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Cashier Curiosity

by Derek on November 2nd, 2011
Cashier Curiosity

I feel like I did this comic already but I couldn’t find it. Anyway, I hate when cashiers hand you the bills before the change, because it’s a test to see if you can get it off the bills into your other hand without dropping it. God forbid they sandwich the change between the bills and the receipt, then you can’t even reach onto the bills with your fingers to grab the change.

So to the cashiers out there, please stop doing this. Give me the change first so it can rest easy in the the palm of my hand where it’s easier to grip and I put my bills away. Does anyone else have a problem with this? Or is it just me?

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Club Cards

by Derek on November 23rd, 2010
Club Cards

I only have four of these club cards on my keychain, and the only one I use regularly is the Duane Reade card. But still, why did Rite Aid have to put their key ring hole in the top corner instead of the side like everyone else out there??

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American Money

by Derek on June 28th, 2010
American Money

I wanted to do this comic sooner after my trip to Canada, but it got away from me.

I’m sure lots of Americans have wondered what happens when Canadians receive American money. From a very unscientific study (googling and trusting the first bit of information I found) American coins are treated just like normal money and people don’t bat an eye when they receive it in Canada, at least in the cities close to the border. Hopefully there’s a Canadian reader who can provide some comments on this. The same page I found also said that you can’t really exchange it for profit.

The real question is, do vending machines in Canada discriminate between American and Canadian quarters? I would imagine that would be the one sticking point.

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Cashier Customer Synergy

by Derek on September 17th, 2007
Cashier Customer Synergy

The deli where I get lunch sometimes has a lot of people going through it at lunchtime. I’m sure over the course of many years they’ve perfected the cashier skills to a fine art. They have plastic bags already stacked in nest-like formation so items can be put in right away, and they’re just really fast at working that register, taking and giving change. It’s understandable that someone with cash behind someone with a credit card would manage to finish their transaction first. Thing is these people are so fast that someone who is just slow on taking money out of their wallet can still be beaten by the person behind them (often me). And yes, they’ve also perfected the art of saying “Thank you, have a nice day (or weekend)”


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Nickels

by Derek on October 24th, 2006
Nickels

When the cashier is out of change and you get nothing but nickels and pennies it’s kind of like when they think it’s a good idea to put all the soda bottles in one bag and the toilet paper in the other. It’s not like getting a hundred pennies, but it’s the next highest amount of coins you could possibly get especially since they’re the thickest coin you’re going to get. It always feels awkward putting it in my change pocket and I usually anticipate dropping one or two because of it.


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It’s a Trap

by Derek on September 28th, 2006
It’s a Trap

I still don’t know what was up with this. I got a roast beef sandwich very clearly marked $6.00 plus a Snapple which was $1.29 but they only charged me $4.25? In the actual deli they were even closer to the sandwich than I’ve drawn it here so there wasn’t really any mistaking. Maybe the guy had been working a register so long his brain fried? I really did wait a beat before paying because my paranoid side was imagining once I took the change he would yell out “I can’t believe you took the change!!!” Or something to that effect. It’s gotten me wondering what’s going to happen next time I’m there.


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Fastest Deli Cashier Ever

by Derek on May 21st, 2004
Fastest Deli Cashier Ever

At first I was having difficulty in how to draw this. A lot of the time when I’m doing comics I just wish I could do them animated because then it would really give a good idea of what I wanted. I used to go to a fruit market where the cashier was so amazingly fast. I like to think of these people as having low level superpowers. When someone refines a skill so well because they use it every single day of their lives it is truly a sight to behold. This guy was hands down faster than a price scanner being used by a person at Key Food. The other thing you have to realize that not only are they fast at using the register, but also at knowing exactly how much money everything costs. Remarkable.


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Confused Cashier

by Derek on February 19th, 2004
Confused Cashier

I think this happened at Au Bon Pain or my supermarket where the cashier asked me what kind of bill I had given her when she was still holding it in her hand. I’d understand perfectly if she had already put it away, but she hadn’t. In all fairness, working a register or doing any kind of repetitive behavior does tend to numb the brain and senses.


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