Do you organize the order of your groceries in the checkout line?

I'm just wondering what the title asks: do you organize your groceries in the order you will check them out, if doing self-checkout, or arrange them on the belt/counter in a standard checkout line, in the hope that they'll be bagged in a specific way?

I didn't know there was any other way people do it, but just learned some people prefer to checkout/bag without pre-arranging things. I'm kind of curious to see what's more common, or if there's some other options I haven't considered?

shinigamiookamiryuu ,

Soft and fragile things on top, heavy things on the bottom, square things in the middle, circular things on the outside, cold things in one bag, non-cold-things in another bag, and anything that can't be organized in this way in a third bag.

octopus_ink ,

I keep cold things or products that are identical or related together most of the time. So all the bags of chips, or all the cans, all the meats, all the frozen stuff, etc.

And I guess like the other guy, I usually stick fragile stuff on one end or the other.

bloubz ,
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You reminded me that some third-world countries like the US have people packing your groceries for a few dollars a day

SauceBossSmokin ,

Since I usually self check at Walmart and other places that have it, I place the big items in the cart with the bar code accessible for hand scanning without removal, frozen/refridgerated items generally together, everything else in cart doesn't really matter to me. The upper cart space (where toddlers/baby could go) is where I place my eggs, bread, and fresh veggies. Then I scan in this order: Frozen items, regular cart items, eggs/bread, weighed veggies, (bagging and putting back in the cart as i scan them) lastly use the hand scanner for the big items. Sometimes I scan the big items first if i know i need to place bags on top. Once I see that everything has been bagged and back in the cart, then I'm confident that I didn't miss anything, pay, and then GTFO. I'm an efficient self checkout machine, haha

oo1 ,

Self bagging only pretty much where i live.
The cashiers at lidl are so fast it's hard to keep up.
I just stuff everything in fast as possible trying to maximise damage; this can also save on chewing time later.

But I only have to carry it as far as my bicycle - and I do sometimes need to fish out and reorganize heavy stuff at that point to keep the pain-ears vaguely balanced.

Though it is quite fun to try with 6-7 litres of liquids on one side and 2 carrots and a lettuce on the other.
If it's not too windy I'd just do that - shopping is boring.

If I was walking farther I'd take a big rucksack and yeah I'd probably pack it more systematically.

I can understand car users not bothering to organise though.
Unless you're driving 100km through the desert and think anything frozen wil melt.

andrewta ,

What is a pain -ear

And what is a lidl

SaltySalamander ,
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And what is a lidl

A gettin'-place

seth OP ,

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    Admetus ,

    Lidl is another half-wholesale half-supermarket chain which is supposed to be cheaper. Popular in England. At the checkout it is indeed a race, the checkout belt is more than 2 metres long and yet it only seems to take less than a minute for all your stuff to pile up on the other end.

    Pain-ear lol!

    oo1 ,

    Yep to all these other people.
    They nose.

    brap ,

    I go to scan-while-you-shop places then strategically bag as I walk around the store. 30 seconds to pay and then leave.

    bilboswaggings ,

    Well at the Prisma I go to we just scan products into bags in the store (you have your bags open the shopping cart)

    Ziggurat ,

    I generally go to self-scan line, so it's the order in which I bought these.
    When I go to a more classical line, Heavy, then cold, then light so the heavy stuff goes on the bottom of the bag, the cool stuff in the middle (where they are a bit protected) and the light things on top

    Churbleyimyam ,

    Items in perfect order of robustness on the conveyor, but more than one bag...

    CanadaPlus ,

    If you have a big enough purchase, it gets pretty impossible to rearrange on the fly.

    Deepus , (edited )

    Nah not true, ive done it on £200 shops, not perfectly but enough. Take the time to think about where your putting stuff as your putting things in your basket/trolley and its easy to move a few bags of crisps to get to the bottles for example.

    SoGrumpy ,

    This is how I do it. I plan checkout as I put stuff in the cart.
    Heavy/hard/non-crushables at the back, squashables at the front and delicates in the baby seat.
    Makes loading the conveyor belt a breeze.

    CanadaPlus ,

    You need to teach me then, haha! I unload as fast as I humanly can, usually with someone else madly bagging at the other end, and quite often there's a giant line behind us anyway.

    I can reach down like two layers at most before something either is knocked out of the trolley or the pile topples inside. The best I can try and do is group heavy things together a little bit. I'm not sure if it makes much of a difference.

    glovecraft ,

    I don't organize them with a mind as to how they'll be bagged, but I usually put vegetables down first as they take the longest individually to process and put fragile things like eggs last.

    What I do wonder is if the cashier is judging me as to the quality of my purchases. Like if it's all fresh vegetables and grains do I get an A? If I add in a frozen pizza does the score drop to a B-? If it's just trash like chips and processed junk do I get a D?

    Brkdncr ,

    What grade does the guy getting 4 cooked whole chickens in a bag get? What if he’s getting a case of miller lite too? Asking for a friend.

    InputZero ,

    I was a cashier at a department store decades ago, the answer is no. When I started I'd judge people on their purchases, after a few shifts I couldn't care or remember anything anyone got.

    zewm ,
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    As a former cashier, I literally did not care what anyone purchased.

    Lifecoach5000 ,

    I am way lax. No pre-organization really at all - but most of the time I also bag them myself with my own bags. I wlll somewhat organize them during that process.

    evatronic ,

    I tend to do my primary shopping at a place where you bag your own. The order is generally produce and bulk items first (it tends to be the bulk of the purchase), then frozen things, boxed/canned things, and finally squishy things like bread, eggs, and uh, delicious Hostess fruit pies.

    TGhost ,
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    Heavy stuff in the backbag (Eastpak Student style),
    Others stuff in the two handbags,

    i'm Urbanized.
    When i lived in a rural zone, wasnt the same at all.

    TheFriendlyDickhead ,

    I usually only have a backpack, so I have to make sure everything fits in that one backpack. So yea I order my stuff

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