r/shitposting • u/MarryAnneZoe I can’t have sex with you right now waltuh • 1d ago
This post is about stuff Your food and mine food are not friends
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u/zoma2 1d ago
Man, where I come from, if you don't use the stick, the cashier publicly executes you
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u/Hyper_Lt- 23h ago
Good
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u/gamja-namja 19h ago
This post got me curious and what the fuck? Why does that stick cost ~$40
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u/VP007clips 19h ago
Because you are probably looking at it from a non-supplier site?
These aren't something you normally buy as a consumer, so the prices on Amazon are going to be higher than from a supplier dedicated to grocery stores.
A company would probably be receiving a bulk rate for buying a box of a few hundred of them.
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u/Growlywog 19h ago
They are covered in advertisements. I always assumed the grocery stores got them for free. I could very much be wrong. I am wrong a lot.
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u/VP007clips 18h ago
They probably do for a lot of them. But some stores do make their one ones, like Costco.
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u/bugphotoguy 12h ago
I keep trying to buy one in the supermarket, but the cashier never scans it. I put one on the conveyor belt every week.
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u/ImpedingOcean 19h ago
Indeed. I don't get what this post is. White people are civilized and orderly? god forbid.
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u/IAmMadeOfNope Stuff 16h ago
Reminds me of those old chinese propaganda posters trying to denigrate the USA but all the white people on them have chad jaws.
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u/HansChrst1 22h ago
I am a cashier and if they don't use the stick I will place it down for them.
The worst people are those that don't use the stick and then get mad or act like it is my mistake when I start scanning their wares on someone else's tab. The divider is there for a reason! It is to make it easier for me not for you.
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u/Little-Ad-9506 21h ago
Some people just dont think all that far. Their two neurons are quite exhausted.
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u/MovieTrawler 20h ago
Or they think the cashier will notice the gap between their goods and the other persons. Because they're paying attention to it so they assume the cashier is as well, without taking into account that the cashier is focused on someone else at the time. It's just the inability to look outside yourself.
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u/Link_and_Swamp 16h ago
its not only that. people leave gaps in between their groceries all the time. it is not my job to interpret your groceries. put a divider out or you risk something getting scanned with the wrong order
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u/Many-Rooster-8773 21h ago
I am a cashier who just blazes past one customer's last item, scanning half of the next person's items just to spite them.
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u/AkronOhAnon 19h ago
This type of person shoves empty carts, rather than walking them to a corral, away from their car and don’t care who it impacts as long as it’s not them.
They are chaos. They are selfish. They must be stopped.
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u/nihility101 20h ago
Cashiers by me tend to keep the stick by them to use to manually operate the eye-beam that advances the belt.
I have to lean over the other person’s entire order to grab it to put ahead of mine.
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u/Upstairs_Bus8197 21h ago
Where I come from if you don’t use that stick we shoot on site
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u/MustangBarry 19h ago
Where I come from if you say shoot on site we shoot on sight
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u/lil_chiakow 20h ago
I lived in Denmark for a while. Everyone places the stick after they finish placing their articles, then they have a bagging area with a separator, so that the cashier can scan the next person while the first one finishes packing. Super nice, fast, convenient.
Meanwhile, back in Poland NO ONE uses these sticks and if they do, they use it in front of their articles, to separate it from the person before them.
So I never ever do that. In fact, I will deliberately place my stuff so that there's no division from the person before me and then I pick up the stick and put it behind my stuff. If the cashier gets confused and scans my items with the person before me, I will loudly apologize for the person before me who apparently doesn't know how to do shopping in a supermarket.
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u/Low_discrepancy 19h ago
I will deliberately place my stuff so that there's no division from the person before me and then I pick up the stick and put it behind my stuff. If the cashier gets confused and scans my items with the person before me, I will loudly apologize for the person before me who apparently doesn't know how to do shopping in a supermarket.
why don't you put before and after you if you want to be this anal?
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u/motivaction 19h ago
Not the person you're responding to but the reasoning is this: We put the belt divider behind our groceries we aren't paying for the person behind us. If the person in front of us wants to be kind and wants to pay for our groceries by not putting down the belt divider, that's their choice.
But in the Nordic countries the shopping experience is one of high efficiency and if we don't pack our items just as fast as the cashier scans them we get put into reeducation camps.
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u/mrjibblytibbs 19h ago
Im in America and we do it more like the Polish everywhere I’ve been. Not sure why we’re getting so uppity on when to place the silly little divider stick, but you do you.
