Cashiers are timed when you checkout

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You bringing your own shopping bags saves the planet but slows them down.

Slow check out rates can cause retail workers to be fired.

If you want to bring your bags either help pack it or stand there and wait until the transaction is over for your cashier to pack it.

Also have your money ready. Digging for exact change also takes more time which contributes to slower check outs.

I’m sorry, I never have my $ ready, I use an app. Forgive me oh Great Cashier.

I know you’re trying to be funny but the shit is stressful when you are on the other side and you’ve got a supervisor telling you you need to get 90 percent speed when you average 87.

Lol 3 people fired last week. One was elderly, possibly her only source of income.

I’m not roasting, we’re cool. But the shit is not funny

The whole timing thing is so stupid. I worked at a job where every transaction had to be done in 4 minutes or less. Like how is that even realistic?

Also, don’t get mad at cashiers for asking you if you want to sign up for the store’s rewards program. We hate it too, but if we don’t ask we get in trouble for it, and we have a daily goal to meet so it’s really stressful for us.
If you want us to stop asking just say that you already have a rewards/credit card, but you don’t want to use it. If there’s a manager around they won’t give us shit for not trying enough to convince you, and we’ll leave you alone.

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Managers hover and walk up and down the front end listening to make sure you get asked.

They will even ask for the cashier to make sure they reach the sales goal of the day.

Yup when I worked at GameStop we were required to ask if they wanted to sign up for PowerUp Rewards, and we were given a list (A HUGE LIST MIND YOU) of every upcoming game being released and were required to ask people if they wanted to pre-order any big name titles coming out.

And we had to get a certain amount of pre-orders on our record in order to keep our evaluations in the green.

And yeah, we were timed for checkouts. 4 mins>. And sometimes people would bring in DOZENS of games to trade in, and the POS might fuck up, or we might have to key in the SKU by hand if it’s an older game that is out of print (like literally every PS2 game now).

There’s so many factors that go into slowing down a cashier’s job, but it can be made easier if you are absolutely ready to checkout quickly and efficiently when you get to the register.

And don’t argue with the GameStop cashiers about the trade-in value of the game. It’s not us who set the prices, it’s the corporation. So if you only get $3 back for a game, even if it just came out and you returning it? It’s not us, it’s the company. I’ve had to talk down many an angry parent or dudebro because I’m being accused of stiffing them for their game or console’s value.

So be kind to your cashiers, please. The job is harrowing and frustrating as is, and they get paid peanuts as is. So the least you can do is be efficient and courteous during the checkout process.

Cant stress this enough. At my job, we have to ask for phone numbers in case the customer forgets the receipt and wants to return an item… If u dont wanna leave the number, just say no. So many people give me fake numbers and then the manager gets on our asses for “being lazy and not asking and putting in fake numbers”.
Also, please listen when we talk about the return policy. I told u its 30 days, then after that u get store credit.. I had so many angry moms yell at me for having to give them back store credit….just ugh

Wow. Nobody tells us this.

Thank you, I’ll be more considerate

I wish I could have posted this somewhere when I worked at Best Buy.

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