XPost: comp.os.linux.misc   
   From: daniel47@nomail.afraid.org   
      
   On 10/12/2025 2:26 pm, c186282 wrote:   
   > On 12/9/25 21:38, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   >> On 2025-12-09 16:56, Bobbie Sellers wrote:   
   >>> On 12/9/25 06:10, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   >>>> On 2025-12-08 14:55, Lars Poulsen wrote:   
   >>>>> On Sun, 7 Dec 2025 14:37:25 -0500, Paul wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> The consumer groups suggested that it might be because people   
   >>>>> were more likely to use a cart if they knew on their way in   
   >>>>> that they were buying more than would fit in a handbasket.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> This days, I shop with the reusable bag that they told us to   
   >>>> use   
   >>   
   >> These days. oops.   
   >>   
   >>>> instead of one use plastic bags. That way, I know how heavy my   
   >>>> bag is getting, so that I can walk back home.   
   >>>   
   >>> Here shopping into your own bag is widely discouraged.   
   >>   
   >> Fortunately, they can say nothing about it. Even more, my usual bag   
   >>  has another bag inside, one of those insulated for frozen or cold   
   >>  foods, and inside, I put a small bottle (⅓litre) with frozen   
   >> salted water, so that the guard at the entrance can see I enter   
   >> with a bag that already has some weight in it.   
   >>   
   >> After depositing everything on the rubber belt at the cashier, I   
   >> make a show of looking the bag is empty, or show it to the   
   >> employee.   
   >>   
   >> They charge for each plastic bag you get on the exit cashier, and   
   >> they encourage people to buy reusable bags. Thus, we have to enter   
   >> the shop with empty reusable bags. It is their doing, not ours.   
   >> Well, government regulation, actually. Pushed by the EU.   
   >   
   > If you use a 'permanent' bag, esp from THAT store, they'll claim you   
   > STOLE it from them ....   
   >   
   > And if you really want to get arrested, use "automated self-checkout"   
   > :-)   
      
   Hate them!! Hate them! Hate them. I'll stand in line at a staffed   
   Check-Out (if there is one) rather than use those Auto-mated Check-Outs.   
      
   The way I figure it, the Supermarket has already added the 'Staffing   
   Costs' into the price of the things I buy, so I might as well make use   
   of the Staff that I'm paying for.   
   --   
   Daniel70   
      
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