Question for grocery store cashiers!

[critterranch]

lol

 

[gilavina]

I work in a small town at a grocery store and when i am covering a shift at the front registers we unload the carts and baskets. The reason for this....is that we have no conveyor belts...the cart pushes right up to the counter by the register and we scan the items. The fronts of the carts open as well so there is no lifting things out of the cart. We also have courtesy where we have baggers and still help those with lots of groceries out to the car. I love it. I know it may not work everywhere and might scream of times gone by, but it works. We know most of our customers by name and in general I really enjoy helping the people that come in.

 

[DuckLady]

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The cashier's time score is destroyed by price checks and item exchanges. WIC and food stamps really are a PIA. There is a way to freeze time temporarily although the cashiers are not usually taught how to do it.

wonder what happens when it is not busy at the stores, how down time is accounted for in the count.

When the checker signs in to the register the time starts. When it is slow or there is no customer in line, the checker signs off and the time stops.

 

[KristyHall]

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

x3

They are doing a job, and an often thankless one. They have a lot of pressure put on them while dealing with temperamental customers who go out of their way to make things harder for them. They're under paid workers who are trying to make ends meet and being human sometimes they get worn out.

 

[KristyHall]

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I think everyone should work in the service industry for at least 6, months in their life.

 

[KristyHall]

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i do the same things. I put the carts and baskets back, I stack things neatly, and clean up after myself at restaurants. I know they are paid to serve the customers but I'm not one to treat them like slaves just because they have to put up with badly behaved customers.

 

[newchickgal]

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i do the same things. I put the carts and baskets back, I stack things neatly, and clean up after myself at restaurants. I know they are paid to serve the customers but I'm not one to treat them like slaves just because they have to put up with badly behaved customers.

 

[heatherindeskies]

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I think everyone should work in the service industry for at least 6, months in their life.

Off topic, but I think every nurse should be a nursing assistant for several months as a requirement for their degree. I HATE hearing a nurse say "I did NOT go to school to empty bed pans and answer call lights. That is the aides job." Sorry, yes you DID go to school to learn all aspects of patient care and when time allows should get in the trenches for the nasty parts of the job right with the aides.

 

[TriciaHowe]

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I think everyone should work in the service industry for at least 6, months in their life.

Off topic, but I think every nurse should be a nursing assistant for several months as a requirement for their degree. I HATE hearing a nurse say "I did NOT go to school to empty bed pans and answer call lights. That is the aides job." Sorry, yes you DID go to school to learn all aspects of patient care and when time allows should get in the trenches for the nasty parts of the job right with the aides.

I am a nurse and did my share of wiping butts, giving sponge baths and other basic tasks. That was about all I did in clinicals for the 1st 3 months. The only reason I wouldn't necessarily do it now is because I wouldn't have time. With pt. load and charting it takes up a lot of time. But I do not consider it beneath me and if a nurse says she didn't go to school for that then IMO she's not a very good nurse....

I also worked at walmart 20 yrs ago and they had the rings per minute. If you had to look up something for a customer or what not that would take time you would hit the total key and that would pause your time. I don't know if it's still like that or not....

 

[bald k9]

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Too Funny