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BJealous --- 12 years ago -

Who thinks the new rule at the commissary is dunb? Most of the time I have them but my stuff back in the cart. But today the lady told of they bag my stuff I will have to tip if not I have to bag my own... Really? Walmart bags my stuff no proplem. Idk maybe it's just me but If I take my own stuff out why can't they atleast bag it? 

Sunshine247 --- 12 years ago -

Really?! Is that a new rule now? Well, I'll be bagging my own...Can't really afford to tip all the time. 

cindyln --- 12 years ago -

The baggers work for tips only. They are not employees of the commissary. So if they bag your groceries but you do not let them take them to the car they are doing that bagging for no $.Would you want to do this for free if you were working as a bagger? 

Lisa --- 12 years ago -

Since when did they apply that rule? Im sorry, but I am not going to tip, just because you told me I have to. A tip is exactly that, a tip. If someone has the nerve to say that to me, the only tip they will be getting is to go get another job. 

Jacque28 --- 12 years ago -

I had a horrible experience with a bagger at the commissary. For me, this is a sigh of relief. I hate how they bag my things anyway... I'm very much a put the frozen with the frozen, cans with the cans type of person... No one can do my stuff better than me, i've always had that theory. I think this is great! 

LovinLife824 --- 12 years ago -

I agree with you cindyln. They make money from tips. If you don't plan on tipping and want to take the bags out yourself then bag it yourself. The max I ever tipped was $5, but that was for two push carts packed with groceries. I don't understand why tipping is such a big deal. Its a couple dollars. Work in their shoes for a day and I bet most of you would start tipping after dealing with cheap people and rude customers all day. 

Gemini09 --- 12 years ago -

Today, they told me the new rule was that they had to ask before they begin if you will be wanting the bagger's services.

They never said that if you choose it you would have to tip. They seem to me like they are giving people the choice because so many people were complaining that the baggers were getting mad when people told them they wanted to on their own. They can never require anyone to tip. 

Lisa --- 12 years ago -

I honestly have no problem tipping when I am doing my main grocery shopping, yes it is usually just a few dollars. My issue with it begins when I have to run in for just one or two things, and the baggers are rude as heck. I had to get just a gallon of milk one time, and when the bagger found out I didnt want a bag, he followed me to my truck, and kept saying how that was his only income, I was a terrible person, and that if I could afford gas for my truck I could afford to pay him. I don't think so. 

a3498061uu --- 12 years ago -

I have worked as a bagger. I know how they feel to bag $200.00 worth of groceries and not get a tip. I tip everytime atleast 10%. If I spend $200.00 they get $20. But I firmly believe in good customer service, u get what you give. I have been lucky and hace only had one bad experience I still tipped it just didn't go to my bagger. I like the rule. If u don't want to tip then bag yourself. 

LovMySoldier --- 12 years ago -

Im glad, if it is true! I never use baggers, if i can walk in the door, shop and unload my cart myself I dont need them to push it to my car.
I always tell them I want them back in my cart and ask if I can bag them myself and am told no. So if this is really true then I will be very pleased to bag my own groceries. I did it for 3 years when we were stationed in Italy, and have no problem doing it here. Most of the time I try to stay under the 40 limit so I can just use self check out, thats even better. 

~*Kandice*~ --- 12 years ago -

Yay!! I can bag my own stuff soooooooooooo much faster than they bag my stuff. I like this new rule if its true! Plus if they are so mad about the tipping issue. Get a job that pays you hourly. 

Rain --- 12 years ago -

I alwyas try and stay under the 40 items as well. I don't like them taking out my bags, not because I don't want to tip, but because I am very anti-social. If I end up with too much stuff and go through the regular line I tell them that I will be pusing out my own cart out but I still tip them. The signs are all over the front of the commy that the baggers work only for tips. Why would any of you feel that they should bag your stuff for free? And unless you are a brand spanking new military wife that has no idea about how tipping works then I understand. To continue to use the baggers and feel like you own them nothing for bagging your food is ludicrous. Especially if you shop there all the time and see the signs all the time. Some of them can be rude yes but wouldn't you be if you walked peoples bags out and loaded them in the car and then get nothing in return?

@Lisa, just out of curiosity, If you are only buying one or two things why not use the self check out? 

