She needs to watch French movies where they always have a baguette sticking out of their grocery bag.
only one baguette? smh
Needs more cigarette.
Why not just light one of this big ass baguettes like a giant cigar?
Because then it wouldn’t be a cigarette.
It's always a baguette and some celery
Those are leeks sir
shes leekin, baguette
Leafy carrot
I was camping in France. It really is like that every morning. Some of them even bite into it as soon as they leave the bakery.
There even are baguette dispensers on the street. You put 1€ in it, a tasty baguette comes out.
This bagette doesn't look lovely nor fresh
If it's in that kind of bag (with little holes in it), it was definitely freshly baked that day. That kind of bag is designed to keep the bread crispy, but it can only be used on the day it was baked, or the bread will become hard as rock the next day. If a loaf is going to be kept and sold the next day, it has to be rebagged into a solid plastc bag to keep it fresh. "Lovely" is subjective. It's a grocery store baguette.
Plasticbags for bread feel very sus.
They fucking bag everything in North America (and East Asia). It's ridiculous.
In a regular bakery, the bread is behind the counter, out of reach of the patrons, correct? In a grocery store, it's all on the shelf, where anyone can touch it. This is much more sanitary. I wouldn't buy any that weren't wrapped up.
No, most grocery stores in Europe have bread in a specific bread container that had a lid on it. You open the lid, take out a baguette and close the lid falls down again. They compartments inside the container get regularly refilled from the back where they are baked. I've seen this setup even in cheapo-chains like Aldi and Lidl.
That's great, but what do you put the bread into? A plastic bag, or do people just carry them around bare? What happens if someone drops it and decides they want another, or just changes their mind about buying one? In North America, they'll probably just put it back in the bin. Now the next person gets floor bread or, at least, something that someone else has been carrying around until they changed their mind.
All bigger chains I have visited seem to have paper like bags for bread stuff. Plastic bags also exist, but those are usually in other grocery sections.
In theory you could pack it in your own container if you wish, do not think anyone would have issues with that, but I have never seen anyone doing that.
In paper. So we all don't die
Paper bags have to be left open to let the moisture vent and allow the bread to crisp. That doesn't work on the grocery store floor. We tried it. Our first bags were paper.
??? The rest of the world uses paper bags for almost everything, you can't convince me that in usa you have to use non decomposable dead dinosaur bags because you have to throw the bread on floors??
Can confirm. At least now they're asking for some things, instead of doing it automatically.
Ok, in all fairness it may very well be freashly baked, but from a factory. This bagette is made industrially. It's very clear from it's appearance (even ignoring the plastic bag). This bagette does not taste good and in only few hours time it will be dry as hell.
As a proud snail slurper, I don't trust no bagette coming in a plastic bag!
Bread doesn't last long enough in this kind of bag for it to have been baked in a factory and shipped to the store. It's baked fresh in the store that day. It'a baked from a "bread base" (think cake mix, but for bread), to which yeast and water are added. It's mixed, proofed, then baked, all on-site in the bakery. Source: me! I worked in a grocery store bakery.
But, plenty of chain grocery stores do have their bread baked off-site and delivered.
So? Do you usually eat the baguette as a whole, deepthroating the thing or what?
How else do I prepare for my sword swallowing competition
I have.....thoughts.
Does smoosh the shit out of about 20% of the loaf. Definitely a bummer.
They were probably going to make one of those really long sandwiches like on Scooby Doo
+1 point for bending it half
+10 points if she used her knee
+20 if she blew smoke in your face and told you to get out
Ah, nineties Spar. The pick-and-mix was right under her ashtray. I can still taste the strawberry laces with a hint of Pall Mall.
I'm sorry the title joke was stolen from beard_necessities_of_life on insta. Hbomberguy video has me scared of plagiarism
You've done it now. I can't wait for the 7 hour exposé on your crimes
So? It's not like you're gonna get banned here, lol 😂.
Who knows? That hbomberguy is relentless.
He could be here already! He might be any one of us!
Ha. I don't think I even read the title. I didn't even see the pun until I read your comment. So I'm glad you cited your source.
