Not True

[Redhead17]

http://pinterest.com/pin/263460646920992128/

So I saw this post on Pininterest, and I wanted to give a different POV on the matter. We ask that question because the customer is being distracted by all of the shiny objects or candy around them and your wondering if they are going to buy them because of their insistant gawking. Or they are in the middle of buying their items and they forgot something half way across the store, and you have to wait for them. That is the reason for asking them if that is everything.

Note: I have no real problem with this and I even laughed the first time I saw this, but I wanted to give the cashier's POV.

[Merriweather]

Also, cashier's don't always have a clear view of a person's cart or basket, and especially if they've been putting things on the counter as you ring up, you can't be 100% sure they've finished.

[PastryGal]

I always ask because there's often items people need to tell me they want so I can key them in instead of scanning because they're too big/heavy/need some help with them. Examples of items like this are lumber from the lumber yard, bags of salt/melter, fertilizer, homecrete. The salt and homecrete are up by the cash's or out by the front door so the customer can grab them on the way out. Or the customer might want to ask me for a gift card, or a rain-check.

On the other end of it there should be a pic that says something like, "Yah, no price tag/not scanning means it's free right?" "How original! I've never heard that one before, quick send that into Leno!"

[Aislin]

And customers rarely use the dividers provided so we have to guess where their order ends and the next begins. They get bitchy when you scan the next customers items because both customers are too lazy to put the divider down. Or all the times I have closed a transaction only to find out they had more items, or a game they wanted on lock up or needed cigarettes, and are now angry they now have to have a second transaction and they think you are the stupid one..

[Redhead17]

Or all the times I have closed a transaction only to find out they had more items, or a game they wanted on lock up or needed cigarettes, and are now angry they now have to have a second transaction and they think you are the stupid one..

So many times I had finished the transaction and they say oh I forgot something in my cart, or did you get this and magically pull an item from thin air, or even hide an item in another item and only while bagging it do I see that.

[raudf]

And customers rarely use the dividers provided so we have to guess where their order ends and the next begins. They get bitchy when you scan the next customers items because both customers are too lazy to put the divider down. Or all the times I have closed a transaction only to find out they had more items, or a game they wanted on lock up or needed cigarettes, and are now angry they now have to have a second transaction and they think you are the stupid one..

dear micro-deities of cashier annoyance, this was my biggest pet peeve! I am not a mind reader and if one or both of you fail to put that divider down, shove your items right up next to each others, then don't be surprised that I will ring up said items on one ticket!

On the flip side, I hate it that there are no dividers on the registers at my local Mart of Walls or other stores, because apparently customers consider them to be collectors items at the rate they disappear! I just find one of my items that kinda looks like a divider and put it up at a distance from the other customer's stuff. And even if a mistake occurs, no big. Just void it off and move on with life.

[Dadeo]

"Will that be all?" is a cashier's polite way of saying "Are you fucking done yet?"