How to Tip a Grocery Packer

Grocery shopping is a weekly, biweekly and monthly chore that comes with picking out produce, meat, vegetables, can and box goods, putting them on the conveyer belt and having the packed for delivery or to carry home. What has typically moved from the cashier packing is having someone behind the cashier packing groceries. For many years it had been a small child. Today, many grocery packers are men and women who are using tips as a means of making extra money, in some cases just making anything at all as much as seven days a week. Grocery packers do not get a salary. In a day when some from of debit card pays for everything including food bills, the persons packing your food in bags and or carts to be removed from supermarkets are finding their tips dwindling dramatically. How can you help be sure a grocery packer gets the help financially that they are in need of? The advice in these tips can help you determine ways to tip a grocery packer.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• to geniunely want to help with increasing a grocery worker's salary

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   Take small change with you when going grocery shopping. Fifty cents even may not sound like much, but it shows appreciation to the grocery packer. It is hard work and many people if they leave a tip will give their pennies or the change from the bill that is sometimes as little as sixteen cents.

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   Intentionally use cash to purchase food or an item from the supermarket you frequent at least once a month, this way you will not have an excuse not to give a tip. Look for the grocer packers that normally pack your food and give them each a tip. Determine whether you want to give them a dollar or more each at least once a month.

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   During the holidays is a good time to give a generous tip to your main grocery packers. A tip of even five dollars during the holiday in many cases will help for care fare for a day. Not all grocer packers live in the neighborhood they are working.

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   These are a few tips you may want to consider doing to help out grocery packing employees. It doesn't of course have to be just money. Think of something unique to do that can benefit them maybe more than once or give them a special treat by finding out maybe when their birthday is or by just doing something special for them during holiday seasons.

Tips & Warnings

• Take a good look at the grocer packers in your supermarkets next time you go and you will probably notice that their a very few young people doing this job any more. Keep in mind that these people are trying to accumulate money in some cases just to eat.

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[veryirie]

on 3/9/2009 Good tips on tipping the grocery bagger. A few bucks and a simple Thank You can go a long way; thanks!

[MIHealthCoach]

on 2/14/2009 Great advice on tipping a grocery bagger. I will be sure to tip next time.

[CBPope]

on 12/6/2008 Ditto. I didn't know you could tip baggers. Some stores won't allow you to. Check with the store beforehand. Good idea, though. I used to be a bagger for all of a week:)

[ashiflett]

on 12/6/2008 Great stuff here! It is very important to remember to tip these individuals for their work! Thanks for posting!

[deshmukh]

on 12/6/2008 Excellent! 5 stars