Okay I think I’m confused, or I missed the signs.
While shopping at a local food mart with the lovely plastic bins and scoops (and bags and tags). I was having a grand time, exploring a new large location. From bin to bin I proceeded, some trail mix here, some spices there, little bags of different foods. I was carefully recording the two to four digit code on the handy little white tags with a pencil as I filled my basket.
Upon reaching the cashier (a friendly smilin’ girl) I was happy at my finds including some oil packed sun dried tomatoes and a colorful vegetable pasta to make a pasta salad for supper.
As she rang through my purchases, the cashier smiled and remarked on the 2nd bag – “You didn’t need to write the codes on everything. We recognize most products and we look for them” (as she looks at the list -which is on a wheel for convenience- for the name of the mix in the bag she held).
But why did she bother looking it up on the list, when the four digit code was on the tag on the bag she held. She was looking right at it telling me she didn’t need it.
When I worked as a cashier in a grocery chain in downtown Calgary, I had to first complete a four day unpaid training school in a SE warehouse where I had to be dressed for work and learn to do cash and pack bags. I was tested on over 200 codes for produce and things such as loose bread products. Also learned counting back change by hand without the cash register. Wasn’t a big problem for me to learn the codes.
Okay I digress but yeah does anyone else understand the reasoning behind what happened with her not reading the codes off the tags and searching for them on the wheel/list, or was she trying to teach me a lesson, or wtf lol. Doesn’t really matter I guess. I wasn’t mad or anything – nice enough girl but yeah I’m confused. Guess I will know better next time…
—sorry I bothered……
This article appears in May 14-20, 2009.
Mark your bulk item tags anyway because this bitch could have gone either way.
I’ll bet the cashier works for minimum wage so, in answer to your question, OP, you get what you pay for, rather, what her employer pays for.
You win the award for “Least Interesting Bitch in the History of the Internets.” Congratulations: you suck.
yeah, I don’t really get how this is a bitch. Maybe she is required to look at the codes in case you were marking down the wrong numbers on the tags.
How about Tim ‘tags’ this as Most Boring Bitch of the Century. Or the internets, like onion said…whatever.
not to mention there are some items that cost more but look the same.
cayenne looks like paprika, whey and flour, etc…
There are more… I’ve nearly been stiffed a couple times.
I keep an approximate running tally in my head which ended up saving me.
always keep track so she doesn’t fuck you over.
If you havent placed tags on all items I bet they would have bitched about that
Let me second that one, Jane
If it’s at the store/chain that I suspect it is, it’s their policy to check the number on the wheel. That’s why they’ll double check with you as to what a lot of the items are. The only things you need to tag will usually have a little sign indicating that a PLU/BIN number is needed.
I generally tag my items with the names instead of the codes, so that at least I will know which is which when I get home later.