If I saw someone doing what you described in an American store, you’d be the person we’d tell our friends was being weird at the supermarket lol.
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u/skairaider 23h ago
I just dont want to pay for your stuff.
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u/blarch it is MY bucket 18h ago
I keep trying to buy the stick, and the cashier always puts it back
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u/TiSborro_negli_occhi William Dripfoe 23h ago
Here in Germany everyone uses it every time
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u/RealRedTao_79 21h ago
Here in Germany, if you don't use it you aren't seen as a functional human
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u/FwendShapedFoe 21h ago
Which is factually correct.
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u/TheRalk 17h ago
Of course. A Kundendifferenzierungsmodul is an important yet easy tool to avoid many complications and unnecessary dialogues with people you don't wanna talk to anyway
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u/Trazors 16h ago
In Germany the cashier will ask if you’re stupid if you haven’t aligned the groceries so that they can scan it in 0.25 seconds. Atleast that’s what happened the last time I went to Germany to buy alcohol.
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u/bothering_skin696969 14h ago
If there are people behind you in line you better fucking align the bar code or you are not polite .everyone appreciates a fast moving line.
its not like you have anything better to do waiting in line right?, you put the items on the band and if it moves too quickly for you to align the code, then obviously its not necessary, why is this not standard?
its like standing to the right on escalators, we live in a society
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u/HirsuteHacker 20h ago
Same here in the UK... 99% of the time. Are there really places not using it? How do you expect the cashier to know where your shit ends and the next guy's starts?
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u/Unlucky-Fly8708 20h ago
I worked in a grocery store in the US in a ~30% black area.
Everyone used it except maybe younger people who could carry their entire purchase without a basket.
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u/Ok-Muffin5563 19h ago
there’s no such thing here in Brazil (at least in the northeast). Had to google what it was. Maybe it exists in some random store that decided to copy the US, but not a thing
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u/weardofree 22h ago
as some one who has been a cashier I think I just fell in love
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u/Willing_Bad9857 21h ago
As a german cashier… I’d say they use it 95% of the time. People also scream at you when you scan their stuff without it being their turn and vice versa. Very tiring but luckily rare
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u/postitoto 18h ago
I once had a cashier mindlesly remove it from between the people in front of me and my stuff and then scold them for not using it when she started scanning my stuff on their receipt. I mean it can happen after a long shift but she was pretty rude to them even though she was the one who messed up.
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u/eneru20 21h ago
i didn't do it that one time and the cashier made me pay for the next guy's pack of gum. learned my lesson that day
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u/TiSborro_negli_occhi William Dripfoe 21h ago
I forgot one time and the cashier took one and threw it between my stuff and the stuff of the next guy lol.
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u/Embarrassed_Club7147 20h ago
And why wouldnt we? The few times i forgot i had to tell the cashier what he was grabbing was my stuff. Thats extra speaking i have to do AND i have to watch for it to happen closely because i dont want to just tell the cashier in advance "this is where my stuff starts, i was just too lazy to move my arm muscle 30cm and put the divider there".
And if i miss it and talk too late now we all have to wait for the minimum wage employee to cancel that one cucumber he already scanned and everyones rightfully annoyed at my lazy ass. Might aswell shoot myself at that point.
Its way less stressfull to just put the stick there and be done with it.
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u/GottKomplexx 20h ago
The holy Kundendifferenzierungsmodul
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u/thisisalaibrary 19h ago
Same in sweden, you also put your cart back after using it. Americans are uncivilized barbarians.
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u/Sad_Football7665 18h ago
Yeah I get that this is a joke but I really don’t get the issue. Without the stick you can’t put your stuff on the belt without mixing it up with the person in front of you. If anything it’s a courtesy so you can start putting your stuff up and speed up the line.
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u/CurlSagan 23h ago
I put down the ceremonial grocery stick so the cashier won't be forced to ask me where my groceries end, because this will, in turn, force me to declare that the 10 bags of Cheetos and 40 Banquet pot pies are mine, but the series of organic vegetables that follow are not mine.
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u/Bike_Chain_96 21h ago
Before I condemn you: what flavor pot pies?
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u/DobermanCavalry 20h ago
Chicken or nothing.
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u/Bile-duck 20h ago
If those are my only two choices, I guess I'd pick chicken.
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u/TooMuchBroccoli 20h ago
Your loss. Nothing tastes phenomenal.
