I had this twice in the same day the other day. Was travelling, had cash to get rid of and the poor teenage cashiers these days can’t wrap their brain around the concept at all cos they never had to. Both times I get a “this 20 is already enough” and I said I’m trying get rid of coins. I could watch their brain rebooting, give up, punch it in the till and then be really baffled when they hand me back a 10 euro note.
Claiming this an idea no teenager can wrap their mind around has some serious boomer vibes. Especially given the context of the meme which is saying the customer is unable to process such a transaction at the moment which alludes to the fact that anyone on autopilot is capable of this sort of lapse.
Yesterday I was buying groceries and, having been a grocery store cashier before, I faced the UPCs towards him to make it easier. He picked up each item individually and checked every other surface before finding the UPC on every single time.
I wanted to grab him and shake him by the shoulders yelling “This was supposed to be easy for you!”
I put my groceries on the belt in the order they’re supposed to be bagged. Heavy stuff first (cans, milk, juice, frozen stuff), followed by meat, dry goods, then heavy produce, soft produce, eggs, then bread.
Most of the time it only benefits me since everywhere I shop just got rid of cashier bagging or baggers entirely after the pandemic. But the rare time a cashier bags I watch as they go out of their way to put cans on top of avocados.
I do this a lot for cases of beverages and usually let them know verbally since most people are just on autopilot. Most thank me for making things easy for them.
I had this twice in the same day the other day. Was travelling, had cash to get rid of and the poor teenage cashiers these days can’t wrap their brain around the concept at all cos they never had to. Both times I get a “this 20 is already enough” and I said I’m trying get rid of coins. I could watch their brain rebooting, give up, punch it in the till and then be really baffled when they hand me back a 10 euro note.
Claiming this an idea no teenager can wrap their mind around has some serious boomer vibes. Especially given the context of the meme which is saying the customer is unable to process such a transaction at the moment which alludes to the fact that anyone on autopilot is capable of this sort of lapse.
Yesterday I was buying groceries and, having been a grocery store cashier before, I faced the UPCs towards him to make it easier. He picked up each item individually and checked every other surface before finding the UPC on every single time.
I wanted to grab him and shake him by the shoulders yelling “This was supposed to be easy for you!”
I put my groceries on the belt in the order they’re supposed to be bagged. Heavy stuff first (cans, milk, juice, frozen stuff), followed by meat, dry goods, then heavy produce, soft produce, eggs, then bread.
Most of the time it only benefits me since everywhere I shop just got rid of cashier bagging or baggers entirely after the pandemic. But the rare time a cashier bags I watch as they go out of their way to put cans on top of avocados.
The pain is real. It’s almost impressive when someone takes the effort to bag in an inconvenient order just to get the bread on the bottom.
I do this a lot for cases of beverages and usually let them know verbally since most people are just on autopilot. Most thank me for making things easy for them.
I struggled with this when I got moved to the front end of my store at 22