Pretty sure the baguette still works.
Personally, I tend to eat half by the time I get to the car, so I would consider this good customer service.
I'm french and I've never heard about breaking a baguette being "bad". Sure, the broken tips are gonna go dry a little faster but it's not a big deal
I think I'm too european to understand this meme
Plastic wrapped baguette??
That's weird as well, but what I meant is in Europe you pack your groceries yourself
This OP picture is from somewhere in Europe. "Till" is the English word, while Americans would say something like cash register or check out counter. And SPAR is a European chain of grocery stores
Fair points!
She's Irish, and has possibly one of the most Irish names I've ever seen.
I'm guessing ROI.
But in the U.S our food is not fresh enough to be bagged by the customer. It must be wrapped so it can sit out for a considerable duration.
Some places in the UK will ask if you want help packing your bags.
interesting, didn't know that despite having lived in the UK and Ireland for a while
Colruyt insists on their weird "cashier tranfers the items into another cart while scanning and bags them for you while they're at it" strategy. And they do own the Spar brand in Belgium.
Although as franchisees some of the Spar stores keep the regular tills. Unfortunately mine does the weird cart transfer thing, which is much slower, though apparently it deters theft..?
Oh, right.
Maybe we should look into that to reduce unemployment.
The Asian model, create endless useless jobs to make sure everyone can have something to do even if it's just standing in front of a parking entrance to point people in.
So like Walmart greeters
Labor for the sake of it. What an American response.
How else are people going to learn useful life skills such as baguette origami?
David Graeber wants to speak with you
A meme on a folded baguettes getting to bullshit jobs is the dream
At expensive American grocery stores, they have baggers.
At my local Price Chopper they have occasional baggers. It’s definitely not an expensive store.
I'm from the "European country" known as UK and every single major store sells plastic wrapped baguettes. You only see them in paper in the smaller shops
It's a plastic bag with tiny holes in it. These are on the store floor, where people can grab a baguette for themselves. The plastic keeps the braguette relatively safe, and the holes allow moisture to escape, keeping the baguette crispy for the day
Oddly enough, most American supermarkets put every baguette they bake that day (if they bake it that day) in plastic bags. Although in this case, I believe they mean that they broke the baguette in the plastic bag in half so it would fit in the bag with the rest of the groceries.
The meme is also European, from Ireland. That said, I'm more interested which Spar is selling long enough baguettes that they don't fit in a bag. My local shops don't.
I know lidl sell the big baguettes like this
Thanks; I'll try it. I usually get bread and sparkling water there (their produce and meat quality got so bad I switched to Aldi), but I haven't been looking for baguettes yet.
Americans still feeling superior because their country has solved this problem by selling sliced bread.
Imagine buying a presliced baguette tho ahahah
meh, as if europe had no bread slicing machines in supermarkets
Congrats on getting half the joke.
The other half is that Europeans would not equate a loaf to a baguette.
Never understood (or experienced) having my purchases bagged for me when I do groceries
From the grocery store's perspective, at least in the US, it keeps the checkout lines moving way faster when some kid who is trained to bag groceries does it, rather than waiting for the customer to figure out how to pack it.
You say this, but it never seems to be an issue here. Its a cultural thing i guess but people seem to manage without
Since most US people go to the market by car why do they need to pack? When I shop by car I just throw everything in the cart and then everything in the trunk, I only pack meat and some other moisty stuff
We have a cultural practice here in the states where we display dominance to our neighbors by carrying all of our groceries in one trip.
I’d look like a total bitch juggling and dropping everything from the car to the front door.
As it is right now, I deadlift my groceries and walk about 20 feet looking totally rad and dominant. I do this while loudly reminding my woman to “git” (which means something totally different from the git you’re used to) so the neighbors know that I’m a man’s man who doesn’t need any help from a female. That also shows her that I respect her weakness and don’t want her to get injured, which gets me laid later in the day. She rolls her eyes, but she knows how it is. This is why I have a pile of children by the way. All weak female children, but one day I will have a son and I will train him in the ways of his ancestors.