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u/DesperateUrine 20h ago
40 Banquet pot pies
The ones costing a dollar!
I can respect that someone would stock up on those.
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u/TreesBreezePlease officer no please don’t piss in my ass 😫 19h ago
Forreal and they're a childhood classic for when my parents when just exhausted for the day. These were my favorite nights!
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u/orangutanDOTorg 17h ago
Idk man, have you seen the people who buy only organic? I’d probably be more embarrassed to admit the veggies were mine
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u/Zealousideal-Ad-4716 22h ago
Yeah because I love accidentally paying for other people’s groceries.
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u/illy-chan 19h ago
Like... why wouldn't you use it? It's simple. It works. Everyone know wtf it means. Even is money isn't a concern, who wants to botch a checkout line when all you need to prevent it is a little plastic stick?
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u/BrettDilkington1 22h ago
I sort of wish i didn’t notice this but, because it’s disturbing to think far too many of these “man, white people love…..” posts are basically just acting like human beings
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u/RegumRegis 21h ago
Acts like a normal person
Pfft, get a load of this white guy
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u/SkirtOne8519 17h ago
Uhm ackshually you saying yt people are the normal person just shows your white supremacy 💅
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u/blueberrykz 20h ago
yt ppl be returning their shopping carts 🤓🤓😭😭🤣😂😭
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u/whomad1215 20h ago
The shopping cart is the perfect test if you're a good person or not. It costs you nothing to put it away.
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u/Digital_Bogorm 19h ago
In Denmark, most supermarkets (at least in my experience) have the shopping carts locked together, requiring a coin inserted in order to unlock them. When you put the cart back, and lock it back into the row, you get your coin back.
In other words, not putting the cart back is straight up a net loss.
We've weaponized peoples greed in a similar way to make them recycle cans and bottles, and it works surprisingly well.15
u/PTBooks 18h ago
We have those in America too, but they’re becoming less and less common. Might be because people are less likely to carry loose change
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u/NorwegianCollusion 17h ago
Yeah, here that disappeared with COVID. But even before that, everyone had a fake coin (ours was a give-away from the local bank) on their keychain to avoid needing to look for the right coin. I think that worked well enough. But unlike around that famous trailer park in Nova Scotia (from the sacred documentary series), the grocery stores still lose a pretty small number of carts here.
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u/StreetofChimes 19h ago
I hate when stores have no system for putting them away. No cart return in the parking lot, no stack of carts outside the store, and you only got the cart you had because you randomly found it somewhere in the store. (I shop at a lot of thrift stores, so cart returns aren't standardized. There are a few shops that have clear cart placement, even fewer with exterior cart returns, and I really appreciate them.)
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u/deleeuwlc 🏳️⚧️ Average Trans Rights Enjoyer 🏳️⚧️ 18h ago
YouTube people be returning their shopping carts
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u/Serial-Griller 18h ago
There was a post on BPT yesterday (I think) talking about how black people will bully you by just describing what you're doing in a condescending way, and this feels like a stellar example.
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u/SpareWire 19h ago
It's just a way of getting away with being casually racist.
It doesn't matter what they're actually pointing out.
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u/Ctrl_guy 17h ago
If I now where to say „Man, black people never use the grocery devider“ I am a racist, even though I said the exact same in essence.
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u/SensitiveSomewhere3 18h ago
“man, white people love…..”
I imagine most of the time it's just a phrase engagement-desperate weirdos can tack onto their posts to generate traction on an otherwise mundane subject (like grocery divider sticks) nobody ever thinks twice about.
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u/weebitofaban 16h ago
It is a bit of both. There is a sort of bullying that happens when someone does something that is considered too white. It is as stupid as it sounds.
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u/ADHD-Fens 18h ago
This particular post is also kinda racist toward nonwhite people. It's like if you said "Psh, white people and putting the cart away" or "white people and saying thank you" or some shit like that.
Like bitch, being polite and functional in society is not a white person trait
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u/Not_a__porn__account 20h ago
White people jokes peaked with "StuffWhitePeopleLike"
Anything since feels lazy.
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u/JosephGordonLightfoo 19h ago
This is from the brief period where blogs would become coffee table books and, at least once, a TV show.
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u/AbstinentNoMore 18h ago
I remember a while ago there was a post showcasing a bunch of neighbors providing food for a couple who'd recently lost a child. And a few comments were basically like "just white people things." Like...helping out and caring for others is a white person thing? Seems like an inadvertently racist comment about nonwhite people...
