You ever go to the market and get in the "Express" line and ask yourself......"What the friggen heck is so "Express" about this???? You get in line and the jamoak in front of you is paying with credit cards, pennies and food stamps and all he is friggen getting is a loaf of bread and of course his cigarettes:mad: Then.....they have no baggers in the express line (I think baggers are extinct cause I never see anyone bagging except the person doing the ringing):rollem: If it is going to be an "Express" line....shouldn't it be cash only and have a friggen bagger??????:nopain:

OK folks return to your homes.....:eyes:...nothin' to see here!

Last night the guy in front of me has the woman ring up 12 items......then has her ring up 12 more items....seperately!!!!!:realmad: :af: :exp: :lossinit:

I was pondering the lack of baggers the last time I was shopping as well. :confused: Apparently it's not just my local supermarket.

larry- and YOU did'nt say anything to him??? come on tell us...

Baggers? Hell, half the registers have no cashiers.:huh:

how hard is it to bag your own 12 items?

i usually bag my own express or not, because there's rarely a bagger anymore.

[QUOTE=BigFish]You ever go to the market and get in the "Express" line and ask yourself......"What the friggen heck is so "Express" about this???? You get in line and the jamoak in front of you


Larry,
What exactly is a "jamoke" ???

And the supermarket is the wife's job !!!

I go to Johnnies foodmaster in Whitman..They always have baggers.Lucky I guess...Walmart is another story..Whats this s&^t about self check out??Another job done away with ...:smash:

I go to Johnnies foodmaster in Whitman..They always have baggers.Lucky I guess...Walmart is another story..Whats this s&^t about self check out??Another job done away with ...:smash:

Just like Home depot now !!!
all self service machines for checkout !

My uncle told me the origin of the term "Jamoke".

It was the name of a race horse back in the 40s or 50s. It ran at Narragansett Park and Suffolk Downs, and apparently was one step away from the glue factory. It became a term applied to a mopey kinda guy--"he's a real Jamoke" ;)

Yeah....thats the guy!:bl:

12 items and under my ass!! Why dont the cashiers EVER say anything when someone brings up 30 items at the express lane!? And those self checkout things suck too. They never work half the time.

I go to Johnnies foodmaster in Whitman..They always have baggers.Lucky I guess...Walmart is another story..Whats this s&^t about self check out??Another job done away with ...:smash:

The self checkout is a good idea if it worked! The ones at walmart freakin stink. I have to sit around and wait for help half the time becuase my item wont scan or whatnot. I gave up and go back to the cashier now. Otherwsie i'll drop kick the damn self checkout things!:rotfl:

The self checkouts here at the local Stop & Shop work great.
I always use them when purchasing just a few items.
The first ones they had several years ago didn't work for crap.
The engineers/designers have since worked out a lot of the bugs.
I think many times the problem is located between the grocery basket,
and the scanning machine.

:scream: :bo:

The self checkouts here at the local Stop & Shop work great.
I always use them when purchasing just a few items.
The first ones they had several years ago didn't work for crap.
The engineers designers have since worked out a lot of the bugs.
I think many times the problem is usually is located between the grocery basket,
and the scanning machine.

:scream: :bo:
same here at the local Shaws....works great...in and out....Larry BF...cash is becoming a thing of the past

The self checkouts here at the local Stop & Shop work great.
I always use them when purchasing just a few items.
The first ones they had several years ago didn't work for crap.
The engineers designers have since worked out a lot of the bugs.
I think many times the problem is usually is located between the grocery basket,
and the scanning machine.

:scream: :bo:


Maybe the new Walmart ones i use have bugs still. Damnit Walmart fix them! :smash:

Have you seen the new scanners S&S are rolling out? You scan as you go,bag items as you go, adds up your total, tells you where items are located and all kinds of other crap. At checkout all you do is scan your card and pay, no scanning each item at the check out.

