Whoa...she paid for those few items with a TWENTY and got some change back???
Counting Change is a lost art.
At 4:45, the checker talks about her daily inspection. She asks “Is it plugged in?”
LOL, so that’s the first question of Tech Support for 55 years!
“Kapitalist pig propaganda to train the workers into the joy of being exploited.” /s (Nice, though.. thanks)
I was a supermarket checker 1969 to 1970, working after school and after I graduated high school, until I left for USAF BMT.
Everything was ‘keyed in’. We had books with the item code, in case we forgot! The prices were all keyed in by hand, and all the sales, tax, total functions were a huge palm heel motion key. We had to mentally figure totals of the same products, and the sales coupon discounts.
This was not a “chain supermarket”.
Helping dolts make iNCRedible mistakes.
*Mad Magazine
I was a checker in high school...bag boy, bottle sorter, shelf stocking,, worked some produce.
Loved checking. I could make that NCR sing.
When I was young these checkers were simply amazing their fingers on those registers were AMAZING! They KNEW HOW to count change too!!
I started in the grocery business as a courtesy clerk (boxboy) in June 1964 and within a year moved up to apprentice clerk checking groceries after high school and JC for four years. We had older NCR registers with a department toggle bar and manual everything. We accepted cash and checks but you had better know those using checks! All items were price stamped with ink but we were always having sales so you had to know the sale items of the day and their sale price which we called out as we rang it up. We had an extensive offering of fresh vegetables that we never ate at home so that was an education in itself. In 1968 I enlisted for four years and afterwards used the GI Bill to finish college. In 1974 after graduating jobs were scarce so I returned to what I knew landing a Journeyman Clerk position with Safeway Stores. Checking for them was more difficult. The machines were newer but functioned essentially the same but with more departments. Plus we had to direct bag as we checked, planning as we went how to properly bag. We also had to touch check using the 5 key as home on the number pad and visualizing in our minds the full number being entered. I got pretty good at it and scored 8-5 shifts so I could man the quick check stand during lunch hour. Every day a dishevelled old man would come through my checkstand at lunchtime with chips and a cheap beer can. I would greet him the same as everyone else with a “Hi, how are you today” and he would mumble something incoherent in return. One day, after greeting him he said “every day you ask me how I am but you don’t really give a shit how I am”! Surprised and not really knowing what to say I blurted out “you’re right, I don’t really”! He burst out laughing along with me and everyone else in line and it became a running joke every day.
Some day I will write down all of my Safeway stories, in and out of the check stand. Probably the ultimate out of the check stand is the Toilet Paper End Display. The main boss told me to build certain end displays. One of them was the toilet paper going on sale the next day. Part of the marketing strategy for displays is to put something else, relating to the sale item, around it so the customer will purchase the regular priced item as well. So, if barbecue briquettes are on sale, you make big stacks on the end display, and barbecue lighter fluid, at regular price, around it. So.... After building a large toilet paper display, what do you think I placed all around the TP... Prune Juice! My coworkers said I could not do it, but I was in charge of the swing shift, so there was no one to make me stop. When I arrived the next day, the main boss acted like he was chewing me out, while at the same time laughing hard. I eventually told him that, hey, half of the prune juice had already sold.