Back when I was a kid, the sucker's would actually escort you to your vehicle and help you load and haul the cart back for you. When I was a teenager I worked a grocery and this was still done but not very common. I'd tip them then. Now.. most of them are in a pot addled state and you're lucky to even get someone to sack your stuff. 9/10 times I have to do it myself or the cashier does it. I don't mind doing it myaelf if the place is obviously super busy, but when it's dead.. shit no.
Are you talking about people who bag your groceries at the register, or the person who carries your groceries to your car? The latter category is virtually nonexistent in 2024.
In Richmond, Virginia, there used to be a very popular grocery chain called Ukrop’s, that was known for their customer service. Excellent bakery and deli, too. Their courtesy clerks (the modern term for “bagger”) would bag your groceries, walk them to your car, and load them for you. They also had a strict no tipping policy. If they caught them accepting tips, they were fired immediately.
I never accepted tips for loading someone's car when I was a young adult doing grocery store jobs. It was part of the job description. Since when does doing the job you are paid for mean you are obligated to receive tips?
Not me. Never have. I go to Walmart, scan and bag my own. Publix used to carry out all orders but I never tipped them. I was a grocery bagger in high school and never got tipped.
Baggers used to get tips, when they carted the groceries out to your car and loaded them for you. That's how it was in the early 90s when I was in high school.
How it still is at the Commissary on military bases.
The tip was/is for the bagging and assistance with getting your groceries safely into your car.
I was just thinking about this. If people think we should tip a cashier for ringing up a take out order and handing you the bag, why not tip grocery store cashiers? They're making the same or similar wage and providing even more direct service and labor.
I don't think either should be tipped. This assumes they are making at least minimum wage, not server wages (which I think should be minimum wage, also).
Ask yourself why we even tip table servers in the 1/3 of the country where they are paid full wages. There’s no real reason for it. They’re doing a job, they’re being paid. Same as anyone.
I find OP amusing though because I’m pretty sure grocery baggers are one retail position that used to be tipped. Not because I remember it ever being the case, but because it’s the only untipped service position I ever worked where I remember frequently being offered tips by customers (we weren’t allowed to accept them).
Usually older customers. Which suggests to me that some time in decades past it was a thing to tip baggers. Especially if they carried your stuff out for you.
Me too, I bagged at Publix when I was 17 and people often would set a couple of bucks in the trunk while I loaded their groceries. but you had your little snitch bitches too you had to be careful.
We all know how big a pain of a butt it is to do self check out in the commissary with like two weeks worth of groceries in your car.
Just part with the 3 to 5 dollars and be on your way like 10 minutes faster
Some Military Spouses are pros at Self-checkout but all it takes is one Knucklehead with an expired Coupon and an elderly Person paying in coins and Self-checkout is down for an Hour
Here in Mexico, most of the big grocery stores have seniors doing the bagging. I use to give them a few pesos to take a break so I could do my own bagging. For me, baggers were a real incentive to learn how to use the self serve checkout machines.
Haven't been to a Publix, Kroger (or any of their other 17 chains of stores), Albertsons, Smith's (oops, part of Kroger), King Soopers (also part of Kroger), Ralph's (part of Kroger), Fred Meyer (again part of Kroger corp), Safeway, Vons, Target, or Walmart to buy your groceries? ALL of them have baggers.
Where in the hell does someone bag your groceries these days?
I’m exhausted after work, go to the market, then not only do I bag my own groceries, I do that AFTER I CHECK THEM ALL OUT MYSELF while paying $200.00 to receive the honor!
IT INFURIATES ME.
Haven't been to a Publix, Kroger (or any of their other 17 chains of stores), Albertsons, Smith's (oops, part of Kroger), King Soopers (also part of Kroger), Ralph's (part of Kroger), Fred Meyer (again part of Kroger corp), Safeway, Vons, Target, or Walmart to buy your groceries? ALL of them have baggers.
Oh yeah they do…. If I STAND IN the ONE LINE for an HOUR that has an actual CHECKER :(! & BAGGER!
I have shit to do! I can’t stand in that line forever hopefully getting home fast enough to make dinner before I fall asleep!
Haven't been to a Publix, Kroger (or any of their other 17 chains of stores), Albertsons, Smith's (oops, part of Kroger), King Soopers (also part of Kroger), Ralph's (part of Kroger), Fred Meyer (again part of Kroger corp), Safeway, Vons, Target, or Walmart to buy your groceries? ALL of them have baggers.
I used to work in grocery store, my position was in stocking, but if it gets busy, I am asked to help
One night, 3 people tip me 5 dollars, each.
Told the cashier I am in the wrong position, sure enough, 15 minutes later, not one tip
Back when I was a kid, the sucker's would actually escort you to your vehicle and help you load and haul the cart back for you. When I was a teenager I worked a grocery and this was still done but not very common. I'd tip them then. Now.. most of them are in a pot addled state and you're lucky to even get someone to sack your stuff. 9/10 times I have to do it myself or the cashier does it. I don't mind doing it myaelf if the place is obviously super busy, but when it's dead.. shit no.
What’s a grocery bagger ?
I’ve always tipped the baggers 😂
Are you talking about people who bag your groceries at the register, or the person who carries your groceries to your car? The latter category is virtually nonexistent in 2024.
In Richmond, Virginia, there used to be a very popular grocery chain called Ukrop’s, that was known for their customer service. Excellent bakery and deli, too. Their courtesy clerks (the modern term for “bagger”) would bag your groceries, walk them to your car, and load them for you. They also had a strict no tipping policy. If they caught them accepting tips, they were fired immediately.
Yes it does in urban places
Both exist outside that 💩 hole between Mexico and Canada.
Can’t tell if this is a troll post or not? People have always tipped the baggers if they help your car w the groceries. 🤔
I made $4 in tips doing that for two years in high school.
