Does anyone know how the multitudes of workers who serve as baggers at our exchanges can only be payed with tips? Doesn't that violate minimum wage somehow?
I'm pretty generous, I usually tip $5 every time I go. I do make them carry the groceries out to the car. . .but still, even if they did two customers per hour, I think you can see the potential to make decent money.
I use the self checkout to avoid them. They're too forceful about it for me. If you use the regular lane, they give you a shitty look if you don't use them.
I avoid the Commissary like the plague.
Not to mention I can do it better/faster myself at the self-checkout line and move faster than a shuffle out to my car. Nice thing about being single is that since I'm only feeding myself I can usually go under the 30 items max for the self-checkout. The times I do use it, of course I tip well and all that, but I just don't see the need for them to do something I can just as easily do myself.
It is even better when you ask for a particular bagger. One of my co-workers in Hawaii, his teenage daughter worked at the Kbay Commissary after school, and everyone that was friends with them would call her over to be the bagger. MAN, would some of those full time baggers get PISSED. You know, the 40+ year old baggers that seem to live at every commissary, and outnumber the teenage kids that are trying to make some money on their first job.... I think they were cussing me out in some sort of language that maybe A4s would understandI use the self checkout to avoid them. They're too forceful about it for me. If you use the regular lane, they give you a shitty look if you don't use them.
I just don't see the need for them to do something I can just as easily do myself.
That's why I usually don't have a problem paying some kid to bag and load my groceries.
Kid = 153 year old Filipino/Korean/Japanese/Mexican woman