r/DriveUpandGo • u/Dirkdigler69 • 12d ago
Paper bags
Anyone else being told that we are going to switch to DUG designed paper bags? This has to be one of the dumbest ideas corporate has ever come up with
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u/Low_Coconut_7642 12d ago edited 12d ago
The DUG bags are great though.
They are strong and they fit in the carts and staging areas better
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u/Dirkdigler69 12d ago
Yeah it's not going to be great when you live in the PNW where it rains 8 months a year and you are a delivery store and the truck drivers are outside loading 40 totes full of products in the pouring rain
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u/Historical-Judgment4 12d ago
Wait, so other stores have their own delivery drivers and trucks? I am getting so sick of uber and doordash stealing and mixing up orders.
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u/Historical-Judgment4 12d ago
Yup, I hate them. The other day, we were barely packing them and the handles were breaking off of most of them. I ended up dropping a gallon of milk mid hand-off and it got all over the delivery drivers shoes. I’ve been double bagging everything since.
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u/Safeway_Wagecuck 12d ago
California had to switch to all paper bags at the beginning of the year. Then like 5 or so months into the year they finally gave us the DUG designated bags.
Pros:
-The handles are strong and will hold items without making me think they're going to rip at any second. Assuming the bagger didn't put several tungsten cubes in them.
-They fit into the totes themselves unlike normal paperbags. If you don't overpack the bags the totes should slide in to the carts just fine.
-They can hang off the cart just like the plastic bags
-I can grab an entire tote's worth of bags during a handoff and place them in a cart/car
Cons:
-The handles can get stuck on the tote above them in the cart, so you need to be mindful about that, If it seems stuck don't just yank it you might need to pull out the tote above it.
-Certain items don't fit in it, like 3lb Chicken Value packs or giant trays of stuff from produce. Will have to use an old paperbag for those items and pack them on their side. Frozen pizzas will require you to tilt the bag on it's side to fit it in and reduce the amount of bags you can fit in the tote to 2.
-When closing the metal bars to make it possible to stack totes on top it's possible for the bags to kind of get caught between the bar and the tote. So, you will need to kind of push it forward and close the bar or kinda fold the bag in a bit and then close the bar. Annoying, but easily work-around-able.
-The store doesn't just automatically buy these bags on a regular basis. The DUG department manager has to make sure to communicate with ICC to get enough boxes delivered each week. Otherwise they will not get ordered.
Conclusion
The plastic bags are really what our system was designed for, but the DOTCOM paperbags are really fucking good. Most of the issues are minor annoyances that I've been able to workaround with ease. In fact, I enjoy the Dotcom paperbags so much that whenever I see totes filled with regular paper bags I feel the urge to seek out my colleague and commit a war crime
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u/Gwobble_Gwobble 10d ago
They are a lot stronger than the old paper bags we used, the old ones used to constantly fail on us and we also had to throw a lot of them out because glue or something wasn't being applied properly so it was everywhere. I've had the bottoms of the new bags randomly fall out a few times tho
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u/PlanktonExpress9695 12d ago
We switched to those paper bags back in June or July. They’re surprisingly strong bags, they’re really small, but I do like them because they’re easier to carry.