Gemini09 --- 12 years ago -

I have worked as a bagger. I know how they feel to bag $200.00 worth of groceries and not get a tip. I tip everytime atleast 10%. If I spend $200.00 they get $20. But I firmly believe in good customer service, u get what you give. I have been lucky and hace only had one bad experience I still tipped it just didn't go to my bagger. I like the rule. If u don't want to tip then bag yourself.

I worked as a bagger too, when I was a teen, but tipping 10% is ridiculous. They didn't sell me those groceries, they didn't walk around the store getting them for me, and they didn't unload them on to the conveyor belt for me. So, I do not go by percentages with them. I go by how much they are pushing, and how long they have to wait for me. I usually tip $2 per cart they are pushing. That is what I liked when I was bagging. If they are really nice, they may get a bit more.

I knew my place when I bagged,and I certainly never expected large tips. I was giddy when I got a $5.

I still made decent money doing it, and the older ladies always made a killing. I still go visit that commissary occasionally, I used to work at in Fort Polk, and there are many who are still there. I worked there 10 years ago.

Sometimes people forget their cash and are unable to use a debit card to get any do to rules at their banks. I have forgotten before. I got a nice guy who had no problem bagging mine even though he didn't get a tip. He ended up bagging my groceries my last trip again, so I tipped him double.

It pays not to be a bitter bagger, and to pay it forward. You won't have someone stiff you 10 times in a row during the day, you still make money, tax free at that, you choose the job, so live with the risk. 

notsue --- 12 years ago -

I'm gonna say this again... If you choose to be a bagger at the commissary you are choosing to work without pay. Unless you want to consider the warm fuzzy feeling you get from helping our veterans as payment. If someone decides to give you a tip, be very appreciative... but never expect it. You are volunteering to help out, if you were not volunteering you would be paid a fair wage by the place who employs you. 

Lisa --- 12 years ago -

That occurred before they remodeled, when they only had the one side of the self check out, and the line was long, so I went through the express line. I try to only use the self checkout, unless like I said it's my main trip, and then I have absolutely no problem giving a tip, because as I see it the baggers do deserve it if I have them walk my groceries out to my truck. But then I base it on their attitude, as well as the number of things I have. I have left a tip when I have a handful of things and go through the express line, it's just that I think it is crazy to expect a tip for pushing a gallon of milk off to the side so I can pick it up and carry it out. 

Gemini09 --- 12 years ago -

When I used to bag the express line was the place you wanted to be. The baggers there made bank. I would assume that has not changed. 

Garbage Vulture --- 12 years ago -

I saw the 40 items or less self check out today, I was pretty happy with that. I tip the baggers if I use em, but I hate their attitude 

~*Kandice*~ --- 12 years ago -

I'm gonna say this again... If you choose to be a bagger at the commissary you are choosing to work without pay. Unless you want to consider the warm fuzzy feeling you get from helping our veterans as payment. If someone decides to give you a tip, be very appreciative... but never expect it. You are volunteering to help out, if you were not volunteering you would be paid a fair wage by the place who employs you. 



I agree. 

Are we done yet --- 12 years ago -

The baggers at riley are way better then the baggers here in Germany!!! THe ones here lets start off with the plastic bags here SUCK!!! they are not as heavy duty as the ones in at riley. So with that being said they over stuff the bags and sometimes dont even double bag them i live on the 3rd floor I have to go up 5 sets of steps to get to my place. SO if a bag were to rip on the way up when i'm carring like 10 bags i'm going to be screwed. Not to mention what they put in what bags. I have never had a problem with riley not putting freezer with freezer stuff ect. But than again i would always go to the commissary there right when they opened so i would normally have the older baggers not the high school kids. I'd much rather shop at the commissary in riley and deal with those baggers than the ones here in Germany. ANd even tho they really suck here in Germany i still tip them. 

Are we done yet --- 12 years ago -

The baggers at riley are way better then the baggers here in Germany!!! THe ones here lets start off with the plastic bags here SUCK!!! they are not as heavy duty as the ones in at riley. So with that being said they over stuff the bags and sometimes dont even double bag them i live on the 3rd floor I have to go up 5 sets of steps to get to my place. SO if a bag were to rip on the way up when i'm carring like 10 bags i'm going to be screwed. Not to mention what they put in what bags. I have never had a problem with riley not putting freezer with freezer stuff ect. But than again i would always go to the commissary there right when they opened so i would normally have the older baggers not the high school kids. I'd much rather shop at the commissary in riley and deal with those baggers than the ones here in Germany. ANd even tho they really suck here in Germany i still tip them. 

cindyln --- 12 years ago -

I'm gonna say this again... If you choose to be a bagger at the commissary you are choosing to work without pay. Unless you want to consider the warm fuzzy feeling you get from helping our veterans as payment. If someone decides to give you a tip, be very appreciative... but never expect it. You are volunteering to help out, if you were not volunteering you would be paid a fair wage by the place who employs you.


