People who make you unload their crap

[Despina83]

Does it annoy anyone else that the majority of people at the check out lanes with baskets will just plop it down on the belt and stand there and watch while you unload all their crap? I mean, come on. My back's sore enough without leaning over and reaching in to pull out all your shit. Have a little courtesy, make my job a little easier. I'm not your slave.

[hawkchick11]

I can see your point, but there has been a few times where I've used a basket and the cashier has gotten pissy because I took all of the stuff out for them.

[Mark Healey]

Does it annoy anyone else that the majority of people at the check out lanes with baskets will just plop it down on the belt and stand there and watch while you unload all their crap? I mean, come on. My back's sore enough without leaning over and reaching in to pull out all your shit. Have a little courtesy, make my job a little easier. I'm not your slave.

I've never seen that. In the stores where I shop the basket deposit pile is at the customers end of the belt. There is no way anyone could think that they aren't supposed to unload them...er...never mind.

This reminds me of one thing I hate. When people unload thier baskets and just drop it into the pile with the handles going every which way making it impossible to neatly stack mine on top.

[OfficeSlug]

Does it annoy anyone else that the majority of people at the check out lanes with baskets will just plop it down on the belt and stand there and watch while you unload all their crap? I mean, come on. My back's sore enough without leaning over and reaching in to pull out all your shit. Have a little courtesy, make my job a little easier. I'm not your slave.

That is probably one of my biggest pet peeves on Express -- especially when they'll STUFF boxes and cans and bread into that tiny basket! How DO they do it?

Or the other extreme - when they have ONE or two items in the basket! WTF? Just take out the darn butter and can of tomato paste!!! Make my job scanning and taking your money QUICKLY easier - you came through Express for a reason, didn't you??

Just leaving the basket on the belt, stuffed full, says to me, "My time is too important to empty my own basket!" So know what I do? I. Take. My. Time. Emptying. The. Basket.

No harm done and I feel better about the whole thing.

[Sliceanddice]

i... but the cashiers.. glare when i unload it... im confused......

[Despina83]

I guess some of them think it's quicker to do it themselves...I don't know why...

[chops]

The reason I started unloading my basket was because someone set me straight one time (even though I got kinda crabby then, but I got over it). Since then, the only times I don't unload my basket are when there's no place to put them. This happens all the time at our local Wally Worlds. For some reason at these particular stores, their conveyors don't overhang at all in the back and there are coolers and displays packed right up against them.

[Boozy]

Oh geez, the eternal basket quandary. To unload or not to unload?

I never know what the cashier wants me to do.

[sarahj]

Yes! Unload the basket! Otherwise you get things bagged in the order I pull them out. If you don't want your lettuce and your tampons together, unload it so I can see what you have & bag it sensibly. I WANT to bag your items nicely. I CAN'T if I can't see them.

[karma_gypsy]

If you don't want your lettuce and your tampons together

Drawing off of experience are you?

[Seshat]

We get gripes on here saying 'people never unload their baskets and I wish they would'. And we get gripes 'people keep unloading their baskets and I wish they wouldn't'.

Seems about an even split so far.

[Kogarashi]

At Wal-Mart, I much preferred if people emptied their baskets and either handed the empty basket to me, or put it on the belt behind their stuff. It made bagging easier, and then I didn't have to go basket-hunting at the end of my lane when I got the free time. Hide-n-seek merchandise took up enough time as it was.

What stores have the cashiers who glare at basket-emptiers?

[twitch]

I hate this too. Though I'm a real asshat and take the basket back to the return cart before I cash them out. If they bother me about it I just tell them someone is going to be inconvienced by it and it might as well be them. Hasn't gotten me fired yet.

[Nakajo]

You guys whine about how people don't unload their baskets. My work, people will refuse to unload their CARTS. And they make comments on how it's our job to do it. (We're only supposed to help if we have the extra man power to do it, and most times we don't)

Every day. I get it EVERY DAY. About a fifth of my customers do it.

Lazy self-absorbed bastards. I hate packing carts on the front end.

[alogram]

Ugh, I hated that.

It got to the point where I would just DUMP the basket out on the belt. Got some interesting looks from people, but I hated that job, so I didn't really care.