Everyone always listens for their neighbor’s car too so they can step outside to giggle while they struggle and drop their groceries. Of course we also gotta help the ladies whose men have abandoned them to deadlift groceries by themselves.
But seriously, why not put a bag or box in your car, put the groceries from the shopping cart in there and then carry that bag from the car to your home?
See now you’re foolin’ worn tradition bud. I mean, maybe I can get my kids doing it. :p
Not a bad idea though.
And yet somehow this isn't a problem at all in countries where we don't have people bagging our groceries. Checkouts very rarely have any downtime where we need to wait on people to finish bagging. Even with old people.
Big difference between being walking distance from groceries and needing to drive there. Bagging a few days worth of groceries is a lot faster than 2 weeks worth
A lot of people here go shopping by car for a whole week as well and we also have people living in areas where the next shopping isn't in walking distance. And it still works just fine. It's really easy because of course you don't have to stand in front of the checkout the whole time but can already bag stuff while the rest is being scanned. As long as you can bag your groceries as fast as they are being scanned it's really no big problem. And if you're a 90 year old granny who isn't as fast, they still can bag their groceries while the next costumer is being processed since the packaging area is usually divided into two sections.
I'm really sorry, but the US didn't invent some special kind of super grocery shopping which no other country can understand. You just like the convenience of not bagging your stuff yourself. It's really not some top secret technique to make shopping 150% more efficient or something.
You're not the first one to say so, but a job that exist just to create jobs sounds like a bad excuse. Why would a store just create jobs?
To create cheap (overworked) labor to make a customer's shopping experience better, in hopes of them coming back to spend more money.
Checkout baggers are not overworked...
As someone who works in a grocery store (but not on the front end), I like how you're assuming baggers only bag. I guess it depends on the company, but those poor bastards tend to have to bag, clear carts from the lot, sweep the store, clean the restrooms, clean spills around the store, among other tasks. All while receiving the lowest wage in the store.
I'm not assuming that actually. None of those jobs are particularly hard. Check out baggers are not overworked.
Neither is your smooth brain, apparently.
A lot of the time it exists to provide jobs essentially.
When you have a family of three and you're shopping for them by yourself and have to put them on the conveyor belt without help, it's a big time saver.
The people i see who have loaded carts, usually just pop everything back into the cart and repack either when they offload into the car or before they exit the store
That's the way!
That sounds like a great way to piss off other shoppers considering the lack of space for everyone to take the time for either of those activities in many supermarkets.
I guess we must accept that things work differently in different parts of the world. It works fine here and no one gets either pissed off or is in the way.
How much space is there inside the store for people to do that past the registers? Because here, there's room for about two carts and no table to do it on. Then in the parking lot, if the weather isn't terrible (it can get down to arctic temperatures and blizzarding here in the winter), you have to hope you leave enough room, if there is enough room to leave, for other cars to get by you.
The only place I have ever been to in the U.S. where bagging your own groceries was feasible was Aldi.
It's simply a different system. The markets are adjusted to it. There is enough room and sometimes even tables for this purpose.
The markets are simply using different mechanisms to speed up the process so that they can have more customers per minute. Aldi is a big player here. The cashiers are trained and drilled to be super fast. There are no baggers, but enough room to pack your stuff yourself later.
Recently they added a new kind of "double line". Now there is enough space for two trolleys right behind the cashier. Each line has their own card reader. The cashier has minimum waiting time for the next customer. Also almost zero time for customer interaction or any talk.
Probably effective, but it really feels rushed out.
The only way you could add space would be to take out and move all the checkout lanes.
This doesn't pose a big problem for a company like Aldi. They are in the process of updating their older stores here so lots of things (big coolers, checkout lanes and baking stations included) get moved around.
Or the whole building is designed to accommodate the different customer expectations in the first place.
Globally operating companies can't just build one blueprint for every market, with few exceptions.
See also (for a negative example): Why Walmart failed in Germany.
You only need room for one cart behind the registers. They pack the same time the next customer gets scanned.
And if people don't have enough space to get by you while you unload your cart into your trunk, then they should learn how to drive or buy a smaller car.
unbroken baguettes are a privilege of those who use reusable bags and bag their own groceries
wait... Bread comes as single units?