Not true. Baggers go in knowing they will make money. They are employeed by you and the majority of customers tip them for this work. Also for the warm fuzzies for caring for their veterns. Do you realize these baggers are family members of those veterns? Some of them are wives of retired or even deceased veterns. That tip may be what keeps food on their table. That smile you give them may be it for the day. 

LovinLife824 --- 12 years ago -

Do you realize these baggers are family members of those veterns?

This is true. I know a few of them have retired husbands. I have never tipped 20, but I do tip 10 around Thanksgiving and Christmas. I usually get the same baggers all the time, so I have gotten to know a few. I'm pretty social with them. They are always willing to talk. I would hardly call it volunteering. Most of you wouldn't last a day doing it. 

donewithitall --- 12 years ago -

I will just bag my own stuff. I have been for a few months now. I got tired of forgeting to have cash to tip and feeling like crap for it AND getting rolling eyes and grumps from the baggers. They pissed me off too much. I have a thread on this subject and ya can see the story there. It's of taking my husband in public (where he almost never goes)and some snot nose baggers (two of them) being rude because he forgot to get cash. I agree with Notsue on this one. It's not a one time issue either.
I would last working as a bagger because I don't have a shooty attitude towards customers. I am grown up enough to know that if I treat someone with connsistant kindness (even if they do not tip, forget to tip) then karma is on my side. AND that IS the job I CHOSE. If they are putting food on the table, as someone mentioned, Taco Bell is hiring, so is Verizon, Target, GTM, ECT....Go get a steady job where you get a steady paycheck to provide food for your table. JMO 

Jacque28 --- 12 years ago -

Ugh I don't want to create a tissy, but I was a waitress for 7 years. I worked in the same restaurant all of those years between high school and adulthood. It was a hole in the wall diner and we had regulars and new people coming in daily. I started as a dishwasher and worked my way up to waitressing the whole place myself. Like, I was the only waitress in the entire place most days, sometimes I had to be the dishwasher as well. I was paid $2 hourly and had to perform decently to receive a good tip. If I gave poor customer service, I expected a low tip or no tip. I am from the northeast though, and it seems depending on where everyone is from depends on feelings towards the subject. People from the south seem to be more hospitable. All I am saying is I worked customer service for a long time (not just the restaurant), and I would never expect someone to reward me if I didn't deserve it. OH! and I never confronted someone who didn't tip, or made a noise, or made a face... There was a man who ate breakfast lunch and dinner at that place and never tipped. No one ever asked why. He always came back with a smile because no one ever made him feel like a bad person for not tipping. It is what it is. Just as you don't know what the baggers situation is, they don't know what our situations are. Stepping off of my soap box. 

Tee C --- 12 years ago -

I had to get just a gallon of milk one time, and when the bagger found out I didnt want a bag, he followed me to my truck, and kept saying how that was his only income, I was a terrible person, and that if I could afford gas for my truck I could afford to pay him. I don't think so.

That's outrageous, but unfortunately, not surprising. I can name people off the top of my head who would have made a scene.

As far as the comment about baggers being employed by the customers--baggers are employed by the Commissary, and the Commissary has a 'tip-only' pay policy for baggers. That isn't new news. The Commissary should grow a pair, take more responsibility for the baggers (sometimes) downright rude behavior and stop putting the burden of responsibility on the customers to reiterate what the tips-only policy is. If you already know you only work for tips, don't you ask me for squat. Yes, I always tip; no, I'm not entertaining anyone's foolishness if I just happen to have thought I had cash in my purse and didn't so I can't tip that time. I've gone back and given 10 bucks to a teenage bagger who I accidentally stiffed because I thought I had 3 ones in my purse to give him but when I go to my car I didn't. But he was so nice, polite and understanding that I made sure to go back the next day, find him, and overtip him for his patience. Had he given me an argument or grabbed my arm, not only would he have not gotten a tip but I would have done my darndest to make sure he never got the opportunity to do it to anyone else.

