Target Grocery Bag Tolerance Testing for Guests
11Sep2008 Filed under: Misc Author: Dr. DisneyCongratulations to Target staff for their willingness to conduct extensive grocery bag stress testing. Their dedication to making sure grocery bags are tested and strained to their limits insures guests of a quality experience. My wife came home tonight with groceries which I took out of the car and brought in — only then did I realize how far Target’s crackerjack team would go to test the paper tolerances of their grocery bags.
One bag contained:
Taco chips, spaghetti sauce, applesauce, taco shells, ranch dressing, nutrition bars, baked beans, two 24 oz peaches, mushrooms, three tuna salad kits, salsa, 2 mac/cheese, oatmeal, vanilla and vegetable oil.
It weighed in at 20.6 pounds. Way to go Target team!
But they don’t stop there! They also test the capacity limits of their bags – not content to just restrict your purchases to the rectangular shape of the bag, they pack it until it becomes round. Amazing!
Congratulations Target for letting your team experiment with my groceries for the good of all Target shoppers everywhere. (And just think of how you are helping the elderly guests with their core muscle training with those 20 pound bags to lift!) Thank you, thank you, thank you!
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Louise
September 12th, 2008 at 1:07 am
Just be thankful that you have the option of paper bags.
There is nothing quite like a Coles plastic supermarket bag tested to the limit…it breaks on the way from the car to the house….with a quarter of the contents in yours.
micsaund
September 12th, 2008 at 1:08 am
Target’s bags are 2X the sturdiness of other trashier major competitors (who sound/rhyme with Trash-Mart), so I’m glad they load each bag heavily or I’ll end-up with way too many bags to re-use. Target plastic bags don’t split entirely in half at the smallest piercing either.
I, for one, like that they may load the bags heavily. People need to stop wasting hundreds of thin, wimpy bags per year in every household across the nation. I paid my dues loading groceries when I was 16 years old and you can get a pretty whopping amount of stuff into a bag without risk of it bursting, especially with the type of plastic Target uses. Cut them some slack and conserve a bit in the process…
Dr. Disney
September 12th, 2008 at 6:20 am
I’m all for conservation — that is why I would at least rather use the paper bags than the plastic bags they always want to use — however, the amount of damaged goods I receive when bags are packed poorly does away with the argument that the fewer numbers of bags used the better. Damaged breads, squashed bananas (I was once told by a Target employee that people WANT their bananas on the bottom of the bag!) and other damaged items are much, much more wasteful than a couple of extra bags.
Kristi
September 12th, 2008 at 7:04 am
…you guys can buy groceries in Target? Well, anyway…I only get the plastic bags here at our Shoprite if I need to have some to dispose of the kitty litter. Otherwise, I use the reusable ones. Since I stop by the store every day, I usually don’t have too much, so that works out.
Now for the question: when are they going to start stress-testing the reusable ones? I’ve had at least two break on me. It’s not encouraging!
Dominic
September 12th, 2008 at 10:11 am
The Target paper bags are sturdier and bigger than most other retailers’ paper bags. I believe the problem with Target cashiers’ packing of the bags is that they either a) are not properly trained on how to pack or b) they get the training and ignore it or don’t understand it. I try to unload my cart so that the cold foods are together, usually the first things they bag, the produce is together, etc. I also put any non-grocery items at the end, so they can be bagged in plastic or paper. I also try to go the cashiers I know can pack bags well. On occasion, I’ll get the mega-stuffed, rounded bag, but I’ll redistribute things as necessary (right at the register) to avoid trouble when I unload. I have also told them that things can be split into more than one bag if I think I’ll end up with a weight-training session unloading the car.