What is it like to work in a grocery store?
I worked at a grocery store between 17 and 19 years old whilst studying at college and then studying at university.I took my job very seriously.I did everything I could to make the customers happy and feel valued even though I was working on the tills.When there were no queues, I kept practising my maths equations on the receipt paper which I drew out of the machine.I got a huge amount of satisfaction out of helping customers. I regularly broke the rules and left my till to help the old ladies take their shopping to the taxi rank outside the supermarket.I turned up multiple times still drunk from the party the night before, after sleeping 3–4 hours and still managing to do my job.If I did that now (IT manager) I would die.I won our shop an award for “excellent customer service”. I don’t even know which customer is was but I have an inkling. It may have been the old lady who asked me multiple questions about the different top-up cards. I showed her through the entire process, gave her all of the information and held up the whole queue in the process.I scanned my items as fast as I could and tried to win the “fastest scanner award” every week.After all of this hard work and dedication to the job. I wasn’t appreciated by the company.The store manager would stroll down for 5 minutes a day, sit on the most efficient till in the shop and scan 50% more items than we could in those 5 minutes and claimed that we needed to improve our speed.Scanning fast for 5 minutes compared to 8 hours when you have slower customers is not a good example.That was demotivating.A new shop-floor manager came in. She didn’t know who I was. She didn’t bother getting informed about who the best people were in the shop floor.I was at university at the time and I came back for the holidays.I had already agreed my working hours and times.I turned up and she said that she was the new manager and I wasn’t working that day even though I had agreed it previously.I walked out the door and never turned back.They called me multiple times trying to get me to come back once they had realised which employee I was.I didn’t bother going back to work there again.Learn to respect a new team when you join and you'll have success. Don't just ignore and disrespect them or you'll fail.
How do I quit a grocery store cashier job?
I was hired the second week of July but because they're system was done, I didn't start until the last week of July. I had a feeling I would hate it but I was in desperate need of a job. It's been 3 weeks, I barely get hours and looking at the schedule, people that have been there for years don't get many more. I have yet to get a paycheck and I also have no idea how much I get paid. No one ever told me and I felt uncomfortable asking. I figured minimum wage. I need to give my 2 weeks notice but I don't know who to give it to. Can it be verbal since it hasn't been long? Who do I give it to? The front end manager that hired me? What do I say. I've never had to quit a job before. Also do I should have one more paycheck left. Do I have to go in a pick it up or will it be mailed to me?
How to get a Job at a grocery store? HEELLPP.?
I am a third year Biochem student and have been looking for a job for over 8 months now applying to grocery stores which advertise positions. I believe my resume is well made (dont know which skills i lack) and I always include an excellent cover letter. But I always either dont get a call back or just get a reply after 2-3 weeks.... "Unfortunately we wernt able to find a position for you bla bla". Im getting a little tired of this frankly and was wondering what would be the right hours to show as your availability and skills that grocery store or super store (save on foods, walmart etc) people look for? im thinking my resume might be a bit too overdone. Also is it better to always apply in person for a job.than online? Any help would be highly appreciated.
What do you think about a girl being a bagger at a grocery store?
I have been offered a job for a "courtesy clerk" (bagger) at a grocery store, & didn't know if that seemed like a guy's job. What do you think? The economy sucks right now & i need a job, so i'll most likely take it, & while i'm waiting on them to call me about my drug test i've been wondering if i'll hate it. having to get buggies & stuff.
Why are people so rude to me? I work at a little grocery store and I'm a cashier. I try to be nice and friendly as possible. Why is this?
I’ve been a cashier and retail worker for 10 years. I’ve found that no amount of chattiness nor friendliness can obscure bad service. The only thing a customer wants is to get through the line quickly. Every ‘price check’, and slow scanning cashier, “chatting up the customer” and delay caused by coworkers interrupting you as you do your job makes customers furious.Customers will watch checkout lines to see which cashier is chatting the least, and is scanning the fastest and most efficiently, and then they will check out the size of the shopping carts and baskets ahead of them and then switch to the line they think will be the fastest. If you are squinting at the credit cards, and trying to pronounce customers’ names, and doing all of that extra stuff the boss says you should do, but customers don’t care about, they will get grumpy.I had a boss that held a staff meeting at which he gave everybody a pencil. We didn’t get paper, and the pencils were not even sharpened, so we were a little confused. Then he said “I gave you each a pencil… use it”. So now we were even more confused. But what he meant was that he was empowering each of us to make our own decisions at the till when the lines got long. And if our decisions were not good ones, we would be told what we should have done later, with no repercussions on us. So from that point on, if a product didn’t scan, we’d take the customers word for what they think it costs. If something didn’t scan properly but already got tossed in the bag, we’d let it go, even if the customer pointed it out. The number one priority was speed, not accuracy. We had more happy customers that way, and rarely had a dispute, and the store made so much money it could cover the losses.So get real fast at scanning and making decisions, and even the grumpy ones will not complain.