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?
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.
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.