Grocery Segregation

The stick is a universal if you have a cart of groceries, we all need the stick in those times to guide us. The thing that gets me is when I put a hand basket on the belt and the person in front of me gives me the stink eye and slaps the stick between their loose groceries and my contained and obviously separate basket of groceries like I was trying to trick them to pay for my stuff. It’s not just white or old people, though, being a douche is a human quality, not a racial or generational thing.

I thought basket of groceries on the belt was a social faux pas?
Because then the check out people can't plan their bagging of heavy / light?
- It’s a hand basket, there are at most two bags worth of stuff in it. If you’ve got a bunch of heavy shit that needs separated then you’re doing it wrong.
I always empty my basket onto the conveyor. Seems rude of me to assume the cashier should reach over and into a basket just to ring up my goods. Do you also make them unload your buggy when you use those?
- What was the response you were hoping to get from this?

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.

Do people not use it?
- I've noticed that Middle Eastern refugees don't use them as often. Maybe it wasn't a thing in where they're coming from? Dunno.

This is no stick. This is a KUNDENDIFFERENZIERUNGSMODUL

No it's obviously a WARENTRENNER

That stick is a fine line between order and chaos.

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

"You ever notice how _____ people do [insert common, innocuous, rational behavior]..."

Yeah, this is trolling.

Race baiting has really fallen off as a profession, I see.

I wouldn't have any problem with not having this stick, but cashiers can't seem to tell that a six-inch distance between my order and the next order is a good place to stop. Then we're all sitting around for an extra couple of minutes while they try to get someone to come and authorize voiding the items.

Black people twitter is such a cesspit.

So desegregate it and pay for the groceries of the ones loading behind you

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

You're right, from now on I'll wait until they scan the next person's item and then go "ew, god no. you really think I'd buy that garbage?"

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.

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

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.

Foil is so easy with a butter knife. You can just scrape it clean. Much easier than digging it out with a spatula

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.
Ah yes, that's why in the rest of the world that didn't do racially segregated bathrooms there are only unisex bathrooms.
- Most of the world has unisex bathrooms
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.
- 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.
- You aren't a victim when someone you don't like uses the bathroom
- 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.

Always struck me as a city thing, not a white people thing.

Maybe things have changed, but in the small town where I grew up, people generally wouldn't bother.

there would usually be a gap delineating one persons items from the other's anyways
the person who was professionally scanning our groceries 100% had the expertise to see the gap and comprehend its meaning
If (I never ever saw it happen, ever) they had grabbed something, someone would have noticed, said "whoops, that's not mine". Nobody would think someone was trying a scam.

I feel like this is an amazing measure of someone's general level of anxiety. Or maybe a measure of how little credit they give the person scanning groceries? Both?

It's a measure of how often some asshole that doesn't leave a gap between their groceries and the previous appear on the store.
Seems to me that it's about how present the cashier is. I've made sure to leave a huge gap and they still paid so little attention they were confused about whose stuff was whose.

Another problem solved by self-checkout.

The real issue is you're using it sideways

Whole comment section up in arms. Relax it's just a joke😭

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?

it’s sneaky racism, the implication being, ‘black people are rude and inconsiderate’
which is, of course, a common racist stereotype.
blackpeopletwitter on reddit is about 100% dedicated to furthering that…
….
nazis have been strategizing ways to spread their hate online since before computers had pictures on them.
- I thought the point is white people are silly and do unnecessary stuff
  Well either way racism is bad chat
- Why specifically black people? Doesn't it just mean every other people doesn't use it
4chan style racial garbage? in my fediverse? it's more likely than I think 😔
It just seems such a self-own to say how the divider is a white people thing. You're putting yourself down there lol
“Segregation” is referring for “racial segregation”, probably specific to the historical policy in the US.
Hope this helps~
Right? I'm not paying for your shit!
- That's racist!
- Racist.

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...
- 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.
- As someone who was once a cashier, not everyone places their items logically.
- Sounds space inefficient.
- Wasting space
- Since its a continuous belt loop, a significant amount of space behind the next customer could mean placing your items right at the front of the belt.

"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.
- 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.
- the grandma in front of me passive aggressively slaps down the stick
  that's just in your head. embrace the divider.
- 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.

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.
- I think they're shutting down Pocket
you need to weigh them with the secret produce code 1337 to put a price on them and make them purchasable

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.

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.
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.

Someone will try to make everything about race.

Reddit's WhitePeopleTwitter and BlackPeopleTwitter were pretty interesting in what sort of stuff was considered white and what black

I don't want some filthy poor persons grocceries touching my filthy poor person grocceries

Did their chocolate get into your peanut butter?

I just realized I haven't used a conveyor belt checkout since before the pandemic. It's either grocery delivery or self-checkout.

Mr Richie Rich here, getting food delivered.
- Delivery price is cheaper than the fuel, prices are same as the store.
  It's actually cheaper here, and it is also cheaper and easier for both the store and me.

Shouldn't have cropped the top person's username so we could see who supports being slightly disruptive, lol.