Step 1) Establish dominance with the customer
First world problems. I wouldn't give a shit because I am cutting that thing up anyway.
Yeah, I was thinking this is a bit ridiculous. That sucker looks to be an easy 2 or so feet long. Unless you're making something that's extremely long it's getting cut up anyway.
Squashing bread is a true crime.
My first thought when I saw this post was, "That's not a baguette, that's french bread." I never connected that the gigantic long bread at the store with the stale dry crust that they label as "french bread" is supposed to be a baguette, which is French. Like they are too ashamed to actually call it a baguette because it kind of sucks but that's definitely what it's supposed to be.
Is french bread a regional thing in the US?
They call it stick bread (stokbrood) where I'm from, and I've seen it called french sticks in the UK.
I guess we all just can't accept the french having a reasonable name for something.
‘Baguette’ is literrally the French word for stick.
In the US, baguette refers to the shape, so you can get a "sourdough baguette" which is not French style bread, or "sourdough french bread" which can be either sourdough in baguette shape or a round loaf of French style sourdough or American style sourdough made with French sourdough culture and you can get "French sandwich rolls" and "Sliced French bread" which are both made with the same ingredients that French baguettes are- flour, water, yeast and salt.
I mean, how else are you gonna make the sandwich anyway?
Wait...you mean you're telling me you don't deepthroat your entire baguette in one bite???
So there are people out there that don't unhinge their jaw to eat an entire sub, olive-on-a-toothpick included?
What a loser! Wow. We should point and laugh.
As a french baguette amateur I can confirm this is how you pack a traditional industrial baguette.
Industrial baguette would break you, not the other way around
Industrial baguettes are made out of steel in a lathe
Here they're extruded rubber.
Life pro tip, never eat the middle part of a baguette in France
Were you gonna expand on that?
The armpit section
I don't know, in a world where people will pay for a jar of some egirls bath water, I'm willing to bet that someone would pay extra for a nibble on some moist armpit baguette.
Some people do what? Just to make sure, an egirl is like a vtubet right?
No. I don't think it's still a thing, but look up Belle Delphine if you want to know about it.
I’m afraid to do so but here goes nothing…
Edit: every day I die a little more inside
But it's not over the middle section.
Calculating the armpit area with a high enough n should yield a gaussian distributing around the center of mass of the baguette, which usually is located at l/2, assuming a uniform shape and density.
This is the knowledge I come here for.
Where I come from they'd tie her limbs to 3 horses and have the horses run away from each other.
Which horse gets two limbs?
That is such an ableist comment omg
Look, recognizing that the vast, vast majority of people have 4 limbs is not ableist, and I'm sorry that you're so interested in being offended on somebody else's behalf that you think it is.
I'm not totally certain, but I think it was a joke.
That is so ableist against people with no sense of humor omg
Gary
maybe one arm or leg gets to remain intact.
Does it matter if that bitch is getting cut up anyway? Unless you're about to Scooby Do that shit
Hérétique
Nice of your grocery store to pay for someone to bag your groceries, though. Ours pretty much just throws it on the floor for us to deal with.
Just walk over and grab another one and more cheese because you probs didn't buy enough cheese
Image Transcription: Twitter Post
Tara Gráinne Ní Chonghaile, @TaraGrace_
A shout out to the girl at the till in my local Spar who broke our lovely fresh baguette in half to "make it fit in the bag"
[An image of a baguette in a plastic wrapper. The baguette is seperated in two halves and both halves are folded together like a hinge.]
It's a regional thing in the Midwest at least. It's always called French bread in the grocery and even the fancy European style bakery downtown calles it a "FRANCESE" instead of a baguette.
They do this with Cuban bread here all the time (they do ask). Presumably you aren't making one yard long sandwich.
That would drive me nuts.
Honestly, It's just I wanna be the one who breaks my bread. ☹️
I always break them. Fuck em French
Edit: typo
Brake? Break?
Break. I was in a hurry and LOS has minimal correction
Oh Lord, we arrived at the point where cheap imitation of baguette in foreign countries are not worst than the one sold at home. We are lost...
