Since I usually self check at Walmart and other places that have it, I place the big items in the cart with the bar code accessible for hand scanning without removal, frozen/refridgerated items generally together, everything else in cart doesn't really matter to me. The upper cart space (where toddlers/baby could go) is where I place my eggs, bread, and fresh veggies. Then I scan in this order: Frozen items, regular cart items, eggs/bread, weighed veggies, (bagging and putting back in the cart as i scan them) lastly use the hand scanner for the big items. Sometimes I scan the big items first if i know i need to place bags on top. Once I see that everything has been bagged and back in the cart, then I'm confident that I didn't miss anything, pay, and then GTFO. I'm an efficient self checkout machine, haha

Well at the Prisma I go to we just scan products into bags in the store (you have your bags open the shopping cart)

I am way lax. No pre-organization really at all - but most of the time I also bag them myself with my own bags. I wlll somewhat organize them during that process.

Heavy stuff in the backbag (Eastpak Student style),
Others stuff in the two handbags,

i'm Urbanized.
When i lived in a rural zone, wasnt the same at all.

I tend to do my primary shopping at a place where you bag your own. The order is generally produce and bulk items first (it tends to be the bulk of the purchase), then frozen things, boxed/canned things, and finally squishy things like bread, eggs, and uh, delicious Hostess fruit pies.

I don't organize them with a mind as to how they'll be bagged, but I usually put vegetables down first as they take the longest individually to process and put fragile things like eggs last.

What I do wonder is if the cashier is judging me as to the quality of my purchases. Like if it's all fresh vegetables and grains do I get an A? If I add in a frozen pizza does the score drop to a B-? If it's just trash like chips and processed junk do I get a D?

Items in perfect order of robustness on the conveyor, but more than one bag...

If you have a big enough purchase, it gets pretty impossible to rearrange on the fly.

Not really

Depends. Aldis, not much. Walmart I absolutely do. Self check, a little, but only use it when only have a few things.

I tend to shop at grocery stores where the cashiers are paid relatively decently and have their shit together (Aldi, Lidl, Costco), so I often don't have time to do more than shovel everything out of the cart top-down as quickly as possible before they're already scanning it.

Yes, I live a short walk from the grocery store so I normally just put everything in a large backpack to carry it home. I organize what I'm buying in the order I want them so the heavy large items are on the bottom and the fragile items on top.

Nope

Not really, no.

Fuckin... No!

I also tell the cashier that they can stuff it any which way so they don't stress.

I usually only have a backpack, so I have to make sure everything fits in that one backpack. So yea I order my stuff

Reverse alphabetical, duh.

Can’t have my aardvarks at the bottom of the bag.

I don't as the cashier are usually kind enough to consider that when they pack them anyway. At least I never had issues with that before.

my mother was always weird about putting all the same items together on the conveyor belt, as if not doing it were some incredibly rude faux pas.

there's no way it possibly makes any difference to anybody. I do try to make sure that the crushable items go last however