Fruits and Veggies: The little plastic bags located in the produce department are there to protect your produce from getting dirty or acquiring germs. And also it makes the register a mess for the next person....don't be selfish thing care about the next person!Any unwrapped produce should be put in the bag. Just think about how many things go the conveyer belt that your going to place that food on before you check out. Everything from dog food to detergents to meat blood! Do you like eating this stuff? I know I don't! If you have quantities of a vegetable wrap them in the same bag so the cashier can ring them all up at once w/o searching for any others.
Would you like Paper or Plastic? I bet you have heard this question many times, I know I said it way too many times! If you have a lot of heavy things I suggest you use paper, but for light things use plastic and save some trees! the best way to go is when the cashier asks say "Use both for the heavy things but for the rest you can use plastic." Oh also I heard enough stories about how those plastic ones ripped in your driveway and all your food went all over or how they don't make the bags like they use to and how the food goes all over your car with plastic bags so do not bother telling me just telling me your story just say you want paper....Thank you!:)
Conveyer Belt: Just remember one simple
thing...THE CONVEYOR BELT MOVES!... do not place anything other than groceries on the conveyer
belt...not your hands, not your purse, not your glasses, and
definitely not your MONEY!!!! When some one does lose something
on the conveyer belt they always feel its the cashiers
fault...Its not!!! Why should we be blamed for your stupidness??
Technology has changed now in most
supermarkets the belt is operate by sensors. It stop when items
are on the front of the belt but small object sneak past the
sensors therefor the cashier does not control its movement!
�����Another thing is you should always separate your order from the other persons order. At least five times during my shift do I ring someone else's stuff on to the person's order I am checking out. I'm to busy scanning the items it is impossible for me to remember when a customers order ends and another begins. If you don't see a devider ask the cashier for one and if he doesn't have one make sure there is a big enough space between the orders to distinguish a separation. Don't blame me if this happens to you its your own stupidity.
Rejects: Rejects are items that a person picked up but no longer wanted by the time they got to check out. Most customers put these items back any in the wrong place and this looks awful and creates more work for the store employees. If you have a reject it would be nice if you put it in the right place but I know your not going too. But I think you can handle at least waiting to hand it to the cashier then he will put in the proper place. The cashier would rather you hand it to him then to have to take it from the wrong shelf!
Giving Change: One thing you fellow shoppers
should know is it does not make it easier for you to give
the cashier change instead of breaking a dollar if it is going to take you
10 minutes to get the change!!! Save the change then turn it in to a bank or use those new counting machines at the supermarket to get an extra "bonus" at the end of the month or year.
------Also do not come to the register and try to pay a whole $10.00 bill with change. It takes too much time for the cashier to count, generating long lines that everybody hates.
What did you call me? I never thought I had so many names until I started working at a supermarket. I have been called so many different things it is unbelievable. I had people call me: honey, babes, kid, dude, son, sunny, etc. My real name is on my name tag!!! You do not have to call me these ridiculous things I'm not your son, your baby your kid or anything else I have a name and if you want to call me by something use my real name!!! How would you like if I said to you "would you like paper or plastic dude?" or "How are you doing babes?" I do not think you will like it and I know I don't so just use my name or nothing at all!!!
Loading your groceries on to the belt: You can make your order go a lot faster if you load your items on the belt in the proper way. Here is a good way to load your items:
