Cashiers down here are SLOW as molasses. They were quick up north, "a sense of urgency" was an actual job requirement. I've been a supermarket cashier in three different states, I've been a supermarket customer in six states plus Canada. Florida, so far, is the absolute worst. The ******* even at Publix aren't taught to bag correctly; their big bagging employee video is more about cross contamination. They aren't taught to "square" or "frame" the bag, so you end up with bags tipping over, contents toppling out of bags, and often twice as many bags as the customer needs. Eggs and bread and two 2-pack mini catfood serving packages? Three bags! Or - put the eggs on the bottom. Put the bread on top of the eggs, and the cat food on top of the bread. Just one bag, weighing less than two pounds. Did you know you can fill a plastic grocery bag with up to four 2-litre bottles and they won't tip over or break the bag? Stronger-looking customers should be trusted to carry that. But instead, they're told one bottle per bag, standing up. So of course when you go to open one of them when you get home, you make sure to do it over the sink because they all inevitably fall over in the car and create a fizz-bomb.
I usually give the ****** a break when I shop anywhere they don't have self-service, because they don't know how to bag correctly. I use the self check-out everywhere else.
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