this post was submitted on 03 Sep 2025
363 points (86.2% liked)
Funny
11452 readers
703 users here now
General rules:
- Be kind.
- All posts must make an attempt to be funny.
- Obey the general sh.itjust.works instance rules.
- No politics or political figures. There are plenty of other politics communities to choose from.
- Don't post anything grotesque or potentially illegal. Examples include pornography, gore, animal cruelty, inappropriate jokes involving kids, etc.
Exceptions may be made at the discretion of the mods.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
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.