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Old 06-19-2009, 08:45 PM
 
Location: Hutto, Tx
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Well, I love TJ and Aldi's !! And yeah, you gotta bag your own stuff... how outrageous! We certainly do not want to lift a single finger. One might hurt himself






That's how they do it all over Europe.
Not only Europe. When I lived in Houston there was a store called Food Lion, and it was discount and bag your own stuff but they ended up going out of business.
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Old 06-19-2009, 09:27 PM
 
Location: Central Texas
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Half the time I bag my own groceries at HEB - sometimes I prefer to, so I can get things sorted out the way I want to unload them. Sometimes it's just quicker, if the bagger is busy at another station or helping someone take their groceries out.

Other times, I'm busy writing my check and it's nice not to have to delay the people behind me.
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Old 06-19-2009, 09:40 PM
 
Location: Austin
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We've had bag-your-own grocery stores in Austin before. Warehouse Groceries (I think it was called) was on 183, near the intersection with Burnet Road. It was when generic, black and white labeled items were the current craze...mid to late 70s/early 80s?
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Old 06-19-2009, 09:41 PM
 
Location: Central Texas
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You also bag (or box) your own groceries at Sam's and Costco.
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Old 06-19-2009, 09:44 PM
 
Location: Austin
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I don't do the Sam's and Costco stuff. I should, it's wasteful of me, but I would rather pay a little more and get outta' there. Randall's, wherever I can do that. I like HEB prices, but standing in line is the last thing I want to do. Give me Sun Harvest or even Minimax.
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Old 06-19-2009, 09:52 PM
 
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I don't bag my own...I watch the items ringing up on the register, and I've caught some expensive grocery store mistakes that way!
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Old 06-20-2009, 08:20 AM
 
Location: Austin, TX!!!!
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You also bag (or box) your own groceries at Sam's and Costco.
Costco typically has people boxing up your stuff but you have to ask for boxes. Otherwise they just load it into your cart. At least that's the way it has been in every Costco I've ever been to and I've been to about a dozen.
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Old 06-20-2009, 09:16 AM
 
Location: Bella Vista, Ark
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Not only Europe. When I lived in Houston there was a store called Food Lion, and it was discount and bag your own stuff but they ended up going out of business.
It was still different from Altis. We used to shop at Food Lyon once in awhile. Alti's is more like a warehouse.Most Sams we have shopped at, which are many, will put your groceries in the boxes if you have found boxes that suit you. We actually keep boxes in our car and do our own boxing, as a rule when we get our purchases out of the store. The checkers always put everything into the carts for us, Cosco as well, but we haven't done Cosco for ages.

Capcat, lots of people don't do the warehouse thing, we just like what we get and like the prices.

Nita
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Old 06-20-2009, 09:28 AM
 
Location: Austin
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Capcat, lots of people don't do the warehouse thing, we just like what we get and like the prices.
I know I'd like it if I did. Many times at work and parties people have brought things purchased from places like Costco that I thought looked good, and I've heard good things about the choices and deals there. I'm sure I'd be like a kid in a candy store. Maybe someday.
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Old 06-20-2009, 09:52 AM
 
Location: Central Texas
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I don't do the Sam's and Costco stuff. I should, it's wasteful of me, but I would rather pay a little more and get outta' there.
Not sure what you mean by this. I don't spend any more time grocery shopping when I go to Sam's (except for some oohing and ahing over prices, maybe) than I do in the regular grocery store - usually less, as I'm there for certain things and I get a lot of them so I don't have to shop for them very often. (Big pork roast, for example, that I can cut into three pork roasts for the two of us and freeze two of them for future use, or HUGE package of chicken breasts that I can divide into bags of the number we generally use and freeze for future use - I can avoid shopping for those things for a month or two if I do it right.) Or did you mean something else?
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