to carry it home. I organize what I'm buying in the order I want them so the heavy large items are on the bottom and the fragile items on top.
my mother was always weird about putting all the same items together on the conveyor belt, as if not doing it were some incredibly rude faux pas.
there's no way it possibly makes any difference to anybody. I do try to make sure that the crushable items go last however
I used to work at a checkout operator, long ago.
I ALWAYS order the belt, cans and heavy stuff goes first, then usually cold/frozen stuff, veg and fruit, baking products (flour, sugar etc), then finally the light/soft stuff.
Never worked as a checkout person but that's how I do it too. Seems just common sense to me. But of course there are some baggers who don't have a clue and will put the soft stuff in one bag but then place it in the cart with something heavy on top of it.
If you have a big enough purchase, it gets pretty impossible to rearrange on the fly.
Nah not true, ive done it on Β£200 shops, not perfectly but enough. Take the time to think about where your putting stuff as your putting things in your basket/trolley and its easy to move a few bags of crisps to get to the bottles for example.
You need to teach me then, haha! I unload as fast as I humanly can, usually with someone else madly bagging at the other end, and quite often there's a giant line behind us anyway.
I can reach down like two layers at most before something either is knocked out of the trolley or the pile topples inside. The best I can try and do is group heavy things together a little bit. I'm not sure if it makes much of a difference.
This is how I do it. I plan checkout as I put stuff in the cart. Heavy/hard/non-crushables at the back, squashables at the front and delicates in the baby seat. Makes loading the conveyor belt a breeze.
Reverse alphabetical, duh.
Canβt have my aardvarks at the bottom of the bag.
My only hard rule is refrigerated/frozen items together so I can handle that bag first when I put groceries up.
The stuff at the top of the basket goes first so I can reach the stuff at the bottom?
Have you considered using one of those carts you can open from the bottom?
Not sure what you're referring to, but I'm guessing only because we don't have those here. People either bring their own cart or use a basket
Heavy items such as milk goes in first, so that they will also be at the bottom of my backpack. Light and fragile things, such as salad goes last.
My recommendation is to wait until you get home to make the salad. That way youβre not eating a big salad out of a backpack in the park like a crazy person.
Definitely drink milk from the bottom of your bag though, that's fine and normal.
Just as nature intended
One trick I've learned over the years is that it doesn't matter what order you pour your milk into your backpack in. It will always end up at the bottom.
Strange. I always access the milk from the top.
Check your backpackβs orientation
I just scan and bag as I go in the supermarket and pay at the end. Much easier than staying in line and bagging everything at the end.
A Tesco where I lived introduced this system couple of years ago, but since they left the country entirely no other supermarket chain picked it up; not sure why, to be honest, doesn't seem much more prone to theft than regular self-checkouts.
I don't as the cashier are usually kind enough to consider that when they pack them anyway. At least I never had issues with that before.
Since I usually self check at Walmart and other places that have it, I place the big items in the cart with the bar code accessible for hand scanning without removal, frozen/refridgerated items generally together, everything else in cart doesn't really matter to me. The upper cart space (where toddlers/baby could go) is where I place my eggs, bread, and fresh veggies. Then I scan in this order: Frozen items, regular cart items, eggs/bread, weighed veggies, (bagging and putting back in the cart as i scan them) lastly use the hand scanner for the big items. Sometimes I scan the big items first if i know i need to place bags on top. Once I see that everything has been bagged and back in the cart, then I'm confident that I didn't miss anything, pay, and then GTFO. I'm an efficient self checkout machine, haha
We have hand scanners you can take with you through the store. I pack everything into collapsible crates as I go, so at the checkout it's just putting the scanner back and paying.
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