Reserve your Best Bagger Spot(s) Now!

When: 3:00PM; October 3, 2023

Where: Tiburon Golf Course

10302 S 168th St. Omaha, NE 68136

The Nebraska Grocery Industry Association (NGIA) is pleased to announce we’re bringing back our statewide Best Bagger competition.

We are asking store owners and managers to reserve your Best Bagger spot by August 25, 2023! 

Please click here to tell us how many spots you’d like at the Best Bagger Competition. We do not need the names of competitors until September 22nd, only the number of competitors. Only one contestant per location, please!

The winner of the NGIA competition will be eligible to compete in the National Grocers Association Best Bagger competition at the NGA Show in March 2024 in Las Vegas.

To be eligible, a bagger: 

1. Must have primary duties as front-end staff and spend at least 40% or more of their time bagging groceries.

2. Must not have a managerial title, role, or set of responsibilities.

3. Must be employed in Nebraska and of legal working age.

4. Must not be a former National Best Bagger Champion!

PLEASE NOTE: Due to the location of the National Best Bagger Championship (Las Vegas), baggers 20 years-old or younger must be accompanied by a chaperone who is at least 21 years of age.

Contestants are judged on speed, bag-building technique, weight distribution between bags, style, attitude, and appearance.

Reserve your Best Bagger spots by clicking here.

Additional Background

The NGA Best Bagger competition is a yearlong contest in which the top grocery baggers in the country compete to be crowned the National Best Bagger Champion at NGA’s annual convention, The NGA Show.