Have you seen the new scanners S&S are rolling out? You scan as you go,bag items as you go, adds up your total, tells you where items are located and all kinds of other crap. At checkout all you do is scan your card and pay, no scanning each item at the check out.
thats what I want at my market

Local stop and shop has an express register with no person. On your honor, run the items over the scannner by your onesys, ya right. First day like the thrid person through was a pro shoplifter. Scans one item, takes 20 # bag of litter, 6 black angus steaks, and four of five other items. He gets away, store calls us. Track him down, and he comes back and pays. Told store security that check out lane is thiers to watch over. If s & s thinks we are going to monitor that one they were crazy. Checks out with no one there. Do you all realize that 12 to 14% of what you pay now is the built in cost of theft. Checkouts with no people monitoring, exceot for someone in an office 300 feet away, is nothing more than a private extension of the public welfare system. This was something new in all the S & S's that day. Guy lived in Norton. Word was he hit every one that day within twenty miles of his house. Dumb friekin idea. Any store that stupid will not get my business. I am not paying for that kind of theft rate.

I never use the self check out. Another machine taking away someones job... I don't care if i have to stand in line another 5 mins waiting for a human.


~Local 2222 IBEW~

maybe you guys are right....didnt think of the job and theft aspect

Just another way for them to monitor your shopping habits....Pretty soon all you have to do is FEEL like having a steak and someone will show up at the door with one.

They will start to have a favorites list for you after you've been there a couple of times


Have you seen the new scanners S&S are rolling out? You scan as you go,bag items as you go, adds up your total, tells you where items are located and all kinds of other crap. At checkout all you do is scan your card and pay, no scanning each item at the check out.

12 items and under my ass!! Why dont the cashiers EVER say anything when someone brings up 30 items at the express lane!? And those self checkout things suck too. They never work half the time.


:humpty: :humpty: :humpty: :humpty: :claps: :claps: :claps:

I prefer when there is nobody bagging my groceries. The baggers at the grocery stories near me shove your food in the bag like they're trying fit a little more in the trash before they take it out to the dumpster.

When they do bag...I get 2 items in each bag!:smash: So 12 items....6 friggen bags!:smash:

:hs:

???

My uncle told me the origin of the term "Jamoke".

It was the name of a race horse back in the 40s or 50s. It ran at Narragansett Park and Suffolk Downs, and apparently was one step away from the glue factory. It became a term applied to a mopey kinda guy--"he's a real Jamoke" ;)

i heard the same thing from my uncle too, he used to go the tracks.

Just another way for them to monitor your shopping habits....Pretty soon all you have to do is FEEL like having a steak and someone will show up at the door with one.
They will start to have a favorites list for you after you've been there a couple of times
Come on now, I'm sure you know that that is already OLD technology.
As soon as S&S and Shaws introduced thier "Savings Cards", tracking your shopping/spending habbits is exactly what they were doing.
Look at you receipt: How much your total savings was on that particular shopping trip.
"Rewards Savings So Far This Year", etc.
They taylor the coupons they give you based on your purchases.
They send you coupons in the mail based on what you've spent so far in a given period.
I wouldn't mind someone showing up at my door with a nice, fresh Delmonico as long as it's on sale.

:walk: :drool:

Never use the self check outs :doh: Cashiers offer young kids a chance to make money. Even more important bagging is one of the few jobs that can offer mentally handicaped people employment and some feeling of self worth.

Never use the self check outs :doh: Cashiers offer young kids a chance to make money. Even more important bagging is one of the few jobs that can offer mentally handicaped people employment and some feeling of self worth.

Thats a good post. Theres a couple kids that used to live on my street that are mentally handicapped. They both work at a local super market and take pride in what they do. Good post, i never looked at it that way before.

All good points;
However I dont notice less registers open at my local S&S then pre-self scanners. I think that it offers a convience when you need a few things.
Weekly shopping I use regular checkout
Honey, can you pick up milk; I use self check-out.
As far as theft.. The one in gansett still employes someone (generally young) to watch the machines and help out with problems, so it isnt completly automated.

I will tell you this---Stop&Shop was not a bad company to work for. In the first part of my life, I worked for them for 13 years, both part time while I was in school and full time when I wasn't. You always started at almost double minimum wage, even as a bagger. I don't know what their benefit package is nowadays, but even a part-time bagger had full medical and dental, plus TDI. 3 weeks vacation for full-timers. Plus, you had a raise schedule in your CBA, and with a shift premium if you worked an overnight, you could take home 300 clams a week. That wasn't bad for a 24 year old kid in the late 70s..

Cashiers start around $9 or $10 an hour now. It's a great job for a high school or college age kid.

