OT - Kroger Store bites... RANT!

Moral: always check the organization of your bags before leaving the store, where you can grab more
bags if needed to isolate fragile and cold stuff. The fragile items may have actually been put on
top of the heavy items by the bagger, but stuff can shift around in transit.

"Rick & Cyndi" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Aarrgghh!!! As usual - shopping was not a pleasure... unfortunately, it's the largest grocer
around us so unless I want to drive a few hours... I don't have any other real choices.

Kroger is also the biggest and closest store in my neighborhood. I am very lucky because both of
ours are fairly good. One of them employs sackers who have been there for years and are very good.
Stuff gets sacked correctly and they take it to the car. I have noticed that both stores are very
reflective of the managers. If you have a good manager you probably have a good a store. They do
transfer pretty often. They of course are not perfect but they are pretty clean and over all I am
satisfied. Maybe your store will get better. Phyl

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On the bottom of a bag full of canned goods are my bananas... in one of the bags of the juice boxes
are my vine-ripened tomatoes and my big bag of lettuce is sandwiched with frozen food! There was
also something heavy in the bag with the loaf of bread... AAARRRGGGHHHH!!!

Don't know what kind of manager that store has, but I do know that if I went to the manager of my
supermarket and complained about groceries being crushed because of being poorly packed, he'd be
offering to replace them for me. Not only that, but he'd want to know that he had an employee who
was so poorly packing groceries as to cause damage to not only the groceries, but to the store's
good will.

I think it's fine to vent here, but unless you let him know about the problems, they're likely to
occur again.
--
Donna A pessimist believes all women are bad. An optimist hopes they are.

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"Dan Levy" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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: Moral: always check the organization of your bags before
leaving the store,
: where you can grab more bags if needed to isolate fragile and
cold stuff.
: The fragile items may have actually been put on top of the
heavy items by
: the bagger, but stuff can shift around in transit.
:
: =======

Couldn't - too busy unloading cart to watch the silly waif...! Doesn't matter - she bagged the items
WRONG!! You don't put in 4 little tomatoes with a huge box of juices. WRONG. You don't put bruisable
(sp?) bananas with canned goods... that would be... you guessed it... WRONG! You don't put heavy
items with a single loaf of bread either.

These people are either not trained properly or don't care. On top of that - unless you like to hear
back biting and quibbling - you *definitely* don't go in during evening hours either!

That store is sooooo wrong in soooo many ways... but if you're in a time crunch and don't want to
drive a couple hours *one way* to go to a decent store...

AAAAAARRRRGGGGHHHPAERIO68508IQWP3UBGVUPADY6RTIPUGBHWERO7GYW[9EO4I
THWIS7DZFBYG[OW'I45EHBYP8WSRUGHIOW4B5IP1!!!!!!!!!!!

Again, did I mention just how much I hate that store?
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"Donna Rose" <[email hidden]> wrote in message

Don't know what kind of manager that store has, but I do know that if I

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went to the manager of my supermarket and complained about groceries being crushed because of
being poorly packed, he'd be offering to replace them for me. Not only that, but he'd want to know
that he had an employee who was so poorly packing groceries as to cause damage to not only the
groceries, but to the store's good will.

I think it's fine to vent here, but unless you let him know about the problems, they're likely to
occur again.
--

Quite right. Also the OP should think about whether it's worth getting this upset over a little bump
in the road of life. If she does then maybe medication would help.

"Anthony" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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:
: "Donna Rose" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
:
: Don't know what kind of manager that store has, but I do know
that if I
: > went to the manager of my supermarket and complained about
groceries
: > being crushed because of being poorly packed, he'd be
offering to replace
: > them for me. Not only that, but he'd want to know that he
had an
: > employee who was so poorly packing groceries as to cause
damage to not
: > only the groceries, but to the store's good will.
: >
: > I think it's fine to vent here, but unless you let him know
about the
: > problems, they're likely to occur again.
: > --
: Quite right. Also the OP should think about whether it's worth
getting this
: upset over a little bump in the road of life. If she does then
maybe
: medication would help.
:
: =============

Humph! Yes I do and no it hasn't!