She needs to watch French movies where they always have a baguette sticking out of their grocery bag.
only one baguette? smh
Needs more cigarette.
Why not just light one of this big ass baguettes like a giant cigar?
Because then it wouldn’t be a cigarette.
It's always a baguette and some celery
Those are leeks sir
shes leekin, baguette
Leafy carrot
I was camping in France. It really is like that every morning. Some of them even bite into it as soon as they leave the bakery.
There even are baguette dispensers on the street. You put 1€ in it, a tasty baguette comes out.
This bagette doesn't look lovely nor fresh
If it's in that kind of bag (with little holes in it), it was definitely freshly baked that day. That kind of bag is designed to keep the bread crispy, but it can only be used on the day it was baked, or the bread will become hard as rock the next day. If a loaf is going to be kept and sold the next day, it has to be rebagged into a solid plastc bag to keep it fresh. "Lovely" is subjective. It's a grocery store baguette.
Plasticbags for bread feel very sus.
They fucking bag everything in North America (and East Asia). It's ridiculous.
In a regular bakery, the bread is behind the counter, out of reach of the patrons, correct? In a grocery store, it's all on the shelf, where anyone can touch it. This is much more sanitary. I wouldn't buy any that weren't wrapped up.
No, most grocery stores in Europe have bread in a specific bread container that had a lid on it. You open the lid, take out a baguette and close the lid falls down again. They compartments inside the container get regularly refilled from the back where they are baked. I've seen this setup even in cheapo-chains like Aldi and Lidl.
That's great, but what do you put the bread into? A plastic bag, or do people just carry them around bare? What happens if someone drops it and decides they want another, or just changes their mind about buying one? In North America, they'll probably just put it back in the bin. Now the next person gets floor bread or, at least, something that someone else has been carrying around until they changed their mind.
All bigger chains I have visited seem to have paper like bags for bread stuff. Plastic bags also exist, but those are usually in other grocery sections.
In theory you could pack it in your own container if you wish, do not think anyone would have issues with that, but I have never seen anyone doing that.
In paper. So we all don't die
Paper bags have to be left open to let the moisture vent and allow the bread to crisp. That doesn't work on the grocery store floor. We tried it. Our first bags were paper.
??? The rest of the world uses paper bags for almost everything, you can't convince me that in usa you have to use non decomposable dead dinosaur bags because you have to throw the bread on floors??
Can confirm. At least now they're asking for some things, instead of doing it automatically.
Ok, in all fairness it may very well be freashly baked, but from a factory. This bagette is made industrially. It's very clear from it's appearance (even ignoring the plastic bag). This bagette does not taste good and in only few hours time it will be dry as hell.
As a proud snail slurper, I don't trust no bagette coming in a plastic bag!
Bread doesn't last long enough in this kind of bag for it to have been baked in a factory and shipped to the store. It's baked fresh in the store that day. It'a baked from a "bread base" (think cake mix, but for bread), to which yeast and water are added. It's mixed, proofed, then baked, all on-site in the bakery. Source: me! I worked in a grocery store bakery.
But, plenty of chain grocery stores do have their bread baked off-site and delivered.
So? Do you usually eat the baguette as a whole, deepthroating the thing or what?
How else do I prepare for my sword swallowing competition
I have.....thoughts.
Does smoosh the shit out of about 20% of the loaf. Definitely a bummer.
They were probably going to make one of those really long sandwiches like on Scooby Doo
+1 point for bending it half
+10 points if she used her knee
+20 if she blew smoke in your face and told you to get out
Ah, nineties Spar. The pick-and-mix was right under her ashtray. I can still taste the strawberry laces with a hint of Pall Mall.
I'm sorry the title joke was stolen from beard_necessities_of_life on insta. Hbomberguy video has me scared of plagiarism
You've done it now. I can't wait for the 7 hour exposé on your crimes
So? It's not like you're gonna get banned here, lol 😂.
Who knows? That hbomberguy is relentless.
He could be here already! He might be any one of us!
Ha. I don't think I even read the title. I didn't even see the pun until I read your comment. So I'm glad you cited your source.
