Things have changed a lot in the two years since my original rant on Baggers, believe it or not some of those changes have been in the bagging world. Since I am trying to do what I can to go "GREEN", I have purchases reusable bags to do my shopping. Since I live in a place where the temperatures are more than any devil is made to endure, I have an insulated reusable bag that helps to keep my ice cream from total meltdown until I can drive the 5 minutes home. I do a lot of my shopping for essentials at Target. Enter Robin. Robin is a checker at Target, she seems to always be working on the days I shop there, or do I shop there because Robin is working? Robin is the absolute best checker/bagger EVER. Robin fits all my stuff like a puzzle into my reusable bags. Robin realizes that frozen goods would go in the insulated bag. Robin is cheerful and pleasant to each and every person that enters her line. Everyone is greeted by Robin as if she knows them personally. Now you may be thinking this is not a Rant at all and that I am truly out of my mind. Well let me tell you the rant is coming now -- Today I went to Target (Robin works Sunday afternoons) all was well in the bagging world. UNTIL I went to check out and Robin was missing from her lane, believe me there is a checker or two that I avoid like the plague, so I had to hunt for a suitable replacement. Well, there just wasn't one. I put my bags on the conveyor, insulated on top and then I properly place my purchases, frozen then cold then cans then toiletries, (let me just say Robin would never put toiletries in with food). Checker X proceeds to open one of my regular bags, and I oh so politely say to her "The black bag is insulated". Roll of the eyes from Checker X, but she opens it and starts throwing things in. Then she opens another bag and starts throwing in more frozen/cold. Well much to Mike's embarrassment as soon as she gives me the bags I open the insulated one and start rearranging so that all my frozen fits in it. I felt the eyes rolling from the beep beep beep of the register behind me. I just don't get what is so hard about packing a bag and truly wish someone somewhere could train checkers/baggers to just use a little common sense when bagging. This is not an isolated incident at all. I was doing my grocery shopping for Christmas at Safeway on the 23rd and I had some refrigerated items. Once again insulated bag given first, cold on the conveyor first and once again, insulated bag IGNORED. Then the bagger actually started laughing when she saw she had put my cold stuff in a regular bag and I had an insulated one. Well it was the "Season" and it was only 70 degrees out, so I didn't make her rearrange things, but if it had been summer, you can believe I would have.
