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I am really irritated when they ask me that. I am healthy and in good physical condition. I usually reply, "Son, I could bench press you twenty times. I think I got this." Another annoying question is "Did you find everything?" I usual say something like "I couldn't find the frozen raccoon."
I would think in Idaho the frozen raccoon would be next to the buckets of muskrat entrails.
I'm 6'6" and 250 lbs, and I'm constantly amused when a scrawny bagger 1/2 my size asks if I need help. Clearly a corporate policy.
Size is no indication of the desire for help. How do they know you don't have debilitating back issues that could be aggravated by lifting full bags of groceries?
I knew some cashier's are required to ask certain questions, re: did you find everything you needed? Though sometimes even when the customer said no, the cashier continued with the transaction as if they didn't hear you. I get how it frustrates the customer as if why bother asking, if you didn't care in the 1st place? Then, I get how the employee feels having to ask questions and if the boss has more than ONE thing that they want the employee to ask.
I've been asked by other customers if I could help them get an item off from one of the higher shelves. I'm not especially tall and have even asked my hubby if he's with me and I can't reach an item on a higher shelf. Sometimes the item I need to reach on a higher shelf is even further to the back in which case I need to be taller with longer arms as well.
Carts in general can be hard to maneuver, wheels pull to one side and if you have to use that cart to get to your car when it is snowy and slushy, it just makes it more difficult. I can totally understand.
As one customer to another, I'm more than willing to help providing I'm able to. I've got those times when the weather or whatever else it might be, affects my joints and muscles too.
Wonder if the store can have a check-in kiosk where one can sign up for assistance during their shopping excursion? They can be given something like a beeper. The store employee collects the beeper either upon shopper exiting the store or prior to assistance getting cart to vehicle for unloading. Maybe this idea would help to cut down on all the questions?
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I shop at HEB and pretty often they will ask if we need help out with the groceries, even when my husband and kids bagged the groceries. It's not an age thing here, it's just what they do.
Walmart doesn't do the same thing and whenever I'm on my way into the store and I see an older lady putting her groceries in the car and she has heavy things like big dog food bags or cases of water to load, I ask if she wants a hand with them. I know better than to ask the older men if they need a hand...they'd rather throw their backs out in the parking lot than accept help.
I shop at two different local grocery stores and the baggers always ask customers if they would like help out to their car. If you do want help, they will wheel your cart out and put your groceries into your trunk. I’ve never needed help.
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Wonder if the store can have a check-in kiosk where one can sign up for assistance during their shopping excursion? They can be given something like a beeper. The store employee collects the beeper either upon shopper exiting the store or prior to assistance getting cart to vehicle for unloading. Maybe this idea would help to cut down on all the questions?
I've seen on occasion a customer in one of the motorized carts with a grocery store employee following along with a shopping cart, retrieving the items the customer wanted from the shelf and putting them into the larger shopping cart.
I knew some cashier's are required to ask certain questions, re: did you findeverything you needed? Though sometimes even when the customer said no, the cashier continued with the transaction as if they didn't hear you. I get how it frustrates the customer as if why bother asking, if you didn't care in the 1st place? Then, I get how the employee feels having to ask questions and if the boss has more than ONE thing that they want the employee to ask.
I've been asked by other customers if I could help them get an item off from one of the higher shelves. I'm not especially tall and have even asked my hubby if he's with me and I can't reach an item on a higher shelf. Sometimes the item I need to reach on a higher shelf is even further to the back in which case I need to be taller with longer arms as well.
Carts in general can be hard to maneuver, wheels pull to one side and if you have to use that cart to get to your car when it is snowy and slushy, it just makes it more difficult. I can totally understand.
As one customer to another, I'm more than willing to help providing I'm able to. I've got those times when the weather or whatever else it might be, affects my joints and muscles too.
Wonder if the store can have a check-in kiosk where one can sign up for assistance during their shopping excursion? They can be given something like a beeper. The store employee collects the beeper either upon shopper exiting the store or prior to assistance getting cart to vehicle for unloading. Maybe this idea would help to cut down on all the questions?
re: the bolded...I've noticed that too and it aggravates me. If I ask, and they say no, I'll ask them what they are looking for and actually write it down. Sometimes it's there and they didn't see it but I always give the notes to the dept. manager.
Walmart lowered their shelves in the grocery section just because they were too high for a lot of people. Especially short women, like me! They still seem kind of high to me but I don't have as much trouble as I used to. I'm always offering to reach things for other people.
One of the things I love about my customers is how many of them will jump in and help the customer in front of them unload their items onto the belt. They do it mostly for the much older people but will help anyone who looks like they need it. They are awesome.
Your beeper idea sounds pretty good but I don't trust people to not steal the dang things. Thank goodness it doesn't snow here!
I shop at HEB and pretty often they will ask if we need help out with the groceries, even when my husband and kids bagged the groceries. It's not an age thing here, it's just what they do.
Walmart doesn't do the same thing and whenever I'm on my way into the store and I see an older lady putting her groceries in the car and she has heavy things like big dog food bags or cases of water to load, I ask if she wants a hand with them. I know better than to ask the older men if they need a hand...they'd rather throw their backs out in the parking lot than accept help.
Walmart cashiers don't ask everybody, that's true, but they DO provide carry out if it's asked for. If they ask at the beginning of the transaction I hit the code right away rather than wait till the end because who knows how long it'll take them to get someone there? I just automatically ask people who have big and heavy items if they'd like help out. Maybe people don't know that we provide that service??
I shop at two different local grocery stores and the baggers always ask customers if they would like help out to their car. If you do want help, they will wheel your cart out and put your groceries into your trunk. I’ve never needed help.
I've seen on occasion a customer in one of the motorized carts with a grocery store employee following along with a shopping cart, retrieving the items the customer wanted from the shelf and putting them into the larger shopping cart.
I've done that for customers myself but they didn't use a separate cart for their stuff. A front end manager will ask if I'd help out and, of course, I will! It gets me away from the register for a while and I enjoy helping them out.
When I was growing up 30-40 years ago in Boston most grocery stores had the bagger carry out the groceries to your car as part of their job. They did it for every customer. When I was working as a bagger in high school in the mid 90's we were required to ask every customer if they needed help out to their car
Did they always have an extra bagger at each checkout waiting to get the next customer, or was business that slow that there was no one else in line until that cashier's bagger got back?
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