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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...
"Huhuh you use a thing that makes social interactions in an often stressful and tiring situation a bit easier. You weirdo."
(...?)
I mean if the line is busy and theres people waiting behind you, the stick is awesome. But then ive also had times where the clerk is checking out the last few items of the person in line when i walk up, theres no one behind me, a big empty space on the conveyor belt, and when i start placing my items at rhe end of the belt clearly separated by the big empty space, the grandma in front of me passive aggressively slaps down the stick. Like wtf im not trying to sneak my shit in with your order, its pretty obvious whose is whose.
Uh, I do this but it's not to protect my thing or some shit, it's to provide more space to the other person, I'm trying to be nice.
Yep, in my experience leaving a bunch of space on the belt can sometimes cause confusion if the cashier gets distracted!
So it’s just kind of polite to use it so everyone isn’t relying on implicit cues.
the grandma in front of me passive aggressively slaps down the stick
that's just in your head. embrace the divider.
Stupid cashiers.. I always put those separators on the belt, but they always stop me from buying one.
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.
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?
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.
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.
No, it's not. Just people making stupid shit for online acceptance.
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.
This is no stick. This is a KUNDENDIFFERENZIERUNGSMODUL
No it's obviously a WARENTRENNER
That stick is a fine line between order and chaos.
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
"You ever notice how _____ people do [insert common, innocuous, rational behavior]..."
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.
Race baiting has really fallen off as a profession, I see.
Black people twitter is such a cesspit.
I don't want some filthy poor persons grocceries touching my filthy poor person grocceries
So desegregate it and pay for the groceries of the ones loading behind you
You're right, from now on I'll wait until they scan the next person's item and then go "ew, god no. you really think I'd buy that garbage?"
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
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.
My brother used to say that if you had enough of those dividers you could solve every property dispute because nobody violates that line.
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.
Foil is so easy with a butter knife. You can just scrape it clean. Much easier than digging it out with a spatula