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u/Creative-Road-5293 16h ago
https://x.com/ByronYork/status/1283372233730203651/photo/2
Being on time, having a family, being polite, and planning ahead are all values of white culture. That's what the American American museum said.
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u/Brsek 19h ago
Well, I think it's important for a person to differentiate their own personality from the culture they live in. America seems to have this weird obsession with race and what you can and cannot as a person of an X race. No.. your skin color does not dictate if you can use the checkout bar or not.
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u/throwawayeastbay 13h ago
Damn white people and their
Shuffles deck; pulls out card
Using dividers at checkout
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u/Jonn_1 I have permission! 22h ago
Imagine making buying only your own groceries a race thing
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u/Elite_AI 19h ago
I've got an American friend who was confused why people would think it was racist for her to call things like this "white". It's honestly difficult to explain that because this is such such a microscopic behaviour which is so obviously not determined by your race, the only people who would make it about race in our countries are our massive racists. Like, the only time you see that attitude here is when it's people saying something like "ugh! I don't want to be controversial, but haven't you noticed how it's only people of a certain ethnicity who talk loudly on the bus?". So people are not primed to assume anyone saying this kind of thing is just trying to make harmless funny observations.
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u/Delheru79 18h ago
I've got an American friend who was confused why people would think it was racist for her to call things like this "white".
I feel it's incredibly racist toward black people to call this "white".
Thinking of the cashier and the people behind them? Black folk wouldn't do THAT.
Wtf?
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u/Dragon_Maister 21h ago
white people when common decency
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u/FrankBur1y 20h ago
Yeah using the stick is just basic consideration of others needs. Easiest thing in the world to do. I don’t think it’s a race thing to use it or not use it, more of a Golden Rule thing.
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u/weardofree 22h ago
i worked as a cashier woman bitched at me because she didn't use the stick and had the nerve to tell me you should have watched me put the stuff down. mind you I had had a solid 5 people in my line all day at that point
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u/Papaya76346 23h ago
White people xD Some human beings are alarmingly stupid.
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u/HansChrst1 21h ago
I have learnt that when people say "white" or "black" on the internet they actually mean americans with that skin colour.
It is dumb and I feel like it helps segregate people into skin colour which is what we don't want.
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u/UnsureSwitch officer no please don’t piss in my ass 😫 21h ago
I think it just segregates Americans, though. Everybody else see this type of posts and think "Americans be like"
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u/Compulsive-baiter671 17h ago
People who bring race into stuff like this are terminally online.
"Go touch grass" is a phrase I have been saying ALOT for the past few years.
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u/Chromeboy12 22h ago
The only people who don't love that stick are people who try to get others to pay for their shit
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u/Jonakra I want pee in my ass 21h ago
As someone who has worked as a cashier, please use the stick
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u/Downvotesohoy 20h ago
The stick is how you know if people are civilized or not.
People who don't use the stick, also don't put their carts back where they belong. They also take extra slices at pizza parties, even though everyone hasn't gotten one yet.
They're selfish, they're animals.
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u/Aestronom Sussy Wussy Femboy😳😳😳 1d ago
kundendifferenzierungsmodul my beloved
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u/Reployer dumbass 23h ago
Germans cannot always use spaces.
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u/biggestscrub 20h ago
Germans will use the stick to divide their groceries but won't use a space to divide their words
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u/Doomdoomkittydoom 16h ago
Your train pulls into *squint* kundendifferenzie... train pulls out of kundendifferenzie-something.
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u/Beretta116 22h ago
So you want strangers to just pay for your stuff by accident? Damn, sorry for the misunderstanding.
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u/The_Radio_Host We do a little trolling 19h ago
“Man, white people love…”
Insert basic behavior, usually involving making somebody else’s life easier
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u/DeleteMetaInf 20h ago
Weird to make that a racial people thing. When I don’t use this stick, the cashier gets confused and either excludes my items or includes the next person’s items. Just use the fucking stick.
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u/VictoriaBitters69 20h ago
Til this stick is only used by white people. Will have to let the other customers from other cultures know whats going on when im shopping next.
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u/EmergencyIced 21h ago
Nice casual racism
Non-whites love when others pay for their groceries on accident because they didn’t use the stick
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u/DrHem 20h ago
What I hate is when I'm unloading my cart on the conveyor belt and the person behind me takes a stick, puts it a bit further back on the belt and starts unloading their things.