This pisses me off. There is NO excuse for most of their baggers to REPEATEDLY bag groceries
improperly. I'd bag my own but the do it yourself lanes are for 15 items or less and I do not intend
on going up and down the aisles, check out, load my car, repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat.

It's stupid. If I didn't already own this house I truly would up and move just to be near a decent
grocery store. Unfortunately, before moving to this town we had no idea that the grocery store was
this poorly managed and staffed even worse!

On the other hand - my original post was marked "OT" and "Rant" therefore... well...uhhh... back
off, please. I wasn't looking for negative comments especially since I already dealt with enough
[censored] today.

"Rick & Cyndi" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Aarrgghh!!! As usual - shopping was not a pleasure... unfortunately, it's the largest grocer
around us so unless I want to drive a few hours... I don't have any other real choices.

Anyway... they've remodeled so this week is their Grand (re)opening... blah, blah, blah. As
expected, the shelves don't really hold anything different from what they used to... so I just ran
through and stocked up on some of the meat sales and a few odds and ends. Here's where the
frustration really got me muttering and I *will* be writing a complaint because this sh&% keeps
happening... arrgghhh!!! I bought those 100 % juice juice box drinks for Nathan... I bought some
supposedly vine-ripe tomatoes, yogurt (what's with those stupid foil tops that break when you
don't want them to and yet you can't open them when you're starving?!), milk, a few canned goods
(okay, here's the one positive thing I noticed - they're *finally* carrying a few of the Ro-Tel
tomatoes), and a bunch of other stuff to fill the basket... Fast forward to emptying the bags at
home when... S C R E A M!! On the bottom of a bag full of canned goods are my bananas... in one of
the bags of the juice boxes are my vine-ripened tomatoes and my big bag of lettuce is sandwiched
with frozen food! There was also something heavy in the bag with the loaf of bread...
AAARRRGGGHHHH!!!! I hate that store, I hate that store, I HATE THAT STORE!!!!! They still can't
bother to order any white wine vinegar either!!! Stupid muckity muck.... !!!! Ow - a vein just
blew!! Not really, but stupid [censored] like this really busts my chops.

OB: I sliced up one of the now bruised tomatoes and sprinkled on some delicious Brady Street
Seasoning from Penzeys. Very, very tasty.
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Cyndi <Remove a "b" to reply>

Hi Cyndi...

I feel your pain. Unless the bagger du jour at the grocery store I shop at is one that I know does a
good job...seems to be the ladies 30+ and the part time retirees, I pack my own groceries. Doesn't
make me popular with the baggers, some cashiers get annoyed, but I don't end up with bananas ready
for banana bread and tomatoes ready for the sauce pot or worse my bok choy in the same bag as a
leaking bottle of shampoo, chicken with lettuce is another teenage bagger specialty. I'd talk to
customer service or the store manager, I've always found that they would replace the damaged
groceries.

Jessica

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Aarrgghh!!! As usual - shopping was not a pleasure... unfortunately, it's the largest grocer
around us so unless I want to drive a few hours... I don't have any other real choices.

I snipped the bagging behavior - because it's like that no matter where you go. It's what you get
when you have minimum wage help bagging.

Occasionally you'll run across one with a brain - but I've found a safer policy since I almost
always use the express lane. I simply feed the items to the cashier as I want them bagged. Works out
perfectly.

Jessica Vincent wrote in message ...

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"Rick & Cyndi" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Aarrgghh!!! As usual - shopping was not a pleasure... unfortunately, it's the largest grocer
around us so unless I want to drive a few hours... I don't have any other real choices.

