You're in the checkout line at the supermarket.

[reprise85]

my sister got me started on this and i kinda took the ball and ran. it's really not hard when it's just you, once you get your system down, i spend like 2 hours a week figuring out if im buying and getting my strategy down. but if you're shopping for like 3+ people it would be so time consuming.

[reprise85]

it's also awesome to know that if i decided i needed a break i could probably go at least a year before i'd have to buy any toiletries, at least 3 months paper products, minimal food purchases for maybe 2 months (fruits/veg only)

if i really felt like hoarding i could go much longer, but i don't do that. i have no room. i just give the shit away if it's completely free and i don't need it, or i pass it up... like i can get super cheap/free or close to free salad dressing most of the time, but seriously i have like 10 bottles what am i going to do start drinking it

[slunken]

Originally Posted by T&T

just put your card down on the conveyor belt at the beginning so the cashier can see it and scan it while you keep unloading your cart.

it's 2013 i have a smartphone not a wallet or keyring full of ten million loyalty cards.

[slunken]

not to mention that in america there are explicit rules about placing items such as money or credit cards on the conveyor belt idk what sort of lawlessness canada condones

[slunken]

in canada they probably have 5 lines for 3 registers

[reprise85]

ok enough coupon talk this must be terrible to read

[slunken]

yea this is not the first time you've brought up how much toilet paper you have stockpiled

[reprise85]

Originally Posted by slunken

not to mention that in america there are explicit rules about placing items such as money or credit cards on the conveyor belt idk what sort of lawlessness canada condones

explicit rules, really?

basically don't put shit on the belt that could get caught in it. because it will get lost and/or broken.

[reprise85]

Originally Posted by slunken

yea this is not the first time you've brought up how much toilet paper you have stockpiled

3 packs isn't really that excessive is it

at this point i wouldn't get anymore unless it was 100% free and a brand i really like.

[slunken]

also it's just me and you here. we're just talking.

[slunken]

Originally Posted by reprise85

explicit rules, really?

basically don't put shit on the belt that could get caught in it. because it will get lost and/or broken.

idk what it looks like from your side of the belt but i remember a time (probably when credit cards were becoming more and more common) when there were signs posted at every station explaining not to lay money or credit cards on the belt.

my local wal-mart still has these signs posted.

[T&T]

if your loyalty card is on your smart phone then I have no solutions for you. All my advice comes from my dad in the 90s.

[reprise85]

Originally Posted by slunken

it's 2013 i have a smartphone not a wallet or keyring full of ten million loyalty cards.

i have the keyring app but i never use it. the only stores i ever really use loyalty cards at are cvs and winn dixie once in a blue moon. petco, i guess.

[T&T]

Originally Posted by reprise85

explicit rules, really?

basically don't put shit on the belt that could get caught in it. because it will get lost and/or broken.

obviously. put it on a big item, or against the separator (do those have a name?)

[slunken]

Originally Posted by T&T

All my advice comes from my dad in the 90s.

I know it's painful for a son to realize that his father is not Superman, but there is no need to be carrying a wallet larger than a 1/2 thick, let along 4 or 5.

[reprise85]

Originally Posted by slunken

idk what it looks like from your side of the belt but i remember a time (probably when credit cards were becoming more and more common) when there were signs posted at every station explaining not to lay money or credit cards on the belt.

my local wal-mart still has these signs posted.

i dont remember that, but i dont doubt it ha

stuff does get caught, gift cards, money, etc and 99% of the time it gets caught in a tray that is meant to catch these things and large debris so they don't just build up in the machine itself. but once a while something goes in and we cannot get it out.

[reprise85]

Originally Posted by T&T

obviously. put it on a big item, or against the separator (do those have a name?)

i call them separators. but im sure there's a term they use when ordering them.

some people dont use them though and expect me to have telepathy and know when their order starts/ends

[T&T]

i don't do loyalty cards myself. issues against data mining.

[slunken]

Originally Posted by reprise85

some people dont use them though and expect me to have telepathy and know when their order starts/ends

sort of how like the patrons who have been waiting in line were expected to have telepathy while they watch you and your newly opened register check out 5 or 6 brand new customers who just ambled up to your no-responsibility freak-out zone?

[T&T]

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[reprise85]

Originally Posted by slunken

sort of how like the patrons who have been waiting in line were expected to have telepathy while they watch you and your newly opened register check out 5 or 6 brand new customers who just ambled up to your no-responsibility freak-out zone?

i dont get how this is the same thing

they see that i've opened. i have no way to move to them, so they must move to me. i will usually pick someone to come to the line who is in an advanced place in their line, but who still has the backfield accessible to them. besides that, yes i have little responsibility for others behaving fairly towards each other, since i can only do one thing at a time and cannot account for every customer and where they are on their respective lines.

[duovamp]

Originally Posted by Bread Regal

This is what the queue looks like:

1. Person who's currently being served
2. Someone else
3. You

Person at the front has an extraordinary amount of shit they are buying, with coupons, paying with a check, the whole deal and everyone's clearly getting a little perturbed by the wait. The adjacent line opens up and the new cashier is all like "hey i can help the next person over here!"

Do you

a) run over to the adjacent line to be the first person in that line

or b) let the person who's in front of you go into that line first, because they were, after all, there before you were

old people love choosing a)

Do nothing. It is the only option that has 100% win/win and 0 risk of being a douchebag. Plus it's the lazy option.

[Shallowed]

http://img.pandawhale.com/post-7507-lines-xMUl.gif

[duovamp]

Man that bear's a fucking loser.

[Order 66]

that bear was my dad

[duovamp]

That bear got in to hard drugs.

[Order 66]

it died because it was stupid

[yo soy el mejor]

Originally Posted by reprise85

i get all my vitamins at CVS for close to free, lots of paper products. put it this way, i pay maybe $30-40 a year for all of my paper products and toiletries and vitamins at CVS and other random goodies. if i wore makeup i'd make out even better.

even saying it's $30 sounds like too much. the other day i got 2 16packs of charmin, 3 months of fish oil, 6 mo multivitamins, some toothbrushes and some gum and other random shit for like $1

the best thing about CVS is you can use extra care bucks to buy other things that give you ECB and you can just roll them and not pay anything except tax

How? I want to be a coupon queen!

[yo soy el mejor]

i like the CVS rewards program a lot better, too, but Walgreens is across the block from me so I mostly go there.

But I like my neighborhood Walgreens because everyone there is really friendly and it's convenient. Plus, they often have sales on cereal and milk is 1.99/gallon.

[yo soy el mejor]

and i thought i was bad-ass for the buy 1 - get 2 free Purex and Arm and Hammer detergent deal.