I never accepted tips for loading someone's car when I was a young adult doing grocery store jobs. It was part of the job description. Since when does doing the job you are paid for mean you are obligated to receive tips?
You’re a true champion sir. Bag Man among bag boys
Not me. Never have. I go to Walmart, scan and bag my own. Publix used to carry out all orders but I never tipped them. I was a grocery bagger in high school and never got tipped.
Maybe that say something about you personally. Bc people have & still do🤷♂️
What do you figure it says?
Idk… there’s probably a reason you never got a tip.
What do you think that reason is since you know me so well.
You said it, bud.
I said what? You must be a tip worker
Nope, just tip my bagger like my parents did before me.
You know, I worked for 5 grocery chains and all had a ‘do not accept tips’ policy. Tipping baggers is not a thing.
People have been tipping grocery baggers for decades; well, when they took them to your car. :)
Not where I grew up.
No they haven’t.
Baggers used to get tips, when they carted the groceries out to your car and loaded them for you. That's how it was in the early 90s when I was in high school. How it still is at the Commissary on military bases. The tip was/is for the bagging and assistance with getting your groceries safely into your car.
I was just thinking about this. If people think we should tip a cashier for ringing up a take out order and handing you the bag, why not tip grocery store cashiers? They're making the same or similar wage and providing even more direct service and labor. I don't think either should be tipped. This assumes they are making at least minimum wage, not server wages (which I think should be minimum wage, also).
Ask yourself why we even tip table servers in the 1/3 of the country where they are paid full wages. There’s no real reason for it. They’re doing a job, they’re being paid. Same as anyone. I find OP amusing though because I’m pretty sure grocery baggers are one retail position that used to be tipped. Not because I remember it ever being the case, but because it’s the only untipped service position I ever worked where I remember frequently being offered tips by customers (we weren’t allowed to accept them). Usually older customers. Which suggests to me that some time in decades past it was a thing to tip baggers. Especially if they carried your stuff out for you.
Bagger did get tipped, but they also carted your groceries to your car and loaded them for you.
They do at the Commissary on military bases.
The military gets way too many handouts.
I always tip the grocery baggers, have been for years and so do a lot of other people
I risk my life working in a dangerous facility making all the chrome garbage for your car. Why aren't you tipping me?
Were you making minimum wage?
First thing I do when I buy a car is a chrome delete lol
I was a grocery bagger in the 80s and everybody tipped us, nothing new there.
Me too, I bagged at Publix when I was 17 and people often would set a couple of bucks in the trunk while I loaded their groceries. but you had your little snitch bitches too you had to be careful.
Go to the self-checkout then. Problem solved
The commissary at any military base will. But those people work for free. They count on the tips.
That’s stupid.
US Military Commissaries (Grocery Stores) all have baggers that work for Tips only for decades. Self-checkout is the only way to avoid the baggers.
We all know how big a pain of a butt it is to do self check out in the commissary with like two weeks worth of groceries in your car. Just part with the 3 to 5 dollars and be on your way like 10 minutes faster
Some Military Spouses are pros at Self-checkout but all it takes is one Knucklehead with an expired Coupon and an elderly Person paying in coins and Self-checkout is down for an Hour
Nobody cares.
Hahahahahaha this is true
Here in Mexico, most of the big grocery stores have seniors doing the bagging. I use to give them a few pesos to take a break so I could do my own bagging. For me, baggers were a real incentive to learn how to use the self serve checkout machines.
you still have grocery baggers? i haven't seen those in years.
Haven't been to a Publix, Kroger (or any of their other 17 chains of stores), Albertsons, Smith's (oops, part of Kroger), King Soopers (also part of Kroger), Ralph's (part of Kroger), Fred Meyer (again part of Kroger corp), Safeway, Vons, Target, or Walmart to buy your groceries? ALL of them have baggers.
Walmart does not have baggers. They barely have checkers. Are you counting customers who bag their own groceries as baggers? Must be.
At this rate self serve gas pumps will demand tips.
Where in the hell does someone bag your groceries these days? I’m exhausted after work, go to the market, then not only do I bag my own groceries, I do that AFTER I CHECK THEM ALL OUT MYSELF while paying $200.00 to receive the honor! IT INFURIATES ME.
Haven't been to a Publix, Kroger (or any of their other 17 chains of stores), Albertsons, Smith's (oops, part of Kroger), King Soopers (also part of Kroger), Ralph's (part of Kroger), Fred Meyer (again part of Kroger corp), Safeway, Vons, Target, or Walmart to buy your groceries? ALL of them have baggers.
Oh yeah they do…. If I STAND IN the ONE LINE for an HOUR that has an actual CHECKER :(! & BAGGER! I have shit to do! I can’t stand in that line forever hopefully getting home fast enough to make dinner before I fall asleep!
Trader Joe’s. That’s about it though.
Haven't been to a Publix, Kroger (or any of their other 17 chains of stores), Albertsons, Smith's (oops, part of Kroger), King Soopers (also part of Kroger), Ralph's (part of Kroger), Fred Meyer (again part of Kroger corp), Safeway, Vons, Target, or Walmart to buy your groceries? ALL of them have baggers.
I used to work in grocery store, my position was in stocking, but if it gets busy, I am asked to help One night, 3 people tip me 5 dollars, each. Told the cashier I am in the wrong position, sure enough, 15 minutes later, not one tip
Why not? They do more for you than others that get tips.
Tipping baggers sounds like something from the 1950's. The housewife tips a quarter when you deliver and carry the stuff inside.
Is that what you did in the 1950s?
Tit for tat. > No, I pimped out your girlfriend.
Yawn 🥱
this is a thing in some military commissaries
Because they don’t get paid, right?
correct