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Is it just me, or does anyone else find it strange that in DC grocery stores there are rarely every dedicated grocery baggers? At my Southwest Safeway, often there will be one bagger despite there being ten plus queues. More often than not, there are no baggers, leaving the poor check-out clerks to do the double duty of scanning and bagging. This also keeps the lines very long during peak hours. Being from the west coast, I am used to there being a dedicated bagger at each check-out line, except for off times such as late at night when there are rarely any lines and it's easy for the clerk to do double-duty. Has it always been this way in DC?
I am not 100% sure of this, but I think grocery stores started reducing dedicated baggers after the 5 cent bag tax went into effect a couple years ago. This is just my anecdotal observation. I have never confirmed with a store that this is true. So I could be wrong.
I would be interested to know if it is true, though, because if it is it's a pretty bad unintended consequence of the law. If everyone is now wasting more time in line as a result of the tax, there probably is a much more efficient way to raise revenue for the Anacostia River cleanup, which I believe the bag tax funds.
Even if you don't use the plastic bags and instead use the canvas bags, if you bag it yourself, you end up holding up the line because you're taking up space. The separate bagger can do it while you're paying, so it just speeds up the whole process.
I don't bag it at all, I put the stuff back in the cart, roll it out to my car where I have a large sturdy box with handles that I put it all in, then when I get home I just lift the whole thing into my house
Are you talking about the one on 4th street SW? Yeah there's maybe 1 or 2 of them at a time there. I take my bags and I kindly ask if they can bag them for me. I don't buy many groceries to begin with, and I can't bag worth ****.
I am not 100% sure of this, but I think grocery stores started reducing dedicated baggers after the 5 cent bag tax went into effect a couple years ago. This is just my anecdotal observation. I have never confirmed with a store that this is true. So I could be wrong.
I would be interested to know if it is true, though, because if it is it's a pretty bad unintended consequence of the law. If everyone is now wasting more time in line as a result of the tax, there probably is a much more efficient way to raise revenue for the Anacostia River cleanup, which I believe the bag tax funds.
there are very few if any baggers in NoVa, and we do not have a bag tax.
there are very few if any baggers in NoVa, and we do not have a bag tax.
Fair enough. So does anyone know why there are so few baggers these days? I think the OP is hitting on something here. They seemed to once be very common, but in the last few years they are rare.
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