Not totally relevant, but: that little tub of Philadelphia cream cheese is like $8 nowadays. What in the ever-loving fuck? And yet you can still buy a brick of that shit for $1.60. Trying to get cream cheese out of that folded-over piece of foil is certainly annoying, but it’s worth paying 5X as much to get it out of a convenient tub instead? Make it make sense.
Foil is so easy with a butter knife. You can just scrape it clean. Much easier than digging it out with a spatula
I don’t get it. I don’t want to stand in line longer waiting while the cashier unscans my items from the person ahead’s order or unscans the next persons items from my order. They also often fuck it up anyway but still
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?
Right? I’m not paying for your shit!
Racist.
That’s racist!
Venmo me some reparations
“Segregation” is referring for “racial segregation”, probably specific to the historical policy in the US.
Hope this helps~
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
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.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?
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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….
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.
Delivery price is cheaper than the fuel, prices are same as the store.
It’s actually cheaper here, and it is also cheaper and easier for both the store and me.
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.
I think they’re shutting down Pocket
you need to weigh them with the secret produce code 1337 to put a price on them and make them purchasable
Someone will try to make everything about race.
Reddit’s WhitePeopleTwitter and BlackPeopleTwitter were pretty interesting in what sort of stuff was considered white and what black
My brother used to say that if you had enough of those dividers you could solve every property dispute because nobody violates that line.
Ive had cashiers blatantly ignore it and scan items for the wrong person many times now…
…I still use the stick, but also make sure theres plenty of space.
In Arkansas you’re now allowed to shoot at the feet of cashiers who sass you, so they keep tabs on it
The real issue is you’re using it sideways
Only white people use them? I moved from the PNW down south and I can say they get used much less down here. Haven’t paid attention to race though
I don’t want some filthy poor persons grocceries touching my filthy poor person grocceries
Did their chocolate get into your peanut butter?
Whole comment section up in arms. Relax it’s just a joke😭
Which one? Or both?
The joke is bad and it should feel bad
Throw it in a crowd of white people and watch us fight over it like a pack of yorkshire terriers fighting over a milk bone.
Race baiting has really fallen off as a profession, I see.
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…
As someone who was once a cashier, not everyone places their items logically.
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.
Sounds space inefficient.
And the other person doesn’t get to unload their cart as early
Wasting space
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.
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