Anyway... they've remodeled so this week is their Grand (re)opening... blah, blah, blah. As
expected, the shelves don't really hold anything different from what they used to... so I just
ran through and stocked up on some of the meat sales and a few odds and ends. Here's where the
frustration really got me muttering and I *will* be writing a complaint because this sh&% keeps
happening... arrgghhh!!! I bought those 100 % juice juice box drinks for Nathan... I bought some
supposedly vine-ripe tomatoes, yogurt (what's with those stupid foil tops that break when you
don't want them to and yet you can't open them when you're starving?!), milk, a few canned goods
(okay, here's the one positive thing I noticed - they're *finally* carrying a few of the Ro-Tel
tomatoes), and a bunch of other stuff to fill the basket... Fast forward to emptying the bags at
home when... S C R E A M!! On the bottom of a bag full of canned goods are my bananas... in one
of the bags of the juice boxes are my vine-ripened tomatoes and my big bag of lettuce is
sandwiched with frozen food! There was also something heavy in the bag with the loaf of bread...
AAARRRGGGHHHH!!!! I hate that store, I hate that store, I HATE THAT STORE!!!!! They still can't
bother to order any white wine vinegar either!!! Stupid muckity muck.... !!!! Ow - a vein just
blew!! Not really, but stupid [censored] like this really busts my chops.

OB: I sliced up one of the now bruised tomatoes and sprinkled on some delicious Brady Street
Seasoning from Penzeys. Very, very tasty.
--
Cyndi <Remove a "b" to reply>

Hi Cyndi...

I feel your pain. Unless the bagger du jour at the grocery store I shop at is one that I know does
a good job...seems to be the ladies 30+ and the

part

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time retirees, I pack my own groceries. Doesn't make me popular with the baggers, some cashiers get
annoyed, but I don't end up with bananas ready for banana bread and tomatoes ready for the sauce
pot or worse my bok choy in the same bag as a leaking bottle of shampoo, chicken with lettuce is
another teenage bagger specialty. I'd talk to customer service or the

store

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manager, I've always found that they would replace the damaged groceries.

I work as a cashier in a grocery store. right now we have no bagger, and we bag the groceries
ourselves. the only time it is annoying is when said customer takes an extremely long time to bag
their groceries, and the lines get backed up because of it. or when a customer insists that they
only want one bag, and that it be 'not heavy' 🙂 i rang up a woman a few weeks ago who started
yelling at me after she put one of the bags i packed for her (she asked that i pack the bags light)
in her cart. she said it was too heavy, and that i should have listened to her. there was one item
in the bag, a rather large rib roast. what was i supposed to do, cut it up into smaller pieces for
her? IMO, all meats, fish, poultry, and frozen items need to be packed in plastic (or at least
wrapped in it) to avoid leakage causing contamination/paper bag breakage. i generally pack produce
items together, with squashable items on top of things that can cushion them (lettuce, greens,
etc.), which go on top of more hardy produce items, like potatoes and onions. glass bottles get put
in paper sleeves to prevent breakage. cans go on the bottom, lighter boxes on top. it bugs me how i
have to *explain* this to new cashiers, who will put a dripping whole chicken in with a head of
lettuce. we also give 10 cents for each bag you bring back and *use*. i keep getting morons bringing
back 15 bags, using two, and then complaining that they didnt get their "full" credit for bags. or
this one very special woman who had a large capacity canvas bag for her groceries (her groceries
would have fit inside 2 paper bags, most likely). she insisted that since her bag was so large, she
should get an extra 10 cents off her bill. of course, shes spent over 200$ on mostly vitamins and
things, and that 10 cents is *so* important. bleh. <end rant>

--
Saerah

TANSTAAFL

Hangovers only last a day, but a good drinking story lives on forever....

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On the bottom of a bag full of canned goods are my bananas... in one of the bags of the juice
boxes are my vine-ripened tomatoes and my big bag of lettuce is sandwiched with frozen food!
There was also something heavy in the bag with the loaf of bread... AAARRRGGGHHHH!!!

Don't know what kind of manager that store has, but I do know that if I went to the manager of my
supermarket and complained about groceries being crushed because of being poorly packed, he'd be
offering to replace them for me. Not only that, but he'd want to know that he had an employee who
was so poorly packing groceries as to cause damage to not only the groceries, but to the store's
good will.

I think it's fine to vent here, but unless you let him know about the problems, they're likely to
occur again.

So true. A good manager wants to be sure his baggers know what they're doing because it costs the
store both in damaged goods and in customer goodwill.

Rick & Cyndi said:

Aarrgghh!!! As usual - shopping was not a pleasure...

