What? As an Asian American I and my family love that damn stick.
Don’t be lumping my flavorful ingredients with some white guys bland crap at the Chinese grocery store.
But seriously everyone should use that thing because it makes the cashier’s job easier, faster, and smoother for everyone.
Not totally relevant, but: that little tub of Philadelphia cream cheese is like $8 nowadays. What in the ever-loving fuck? And yet you can still buy a brick of that shit for $1.60. Trying to get cream cheese out of that folded-over piece of foil is certainly annoying, but it’s worth paying 5X as much to get it out of a convenient tub instead? Make it make sense.
Throw it in a crowd of white people and watch us fight over it like a pack of yorkshire terriers fighting over a milk bone.
If you purposefully don’t use the divider, you shouldn’t be allowed to shop there. Also, what the hell does this have to do with race?
Right? I’m not paying for your shit!
That’s racist!
Racist.
4chan style racial garbage? in my fediverse? it’s more likely than I think 😔
“Segregation” is referring for “racial segregation”, probably specific to the historical policy in the US.
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Yeah fuck that noise! You’re supposed to wait until they accidentally scan the next persons items and then make them get a manager to make the correction like God intended!
Or you can just avoid that and use the divider so the cashier knows when they’re done with your items…
In theory leaving a significant amount of space should give the cashier enough information, but then again, we don’t live in a world where everything is as it should be…
Sounds space inefficient.
The belts usually move forward automatically, eliminating any space left intentionally between two groups of things on it once the first group has been removed from the belt.
Yeah but cashiers have eyes and can see that there is space behind the last item they are currently grabbing, I would think.
I use dividers when I can, but sometimes not enough of them are available.
Maybe, but they’re paying attention to the task of scanning items, running the register, and the customer at the front of the line. I don’t really think it’s reasonable to expect them to keep an eye on that moving target as well. I’ve seen the very thing happen: Loading my stuff on to the belt, trying to leave a space because there is no divider available, the cashier is busy concentrating on the other things they are doing and the customer in front of them (not me and my stuff), they grab the last item of the other person’s stuff, scan it and bag it, turn back to check for more stuff (by this time and while the cashier’s back is turned the void I’d left is gone because the belt doesn’t stop advancing until a divider or product blocks the sensor). They may not ever see a gap (only the next item to be scanned).
There’s no perfect solution here, but I don’t see any reason to heap any more responsibility or blame on to an overworked, underpaid, daily abused retail worker just trying to stay sane in one of the most soul crushing and mind-numbingly repetitive jobs I’ve ever known.
I agree. It should be that stores just provide enough dividers that the problem doesn’t arise.
As someone who was once a cashier, not everyone places their items logically.
Stupid cashiers… I always put those separators on the belt, but they always stop me from buying one.
They’re complimentary. Pocket it and walk out.
you need to weigh them with the secret produce code 1337 to put a price on them and make them purchasable
“Huhuh you use a thing that makes social interactions in an often stressful and tiring situation a bit easier. You weirdo.”
(…?)
I mean if the line is busy and theres people waiting behind you, the stick is awesome. But then ive also had times where the clerk is checking out the last few items of the person in line when i walk up, theres no one behind me, a big empty space on the conveyor belt, and when i start placing my items at rhe end of the belt clearly separated by the big empty space, the grandma in front of me passive aggressively slaps down the stick. Like wtf im not trying to sneak my shit in with your order, its pretty obvious whose is whose.
the grandma in front of me passive aggressively slaps down the stick
that’s just in your head. embrace the divider.
Uh, I do this but it’s not to protect my thing or some shit, it’s to provide more space to the other person, I’m trying to be nice.
Yep, in my experience leaving a bunch of space on the belt can sometimes cause confusion if the cashier gets distracted!
So it’s just kind of polite to use it so everyone isn’t relying on implicit cues.
Yeah like the other commenter, I do this so you can use the whole belt and don’t have to awkwardly shove things onto the end.
And bathrooms
The only reason we have sex based bathrooms is because the women’s bathrooms used to say colored on them and we never got the building codes changed.
Thats not true. The history of segerated bathrooms are worse than that… during the Victorian era, public bathrooms were men only. Women were not expected to travel from their home, or carry piss pots with them. Women had to fight for their right to have access to facilities. Also employers used the excuse of lack of women facilities to not hire women. The reason segerated bathrooms exist in building codes are because of decades of women fighting for their rights…
Dont pin it on racism on good old fashion sexism.
Couldn’t possibly help with preventing sexual harassment either.
Edit: people seem to be interpreting my comment as transphobic, it’s not so calm your tits please.
You know what would help a lot more?
Having actual walls and doors for the toilets and not pathetic incomplete partitions with gaps large enough you can accidentally see who’s shitting.
Yes you’re probably right on that account.
You aren’t a victim when someone you don’t like uses the bathroom
Grass is green.
The only sexual harassment that I hear about in restrooms are either trans people being harassed or cisgender people being accused of being trans. Both of these problems go away when you have desegregated restrooms.
Unfortunately I’m not so confident those problems would disappear, conservatives have a tendency to only follow the laws they like.
Yeah man, because it’s definitely the trans kid doing the pee-pee dance and not the officer snapping coochie picks for “safety” we should be worrying about.
When did I say anything about transgender people?
I think they were talking about coed bathrooms, not about letting trans people pick the bathroom that matches their gender.
I personally agree that coed bathrooms would likely result in more sexual harassment/assaults.
That’s the same argument from a different false equivalency. Co-ed bathrooms exist all around the world. The fact that uncle Jim can’t stop fantasizing about watching someone pee shouldn’t stop other men from using the public restroom.
It’s called the Internet Jim. Look it up.
I don’t get it. I don’t want to stand in line longer waiting while the cashier unscans my items from the person ahead’s order or unscans the next persons items from my order. They also often fuck it up anyway but still
My brother used to say that if you had enough of those dividers you could solve every property dispute because nobody violates that line.
Ive had cashiers blatantly ignore it and scan items for the wrong person many times now…
…I still use the stick, but also make sure theres plenty of space.
In Arkansas you’re now allowed to shoot at the feet of cashiers who sass you, so they keep tabs on it
Is that a white thing? I do love it, but I don’t know if it has anything to do with my race. It makes it easier for the cashier to tell when one person’s groceries end without having to pay attention to who is putting what on the belt.
I put one down behind my items just yesterday, and the Black woman behind me thanked me for doing so. So there’s a data point.
3 data points so far, we’ve practically completed a study!
I haven’t lived in a predominantly-white area in over 20 years and I have never been in a situation where someone should have used a divider and didn’t…so I have hundreds of data points to back yours up
No, it’s not. Just people making stupid shit for online acceptance.
In my country the cashiers will place the divider beforehand if you forget to do it and while the current customer is paying… So yes, the divider is for the cashier not for the customers.
“You ever notice how _____ people do [insert common, innocuous, rational behavior]…”
Yeah, this is trolling.
Someone will try to make everything about race.
Only white people use them? I moved from the PNW down south and I can say they get used much less down here. Haven’t paid attention to race though
Race baiting has really fallen off as a profession, I see.
