Question for grocery store cashiers!

[newchickgal]

Why not make the cashier's job (life) just a tad bit easier and empty out the hand basket. What does it hurt anyway? I'm not the one standing for an 8 hour shift having to empty baskets and scan products. I guess since I worked in the service industry for 24 years I tend to make their life easier for a moment. No skin off my nose, as the saying goes. Same goes for waitpersons.

 

[WhiteMountainsRanch]

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X2! Never even occured to me to have the cashier do it...

X3!

 

[TigerLilly]

Depending on the mood I was in & how the cashier approached it, I would handle it accordingly. Generally speaking, I would probably do it. But sometimes...I just wanna be a rebel!

 

[Matthew3590]

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What is a waitperson?

 

[BrattishTaz]

I was a supervisor for a very large retail chain. I oversaw all of the "front end" employees, including cashiers. I would often jump onto a register to compensate for staffing shortages or just to remind myself what cashiers go through. Those basket drove me nuts. Unloading a few in a short period of time usually ended in a backache and scrapes on my arms. They also slowed my checkout time enough to show on the daily report.

The cashiers' checkout times play a huge role when it comes to evaluating their performance. They receive much a smaller annual raise in pay if they appear slow regardless of the reason. This information is also reviewed when the corporate office decides it is time to cut employees. There really is nothing they can do though. The cashiers can face disciplinary action if they ask a customer to unload the baskets and a complaint is filed.

As a customer, I always make sure everything is unloaded on the belt in an organized way to make it easier for the cashier. The job is not as easy as it looks. I do file a complaint if the cashier is rude though.

 

[redhen]

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[redhen]

I just have NEVER seen ANYONE put one of those baskets on the belt.... never. Even in ghetto Springfield(city) where many are rude and act like animals, and think that cashiers and McDonald workers and such are "below" them... cause they dont sell dope and drive BMW's

... anyways never have seen it before up here.
They have a spot to put them at the beginning of the register belt, before you check out. People just put their items on the belt and stack the baskets there...
Maybe its just different in my area??...

Different areas probably do things differently though...
Maybe the areas mentioned here dont have the stacks of baskets at the beginning of the register belt?.... so the cashier kinda HAS to take them?? Otherwise where else do the customers even put the baskets? If thats the case, yeah, of course, you put the basket on the register belt. I get that...
I dunno...

 

[Frosty]

I empty baskets and carts, and I have an order for things going on the belt. Large items first, then cold items all put together, cans, etc... I don't put my basket at the end of the isle, I drop it back where I found it when I came in since I am going that way anyhow. I just don't like folks to clean up after me. When we go to 'family' type restuarants (like the truck stop), I usually scrape any food we aren't taking home onto one plate along with paper napkins, etc... and stack the plates and silverware.

Probably horribly redneck, huh?

And Walmart can put all of my stuff in individual bags if they want to... I have so many uses for those bags (like when I scoop the cat box) that I actually run out of them sometimes.

 

[redhen]

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I do the same thing at restaurants... (having worked in restaurants before, i know it helps)

 

[heatherindeskies]

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Yeah, in our area, the stacks of baskets are down by the cashier's end of things. If there had been a stack at the front of the belt the rules would have been more obvious. Interesting answers though! I just do as the other folks seem to be doing.