Why can't you bring your own bags and bag it yourself? There's no rule stating you can't. In fact, I bring my own bags all the time!!!! I often bag my own groceries. As far as tipping goes, don't be a tightwad. When I do BIG shopping (every two weeks) I spend roughly $200 and tip $5.00. I always bring my own bags. DECA will never pay thier bagers hourly. They are providing baggers as a COURTESY you don't have to use them. Bag your own groceries and stop complaining. Christ, your getting food for cheaper than off base anyway!
We have bills too and my husband is only an E-4. We have a 4 year old too. We came into the AF with lots of bills and I can still manage to give the bagger a fiver when they bag my groceries. We only take home $800 every two weeks and that's BEFORE all the bills. People don't work for free!!!! If you don't want to tip them, dont ask them to bag you groceries, do it yourself. i bag my own with my own bags all the time!
I wasn't saying that you couldn't vent I was saying that if you don't like the service you receive, don't use it. My husband been to Iraq 4 times in the past 16 months so don't even tell me about the price of freedom!
My father is a retired CMSgt (E-9 with 30 years service) and is currently a GS-15, what's your point?
Oh nevermind, I just saw that you are ARMY.How much do you tip baggers at the commissary?
5%
personally tipping is not required by law, so i just dont do it :P
I used to bag groceries at Ft. Sam Houston and I felt $2.00 a cart was pretty good, but I always said thank you even if it was a bad tip, b/c customers did not have to give anything.
I know how you feel...whenever I go to the commissary I always feel that the bagger is never happy with what I give them....they are very rude.
Baggers at the commissary do not receive an hourly wage. Their sole income is tips. Unfortunately, there are people in the service industry that do not have the proper attitude to receive the GRATUITY they are given. You don't have to tip. My husband didn't know to tip at the commissary until he and I got married. And, commissary baggers are an archaeic throwback to a time gone past. It is probably one of the last vestiges of old military tradition left.
And, to answer your question... I have worked in the tipping industry for too long... so I am sure I tip too much. But, in the 80s, my mom tipped $1 per cart taken out to her car. I went to the commissary today, and tipped $10 on $200 of groceries.
Well I know that in Florida, 90% of the supermarkets pay their employees hourly, therefor they ask that you do not tip their baggers. I know that Publix for example, if the bagger accepts the money, he or she can get in truoble.
I usually give them 10% of my total receipt. The kids who work there only get paid in tips if I recall correctly. Although any tip should be appreciated.
I wished we lived near a commissary, my husband retired last spring. When we were at Ft. Lewis, most the baggers were very very rude. With the exception of the older men, they were great. I hate to stiff a bagger, but if it pains you to smile, then you dont deserve a dime. I always hated to feel guilty to say I'd bag it myself or take it out myself, just because they felt they desrerved a tip. But usually $2. But if they were great, and I had the cash, $5.
I don't. I bag my own. I also don't shop at the commisary unless i have to becuase i dont see why we should have to pay a ';surcharge';. I have also gotten sworn at in korean at another base for bagging my own. Not good customer service in my opinion!
Just remember that the baggers at the commisary don't get paid wages. They only get tips. Look on the wall right before you leave and there should be a sign that says they only work for tips. Having said that, a tip is for service you appreciate. I feel an individual who gives excellent service should be making more money than a grouch who makes me uncomfortable. 2-5 dollars would be appropriate.
I believe in the ';Dick Solomon method of tipping';. Go and watch the episode of ';Third Rock from the Sun'; in which Dick is eating at a fancy restaurant. He tells the waitress at the beginning of the meal that she has the potential to earn a 20 dollar tip. He even has it on the table! He tells her that when he is displeased the pile will be reduced, when he is pleased it will grow. It is one of the funniest episodes ever! That is how it should be. Why should we pay more for the same kind of service we get if we just pay the check outright! I have never understood tipping. And don't give me the argument that servers get paid less so we need to tip them. They don't have to take that job.
I use the express lane and never get more than can be carried in a hand basket, so it's usually a buck or two.
No increase in military pay? You're kidding, right? The military has gotten pay raises that outpace the cost of living for more years than I can count. This year the President requested a 3.0% raise for 2008, and the House Armed Services Committee, under democratic leadership, is pushing for a 3.5 percent raise..(and folks say that the democrats don't support the military...bah!)
In addition, there was another amendment to the spending bill that would require all military raises from 2009-2012 to be .5% more than the average private sector raises as determined by the labor department.
Anyway, that's neither here nor there.
If I am getting carry out service (i.e. I buy enough that they bring it out to my car for me), I tip $5.00 or more. If I am just going through the express line, I tipe $2.00 or more. I have NEVER, EVER, had a rude bagger at my commissary. They are typically hard-working teenagers who are trying to earn what they can...once in awhile I get an adult, and they are usually pretty good, too.
If they got rid of the baggers and just made us bag our own, it would take twice as long to get out of there as it does now...the lines are already usually pretty long, and the baggers contribute to the efficiency of the checkers. I don't mind paying for it.
Unless you are overseas, you can always find the same items the commissary has at your local grocery store. You are not expected or asked to tip the baggers there.
All this drama about paying the commissary baggers tips??? Whatever, you may have been better with a $3 tip for that dollar figure, but $2 is more than fair. All the other crap you are getting worked up over is really crazy considering you just wanted to know about tipping.
The baggers normally are not paid, the tip is all they make. At our commissary I tend to tip heavier especially to the older gentlemen. Would you like to be 70 years old and working for tips? As for the two of you sniping at each other, give it a break. There is nothing worse than whining military wives. Our lives can be hard but we chose them. So, give it a rest and remember that our husband's are paid in more than money.
Don't tip them. They are paid wages. It['s not your fault that their wages are poor and by tipping you're subsidising bad employment practices.
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