12 items and under my ass!! Why dont the cashiers EVER say anything when someone brings up 30 items at the express lane!? And those self checkout things suck too. They never work half the time.

When the customer's 12 items suddenly become 30, i usually wait for the lull when the customer now starts to write a check :lossinit: , then look at the cashier and say, "poor guy, he can't count" . :hihi:

My uncle told me the origin of the term "Jamoke".

It was the name of a race horse back in the 40s or 50s. It ran at Narragansett Park and Suffolk Downs, and apparently was one step away from the glue factory. It became a term applied to a mopey kinda guy--"he's a real Jamoke" ;)

that is true or at least what I was told.
its also the name of the hamchunk's (vietnamese kid ) dog in the movie " the green beret "

I wish that I could rig the 12 item register to charge double for item # 13, triple for #14 and so on. It should be expensive to be an inconsiderate idiot and this way the fare is pro-rated The dumber you are, the more you pay and the less likely that you'd notice.:bl2:

I worked as a shelf stocker in a Stop and Shop and it was the most miserable job of my life. I had this b*&#$ of a boss who was on some type of crazy power trip and I got stuck stocking the womens higene aisle. Try stocking tampons while a 50 year old lady is standing next to you browsing. Not to mention I was making minimum wage minus taxes obviously and 10 $ a month union fees.

The key is RR2, you were paying union dues. You should have gone to the shop steward (or in your case the Stop and Shop Steward) and made a claim that you were allergic to the aroma of unused beach whistles and that you were unfairly put in a position where your background did not allow you to respond to patrons' questions regarding, scent, cardboard vs. plastic, mini, maxi, or full size mattress. I bet you would have found yourself in a nice cush job in the frozen food aisle, with a reprimand to that boss.

Except that the dept managers at Stop&Shop are also union members--or at least were when I worked there. The union would be placed in a position of having two members pitted against each other. At best, all they could do was try to mediate a problem ;)

Only the store manager and asst store manager were considered "management".

A good dept manager made the job a pleasure---a bad one could make it miserable.

I will tell you this---Stop&Shop was not a bad company to work for. In the first part of my life, I worked for them for 13 years, both part time while I was in school and full time when I wasn't. You always started at almost double minimum wage, even as a bagger. I don't know what their benefit package is nowadays, but even a part-time bagger had full medical and dental, plus TDI. 3 weeks vacation for full-timers. Plus, you had a raise schedule in your CBA, and with a shift premium if you worked an overnight, you could take home 300 clams a week. That wasn't bad for a 24 year old kid in the late 70s..

Cashiers start around $9 or $10 an hour now. It's a great job for a high school or college age kid.


Me.......around 75 to 76 in a meat cutting facility in Marlborough

Yup--Sydney Rabb and his sons. It's now owned by some European outfit.

Sydney used to make it a point to visit every store at least once a year and meet all the employees personally.

Yeah, a job at the market is great when you're a teenager with a 3-hour shift saving for a beater car. I can barely wrestle 30 hours at 7.50 per hour out of Shaw's grimy little hands. On top of the crap pay and inadequate hours, I also get the shaft in scheduling. 1030 to 130 on a Saturday? I'd make about 10 bucks that day if you take out taxes and gas. Not to mention that they actually expect me to take my job seriously! I got a 20-minute talk when I scored a 39% on the mystery shopper. Why 39%? Well, I didn't have paid stickers for her large, unbagged items -- the store itself doesn't have one paid sticker in it! Is that now my problem? Should I buy them and bring them to work with me? I also made fun of our "Xtreme Item". I have to mention this weekly garbage (fruit snacks, razors, popcorn) to each and every customer, or they get it free. It doesn't matter if they're deaf, blind, buying just a paper or box of tampons, or if they don't speak English. Being required to pitch this junk is degrading. I don't get rewarded for how many I sell. I just get written up if I have to give too many away for free. Anyways, apparently I didn't say thank you to the mystery shopper, either. Thank you for what? She didn't do anything for me! I always tell everyone to have a good day, though.

I say make every register self-serve and staff a few decent, responsible kids to supervise. Nobody needs to go through the hassle and degredation of working at the supermarket. And if people's bread is squashed or if their bags break because they're too heavy, they have only themselves to blame.