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OT - sort of - Avoiding false grocery charges
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> >https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/On Wed, 10 Aug 2016 19:21:33 -0400,
> >jmcquown > wrote:
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>>On 8/10/2016 5:48 PM, wrote:
>>> On Thu, 11 Aug 2016 06:40:05 +1000, >
>>> wrote:
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>>>> >I know en entire country where people bag their own groceries. Life
>>>> >must
>>>> >be hell there.
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>>What the heck does Bruce know about groceries or cooking?
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>>> I even ring my own groceries in, sob, I think maybe I should shoot the
>>> PM - or something !
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>>Grocery stores *pay* people to bag groceries. It's not a luxury, it's
>>part of the service. There were baggers at the grocery stores when I
>>lived west Tennessee for 35 years, too. There's nothing new about the
>>concept.
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> But it is old - we haven't had 'baggers' here for zonks.
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>>Even the folks at the farm stands around here will put things in bags
>>for you. No extra charge.
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>>Jill
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> I like to feel I cope with everyday things and will do so for as long
> as possible. The only time I indulge myself is when I allow the owner
> of the store to carry my wine juice out to the car, it weighs heavy,
> he does it for other customers too but we like to say things about
> local politicians and politics that I would never say, nor he, in
> front of his employees.
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> Jill you are years younger than many here, why on earth do you want
> all this stuff done for you?
Grocery bagging is not considered an "everyday thing" here, it's the norm,
and age has nothing to do with it.
Cheri
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