Canvas bag morons at self-service tills

[Lysander]

Nearly every lunchtime I go into my local Coop and there's one - at least one - canvas bag moron gooing up the self-service queue. These are the people who carry their canvas bag around the shop with them on their shoulder, put shopping into it [or their basket] and, at the till, proceed to take the shopping out, ring it through the till and create a pile on the scales, and then put it back into the bag.

Why, in God's name? There is no good reason for doing this. The till already gives you the option to weigh a bag first so that it can deduct the weight from the shopping. You can then easily just decant the shopping into the bag while putting it through the till at the same time.

Today there was one woman in front of me at the self-service till who already had a stack of shopping she'd put through on the scales. She then had to put the items back, individually, into her Guardian canvas bag [Guardian readers love you to know that they read the Guardian, and if they think you don't know, they'll tell you] which took twice as long as it would have done if she's just weighed the bag first.

I cannot articulate my hatred for this practise. Why do people do this? Do they not see how inconsiderate it is and that it holds up the other shoppers? Is it so confusing that they could weigh the bag, ring the items through and then put them in the same bag? Is paying 5p for a biodegradable bag so bad anyway? There must be some logic here I'm missing.

</vitriol>

 

[dl8860]

I have never seen this happen. By the balance of probabilities, you probably see this once a week tops, rather than at least once every single day. Consider yourself called out.

 

[VincentHanna]

Because often the bags are too heavy for the 'weigh a bag' system to recognise.

Then you have to then call somebody over, which takes even longer.

And yes, paying 5p for a bag when you have a bag is just adding to the mass of plastic pollution we have.

 

[Nasher]

Never seen that lol

Sounds like a London thing?

Surely the sensible thing would be to have 2 bags

 

[arknor]

I did it once at the start of lockdown to avoid touching a basket.

but it's also good if you only have one bag to know how much you can carry I guess

also trying to load a bag on the scales is 75% chance of needing a member of staff, the weight shifting in the bag throws the scales

 

[InvaderGIR]

A lot of tills don't weigh bags and you have to get an attendant to fix it for you. I'd rather people did that though and used reusable canvas bags over the awful plastic ones.

 

[stoofa]

Cannot say I've seen this.
I do use Tesco Scan & Shop for example with my own bags - so scan everything into my bag and then just scan and pay out.
However don't think I've seen people filling a bag and then emptying out on to a manual check-out. Maybe I don't shop enough.

 

[firstborn]

What am I missing.... person fills their own bag, empties it whilst ringing items through the till, then refills bag. What's the issue? Unless in the OP, whilst clouded by rage for no reason, hasn't articulated it well.

 

[Yaayuh!]

Triggered OP: "How dare you use a sustainable bag, get out my way!".

I tend to have to do this with my rucksack, scan them all through, pay and then pack my bag.

 

[something daft already!!]

I have seen this phenomenon too. I suspect they are either thieves or hipsters or mad with no capacity for logical processes or thoughts.

There is no reason not to use a basket or trolley then load your shizz into your bag after paying or during check out.

 

[Pen66]

Oh no your day was slightly inconvenienced by an insignificant matter.

Inconsiderate? Perhaps you were.

so yeah, get out OP

 

[FortuitousFluke]

Don't worry OP, I'll sort out a just giving page, a man who has suffered such hardships should have access to the finest therapists money can buy.

 

[Diddums]

I do this. Stuff bag with shopping, empty bag on checkout thingy, then place bag on scale and fill it up again as I scan all my stuff.

Small shops only though, when it's too small for a trolley and I cba with a basket.

 

[firstborn]

I have seen this phenomenon too. I suspect they are either thieves or hipsters or mad with no capacity for logical processes or thoughts.

There is no reason not to use a basket or trolley.

Please, will somebody explain the issue!? I take my canvas bag, fill it, empty it whilst ringing through the till, then refill it. What, is, the problem?

 

[something daft already!!]

Please, will somebody explain the issue!? I take my canvas bag, fill it, empty it whilst ringing through the till, then refill it. What, is, the problem?

I just want to get out of these places as quickly as possible these days. Even though I am masked up and wearing gloves etc, I don't want to be here any longer than I have to be. I'm still mostly isolating and not wanting to risk getting Covid due to my health. Tills are only half open and the places are getting crowded around the checkouts. It is far more expeditious to load a basket and then put in a bag after.

 

[413x]

I did it once at the start of lockdown to avoid touching a basket.

but it's also good if you only have one bag to know how much you can carry I guess

also trying to load a bag on the scales is 75% chance of needing a member of staff, the weight shifting in the bag throws the scales

I've done this to make sure I don't do the bag overload!

 

[VincentHanna]

There is no reason not to use a basket or trolley then load your shizz into your bag after paying or during check out.

Well that saves you touching something that 100's of other people also touch, during a global pandemic where we are told to wash our hands constantly.

 

[Lysander]

Well that saves you touching something that 100's of other people also touch, during a global pandemic where we are told to wash our hands constantly.

True, but you're also touching the shopping items, which a load of other people will have touched. Take basket, put shopping in, weigh canvas bag on scales, ring through items into canvas bag, take bag, use hand sanitizer.

At home, wipe the items and wash the bag.

 

[firstborn]

True, but you're also touching the shopping items, which a load of other people will have touched. Take basket, put shopping in, weigh canvas bag on scales, ring through items into canvas bag, take bag, use hand sanitizer.

At home, wipe the items and wash the bag.

and the likelihood is that you spread whatever was on the handle of the basket onto every item as you ring them through - do you sanitise every item as well. Completely moronic to use a basket I say.

 

[explicit4u]

I do this all the time when I have a canvas bag on me instead of my rucksack.

Weighing your bag is a nightmare and I've rarely managed to do it without the scales eventually deciding that somethings gone wrong and I need an assistant. It's faster to just empty the bag and then refill afterwards, or if I have a trolley, reload the trolley and then fill my bag away from the tills.