I feel your pain. Just today, I bought carrots, turnips, canteloupe, and tomatoes . . . and
guess what? They put the carrots with the tomatoes and the turnips with the canteloupe! CAN YOU
BELIEVE IT!!!

What kind of low-wage help are they hiring, that can't even put the C-foods in one bag and the T-
foods in another?

Just last week, AT THE SAME STORE, they put apples together in the same bag with zucchini!!!

They must be trying to KILL me! They must know that I know about the secret tunnels under the store
where they keep the GOOD carrots that they don't put out until after I leave! But I'm on to that
trick! I come back about an hour later, and THEN I get the GOOD carrots. Ha! :-)

"Rick & Cyndi" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Aarrgghh!!! As usual - shopping was not a pleasure... unfortunately, it's the largest grocer
around us so unless I want to drive a few hours... I don't have any other real choices.

Anyway... they've remodeled so this week is their Grand (re)opening... blah, blah, blah. As
expected, the shelves don't really hold anything different from what they used to... so I just ran
through and stocked up on some of the meat sales and a few odds and ends. Here's where the
frustration really got me muttering and I *will* be writing a complaint because this sh&% keeps
happening... arrgghhh!!! I bought those 100 % juice juice box drinks for Nathan... I bought some
supposedly vine-ripe tomatoes, yogurt (what's with those stupid foil tops that break when you
don't want them to and yet you can't open them when you're starving?!), milk, a few canned goods
(okay, here's the one positive thing I noticed - they're *finally* carrying a few of the Ro-Tel
tomatoes), and a bunch of other stuff to fill the basket... Fast forward to emptying the bags at
home when... S C R E A M!! On the bottom of a bag full of canned goods are my bananas... in one of
the bags of the juice boxes are my vine-ripened tomatoes and my big bag of lettuce is sandwiched
with frozen food! There was also something heavy in the bag with the loaf of bread...
AAARRRGGGHHHH!!!! I hate that store, I hate that store, I HATE THAT STORE!!!!! They still can't
bother to order any white wine vinegar either!!! Stupid muckity muck.... !!!! Ow - a vein just
blew!! Not really, but stupid [censored] like this really busts my chops.

OB: I sliced up one of the now bruised tomatoes and sprinkled on some delicious Brady Street
Seasoning from Penzeys. Very, very tasty.
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Cyndi <Remove a "b" to reply>

You sound like a fat spoiled [censored]. Why don't you watch your precious groceries when they are being
bagged? Take your Penzeys and shove it up

"Jessica Vincent" < & Cyndi" chatted about abuse from grocery stores... LOL

: >
: Hi Cyndi...
:
: I feel your pain. Unless the bagger du jour at the grocery
store I shop at
: is one that I know does a good job...seems to be the ladies 30+
and the part
: time retirees, I pack my own groceries. Doesn't make me
popular with the
: baggers, some cashiers get annoyed, but I don't end up with
bananas ready
: for banana bread and tomatoes ready for the sauce pot or worse
my bok choy
: in the same bag as a leaking bottle of shampoo, chicken with
lettuce is
: another teenage bagger specialty. I'd talk to customer service
or the store
: manager, I've always found that they would replace the damaged
groceries.
:
: Jessica
:
:==========

Thanks Jessica.

Yeah. <sigh>

I have calmed down but I will definitely be writing a letter of complaint. I have tried to be nice
and patient and have even told myself that the bagger du jour (I like that!) was new and just felt
rushed... but it's frustrating. What makes it even worse is that I can't get some of the items I
want. When I've requested them I'm also told that if I would bring them a UPC that they'd be happy
to try to get that item for me. Uh, excuse me, if I had the UPC then I'd probably still have the
item... I digress... sorry.

I've requested: white wine vinegar (any brand they can get), pearl sugar (the large white granular
type that occasionally tops muffins), frozen winter squash (it's pureed... Bird's Eye, Green
Giant... anybody, really!)...

