Sort items as they come down the belt. Keep chips and bread away from everything else and make them priority. It also helps if your cashier doesn't ignore what they are throwing down the belt and sorts the bread out of harms way.
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Would you like fries with th... I mean, your milk in a bag?
Sort items as they come down the belt. Keep chips and bread away from everything else and make them priority. It also helps if your cashier doesn't ignore what they are throwing down the belt and sorts the bread out of harms way.
Should the CC be nice to the cashier or demand what items to hand them? lol.
My coworkers like to hand product off when stocking. They call it the buddy system.
If I weren't politically correct, I would call it circle jerking.
Sort items as they come down the belt. Keep chips and bread away from everything else and make them priority. It also helps if your cashier doesn't ignore what they are throwing down the belt and sorts the bread out of harms way.
Should the CC be nice to the cashier or demand what items to hand them? lol.
My coworkers like to hand product off when stocking. They call it the buddy system.
If I weren't politically correct, I would call it circle jerking.
You can ask the cashier nicely to do certain things, but I generally avoid talking to them. Most can be total butts.
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Would you like fries with th... I mean, your milk in a bag?
Bag like items together, cold with cold, fragile with fragile and so on. NEVER bag chemicles with food (unless for some strange reason the customers says go ahead.)
If it's a general mix like cans, sugar bag, sodas bread, then bag heavies at the bottom, not so heavies in the middle, and fragile a at the top. Do not overstuff bags
Double-bag the two-liter sodas when you have two or more.
So if I have three, I put two into one bag, then double-bag those two.
The one on its own gets a single bag.
B-i-t-c-h manager says "Don't do that."
But b-i-t-c-h manager lives in her own world of "This is how things are".
If I put two two-liters into one bag, the way Kroger makes its bags the odds increase that it will either expand and rip or just break out the bottom entirely.
So put two two-liters into a bag then double-bag it.
If I have a customer with tomatoes or grapes with one of the 'large' shopping carts I will push down that little flap where kids are 'supposed' to sit.
And then put them up there. I have moved purses before because of that. But if I get a 'look' or questioned I point out that these items are easily crushed or squished.
When I have someone with a 'small' cart (and god damn, at our store, they go faster than buy one get one...) who buys a bunch of groceries, I will try to wait for them to make the first move when putting groceries into the cart. Since the cart is small and they have like ten or more bags in front of me. I will even explain to them that this is why I do it. Because I don't know exactly where they want everything and they have bought a lot of groceries.
If I get glass items such as pickle jars or whatever, and don't have anything to cushion them, sometimes I will reach below, grab a paper wine bag, and throw it in to the bag, moving it around a bit to ensure that it acts as a 'softener' of sorts. And if I have a glass item that does have plastic or something else with it, I will sometimes tie off the bag to make sure that when I put it into the cart, that it stands upright and doesn't immediately fall over due to gravity. B-i-t-c-h manager once told me to place it so they don't fall over, but nine times out of ten -- hell, 9.5 -- if you put the bag anywhere other than on direct contact with the cart, at least one item inside, usually the glass item, falls on its side.
I will also tie the bags if I have four gator-ade or other drink bottles together. And sometimes double-bag the bag before I do. That way I can just drop it inside onto the cart and can rest items on the top if more are coming. The tie-off ensures, as before, that nothing falls over.
