Asda packers
 

Does anyone else feel a slight tinge of annoyance when they get to the tills at Asda and see yet another set of charity packers. I'm not doubting that it's a worthy cause (Moorhead School today) but oh, it doesn't half screw up my system.

I buy my shopping in an order, I put it on the trolley in an order and I pack it into bags in a certain order - all so that when I get home I put the right bags in the right place to unpack them. Today, because of the helpers I had bean tins placed on top of a loaf which meant I arrived home with squashed bread.

I know it sounds a bit petty but I think they're over doing it. Once a month would be ok but every week is just a bit too much. What does everyone else think?

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Got to agree that it is overkill...... I usually just tell them that I don't want my bags packed, I still make a donation to some of the causes but pack my own bags.

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Asda was crawling with school kids when I was there this afternoon. I always insist on packing my own shopping, let the kids think what they want. Like gayle I have a system when packing.

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I agree its going too far especially at this time of year. I want to be in and out of supermarkets as fast as I can as I hate being in them at this time of year.

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I go to moorhead but i dint do it as i know that i like to pack our own bags so im fussy that way to lol

Im gonna wind up my classmates now HeHe.
(Over kill - yes lol)
Alec

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That will make you popular. :D

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Yes, it annoys me too, but for the opposite reason, find most packers are too careful and I finish up with about 10 bags instead of five .. more to get out of the back of my car when I get home. I just like to get in one bag as much I can squeeze in. Unfortunately, today the till lady insisted in putting them in bags as I was loading up t 'other end .. couldn't keep up with her. Did have to take out my box of wine into trolley as too heavy, and goes through these ever decreasing thickness of supermarket bags.

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The bags get thinner so that you pay 10p for the reusable thicker ones. Yet few people I know who buy these go back with them the next week. To me its a scam.

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you probably got the kid that was forced to do it by his parents lol

%100 agree its bloody annoying and a hinderence although i find all collectors shaking their tins or blocking doorways with tables and wheelchairs a pain in the ass ,it should be banned

i give money to a charity but never to people who block my way or shake a tin in my face

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do you remember when an asda carrier bag was strong enough to sit on , pull the handles through your legs and use as a sledge in winter :D

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Oh yes I rember those days well. Pity they aint around now. :)

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I bought some fudge at Tesco and was appalled at how it was packed.

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Careful!!!!!!

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I too have my own system when packing my shopping, so I don't let others do it for me either. This is since some kind person did it for me and crammed too many items into too few bags and they split before I was out the door sending my goods everywhere.

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get a life...

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Nothing wrong with having a system especially if everything for 1 cupboard is in one bag. Hate having everything spread out on the bunker to orginise what I have when I could have done it when buying the stuff.

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GO to moorhead heeeeeeeeee! mmmmmmmmmmmmmm! Wot year r u in!

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Sounds like OCD to me.

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You can always say no you know, I had my bags packed for me yesterday and they did quite a good job, I too put my things in a certain order, but the young lass did really well.

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Lassies are more orginised that way.

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exactly!!!

i put all my shoppin on the scanner in the order i'm gonna put it back into the trolley

it peeves me off when the assistant - never mind the packer - starts to put in stuff i'm thinkin no u stupid cow thats meant to go in this bag etc...

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

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Do you have an order for all your shopping or is it just your supermarket shop?

I have a system when the assistant asks do you want help with your packing i always say no thank you he will do it.

he has to i hate packing im rubbish at it!

When i am on a register at work i dont do peoples packing as i don't have people do it for me. Im not being ignorant the thought just doesn't occur to me i always help people who are struggling eg the elderly, people who have child in arms etc but it takes more time to pack a persons shopping and when you have a line full of people glaring at you because you are taking some time to get them served its not a good idea.

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got to agree its bugging when they are packing for you and they put soap in the same bag as meat or fruit!!! i feel like saying sod off ill do it my bloody self!!!!!

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What a bunch of moaning minnies. You have a flapping piece of tissue in your mouths that when used can simply issue the word NO or can you do it this way please (Wonder how many of the kids heard that word?). The kids at Moorhead kindly gave up their day on Saturday to raise funds to make Moorhead able to achieve sports college status & provide even greater facilities for us all to use sportswise. They need to raise £50.000 to do this however. My daughter was one of the packers and gave her time even though she had lost her gran fourty eight hours earlier. That is what I call commitment cos she dearly loved her gran. If anyone could have had cause to complain about being there on Sat she had more than the lot of you put together.

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Sometimes we are to polite to interfere.

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I think you'll find that this thread wasn't necessarily about the inconvenience of the odd time but the fact that it's every week at the moment. I don't mind my routine being disrupted every now and then just not every week.

And I don't begrudge them the money, in fact, I want them to pack it so I can justifiably give them some cash. I think they should have a training session first.

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My daughter gets training every week cos she helps with our packing when shopping at ASDA. However she did let us know that nothing was given or said in the way of instruction last Saturday. Maybe one for the ASDA question board?