Pretty sure the baguette still works.
Personally, I tend to eat half by the time I get to the car, so I would consider this good customer service.
I'm french and I've never heard about breaking a baguette being "bad". Sure, the broken tips are gonna go dry a little faster but it's not a big deal
I think I'm too european to understand this meme
Plastic wrapped baguette??
That's weird as well, but what I meant is in Europe you pack your groceries yourself
This OP picture is from somewhere in Europe. "Till" is the English word, while Americans would say something like cash register or check out counter. And SPAR is a European chain of grocery stores
Fair points!
She's Irish, and has possibly one of the most Irish names I've ever seen.
I'm guessing ROI.
But in the U.S our food is not fresh enough to be bagged by the customer. It must be wrapped so it can sit out for a considerable duration.
Some places in the UK will ask if you want help packing your bags.
interesting, didn't know that despite having lived in the UK and Ireland for a while
Colruyt insists on their weird "cashier tranfers the items into another cart while scanning and bags them for you while they're at it" strategy. And they do own the Spar brand in Belgium.
Although as franchisees some of the Spar stores keep the regular tills. Unfortunately mine does the weird cart transfer thing, which is much slower, though apparently it deters theft..?
Oh, right.
Maybe we should look into that to reduce unemployment.
The Asian model, create endless useless jobs to make sure everyone can have something to do even if it's just standing in front of a parking entrance to point people in.
So like Walmart greeters
Labor for the sake of it. What an American response.
How else are people going to learn useful life skills such as baguette origami?
David Graeber wants to speak with you
A meme on a folded baguettes getting to bullshit jobs is the dream
At expensive American grocery stores, they have baggers.
At my local Price Chopper they have occasional baggers. It’s definitely not an expensive store.
Expensive?
Exactly what I'm referring to
I'm from the "European country" known as UK and every single major store sells plastic wrapped baguettes. You only see them in paper in the smaller shops
It's a plastic bag with tiny holes in it. These are on the store floor, where people can grab a baguette for themselves. The plastic keeps the braguette relatively safe, and the holes allow moisture to escape, keeping the baguette crispy for the day
Oddly enough, most American supermarkets put every baguette they bake that day (if they bake it that day) in plastic bags. Although in this case, I believe they mean that they broke the baguette in the plastic bag in half so it would fit in the bag with the rest of the groceries.
The meme is also European, from Ireland. That said, I'm more interested which Spar is selling long enough baguettes that they don't fit in a bag. My local shops don't.
I know lidl sell the big baguettes like this
Thanks; I'll try it. I usually get bread and sparkling water there (their produce and meat quality got so bad I switched to Aldi), but I haven't been looking for baguettes yet.
Americans still feeling superior because their country has solved this problem by selling sliced bread.
Imagine buying a presliced baguette tho ahahah
meh, as if europe had no bread slicing machines in supermarkets
Congrats on getting half the joke.
The other half is that Europeans would not equate a loaf to a baguette.
Never understood (or experienced) having my purchases bagged for me when I do groceries
From the grocery store's perspective, at least in the US, it keeps the checkout lines moving way faster when some kid who is trained to bag groceries does it, rather than waiting for the customer to figure out how to pack it.
You say this, but it never seems to be an issue here. Its a cultural thing i guess but people seem to manage without
Since most US people go to the market by car why do they need to pack? When I shop by car I just throw everything in the cart and then everything in the trunk, I only pack meat and some other moisty stuff
We have a cultural practice here in the states where we display dominance to our neighbors by carrying all of our groceries in one trip.
I’d look like a total bitch juggling and dropping everything from the car to the front door.
As it is right now, I deadlift my groceries and walk about 20 feet looking totally rad and dominant. I do this while loudly reminding my woman to “git” (which means something totally different from the git you’re used to) so the neighbors know that I’m a man’s man who doesn’t need any help from a female. That also shows her that I respect her weakness and don’t want her to get injured, which gets me laid later in the day. She rolls her eyes, but she knows how it is. This is why I have a pile of children by the way. All weak female children, but one day I will have a son and I will train him in the ways of his ancestors.
