Supermarket shopping

[mirrorshard]

Does anyone let supermarket checkout assistants pack for them? I suppose it's not so bad if you're using a trolley till, but even then they're likely to use too many carrier bags and pack things in the wrong order, because they have no incentive not to.

Comments

[angelislington.livejournal.com]

In America it is every citizen's god given right and patriotic duty to lazily stand at the checkout while the bag person (or even there isn't one, the cashier) takes 10 minutes to put each item in it's own individual plastic bag. It's practically in the constitution.

*small sigh*

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Craziness.

Mind you, I understand that in America it is still normal to pay things like utility bills and mortgages by cheque, and that one is charged extra for paying bills online with a credit card or by direct bank transfer. Which seems like absolute insanity as far as I'm concerned.

[angelislington.livejournal.com]

Oh yes - I'm an ex-pat and I actually got into an argument with my father the other day about my bank account, because he thought it was foolish and irresponsible not to have a chequebook, and REFUSED to believe me when I said no one actually uses cheques here, especially to pay their bills. It was such a ridiculous conversation. :/