I've been a cashier for over two years now so I think it's fair to say I have ample experience in the department. As a cashier, my job is to ring up customers, and sometimes customers are slightly more than we bargain for. If you have an experience in the "industry," I'm positive you'll relate!
1. My register is not an extension of your shopping cart!
Please finish shopping before coming to pay, as we have lines and other customers to satisfy.
2. Please keep your money somewhere to prevent it from getting wet.
It's disgusting when we have to take your damp bills and put them in our drawer, or worse -- hand it to the next customer. Also, preferably uncrumpled.
3. We know you didn't just make that bill fresh before leaving your house, and if you did then please hand over the number to the department of treasury.
4. If your item isn't scanning, it isn't free!
The joke is ancient, please let it go. When we smile at you for making it, it's probably because we've run out of witty remarks for the day.
5. HOW do you go to a supermarket without your wallet, by the way...
What were you thinking was going to happen once you got there?
6. Don't talk on your phone at the register... then you get frustrated at us for trying to do our job.
7. If you don't know how to use your debit/credit/EBT card, please save us the trouble.
8. Don't put your bills on the register while we're bagging YOUR groceries for you. Just wait a moment please and we'll take it out of your hand.
TRUE STORY - an impatient old man once put a $50 bill on my register as I was bagging his groceries and he simply said, "Wait, no" as he watched my register eat it.
9. Also, if you have an obscene amount of change/coins, that's OK.
Just be polite and count it into our hands so we don't come up short at the end of the night or have to hold up the line picking up your change from the belt.
10. Why is your kid touching EVERYTHING and you're not saying ANYTHING?
12. This is not a game of Giant Jenga okay?
If you could stack the baskets nicely instead of throwing them, you'd be doing us yet another huge but simple favor.
13. Don't bag AND KNOT different produce together.
They're different prices and go in the system differently!
14. It would be really polite of you to put back the items you don't want rather than leave them on my register, and also if you could remember all of your bags on the way out.
15. When we say, "Hi, how are you?" don't disregard our friendliness.
16. Why do you insist on leaving your shopping carts in the most horrible places, i.e, the other side of the parking lot?
Please, no.
17. Also, we'd like to deal with customers in an *appropriate* state of mind.
18. It doesn't matter to us how much your produce costs, we don't weigh it and calculate it we just use the PLU code.
19. It isn't our job to count out your change!
20. When you put your basket on our register, it is not our job to empty it, so please don't wait for us to do so.
This article is dedicated to all of my awesome coworkers. Thank you for being my inspiration and getting me through the work week!