Everyone always listens for their neighbor’s car too so they can step outside to giggle while they struggle and drop their groceries. Of course we also gotta help the ladies whose men have abandoned them to deadlift groceries by themselves.
But seriously, why not put a bag or box in your car, put the groceries from the shopping cart in there and then carry that bag from the car to your home?
See now you’re foolin’ worn tradition bud. I mean, maybe I can get my kids doing it. :p
Not a bad idea though.
And yet somehow this isn't a problem at all in countries where we don't have people bagging our groceries. Checkouts very rarely have any downtime where we need to wait on people to finish bagging. Even with old people.
Big difference between being walking distance from groceries and needing to drive there. Bagging a few days worth of groceries is a lot faster than 2 weeks worth
A lot of people here go shopping by car for a whole week as well and we also have people living in areas where the next shopping isn't in walking distance. And it still works just fine. It's really easy because of course you don't have to stand in front of the checkout the whole time but can already bag stuff while the rest is being scanned. As long as you can bag your groceries as fast as they are being scanned it's really no big problem. And if you're a 90 year old granny who isn't as fast, they still can bag their groceries while the next costumer is being processed since the packaging area is usually divided into two sections.
I'm really sorry, but the US didn't invent some special kind of super grocery shopping which no other country can understand. You just like the convenience of not bagging your stuff yourself. It's really not some top secret technique to make shopping 150% more efficient or something.
It creates jobs.
You're not the first one to say so, but a job that exist just to create jobs sounds like a bad excuse. Why would a store just create jobs?
To create cheap (overworked) labor to make a customer's shopping experience better, in hopes of them coming back to spend more money.
Checkout baggers are not overworked...
As someone who works in a grocery store (but not on the front end), I like how you're assuming baggers only bag. I guess it depends on the company, but those poor bastards tend to have to bag, clear carts from the lot, sweep the store, clean the restrooms, clean spills around the store, among other tasks. All while receiving the lowest wage in the store.
I'm not assuming that actually. None of those jobs are particularly hard. Check out baggers are not overworked.
Neither is your smooth brain, apparently.
A lot of the time it exists to provide jobs essentially.
When you have a family of three and you're shopping for them by yourself and have to put them on the conveyor belt without help, it's a big time saver.
The people i see who have loaded carts, usually just pop everything back into the cart and repack either when they offload into the car or before they exit the store
That's the way!
That sounds like a great way to piss off other shoppers considering the lack of space for everyone to take the time for either of those activities in many supermarkets.
I guess we must accept that things work differently in different parts of the world. It works fine here and no one gets either pissed off or is in the way.
How much space is there inside the store for people to do that past the registers? Because here, there's room for about two carts and no table to do it on. Then in the parking lot, if the weather isn't terrible (it can get down to arctic temperatures and blizzarding here in the winter), you have to hope you leave enough room, if there is enough room to leave, for other cars to get by you.
The only place I have ever been to in the U.S. where bagging your own groceries was feasible was Aldi.
It's simply a different system. The markets are adjusted to it. There is enough room and sometimes even tables for this purpose. The markets are simply using different mechanisms to speed up the process so that they can have more customers per minute. Aldi is a big player here. The cashiers are trained and drilled to be super fast. There are no baggers, but enough room to pack your stuff yourself later. Recently they added a new kind of "double line". Now there is enough space for two trolleys right behind the cashier. Each line has their own card reader. The cashier has minimum waiting time for the next customer. Also almost zero time for customer interaction or any talk. Probably effective, but it really feels rushed out.
The only way you could add space would be to take out and move all the checkout lanes.
This doesn't pose a big problem for a company like Aldi. They are in the process of updating their older stores here so lots of things (big coolers, checkout lanes and baking stations included) get moved around.
Or the whole building is designed to accommodate the different customer expectations in the first place.
Globally operating companies can't just build one blueprint for every market, with few exceptions.
See also (for a negative example): Why Walmart failed in Germany.
You only need room for one cart behind the registers. They pack the same time the next customer gets scanned.
And if people don't have enough space to get by you while you unload your cart into your trunk, then they should learn how to drive or buy a smaller car.
unbroken baguettes are a privilege of those who use reusable bags and bag their own groceries
wait... Bread comes as single units?
