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grunching--$270 grocery delivery. Not a lot of vegetables. I think it is pretty easy. I was gonna go $20, but I am getting the impression by googling that might be cheap. Opinions?

Pic of $270 grocery list?

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06-03-2018 , 02:43 PM

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Alpha Fish

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For groceries I tip based on the whole weight/volume of delivery and not bill amount.

I would definitely tip more on deliveries that include something like 2 cases of seltzer water in glass bottles. If the whole delivery is $250 bucket of caviar I'd tip 2 bucks if that.

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06-03-2018 , 03:35 PM

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Land O Lakes

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Originally Posted by Alpha Fish

A dude driving to your house and knocking on your door = $5 min, imo.

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06-03-2018 , 03:53 PM

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cs3

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Wife cooked dinner (delicious carnitas tortas!), brought me a couple beers while I watched the baseball game, and cleaned up the kitchen afterwards, but I had to unload the dishwasher.

How much should she tip me?

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06-03-2018 , 04:00 PM

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txdome

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Originally Posted by cs3

Just the tip.

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06-03-2018 , 04:25 PM

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Hired Goons2

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Originally Posted by 27offsuit

goof,

10 all day.

Hired,

10 all day,

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Pic of $270 grocery list?

Very uninteresting--no booze, very little meat, no veggies. Canned soup, frozen atkins meals, frozen pizza, yoguart, 8 big jugs of water, deli meat and cheese, bread, pita, humus and ben and jerrys.

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Originally Posted by Land O Lakes

A dude driving to your house and knocking on your door = $5 min, imo.

ok, it was a lady, definitely took a few minutes to unload. So, I'm feeling good about the $10-$20 range. As a former busboy and waiter I try to go high in the range, so I went with the $20. Didnt get a great read on her reaction, she was busy, but I think she wasn't unhappy. Thanks for the responses.

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06-03-2018 , 04:32 PM

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chillrob

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$270 for no booze and very little meat? Is that two months of groceries? I don't think I could fill a whole cart and spend that much.

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06-03-2018 , 07:12 PM

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27offsuit

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so I went with the $20. Didnt get a great read on her reaction, she was busy, but I think she wasn't unhappy. Thanks for the responses.

And if you give a $20 tip for that you should get a clear reaction from them that they are happy with it.

That is a them problem and next time with same person I cut that in half.

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06-03-2018 , 08:26 PM

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de captain

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Originally Posted by Land O Lakes

A dude driving to your house and knocking on your door = $5 min, imo.

This.

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A dude driving to your house and knocking on your door to deliver anything less than a refrigerator = $10 max, imo.

Refrigerator + = $20 per person that showed up to help deliver .

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06-03-2018 , 08:29 PM

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06-03-2018 , 10:10 PM

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cs3

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Ya good point.
I guess a half n half is fair.

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06-04-2018 , 07:36 AM

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Neil S

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20 for a grocery delivery is generous. 270 is what? 5-6 bags?

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10-21-2018 , 07:16 PM

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so, I like to tip and probably tip in a lot of situations that normies wouldn't tip in.

this morning I was at the grocery, and the lady in the check-out lane next to me tipped the bag boy. She wasn't having him bring her bags to the car, she just tipped him for bagging her stuff (heh).

Should I be tipping these guys? FWIW I am a super regular at my grocery store, I go a few times a week (I find it extremely relaxing) and never use the self-checkout.

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10-21-2018 , 07:55 PM

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In Mexico, a culture not known for tipping, we tip them a small amount, like a quarter. However, our bag boys (more often girls) are usually middle schoolers, or occasionally retirees, who get no salary, just tips.

But in the US, I've never seen it done. I've even seen stores where they're required to ask you if you need help toting your crap to the car, but are forbidden to accept tips.

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10-21-2018 , 09:59 PM

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hahaha there might be "rules" against accepting tips but they know what's up, they accept tips

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10-21-2018 , 11:57 PM

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Hey man, just moved to mexico. Already knew about the bag boy tipping from previous trips down here, but I had never driven down here so I never noticed there was another person at the grocer looking for tips: the parking attendants.

There's always several guys in orange vests patrolling the lot, I'm assuming to deter theft, but they also take your shopping cart back to the store for you and they will stop traffic and help you back your car out if you need it. I figured I should tip them as well, but wasn't sure. Ended up giving the parking attendant 10 pesos and the bag boy 20 (50 cents/$1). Standard?

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10-22-2018 , 12:19 AM

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You could cut that in half, and still be fine. 5 pesos (~US $0.25) seems like a pittance to Americans, but you have to remember how low salaries are in Mexico. The supermarket cashier is probably making 20-25 pesos / hour and the national minimum wage went up last year to 88 pesos / day.

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10-22-2018 , 02:06 AM

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tgiggity

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I honestly feel like an ******* giving someone 25 cents, but I see what you're saying. 88 pesos/day... that's criminal. I knew it was something like that but wow, that's less than $5/day.

anyway, thanks for the intel

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10-22-2018 , 02:23 AM

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All-inMcLovin

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You could always continue your previous tipping contributions.

Nothing wrong with spreading the wealth and paying it forward good sir.

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10-22-2018 , 02:51 AM

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Originally Posted by All-inMcLovin

You could always continue your previous tipping contributions.

Nothing wrong with spreading the wealth and paying it forward good sir.

Oh yeah, I doubt I'll change my tipping habits. I was more curious if I was being too stingy. It feels good to spread the wealth even in the smallest of ways.

It's weird because everywhere I've lived in the US there would always be several homeless people camped outside the local grocery stores and restaurants. Some beg, most don't - they're just hoping someone might buy them a meal. I have yet to see anything similar in Mexico, despite the poverty being worse here. I'm guessing authorities come down hard on encampments/begging?

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10-22-2018 , 06:38 AM

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Guy Incognito

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Originally Posted by pvn

As a former bag boy, I believe there was precisely one customer who tipped me just for bagging, and not carrying out. So while you can do it, it's hardly expected.

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01-12-2019 , 01:57 PM

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This airline is asking passengers to tip their flight attendants

For many, tipping workers such as waitstaff, hairdressers or taxi drivers is expected. But one airline is asking passengers to tip their individual flight attendants, too.

When passengers on budget carrier Frontier Airlines buy in-flight food or drinks, they’ll now find a space on their payment tablet to leave a tip for the flight attendant that served them.

Thoughts on tipping airline attendants?

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01-12-2019 , 02:22 PM

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txdome

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HA!

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Hobica recalls one incident in first class on one major carrier where a passenger rudely demanded a flight attendant's attention. "When [the passenger] wanted a refill of his cocktail he bellowed to a passing flight attendant, 'More ice!,'" Hobica says. "The flight attendant said, 'Sir, what's the magic word?' And he replied: 'Don't teach me manners just give me more ice.'"

Stewardesses like to pretend that they are more than just waitresses. So no, I'm not going to start tipping them, I think they may find it demeaning.