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Such Swift and Courteous Supermarket Service

posted 11 years ago by Camelot_2000
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for the ENORMOUS amount of groceries they were buying. I found it amusing how the cashier so swiftly and quickly rang it all up on that old push button cash register (no scanners then) before casually handing over the l-o-n-g receipt that totaled up to just $126.63.

If only the grocery store experience was truly that easy, quick and inexpensive, especially when there's about 5 or 6 carts of food involved.

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[–] alexbogue3889 11 years ago

That had to have been the longest receipt I've ever seen in my life.

[–] tomtkh 9 years ago

LOL $126!!! Wow...that won't even feed one person for a month now!

[–] mikethemartian (6065) 2 years ago

That supermarket clerk stole George Costanza’s raisins.

[–] liscarkat (16530) 2 years ago

I was a box boy at a supermarket in the early 1970s, before they had scanners. The checkers visually read the price of each item from a sticker or stamp, and entered it on a big push-key cash register. They were very fast at it, actually faster than clerks using scanners today. We box boys were also very fast. No matter how big the order, we would have it all bagged and in the cart, ready to roll, before the customer was finished paying.