Does the grocery store where you shop provide

[mykpart]

people to carry your groceries to your car? Do you tip these people? How much?

[CornField]

1. Our stores do not offer this anymore

What we have is a drive-up option. The store will hold onto your groceries while you take the receipt and move your car to a special drive-up area. Then employees will help you load the groceries. The area is well lit and has security cameras. One of the local managers told me that although there had never been a kidnapping problem, the insurance company felt this would be a safer (and no doubt more cost effective) alternative.

I tried to tip the loaders once. The money was handed back to me and the guy said they were not allowed to accept tips.

[Robeson]

2. Our stores do, but I don't use them so I don't know what the going rate...

...is. I'd probably give them a couple of bucks. Of course, I live in the South, so if I was living in New York or California, they might expect more.

[auntAgonist]

3. yes they do ....

and they refuse tips politely.

I guess it's against store policy. The personal service is one of the reasons I keep shopping there. There's a super walmart across the street from this smaller grocery store. They won't lose my business!!

[hecate77]

4. They are generally not allowed to accept tips.

I use them all the time. They told us they could not accept any tips for helping to the car. And this is in a real friendly small town in California, where you would expect the tipping would be generous. Heck, we tip 20-25% in restaurants here. Gotta love the Bay Area! No republicans here, or at least they are hiding in shame in these mountains!

[OffWithTheirHeads]

5. The pukes are here, they just love the smell of

bullshit so much that they all live in Fresno.

[RebelOne]

6. Nope, no stores that I shop offer that service.

I thought that was a thing of the past.

[xmas74]

7. We still have bagboys.

We have them at two local shops. One is a Country Mart chain that is locally owned. The other is a local store. And they refuse tips. Not only do they carry to the car but they load everything in and remind me what is in each bag ("The eggs are in the front w/ you. On this side of the trunk is all the frozen food"). Some are high school students and in my town we have a special edition of the newspaper that has pics of all the graduates. If nothing else, I get a card for their graduation w/ some money in it and a thank you and I'll pass it on to one of the clerks. Otherwise, no money is allowed.

[Bridget Burke]

8. They usually ask if "I need help" after the sale is made.

Generally, I don't. I'm capable of wheeling the shopping cart into the parking lot myself. But--if I was shopping late at night--it might be different.

One local chain--Fiesta--let's customers wheel the carts all the way home. This is for ladies left carless because hubby has taken the car (or truck) to the jobsite. Periodically, Fiesta sends out a pickup truck to retrieve the carts.

[newportdadde]

9. 12 years ago they still did in my hometown area.

I have no idea if they still do, they don't were I live now. We did accept tips. Minimum wage was I believe 4.25. I quit after just a sort time do to scheduling issues. When I was hired I was asked if I needed time off for church I said nope I will gladly work Sunday mornings I just want off Saturday evening by 6pm to have our families weekly 'pizza night'. First new schedule posted had me 6pm to 12am on Saturday and that was that.

What I noticed about tipping I thought I would share. I always made some small talk going out to the cars and it was really interesting. This was some of my first experiences with RW type folks.

The best tips I got were from folks who didn't have much, it was usually a dollar. But it was from people I saw who I knew worked fast food for a living which struck a cord with me. The elderly were also usually better at tipping and if not were almost always very friendly. Soccer mom types were 50/50. But the tightest had to be the freeper types. White guys often around 40ish, usually alone.

I still remember one particular man even after all these years. As we walked out we started up a conversation. He had sacked groceries himself for 4 years to pay his way through school. I even got the whole struggle of it, you know full-time student and 40 hours sacking groceries, etc. I told him I was saving up for some schooling and an NHS trip(both true).

All along I though a tip was inbound probably a buck which was great. Nope nada. Instead as he got into his truck I got the 'Just keep working hard as I did and you will be as successful as me some day" line..

[TheMightyFavog]

10. Yes, In Coleman, WI.

Pelkin's Piggly Wiggly.

I worked there when working for a different owner in 2001. They never told us anything about being required to refuse tips. I always took them when they were offered to me.

[Midlodemocrat]

11. Yes, but tipping is not allowed. (nt)

[kick-ass-bob]

12. Yes and no.

They don't accept tips - it says it in the store, and the workers refuse to accept any tips.

Kinda weird if you ask me...