<sigh>

Anyway, thanks for understanding.
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"Tony P." <[email hidden]> wrote in
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: In article <zBbZb.80923$uV3.537834@attbi_s51>,
[email hidden]
: says...
: > Aarrgghh!!! As usual - shopping was not a pleasure... unfortunately, it's the largest grocer
: > around us so unless I
want
: > to drive a few hours... I don't have any other real choices.
:
: I snipped the bagging behavior - because it's like that no
matter where
: you go. It's what you get when you have minimum wage help
bagging.
:
: Occasionally you'll run across one with a brain - but I've
found a safer
: policy since I almost always use the express lane. I simply
feed the
: items to the cashier as I want them bagged. Works out
perfectly.
: =======

But that's what I did!! That's what makes it so bad... well, sort of... I grouped everything as I
wanted them bagged... but the waif at the end let things pile up and then bagged them [censored]-nilly.
As busy as it was and as many groceries as I had ( $300.13 with a savings of $ 98.xx saving .24 % of
total..blah, blah, blah) I couldn't simply put 8 items on the belt... wait... 4 items on the belt...
Honey, if I knew what was going to happen - I might have tried to do that slowly but it wouldn't
have been a nice thing to do to the cashier. She (cashier) was very lovely. She even bagged a few of
the items - properly, I might add...

Again, since this store is so frustrating I try to only shop there once a month just so I don't have
to go through this every week or couple of days. Frustration aside when you can save a couple of $$
per pound of beef and get gallons of milk for only $0.99 you have to bite the bullet, rant on a
newsgroup (thank you, by the way!), and write complaint letters to every single executive involved
with this stinking grokklkfgkarhgaoerig !!!! Dookies!

Sorry... That Jekel/Hide thing started happening again.

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"Mark Thorson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
"]news:[email hidden]...
: Rick & Cyndi wrote:
:
: > Aarrgghh!!! As usual - shopping was not a pleasure...
:
: I feel your pain. Just today, I bought carrots, turnips, canteloupe, and tomatoes . . . and
: guess what? They put the carrots with the tomatoes and the turnips with the canteloupe! CAN YOU
: BELIEVE IT!!!
:
: What kind of low-wage help are they hiring, that can't even put the C-foods in one bag and the T-
: foods in another?
:
: Just last week, AT THE SAME STORE, they put apples together in the same bag with zucchini!!!
:
: They must be trying to KILL me! They must know that I know about the secret tunnels under the
: store where they keep the GOOD carrots that they don't put out until after I leave! But I'm on to
: that trick! I come back about an hour later, and THEN I get the GOOD carrots. Ha! :-)
:
: =====

Thanks Mark. I needed that.

"Saerah" ,Jessica & Cyndi" talked a bit...

: >Hi Cyndi...
: >
: >I feel your pain. Unless the bagger du jour at the grocery
store I shop at
: >is one that I know does a good job...seems to be the ladies
30+ and the
: part
: >time retirees, I pack my own groceries. Doesn't make me
popular with the
: >baggers, some cashiers get annoyed, but I don't end up with
bananas ready
: >for banana bread and tomatoes ready for the sauce pot or worse
my bok choy
: >in the same bag as a leaking bottle of shampoo, chicken with
lettuce is
: >another teenage bagger specialty. I'd talk to customer
service or the
: store
: >manager, I've always found that they would replace the damaged
groceries.
: >
:
: I work as a cashier in a grocery store. right now we have no
bagger, and we
: bag the groceries ourselves. the only time it is annoying is
when said
: customer takes an extremely long time to bag their groceries,
and the lines
: get backed up because of it. or when a customer insists that
they only want
: one bag, and that it be 'not heavy' 🙂 i rang up a woman a few weeks ago who started yelling at me
after she put
: one of the bags i packed for her (she asked that i pack the
bags light) in
: her cart. she said it was too heavy, and that i should have
listened to her.
: there was one item in the bag, a rather large rib roast. what
was i supposed
: to do, cut it up into smaller pieces for her? IMO, all meats, fish, poultry, and frozen items
: need to be
packed in plastic
: (or at least wrapped in it) to avoid leakage causing
contamination/paper bag
: breakage. i generally pack produce items together, with
squashable items on
: top of things that can cushion them (lettuce, greens, etc.),
which go on top
: of more hardy produce items, like potatoes and onions. glass
bottles get put
: in paper sleeves to prevent breakage. cans go on the bottom,
lighter boxes
: on top. it bugs me how i have to *explain* this to new
cashiers, who will
: put a dripping whole chicken in with a head of lettuce. we also give 10 cents for each bag you
: bring back and *use*. i
keep getting
: morons bringing back 15 bags, using two, and then complaining
that they
: didnt get their "full" credit for bags. or this one very
special woman who
: had a large capacity canvas bag for her groceries (her
groceries would have
: fit inside 2 paper bags, most likely). she insisted that since
her bag was
: so large, she should get an extra 10 cents off her bill. of
course, shes
: spent over 200$ on mostly vitamins and things, and that 10
cents is *so*
: important. bleh. <end rant>
:
: --
: Saerah
:
========

