Hi, Fiona! Well, I'm a supermarket checker at the moment and I've been that for 13 years now. I work on Long Beach Island in New Jersey. LBI is on the Jersey shore, which means we get a lot of tourists during the summer.
A typical day depends on what time of year it is. If it's the winter, there aren't many that work at the store, so you have to do a lot of different jobs. As a checker, you scan a customer's purchase for the most part. But you have to remember a lot of codes for the produce items. And some things just don't seem to scan every time, so you have to remember a lot of prices, too.
One of the other jobs I've done there is sort the shelf tags for the weekly sales and price changes and put them up. That can take hours and boy, do you have to know your store!
One summer, I worked on the night crew for the produce department. That means I worked from 10 PM to 6:30 AM stocking the produce when the store was closed. It was hard work. I'd cut up the fruit for the fruit cups and trays. I'd stock the bags of salads, check the tomatoes for bad ones. Stock the starwberries, corn, etc etc.
And I'd also stock the Krispy Kreme dounuts when they arrived! And bring in the newspapers, too. Mostly, though, it's just checking. That is sort of the thing I don't like about the job. There are too many people during the summer! Most are very nice, but there will always be a few nasty people. And that is hard on the kids the store hires as summer checkers. Sometimes, that is their first job ever. And some people are so mean to them. But during the winter, it's all the year-round people, and I mostly know all of them. Or they knew my family. And it's a lot quieter. During the summer, you can get so busy you don't know what day it is. It can be very exhusting.
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Date: 2003-04-24 05:38 am (UTC)A typical day depends on what time of year it is. If it's the winter, there aren't many that work at the store, so you have to do a lot of different jobs. As a checker, you scan a customer's purchase for the most part. But you have to remember a lot of codes for the produce items. And some things just don't seem to scan every time, so you have to remember a lot of prices, too.
One of the other jobs I've done there is sort the shelf tags for the weekly sales and price changes and put them up. That can take hours and boy, do you have to know your store!
One summer, I worked on the night crew for the produce department. That means I worked from 10 PM to 6:30 AM stocking the produce when the store was closed. It was hard work. I'd cut up the fruit for the fruit cups and trays. I'd stock the bags of salads, check the tomatoes for bad ones. Stock the starwberries, corn, etc etc.
And I'd also stock the Krispy Kreme dounuts when they arrived! And bring in the newspapers, too.
Mostly, though, it's just checking. That is sort of the thing I don't like about the job. There are too many people during the summer! Most are very nice, but there will always be a few nasty people. And that is hard on the kids the store hires as summer checkers. Sometimes, that is their first job ever. And some people are so mean to them.
But during the winter, it's all the year-round people, and I mostly know all of them. Or they knew my family. And it's a lot quieter. During the summer, you can get so busy you don't know what day it is. It can be very exhusting.