Why cashiers hate you

No one will fault you for coming to your senses and choosing to swap that pint of gelato for a bundle of organic kale.

Even if an employee finds a frozen item on a non-refrigerated shelf 30 seconds after you abandoned it there, food safety regulations dictate that they must throw it away. Mistakes happen, and checking your receipt for errors is a good idea. Push your cart away from the registers before examining your receipt for accidental scans or missed discounts.

Long lines are expected sometimes. Grocery store managers do their best to predict busy times and staff their stores accordingly. But getting annoyed about a long line the night before Thanksgiving is just unreasonable. Avoid crowds by shopping on weekday mornings or late at night. One study found that the most crowded times to shop at the grocery store are midday or 4 to 6 p. First thing in the morning or later in the evening shopping will mean fewer crowds and faster checkouts.

Please be courteous and get off your goddamn cell phone. Another thing that irritates me are old people that take their sweet ass time in line. They will give you their life story, while counting all of their items in their cart, while slowly proceeding to place their items on the belt, and also take FOREVER to count their money! Okay so I will admit I have food stamps. They buy buy buy and then get to the register and ask you to check their balance.

Then they slow down the line by cutting off at a certain amount and the rest of the groceries have to go back on the shelf. People who bring in loose change to use towards a purchase. Parents who treat their kids like crap in the store. Seriously, if I see one more parents hit their kid…how would you feel if someone berated and degraded you?

People who expect you to bag your groceries for them when you work at a Bag-It-Yourself store. People asking for directions, the date, or the time. Like I seriously have the time myself to tell you this?

When customers take their time packing items at a grocery store and loads of people are waiting for them to leave, it can irritate the cashier. If a customer wants to pack slowly, load everything into the trolley and step to the side! Of course, cashiers have sympathy for the elderly, and those who generally can't help it, but everyone else not so much. Many food service cashiers hate when customers come to order food - for themselves or the table - and they don't know all of their order.

A former restaurant cashier remarked, "I used to work at a restaurant where customers had to order their meals at the tills, and I was most annoyed with customers not knowing their table number, or details of the food order like chips or mash with their meal or how they wanted their steaks cooked etc.

It really got annoying. For cashiers who work at a bar, cashiers can get annoyed if a customer orders and pays for drinks one by one. Why didn't that customer just do it all in one transaction? Basic manners go a long way in any profession, especially for cashiers. When a customer thanks their cashier or wishes them a nice day it goes a long way.

Cashiers either have really busy times, or they will have to entertain their minds between the lulls, so someone being nice can really help make that day a whole lot nicer.

Customers can be really annoying, and cashiering is probably best left to those who are truly social. There's many a cashier noted that the job seemed to highlight the worst in people. It's a shame really! Everyone has to face a cashier at some point - often with regularity. Customers, try and be a little nicer to your cashiers. Thank a cashier today for their job well done.

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It has a screen for a reason, uppity soccer mom who is rushing to be at peewee league on time. By choosing to pay with your convenient swipe card, you are choosing to complete your transaction with the computer, not the cashier. And original.