I’m just wondering what the title asks: do you organize your groceries in the order you will check them out, if doing self-checkout, or arrange them on the belt/counter in a standard checkout line, in the hope that they’ll be bagged in a specific way?

I didn’t know there was any other way people do it, but just learned some people prefer to checkout/bag without pre-arranging things. I’m kind of curious to see what’s more common, or if there’s some other options I haven’t considered?

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    7 months ago

    So is it customary to tip the person doing the bagging?

    When I was in South Africa, this wasn’t very common. I suppose you could tip them but there isn’t a very big tipping culture there.

    Or maybe a designated bagger will do it faster, resulting in less wait times?

    Personally, I’ve never thought that having a designated bagger was that much faster (by themselves). Sometimes you’d see someone helping the bagger, this would be faster.

    But how does this person provide any value though?

    It’s not necessarily about the value they provide. Since unemployment is so high, if you can create extra jobs, the business will do it. When I left, unemployment in my province was at 50%.

    It’s the same for self checkout. You could easily do it yourself but you’d lose out on potential jobs (bagger and cashier). This article is really good at showing why these systems are the way they are.

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      7 months ago

      I always thought that such jobs would be best replaced with universal basic income. Maybe even not universal, and only for those who need it

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      It’s not necessarily about the value they provide

      That’s how a business works though, people do work of value which the business provides to its customers. I know nothing of the situation is SA but ordering business to lose more money doesn’t seem like the way to go. I’ll agree with the other comment calling for UBI.

      That article wasn’t helpful though, just a whole lot of people talking with too much conflict of interest.