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For many years, I have bagged my own groceries at supermarkets (providing there are no baggers...more common), because it gets me out of the supermarket faster. Naturally, over those years I have become more conscious of customers in front of me who don't. Certainly if everyone pitched in, it would be a better world, right? Another 20 minutes of your life to do something else, right? Lines go faster, peace comes to Planet Earth, right?

Most vexing is watching a perfectly healthly person over the age of 15 either on a BlackBerry, starting into space, reading a magazine or otherwise doing nada while a cashier scans loads of groceries and bags as well. It just doesn't make common sense (to me anyway.)

I wonder if it just doesn't occur to non-baggers. Or is it one of those "that's not my job and I'll be damned if I'm going to do someone else's job and to hell with everyone else" thing? Would you bag your own groceries if there was a financial incentive like some chains do if you bring your own bag?

Does anyone else feel this way? If it hadn't occured to you to bag your own, would you do so now because it might make sense? Or will you continue to not bag...its not your job.

Interested in all points of view.