Took a ride down to Cape May yesterday. Picked up a bunch of scallops from a friend's boat who just came in. Stopped at the Lobster House seafood market and picked up some Haddock that came in the night before. Took the boat out this morning and dug up some clams after some sunrise bass fishing. Going to have a heck of a feast tonight.

Slowhand wrote:I hate the self checkout lanes. I also hate when the employees try to get you to use them. Yes, I see them. I choose not to use them. Thank you.

It's like they want to get replaced by self-checkout or something. It blows my mind when they do that.

i love self checkout

i'm faster than most checkers (unless i have produce )

the places i frequent have updated their self checkouts to large spaces and copious stations so it's not a problem with a cart

the acme on the island, well, that one's a little tight

target's the best. i pretty much leave everything in the cart and use the hand-held scanner, then put it into the reusable bags when i put the stuff in the car

Giant has the hand held scanner too, so you just take it with you when you shop and there's no scanning at the actual checkout. pretty sweet

neither of my giants have it yet. i've seen it at the flourtown one.

The Dude wrote:Giant has the hand held scanner too, so you just take it with you when you shop and there's no scanning at the actual checkout. pretty sweet

They tried that in my area a few years ago Costco too, but we must have stolen too much as it is a thing of the past. Now its all self check out.

Bucky wrote:neither of my giants have it yet. i've seen it at the flourtown one.

Me neither. We ain't 1%ers like the Dude, I guess

I've never seen Flourtown written down. Heard it on the news sometimes growing up and whatnot.

Always assumed it was spelled Flowertown.

Wheels Tupay wrote:

Bucky wrote:neither of my giants have it yet. i've seen it at the flourtown one.

Me neither. We ain't 1%ers like the Dude, I guess

"My" giants

thephan wrote:

The Dude wrote:Giant has the hand held scanner too, so you just take it with you when you shop and there's no scanning at the actual checkout. pretty sweet

They tried that in my area a few years ago Costco too, but we must have stolen too much as it is a thing of the past. Now its all self check out.

You can steal the same amount as self-checkout.

momadance wrote:

azrider wrote:The best are the people with obviously 50+ items, lots of produce and of course alcohol. Seriously, get a damn professional to check you out. I don’t care if the regular checkout line is 5 people deep. You’ll still be doing the self checkout 20 minutes after that fourth person already got home. The self checkout should be the similar to the express line.

Yeah. If I have a cart, I'm not using self checkout because I think it's inconsiderate. Not to mention, most of them are barely wide enough to fit a cart. If the person in front of you also has one it clogs up the line and no one can get through to an available register. Luckily, my girlfriend does the big weekly food shopping trip. I do all of the cooking so I'm usually only getting a few things I need for the meal.

Yeah, I treat the self checkout as an express lane essentially. The ones at the giant by me have three bag stands and a space big enough for maybe 2 bags bulky items like a gallon of milk. So if my order is going to fit in 5 bags give or take that gallon of milk, I’m going to the self checkout. If it’s more than that, I’m going to a professional.

I worked in a supermarket in high school, started as a cashier and wound up being front end manger and courtesy desk, so I still know lot of the produce codes, so I’ll just key them in no problem. I’m also an incredibly bad ass bagger, I’m like Tom Cruise in cocktail flipping cans of green beans and landing them in the bag, Sliding stuff that doesn’t go together with my current bag group (e.g. cold stuff when I’ve got a bag of boxes/cans) around the bagging area setting up the next bags. On a related note, my wife refuses to go to the supermarket with me.

#SupermarketWithBill

I am a good bagger too but mostly bc I don’t care if like items are together. I’m putting it all away at the same time anyway. I’ve seen way too many pros take too long bc of this. Just make sure the bread and eggs are on top

momadance wrote:Took a ride down to Cape May yesterday. Picked up a bunch of scallops from a friend's boat who just came in. Stopped at the Lobster House seafood market and picked up some Haddock that came in the night before. Took the boat out this morning and dug up some clams after some sunrise bass fishing. Going to have a heck of a feast tonight.

This is a masterpiece

The Dude wrote:#SupermarketWithBill

Let’s go, bring the boom box playing Kokomo

Bill McNeal wrote: On a related note, my wife refuses to go to the supermarket with me.

Napalm wrote:

momadance wrote:Took a ride down to Cape May yesterday. Picked up a bunch of scallops from a friend's boat who just came in. Stopped at the Lobster House seafood market and picked up some Haddock that came in the night before. Took the boat out this morning and dug up some clams after some sunrise bass fishing. Going to have a heck of a feast tonight.

This is a masterpiece

It was delicious.

Bill McNeal wrote:

momadance wrote:

azrider wrote:The best are the people with obviously 50+ items, lots of produce and of course alcohol. Seriously, get a damn professional to check you out. I don’t care if the regular checkout line is 5 people deep. You’ll still be doing the self checkout 20 minutes after that fourth person already got home. The self checkout should be the similar to the express line.

Yeah. If I have a cart, I'm not using self checkout because I think it's inconsiderate. Not to mention, most of them are barely wide enough to fit a cart. If the person in front of you also has one it clogs up the line and no one can get through to an available register. Luckily, my girlfriend does the big weekly food shopping trip. I do all of the cooking so I'm usually only getting a few things I need for the meal.

Yeah, I treat the self checkout as an express lane essentially. The ones at the giant by me have three bag stands and a space big enough for maybe 2 bags bulky items like a gallon of milk. So if my order is going to fit in 5 bags give or take that gallon of milk, I’m going to the self checkout. If it’s more than that, I’m going to a professional.

I worked in a supermarket in high school, started as a cashier and wound up being front end manger and courtesy desk, so I still know lot of the produce codes, so I’ll just key them in no problem. I’m also an incredibly bad ass bagger, I’m like Tom Cruise in cocktail flipping cans of green beans and landing them in the bag, Sliding stuff that doesn’t go together with my current bag group (e.g. cold stuff when I’ve got a bag of boxes/cans) around the bagging area setting up the next bags. On a related note, my wife refuses to go to the supermarket with me.

my second job ever was bagging groceries. I'm still awesome at it, but I hate using the plastic bags. I love the old school big paper bags. I could pack those perfectly square with each bag weighing the same as the others in the order. I never cashiered because that was prison. My second task was frozen food. I would stock that area, which was nice in the summer.

hoagie places should be legally required to remove the stems from hot peppers