I was in the Sis-Town Country Mart on Wednesday, a day early from my usual schedule, to facilitate our delayed Mother's Day dinner that would take place on Thursday. When I got to the register, I set out my items in a logical manner. I started with the soda. I had my Shasta Diet Cola, which is now packaged as Shasta Zero Sugar. And I had three 6-packs of Farmer H's Diet Mountain Dew, because it was on sale 3-for-$12, when it is usually $5.19 each.
I put the 12-pack of Shasta on the conveyor. "I have one of these..." And then a 6-pack of the Diet Mountain Dew. "And three of these."
The gal had trouble finding the barcode on the Shasta. That's because it's on the BOTTOM of the box, if you use the pop-out handle on the top. I think it's meant to slide across a scanner on the checkout counter. The cashier said, "I can scan this, and give it back to put in your cart." Fair enough. Some of them will reach over the counter with their hand-held scanner, and do it with the soda still in the cart. But I had set it on the conveyor. I took it back, and put it in the cart after scanning.
While this was going on, another cashier came to that register. She stood behind to bag. When she got the Diet Mountain Dew, she told the cashier, "She has THREE of these!" Yes. I did. Which I had plainly declared upon setting that 6-pack on the conveyor. The other cashier had not been there then. I suppose she was just helping the main cashier, but it seemed to me as if she was suggesting that I was TRYING TO STEAL TWO 6-PACKS OF SODA!!!
"Yes. I DO have three. Which I just told you when I set it out."
MRS. HM IS NOT A THIEF!!! It is not her fault that the original cashier was distracted by the other cashier coming over and butting in during the process of Mrs. HM's checkout!
2 comments:
Of course you are not a thief, but that second checker certainly messed up the first checker's concentration.
River,
That's it exactly. I've seen the second cashier there before. I think this other one was new, being a little slow, not able to find the barcode on the bottom of my box of Shasta. It's a lot to deal with when you're learning a new job, and she would have been fine by herself if she could concentrate on what she was doing. I think the second cashier intimidated her. Like made her think she was too slow by coming over to bag. They don't usually help out like that in Country Mart. I would have reminded her about the Mountain Dew myself, had not the other cashier butted in.
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