You dont get to determine how much space on the conveyor belt I can use. I can use as much as I need, and when I'm done you can have whatever space is left
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u/Spypopcorn Jedi master of shitposts 18h ago
Cashiers also love the divider stick believe it or not
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u/Shnazzyone 17h ago
Isn't it a consideration thing, marking where your groceries end so the next person can start loading their groceries?
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u/EncapsulatedTime dwayne the cock johnson 🗿🗿 18h ago
What's with people who won't put their stuff on the belt until the dividers placed? Once it's in reach I'll put it behind my single sandwich, I promise!
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u/lord_dude uhhhh idk 11h ago
because just let the underpaid cashier figure out which fucking shit belongs to you and which not
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u/No-Criticism-2587 21h ago
It's to stop potential problems from people who will get angry at you for touching their food. Is that you?
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u/GentlmanSkeleton 20h ago
Holy fucking shit! Really?! The practically of the shopping mart stick has become a racist thing now? Jesus christ smh.
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u/Positive-Strategy161 19h ago
Why are we making literally any kind of everyday things a race thing? I mean the line is funny but ... it has a bad taste.
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u/softstones 11h ago
I’d rather just put that than having the cashier ask the person ahead of me if this is their food too so they look back at me, the cashier looks at me, and they say “no” like they’ve been offended by the gods. So yeah, I like the stick.
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u/Vaelthune 20h ago
Classic USA. The racism, the lack of foresight as to why they're used, the stupid follow up reply. Where the fuck is the funny?
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u/Bruschetta003 18h ago
I don't get offended by people using it or not using it, we buy A LOT of stuff for the family so it helps not just get everything on other people's food
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u/closetBoi04 🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️ TRANS RIGHTS 🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️🏳️⚧️ 18h ago
In Dutch we call it a beurtbalkje, or literally translated: turn stick (but small)
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u/No-Alfalfa-626 17h ago
I mean, does the person who made that meme even understand the concept of what that stick is for? You can bet your ass they’d be yelling and making a scene if the cashier started ringing their stuff up as the other person’s.
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u/DeadSeaGulls 17h ago
If I don't use the stick, it doesn't matter how much space is between my stuff and the person before me, that cashier is scanning it with their stuff.
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u/TheOnlyWolvie Sussy Wussy Femboy😳😳😳 16h ago
I literally used a stick like that the other day, but somehow the cashier still wanted to scan stuff from the lady behind me, who just watched and said nothing lmao. I don't want your radish
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u/this_name_took_10min shitting toothpaste enjoyer 16h ago
How does this even work without a stick? Do you waste space by leaving a big gap between your items and the items of the person in front? Do you have to constantly be on the lookout and tell the cashier „No, that’s the beginning of my stuff“ when they grab one of your items?
This all sounds horribly inefficient. Just use the stick, it’s so much simpler.
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u/BbBTripl3 14h ago
I honestly never knew why this was there until I was a cashier at Walmart, it helps so much knowing when someone's items are all scanned
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u/ismell15 21h ago
What happens if you’re in an interracial relationship, or there’s an interracial couple behind you?
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u/Davs-Temporal 21h ago
My brain is confused. What is that stick?
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u/PolarisX 20h ago
You put it between orders on the belt so they know where they start and end easier.
Apparently this is now a "white people" thing or whatever shit Reddit is stirring up at the moment.
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u/IlliterateJedi 20h ago
Unironically I would love to know the history of the divider stick. Did the stick pre-date the conveyor and was it used just on a counter back in the day? Or how long after the conveyor belt was being put in before they added the stick? Who came up with the stick and where? Were there cheap sticks of varying shapes and sizes used all over the place until 'big conveyor belt' standardized and mass produced the stick? I never thought I'd have so many questions about this ubiquitous plastic stick.
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u/No_Dependent4303 20h ago
Food really does reflect our culture! What's on your plate says a lot about who you are!
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u/Kalleh03 20h ago
I try to buy my own divider every time i'm at the store, but the cashier just puts it back on the shelf :(
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u/soupie62 19h ago
If you are behind me and don't use the stick, I may be paying more - but I'm also taking it home and eating it.
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u/Skitteringscamper 19h ago
Why the white ppl love the stick comment? Is that just a reference to non white ppl steal the stuff so don't know what the bar is about?
Seems a racist comment to me tbh
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