Reusable bag

[TheSnakeLady]

I went to the Station of Desk Supplies to pick up a few things. While I was there, I decided to purchase a reusable shopping bag.

So the clerk rings me up, and then starts bagging everything into plastic bags. Including the reusable shopping bag.

[Deserted]

Hmm... autopilot, much?

[rudeawakening]

Ha, we sell those where I work and a fair number of customers ask me to put them, along with the rest of their purchases, into plastic bags!

[Seanette]

Reminds me of a line of Lily Tomlin's, when she talked about buying a wastebasket and carrying it home in a paper bag.

When she got home, she put the paper bag in the wastebasket.

[wolfie]

Just curious, but when a garbage can is no longer usable (i.e. damaged), how do you throw it out?

[MoonCat]

Just curious, but when a garbage can is no longer usable (i.e. damaged), how do you throw it out?

On my old street, they just tossed it out onto the curb, or into a vacant lot, and left it there. You would not believe the stuff they'd toss out. I once saw a whole, presumably once-frozen, turkey lying in a vacant lot.

[strawbabies]

Just curious, but when a garbage can is no longer usable (i.e. damaged), how do you throw it out?

We taped a note to ours asking the garbage men to please take the can away.

[Jarlaxle]

Cut the thing into pieces and stuff it in the trash...otherwise, they won't take it!

[MelindaJoy77]

Sounds like something I *might* do towards the end of my shift when I feel like a zombie, but usually if a customer buys a re-useable bag, I'll ask them if they want me to put their other items in it. Every once in a while I get someone who says no, for whatever reason. I love using them, as a customer, but as a cashier they can be a pain. Then again, it's probably just because our bagging carousel isn't set up very well to make room for them.

[KatherineB]

I sold a customer four large tote bags last week. She wanted them bagged. I thought she was kidding at first, but not, she was serious. It took all I had not to laugh in her face as I bagged them.

[Plague*Star]

Just curious, but when a garbage can is no longer usable (i.e. damaged), how do you throw it out?

Give it to this guy?
Comments claim this is fake, but I feel certain this man got recruited by a *major* package delivery service shortly afterwards.
P*S

[wordgirl]

I was visiting my sister on the west coast and bought an assortment of Trader Joes' bags for my bestie, who has a collection of cool-looking reusable shopping bags.

I actually bought an extra of the coolest-looking design to carry them in

[fireheart]

I had a checkout girl ask me the exact same question.

[Gizmo]

This might explain why the cashiers look at me oddly when I ask them to scan the reusable bag next.

(Explanation: I put the bags on the top of the first items... then they take the items from below that and I'm left with a building up of stuff to go in the bag they aren't yet scanning.... And we don't usually have baggers here in the UK).

[Dreamstalker]

I always scan bags first unless an SC piles their mountain of stuff on top of the bag There are some customers who bring their own store bags, but for whatever reason they're still sparkling clean, have the 'hanger fold' and the tag on; nothing to distinguish them from a bag that was just taken off the rack (this is why I remove the tag after scanning new ones).

Seriously, it looks brand new. How am I supposed to know you're not buying it if you don't tell me (and even then, why should I believe you if it doesn't have something on it identifying it as yours)?