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[–] 100 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Yeah fuck that noise! You're supposed to wait until they accidentally scan the next persons items and then make them get a manager to make the correction like God intended!

Or you can just avoid that and use the divider so the cashier knows when they're done with your items...

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    In theory leaving a significant amount of space should give the cashier enough information, but then again, we don't live in a world where everything is as it should be...

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    The belts usually move forward automatically, eliminating any space left intentionally between two groups of things on it once the first group has been removed from the belt.

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  • [+] -8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Yeah but cashiers have eyes and can see that there is space behind the last item they are currently grabbing, I would think.

    I use dividers when I can, but sometimes not enough of them are available.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Maybe, but they're paying attention to the task of scanning items, running the register, and the customer at the front of the line. I don't really think it's reasonable to expect them to keep an eye on that moving target as well. I've seen the very thing happen: Loading my stuff on to the belt, trying to leave a space because there is no divider available, the cashier is busy concentrating on the other things they are doing and the customer in front of them (not me and my stuff), they grab the last item of the other person's stuff, scan it and bag it, turn back to check for more stuff (by this time and while the cashier's back is turned the void I'd left is gone because the belt doesn't stop advancing until a divider or product blocks the sensor). They may not ever see a gap (only the next item to be scanned).

    There's no perfect solution here, but I don't see any reason to heap any more responsibility or blame on to an overworked, underpaid, daily abused retail worker just trying to stay sane in one of the most soul crushing and mind-numbingly repetitive jobs I've ever known.

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  • [–] 76 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Stupid cashiers.. I always put those separators on the belt, but they always stop me from buying one.

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  • [–] 42 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Is that a white thing? I do love it, but I don't know if it has anything to do with my race. It makes it easier for the cashier to tell when one person's groceries end without having to pay attention to who is putting what on the belt.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I put one down behind my items just yesterday, and the Black woman behind me thanked me for doing so. So there’s a data point.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I haven't lived in a predominantly-white area in over 20 years and I have never been in a situation where someone should have used a divider and didn't...so I have hundreds of data points to back yours up

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    In my country the cashiers will place the divider beforehand if you forget to do it and while the current customer is paying... So yes, the divider is for the cashier not for the customers.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    "You ever notice how _____ people do [insert common, innocuous, rational behavior]..."

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  • [–] 147 points 1 year ago (20 children)

    If you purposefully don't use the divider, you shouldn't be allowed to shop there. Also, what the hell does this have to do with race?

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  • [–] 47 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Right? I'm not paying for your shit!

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    it’s sneaky racism, the implication being, ‘black people are rude and inconsiderate’
    which is, of course, a common racist stereotype.
    blackpeopletwitter on reddit is about 100% dedicated to furthering that…
    ….
    nazis have been strategizing ways to spread their hate online since before computers had pictures on them.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I thought the point is white people are silly and do unnecessary stuff

    Well either way racism is bad chat

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Why specifically black people? Doesn't it just mean every other people doesn't use it

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    But there's a lot of other peoples than white and black, why would white people stereotypically doing something be targeting specifically black people, in your opinion?

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    the style it’s written in and the stereotype it’s perpetuating.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Seems pretty normal writing to me? What stereotype?

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    You're making zero sense to me, sorry

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I don't want some filthy poor persons grocceries touching my filthy poor person grocceries

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    Only white people use them? I moved from the PNW down south and I can say they get used much less down here. Haven't paid attention to race though

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    The stick is a universal if you have a cart of groceries, we all need the stick in those times to guide us. The thing that gets me is when I put a hand basket on the belt and the person in front of me gives me the stink eye and slaps the stick between their loose groceries and my contained and obviously separate basket of groceries like I was trying to trick them to pay for my stuff. It’s not just white or old people, though, being a douche is a human quality, not a racial or generational thing.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I thought basket of groceries on the belt was a social faux pas?

    Because then the check out people can't plan their bagging of heavy / light?

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It’s a hand basket, there are at most two bags worth of stuff in it. If you’ve got a bunch of heavy shit that needs separated then you’re doing it wrong.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    I always empty my basket onto the conveyor. Seems rude of me to assume the cashier should reach over and into a basket just to ring up my goods. Do you also make them unload your buggy when you use those?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    What was the response you were hoping to get from this?

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago

    I don't get it. I don't want to stand in line longer waiting while the cashier unscans my items from the person ahead's order or unscans the next persons items from my order. They also often fuck it up anyway but still

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago

    Race baiting has really fallen off as a profession, I see.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    What? As an Asian American I and my family love that damn stick.

    Don't be lumping my flavorful ingredients with some white guys bland crap at the Chinese grocery store.

    But seriously everyone should use that thing because it makes the cashier's job easier, faster, and smoother for everyone.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    This is no stick. This is a KUNDENDIFFERENZIERUNGSMODUL

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    That stick is a fine line between order and chaos.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Someone will try to make everything about race.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    I wouldn't have any problem with not having this stick, but cashiers can't seem to tell that a six-inch distance between my order and the next order is a good place to stop. Then we're all sitting around for an extra couple of minutes while they try to get someone to come and authorize voiding the items.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    My brother used to say that if you had enough of those dividers you could solve every property dispute because nobody violates that line.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Throw it in a crowd of white people and watch us fight over it like a pack of yorkshire terriers fighting over a milk bone.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Not totally relevant, but: that little tub of Philadelphia cream cheese is like $8 nowadays. What in the ever-loving fuck? And yet you can still buy a brick of that shit for $1.60. Trying to get cream cheese out of that folded-over piece of foil is certainly annoying, but it's worth paying 5X as much to get it out of a convenient tub instead? Make it make sense.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I just realized I haven't used a conveyor belt checkout since before the pandemic. It's either grocery delivery or self-checkout.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    So desegregate it and pay for the groceries of the ones loading behind you

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  • Shouldn't have cropped the top person's username so we could see who supports being slightly disruptive, lol.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Black people twitter is such a cesspit.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Always struck me as a city thing, not a white people thing.

    Maybe things have changed, but in the small town where I grew up, people generally wouldn't bother.

    • there would usually be a gap delineating one persons items from the other's anyways

    • the person who was professionally scanning our groceries 100% had the expertise to see the gap and comprehend its meaning

    • If (I never ever saw it happen, ever) they had grabbed something, someone would have noticed, said "whoops, that's not mine". Nobody would think someone was trying a scam.

    I feel like this is an amazing measure of someone's general level of anxiety. Or maybe a measure of how little credit they give the person scanning groceries? Both?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Another problem solved by self-checkout.

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