On Wed, 10 Aug 2016 20:01:25 -0400, jmcquown >
wrote:

>On 8/10/2016 7:49 PM, wrote:
>>> https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/On Wed, 10 Aug 2016 19:21:33 -0400, jmcquown > wrote:
>>
>>> On 8/10/2016 5:48 PM, wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 11 Aug 2016 06:40:05 +1000, >
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> I know en entire country where people bag their own groceries. Life must
>>>>>> be hell there.
>>>
>>> What the heck does Bruce know about groceries or cooking?
>>>
>>>> I even ring my own groceries in, sob, I think maybe I should shoot the
>>>> PM - or something !
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> But it is old - we haven't had 'baggers' here for zonks.
>>>
>>> Even the folks at the farm stands around here will put things in bags
>>> for you. No extra charge.
>>>
>>> Jill
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Jill you are years younger than many here, why on earth do you want
>> all this stuff done for you?
>>
>I don't *want* it done. I simply accept the stores employ people to
>load bags at the checkout stand. Who am I to begrudge them getting paid
>to do a job?
>
>Jill

But you started out the thread by saying something about you wouldn't
shop any place where they didn't bag the groceries for you!