Similar to people who pack your groceries into bags at cashier. Have only seen this in the states, nowhere else
I think you may not realize how many shoppers/how much person-density there can be in the US.
Norwegians was confused every time AFAIK.
Having to bag my own groceries is infuriating. In Canada, The Real Canadian Superstore was the first to do this and it has a shitty feel.
The lines are long, I bring my own bags and have to get out of peoples way as I pay and try to bag my own groceries.
I actually started going to self checkouts because if they don’t bag my groceries, cashiers are useless to me!
If you think bagging is just stuffing bags in orde that groceries come, you’re nuts. I hate it when a useless cashier takes my apples and just tosses them into bags too. They’re fragile and need to be handled as such.
I definitely think bagging is a service worth paying for and appreciate when I get a bagger that gets it.
Oh, my first real job was bagging and helping customers with the groceeos to their cars. Not useles.
There is a big difference between a job that creates convenience for other people and one that’s redundant or pointless.
Please tell me that you say this only to win the argument, because, come on. Putting things into something else is as trivial as it gets, and I can assure you that, even though I have never seen one, a person whose job is to fill the bits someone else bought into bags for them will give absolutely zero fucks about how he puts them things into them bags. Except maybe it's somewhere like Harrods, I guess, if they are paid high enough (now I recalled this: there was a comment or an article recently about an employee of Harrods whose job was to get fired when customers came to complain about other personnel).
You figure out how to build a base, how to seperate items by contimination risk, learn how to fill a bag up.
People who do it poorly give you 15 bags when 7 will do.
The biggest incentive is to do it faster. The job is boring as sin, so you just want to get it over with.
It's also a good job for mentally challenged people. It's low stress, something they can learn, and something they can do well at.