No matter how I arrange my items on the conveyor, the cashiers there use their own questionable judgment when putting my groceries in their bags.
Today, I'll let YOU be the judge of how my purchases should have been grouped. At the end, I'll tell you what I would have done. Don't cheat! There's no right answer, I suppose, except MY solution, heh, heh! I'm just curious how you would have liked your bags filled if these were items you were taking home.
First of all, let's establish that they used three bags. So that's what you have to work with. One gal was ringing them up, and a second gal stepped up to put them in the bags. They were both probably late teens/early 20s.
I only bought five items. Okay, it was seven, but two were 12-packs of Shasta Diet Cola, and they remained in the cart to be scanned with the handheld thingy.
* clear square plastic container of fried chicken from the deli
* clear rectangular container of chicken tenders from the deli
(half the size of the square container)
* bunch of six large bananas (about 3 pounds)
* bag of onions (3 pounds)
* large bag of Ruffles potato chips
That's the groceries. Think for a moment how you might bag them, lest you be swayed by what those checkers did with them. Got it? Here's some blank space, and then their solution.
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Bag 1: onions with potato chips on top
Bag 2: bananas with chicken tenders container on top
Bag 3: fried chicken container by itself
At least they didn't put the bananas and onions in the same bag, so it was too heavy to lift, and bruising to my bananas. That's an improvement. However, the plastic container of chicken tenders had sharp edges suitable for gouging my bananas. And why leave the fried chicken by itself?
Here's how I re-bagged them in the rain at T-Hoe's rear:
Bag 1: onions
Bag 2: bananas with potato chips on top
Bag 3: fried chicken container with chicken tenders container on top
To me, that's the logical combinations. The chips on top of the onions wasn't too bad, but the onions were the heaviest bag, slightly, over the bananas.
That's how I would have done it too. Were the chicken tenders cooked? Because I would have put them separate from the fried chicken if they were raw.
ReplyDeleteRiver,
DeleteI forgot that little detail. Yes, the tenders and the chicken pieces were both fried, and in the cold deli case. So it's not just me who thinks those checkers have an odd way of bagging!