Step 1) Establish dominance with the customer
First world problems. I wouldn't give a shit because I am cutting that thing up anyway.
Yeah, I was thinking this is a bit ridiculous. That sucker looks to be an easy 2 or so feet long. Unless you're making something that's extremely long it's getting cut up anyway.
Squashing bread is a true crime.
My first thought when I saw this post was, "That's not a baguette, that's french bread." I never connected that the gigantic long bread at the store with the stale dry crust that they label as "french bread" is supposed to be a baguette, which is French. Like they are too ashamed to actually call it a baguette because it kind of sucks but that's definitely what it's supposed to be.
Is french bread a regional thing in the US?
They call it stick bread (stokbrood) where I'm from, and I've seen it called french sticks in the UK. I guess we all just can't accept the french having a reasonable name for something.
‘Baguette’ is literrally the French word for stick.
In the US, baguette refers to the shape, so you can get a "sourdough baguette" which is not French style bread, or "sourdough french bread" which can be either sourdough in baguette shape or a round loaf of French style sourdough or American style sourdough made with French sourdough culture and you can get "French sandwich rolls" and "Sliced French bread" which are both made with the same ingredients that French baguettes are- flour, water, yeast and salt.
I mean, how else are you gonna make the sandwich anyway?
Wait...you mean you're telling me you don't deepthroat your entire baguette in one bite???
So there are people out there that don't unhinge their jaw to eat an entire sub, olive-on-a-toothpick included?
What a loser! Wow. We should point and laugh.
As a french baguette amateur I can confirm this is how you pack a traditional industrial baguette.
Industrial baguette would break you, not the other way around
Industrial baguettes are made out of steel in a lathe
Here they're extruded rubber.
Life pro tip, never eat the middle part of a baguette in France
Were you gonna expand on that?
I don't know, in a world where people will pay for a jar of some egirls bath water, I'm willing to bet that someone would pay extra for a nibble on some moist armpit baguette.
Some people do what? Just to make sure, an egirl is like a vtubet right?
No. I don't think it's still a thing, but look up Belle Delphine if you want to know about it.
I’m afraid to do so but here goes nothing…
Edit: every day I die a little more inside
But it's not over the middle section.
Calculating the armpit area with a high enough n should yield a gaussian distributing around the center of mass of the baguette, which usually is located at l/2, assuming a uniform shape and density.
This is the knowledge I come here for.
Where I come from they'd tie her limbs to 3 horses and have the horses run away from each other.
Which horse gets two limbs?
That is such an ableist comment omg
Look, recognizing that the vast, vast majority of people have 4 limbs is not ableist, and I'm sorry that you're so interested in being offended on somebody else's behalf that you think it is.
I'm not totally certain, but I think it was a joke.
That is so ableist against people with no sense of humor omg
Gary
maybe one arm or leg gets to remain intact.
Does it matter if that bitch is getting cut up anyway? Unless you're about to Scooby Do that shit
Hérétique
Nice of your grocery store to pay for someone to bag your groceries, though. Ours pretty much just throws it on the floor for us to deal with.
Just walk over and grab another one and more cheese because you probs didn't buy enough cheese
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A shout out to the girl at the till in my local Spar who broke our lovely fresh baguette in half to "make it fit in the bag"
[An image of a baguette in a plastic wrapper. The baguette is seperated in two halves and both halves are folded together like a hinge.]
It's a regional thing in the Midwest at least. It's always called French bread in the grocery and even the fancy European style bakery downtown calles it a "FRANCESE" instead of a baguette.
They do this with Cuban bread here all the time (they do ask). Presumably you aren't making one yard long sandwich.
That would drive me nuts.
Honestly, It's just I wanna be the one who breaks my bread. ☹️
I always break them. Fuck em French
Edit: typo
Brake? Break?
Break. I was in a hurry and LOS has minimal correction
Oh Lord, we arrived at the point where cheap imitation of baguette in foreign countries are not worst than the one sold at home. We are lost...
Imagine this being the hardship in your life