Here are the basic jobs in a supermarket...
Carriages - You walk around the parking lot taking empty carriages and putting them back in the store.
Bagging - You stand at the end of a register taking items off the conveyor belt and you place them in either plastic or paper bags.
Cashiering - You take the items the customer places on the conveyor belt for you and figure out where the bar codes are located. Once you do, you put the bar code over the "scanner" and put it back on the belt for the bagger.
Stocker - You take boxes from the warehouse, wheel them into the supermarket, unbox the items and place them on a shelf.
Warehouse - You drive around in a forklift, taking pallets of items off trucks and stacking them up in the warehouse in a predetermined location.
Manager - You basically walk around the store with a red jacket making sure all the above people are doing their jobs and not hanging out in the breakroom snacking on "damaged" goods.
Well, there you pretty much have it. There are a few other jobs too like taking blocks of meat and cheese and running them through a slicer at the deli or weighing out fish and wrapping it in wax paper in the seafood section but basically you can be taught just about any job in a supermarket in about 15 minutes provided your IQ is at or above room temperature.
About the most complicated job you will have in a supermarket is a butcher and increasingly, supermarkets outsource their butcher work anyhow.
First of all...love your tag line, LOL! And I hope you get along well with your Father!
Secondly...I manage a Garden Center, and if you just change a few words, that’s pretty much all the teens at our place are expected to do. Our oldest employee is into her 80’s. She’s a cashier and just likes to get out a few days a week. She only works 3 hour shifts or so, in her support hose under her mini skirts. She’s a hoot. ;)
We had a really good crew this year; kids that were articulate and we could trust with the customers. Kids who actually would HELP a customer or find one of us to do so if there was a technical question to answer about plants, trees, shrubs, or grass seed or pest control.
Sadly, we’ll have to train up a whole new crop of them again next year, and we can’t pay a huge wage because our “Corporate Entity” is incredibly CHEAP. These kids make $7-$8 an hour...and COMPLAIN about it as if we’re keeping them from their basement labs where they’re curing cancer or something, LOL! None of them is older than eighteen. *SIGH*
BUT...we have all local kids; proving that we DON’T need to hire illegals to do this grunt work, and we lost our BEST worker to a local Dairy Farm where he can make $12 an hour milking cows all day. And being in a Farm Family, I know for a fact that he earns every penny of that! :)