<p>Garland, just shy of a year here in NJ and still feeling our way. It’s true that my Wegman’s often has the checker do the bagging, as well. But when it’s busy, they pull in backup help.</p>
<p>I often find at stores like Shoprite that the checker is officially expected to bag but sort of procrastinates and looks at me as if I’m a lazy bum if I don’t hop in and do it for her/him. </p>
<p>It’s not that I’m so outraged at bagging my groceries. I hate the absurd claims that these businesses are just trying to save me money by making me bag my own. Baloney!</p>
<p>When we lived in San Francisco, I shopped at a wonderful Italian family-owned grocery near us. The proprietor would get to know you and after a while he or one of his sons would push the cart of your groceries to your car, load them into the trunk. Not for guys! Just for the women customers. So politically incorrect, but I miss it.</p>