One of the most important components in your shopping trip is choosing the correct cashier. When no one is following you with a camera, and the store has not been forewarned customers might actually be coming in with a coupon or two (or 67 1/2), there are occasionally check-out clerk issues. That is where profiling comes in handy. You see, the 17 year old male cashier is usually the best choice for a smooth and easy non-confrontational check-out experience.
They simply don’t give a rat’s patootie if you have 12 products and are using a coupon on each item. They do not dig through your bags to find six alike products to match the six alike coupons on your stack. They do something wild and let the register do what it is programmed to do: scan your coupons when you have purchased the items.
When a coupon fails to scan, they are young enough to recall that they scanned 16 Tropicana OJ under a minute ago, and therefore it is a valid purchase for your two Tropicana $1 manufacturer coupons. And if for some reason they did forget, they actually *gasp* look at the receipt instead of spending 20 minutes rooting through the bags to find that pack of Dentyne.
Now the negative to cashing out with someone young enough to be your grandson is they don’t know how to bag. If they were ever taught bagging (a lost art if ever there was one), that promptly flew out of their mind. That 20 year old with the blonde hair and blue eyes cashing next to him is quite the distraction, dontchyaknow?
So if you check-out with that 17 year old male, be prepared to bag your own groceries. The upside to bagging your own groceries is you can bag them according to where you will put the items away in your home. That and the bags will not weigh 73 pounds each.
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Haha.. I agree completely.. I definitely profile.. but funny enough, the ones I used to have problems with & avoided in the past are some of the best to go to now. Not sure why that is, other than one who I busted with corp that i know of. Shes a total peach these days.
I think in all my days, only at one Walgreens does a young guy eagle eye coupons. I quit going there just cuz he annoyed me to no end. Coupons were good, I just wanted to slap his silly little face.. not nice, so I dont go there, litterally.
There was one young guy at my grocery store, but its been a while since I’ve been there.
I totally profile and have found the same to be true. The best is when you have that 17 y/o male cashier who has a 17 y/o bagger. They are so much into laughing and having fun, that they actually get me through quicker. I cannot stand it when the cashier roots through my groceries, esp when I have 10-12 bags, before she’ll scan each coupon!
Ha Ha… After numerous experiences with huzzy’s my age at the checkout, I definitely profile. Young guys and gals are the best! Fortunately I don’t have a problem with the person that bags the groceries. It’s usually an older gentleman that asks me if I want my milk bagged or not.
YES, YES, YES!
I stood back at Walmart this last week and checked out all of the checkers. The young male, his line was LONG. The older gals, not so much and then there was one older male with just one gal in line. I chose him. Big mistake. 40 minutes later I walked out with my 18 items. I am not kidding. He had 3 managers come over and check on him, the last being the store manager, who stood by him and walked him through every transaction. He was new. Wasn’t sure about the policies and was just having a heck of a time. Fortunately I was not in any rush. It was tough though. I really hope he makes it. He was really trying.