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?
It’s a hand basket, there are at most two bags worth of stuff in it. If you’ve got a bunch of heavy shit that needs separated then you’re doing it wrong.
at most two bags worth of stuff in it.
You dont know how to hand basket very well.
You don’t know what hand baskets are for, get a cart.
I always empty my basket onto the conveyor. Seems rude of me to assume the cashier should reach over and into a basket just to ring up my goods. Do you also make them unload your buggy when you use those?
What was the response you were hoping to get from this?
Just trying to teach children how to be adults. You can lead a horse to water and all.
Black people twitter is such a cesspit.
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.
3 data points so far, we’ve practically completed a study!
I haven’t lived in a predominantly-white area in over 20 years and I have never been in a situation where someone should have used a divider and didn’t…so I have hundreds of data points to back yours up
No, it’s not. Just people making stupid shit for online acceptance.
“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.
the grandma in front of me passive aggressively slaps down the stick
that’s just in your head. embrace the divider.
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.
Yeah like the other commenter, I do this so you can use the whole belt and don’t have to awkwardly shove things onto the end.
I don’t want some filthy poor persons grocceries touching my filthy poor person grocceries
Did their chocolate get into your peanut butter?
Someone will try to make everything about race.
I just realized I haven’t used a conveyor belt checkout since before the pandemic. It’s either grocery delivery or self-checkout.
Mr Richie Rich here, getting food delivered.
If you purposefully don’t use the divider, you shouldn’t be allowed to shop there. Also, what the hell does this have to do with race?
“Segregation” is referring for “racial segregation”, probably specific to the historical policy in the US.
Hope this helps~
it’s sneaky racism, the implication being, ‘black people are rude and inconsiderate’
which is, of course, a common racist stereotype.
blackpeopletwitter on reddit is about 100% dedicated to furthering that…
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nazis have been strategizing ways to spread their hate online since before computers had pictures on them.I thought the point is white people are silly and do unnecessary stuff
Well either way racism is bad chat
but the divider is so the person behind you can start unloading their cart onto the conveyer, and the cashier won’t mix up your groceries with theirs…
everyone does unnecessary and silly things….
Why specifically black people? Doesn’t it just mean every other people doesn’t use it
no
But there’s a lot of other peoples than white and black, why would white people stereotypically doing something be targeting specifically black people, in your opinion?
the style it’s written in and the stereotype it’s perpetuating.
Seems pretty normal writing to me? What stereotype?
boring, sea lion
Right? I’m not paying for your shit!
Racist.
That’s racist!
4chan style racial garbage? in my fediverse? it’s more likely than I think 😔
It just seems such a self-own to say how the divider is a white people thing. You’re putting yourself down there lol
Shouldn’t have cropped the top person’s username so we could see who supports being slightly disruptive, lol.
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…
In theory leaving a significant amount of space should give the cashier enough information, but then again, we don’t live in a world where everything is as it should be…
The belts usually move forward automatically, eliminating any space left intentionally between two groups of things on it once the first group has been removed from the belt.
Yeah but cashiers have eyes and can see that there is space behind the last item they are currently grabbing, I would think.
I use dividers when I can, but sometimes not enough of them are available.
Maybe, but they’re paying attention to the task of scanning items, running the register, and the customer at the front of the line. I don’t really think it’s reasonable to expect them to keep an eye on that moving target as well. I’ve seen the very thing happen: Loading my stuff on to the belt, trying to leave a space because there is no divider available, the cashier is busy concentrating on the other things they are doing and the customer in front of them (not me and my stuff), they grab the last item of the other person’s stuff, scan it and bag it, turn back to check for more stuff (by this time and while the cashier’s back is turned the void I’d left is gone because the belt doesn’t stop advancing until a divider or product blocks the sensor). They may not ever see a gap (only the next item to be scanned).
There’s no perfect solution here, but I don’t see any reason to heap any more responsibility or blame on to an overworked, underpaid, daily abused retail worker just trying to stay sane in one of the most soul crushing and mind-numbingly repetitive jobs I’ve ever known.
I agree. It should be that stores just provide enough dividers that the problem doesn’t arise.
Since its a continuous belt loop, a significant amount of space behind the next customer could mean placing your items right at the front of the belt.
Sounds space inefficient.
And the other person doesn’t get to unload their cart as early
As someone who was once a cashier, not everyone places their items logically.
Stupid cashiers… I always put those separators on the belt, but they always stop me from buying one.
They’re complimentary. Pocket it and walk out.
you need to weigh them with the secret produce code 1337 to put a price on them and make them purchasable
Always struck me as a city thing, not a white people thing.
Maybe things have changed, but in the small town where I grew up, people generally wouldn’t bother.
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there would usually be a gap delineating one persons items from the other’s anyways
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the person who was professionally scanning our groceries 100% had the expertise to see the gap and comprehend its meaning
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If (I never ever saw it happen, ever) they had grabbed something, someone would have noticed, said “whoops, that’s not mine”. Nobody would think someone was trying a scam.
I feel like this is an amazing measure of someone’s general level of anxiety. Or maybe a measure of how little credit they give the person scanning groceries? Both?
It’s a measure of how often some asshole that doesn’t leave a gap between their groceries and the previous appear on the store.
Seems to me that it’s about how present the cashier is. I’ve made sure to leave a huge gap and they still paid so little attention they were confused about whose stuff was whose.
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Another problem solved by self-checkout.
Multiple personality people would argue that fact. Lol
Problem?
“You ever notice how _____ people do [insert common, innocuous, rational behavior]…”
Yeah, this is trolling.
Race baiting has really fallen off as a profession, I see.