So Saerah... any chance you want to move to Armpit, Illinois? We could REALLY use your talents.
Seriously!

Yeah, some people do, some people don't and some people won't. Whatcha gonna do? <snort> I try not
to get people in trouble and with most things I really do try to give the benefit of doubt and I
realize sometimes things "just happen"... unfortunately, this happen virtually every time at this
store but either everyone else keeps giving them the benefit of doubt like I have or... since
they've pretty much got the monopoly of the business... <shrug>.

I dunno. I'm just tired. {Now I've got Bill Cosby's voice in my head... "sick..." "Tired. Mommy, you
forgot to say tired..."}
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"Rick & Cyndi" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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"Dan Levy" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...
: Moral: always check the organization of your bags before
leaving the store,
: where you can grab more bags if needed to isolate fragile and
cold stuff.
: The fragile items may have actually been put on top of the
heavy items by
: the bagger, but stuff can shift around in transit.
:
: =======

Couldn't - too busy unloading cart to watch the silly waif...! Doesn't matter - she bagged the
items WRONG!! You don't put in 4 little tomatoes with a huge box of juices. WRONG. You don't put
bruisable (sp?) bananas with canned goods... that would be... you guessed it... WRONG! You don't
put heavy items with a single loaf of bread either.

These people are either not trained properly or don't care. On top of that - unless you like to
hear back biting and quibbling - you *definitely* don't go in during evening hours either!

That store is sooooo wrong in soooo many ways... but if you're in a time crunch and don't want to
drive a couple hours *one way* to go to a decent store...

AAAAAARRRRGGGGHHHPAERIO68508IQWP3UBGVUPADY6RTIPUGBHWERO7GYW[9EO4I
THWIS7DZFBYG[OW'I45EHBYP8WSRUGHIOW4B5IP1!!!!!!!!!!!

Again, did I mention just how much I hate that store?
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Cyndi <Remove a "b" to reply>

Perhaps you could grow your own food. Or is that too much for your fat ass to handle? LOL

"Anthony" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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"Donna Rose" <[email hidden]> wrote in message

Don't know what kind of manager that store has, but I do know that if I

Quoted message said:

went to the manager of my supermarket and complained about groceries being crushed because of
being poorly packed, he'd be offering to

replace

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

them for me. Not only that, but he'd want to know that he had an employee who was so poorly
packing groceries as to cause damage to not only the groceries, but to the store's good will.

I think it's fine to vent here, but unless you let him know about the problems, they're likely
to occur again.
--

Quite right. Also the OP should think about whether it's worth getting

this

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upset over a little bump in the road of life. If she does then maybe medication would help.

Heh, good call.

Rick & Cyndi said:

"Dan Levy" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...
: Moral: always check the organization of your bags before
leaving the store,
: where you can grab more bags if needed to isolate fragile and
cold stuff.
: The fragile items may have actually been put on top of the
heavy items by
: the bagger, but stuff can shift around in transit.
:
: =======

Couldn't - too busy unloading cart to watch the silly waif...!

In the Kroger stores in the Houston suburb where I live, the checkout clerks load the groceries onto
the conveyor belt. We also have pretty decent baggers. And our food selection is very good also.

I'd probably start bagging stuff myself if I were you.