I don't get it either, Greychins. I worked as a cashier once in my life, in my high school days and I HATED it. People would yell at me for the price of items, they would yell at me for not having sale items on the shelves, etc. Hey, I'm just the cashier! I don't make the prices and I'm not in charge of ordering and stocking. Geeze. It was the worst job I've ever had. People would also try to steal things hidden in their cart or hope you didn't see the items they had under the basket of the shopping cart. Or they'd get up to ring out and hand you 20 items they decided not to buy. Or they'd not have enough money and one by one they'd ask you to take an item off the sale until they reached an amount they could afford. :hair:
Oh I know!! Right now, I still work in the fashion department at Meijer... but as that involves casheering (both at the jewelry counter and the front registers when the managers call out "Team 133 to Service!!!!!" 12 times a day....as a result of not hiring enough
real cashiers and thereby dragging the rest of us with cashier numbers from our departments to come up front when it gets busy) and stocking ... so now I'm qualified to work as a cashier, a general department clerk, or a stocker/merchandiser. Anyway, point being, because Meijer refuses to hire more cashiers, I spend about half of my shift every day I work up front on the register. Oh, and cashiers make more than I make - but they see no problem dragging us clerks from the other departments up front and paying us less for the same job that actual cashiers are getting paid more for...
Anyway, I totally know what you mean about the people arguing about prices and all that. People here don't read signs. The sign will read $3.99 Bermuda shorts, and they will pick up a tank top off the same rack and complain that it should be $3.99. Did the sign say "tank tops"? Didn't think so. I'm about to the point where I want to tell people to walk back to the rack, read the ENTIRE sign, and only come back if they really were right about the price. I once had someone with a big pack of paper towels. They swore up and down it was $8. There was no way it was $8, cause if it was, man was I getting ripped off when I was buying paper towels, lol. Anyway, they asked me to call back to check the price, so I did, and sure as...crap... the one that was $8 was a package that was LESS than HALF the size of the huge one they were holding. Surprise! Could have told you that. And then they got mad at ME! Should I be sorry that
they didn't look at the shelftag? Or the size on the shelftag? Let me tell you, if a 12 pack is accidentally in the spot where the 3 pack goes, cause some customer put it there, that doesn't make it the 3 pack price. I mean maybe I know to check shelftags and check the quantity because I WORK there, but surely this happens sooner or later to everyone and so I feel they should learn? Or read the entire sign?
Oh and I HATE when they run out of money and you have to take things off the bill. I mean here it's one button "void item" but then I have this huge stack of items that they don't want. Cause, you know, they
need that $8 mascara, but that $3 package of 12 rolls of toilet paper? Unnecessary. *rolls eyes*
The best one ever - the meijer here doubles coupons up to (I think) 50 cents. You would not believe the people that throw fits that we won't double (for example) a $1 coupon. And the phrase always used "well Marsh will." Um... then GO to Marsh??? And of course, these are the same people who say that Walmart carries some things we don't, and Walmart's prices are better, and Walmart's produce is fresher, this and that, well then GO to Walmart. Telling the cashier these things is NOT gonna change store items, prices, or policies, sorry.
Another thing - changing prices... if bananas are coming up $1 per pound and the customer says they're supposed to be 99cents, I can change that. On the other hand, when they say that outdoor grill of theirs that's ringing up $400 is supposed to be $200, I need management's approval (and people say this crap and just think I'm not gonna bat an eye and change the price). And then they get MAD when they have to wait for the price to be validated and for a manager to come in and put in the price change and all that....
Grrrr. I know they're just looking for someone to vent to, but seriously, whether I'm working as a cashier/fashion-clerk/stocker/merchandiser, I didn't make the prices, or the signs, or create the policies. Have a problem? Complain to upper management, who can actually DO something about it....