For the people saying that's their only source of income--that may be true, but if it is they ought to act like it. If they're reliant upon the funds they make as a bagger, the last thing they should do is jeopardize that money by grabbing people's arms, following them to their vehicles demanding cash, and (basically) cutting a dang fool. Remember the old days when bad behavior was reprimanded, no matter the circumstances? 'BUT THEY STIFFED ME AND I REALLY NEED THE MONEY!' is not a good enough excuse to harass people! 

Tee C --- 12 years ago -

Ugh I don't want to create a tissy, but I was a waitress for 7 years. I worked in the same restaurant all of those years between high school and adulthood. It was a hole in the wall diner and we had regulars and new people coming in daily. I started as a dishwasher and worked my way up to waitressing the whole place myself. Like, I was the only waitress in the entire place most days, sometimes I had to be the dishwasher as well. I was paid $2 hourly and had to perform decently to receive a good tip. If I gave poor customer service, I expected a low tip or no tip. I am from the northeast though, and it seems depending on where everyone is from depends on feelings towards the subject. People from the south seem to be more hospitable. All I am saying is I worked customer service for a long time (not just the restaurant), and I would never expect someone to reward me if I didn't deserve it. OH! and I never confronted someone who didn't tip, or made a noise, or made a face... There was a man who ate breakfast lunch and dinner at that place and never tipped. No one ever asked why. He always came back with a smile because no one ever made him feel like a bad person for not tipping. It is what it is. Just as you don't know what the baggers situation is, they don't know what our situations are. Stepping off of my soap box.

I agree with every word!

My daughter and I went to Olive Garden for lunch, and as we were being seated a large party was walking out at the same time. The waitress (who I eventually deducted was the one who'd served them), snatched the tip off their table they'd left, counted it, and screamed (yes, screamed), "$12 dollars?!?! They ran me all over and left $12 dollars?!??!" As soon as she said that, we got up. The hostess asked if we wanted different seats and I told her I didn't want to eat in a restaurant with waitstaff like that because she may take her anger out on everyone else by doing something nutty to their food. She apologized for the waitress but I still left. I'm not saying she didn't deserve to be mad--I was a waitress too and I got some real butts who asked for the world and left silver change on the table as a tip. But right there in front of everyone like that? No, I don't agree. 

notsue --- 12 years ago -

I'm sorry, but if you are having trouble putting food on the table, get a real job.
There is no certain pay as a bagger, so you are an idiot if you choose a bagger as your career and actually need steady income. I wouldnt be surprised if you can get volunteer credit with a bagger job, so again, I dont feel bad for these people.
If you want a job that pays, then find one that pays. When baggers want to start claiming their "income" on their taxes, I'll start taking them more seriously.
Its a position that isnt even needed as been proven by the increase of self-check outs. Anytime I can avoid their services I will... when I do use them, I will tip but the day I hear someone complain about how much I give I will be filing a formal complaint. 

blackhorse --- 12 years ago -

If i have a cart full of groceries, i find the baggers helpful:) when i have to run in for a few small items and do not need their help, i find them (in general) to be pretty darn rude! the most i have tipped is $5..its like 10 minutes of not so hardwork...if they do that twice an hour thats $10 hour they are making ($8.50 = if they pay taxes), which is quite a bit more than than i was making CASHIERING and carrying out at a small grocery store. and im pretty sure they do at least a few more runs than that an hour..If they want a better paying job, then they should find one:) If you like giving 10% then thats on you, cool beans, but i will not be guilted or called cheap because i choose not to give that much. and i am with notsure..if i hear a complaint, i will also be filing a formal complaint. 

blackhorse --- 12 years ago -

oh and i too have waitressed extensively- if the waitress is good she gets 15% of the bill always from me. to me though, waitressing is FAR more demanding than carrying bags out to a car! 

notsue --- 12 years ago -

Want to know the difference about being a waitress and being a volunteer bagger? (At least in the states I've lived and worked in)... A waitress files taxes as a tipped employee, a waitress pays taxes on an assumed amount of tips even if that waitress didnt collect that much. In one state you paid taxes on 10% of your sales... so what happens if everyone who tipped you always tipped you only 5%? Yeah. Now someone want to explain to me what happens when a bagger does their taxes? Oh yeah, dont bother, I know. Nobody forced anyone to be a bagger, there are a million other jobs available, if you need money, get a real job. 

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