Well if it's not obvious by now I am a courtesy clerk and thus work Front End. So I am a glorified bagger at $7.25 an hour (whee) lately making $80 a week with 13 hours. Sucks. To get my mind off of that, was wondering how much those on Front End -- or any department for that matter -- have seen go through a check-out? Doesn't even have to be Front End. Deli, Starbucks, whatever.
About a month ago I helped to bag a $500 + order. I don't remember the exact amount. Just remember it didn't reach $600. Took three shopping carts and about 15-20 minutes to fully bag. On my own. I'm good but I'm only one person. Sort of how they throw a single courtesy clerk to the parking lot and expect the work of two people. As I recall, we were busy that day and there was so much that it just worked out that I was the only bagger for this particular order. Thank god I had been there long enough and knew how to bag.
-- Edited by FrontEndSlave on Thursday 7th of August 2014 10:47:38 PM
I had one over 20 years ago for over $600.00. It was either for the Army or National Guard. It was all picnic food.
I can't remember if the one I did was for any charity or not. It may have been for a church. I've done a few church orders before where I've had to go get the tax-exempt book for the cashier. I remember a $200 + church order a couple of weeks ago.
$1,520.00 for a Frat House at a college. This guy I helped bag for is über cool. He actually HELPS bag his own order and load it. He comes in about once every 2 months or so.
I think about 900. When booze is involved the cost can be really high without it being much effort to run through, though. There are people who own small businesses that buy things like gatorade sodas or whatever to sell, and many of them don't need bags, don't even take much out of the cart since it's a lot of the same item. The worst is just really large orders full of random food for a lot of people. Especially if they put the smallest, fragile items first on the belt (which is often), and if I don't have a bagger (which is greater than 80% of the time). Then I have to stop scanning just to bag. (And we charge for bags, so that's always fun too.)
Regular order (food & such?): well over $1,000
"Special" order (gift cards / furniture): well over $2,000
CS desk order (beer vendor payout): well over $7,000 <- max actual transaction
However I have a VERY special case of something that happened a few years back. To this day I've no idea what happened, or even if it was something the cashier did at all. I was hurriedly called to a register by the cashier. Everybody was looking and pointing at the screen and obviously flustered. I look up and somehow a singularly massive amount of tax had been added to the transaction. The total was some random number with A LOT of digits. However, I do remember that it was well over a BILLION dollars.
Regular order (food & such?): well over $1,000 "Special" order (gift cards / furniture): well over $2,000 CS desk order (beer vendor payout): well over $7,000 <- max actual transaction
However I have a VERY special case of something that happened a few years back. To this day I've no idea what happened, or even if it was something the cashier did at all. I was hurriedly called to a register by the cashier. Everybody was looking and pointing at the screen and obviously flustered. I look up and somehow a singularly massive amount of tax had been added to the transaction. The total was some random number with A LOT of digits. However, I do remember that it was well over a BILLION dollars.
That's right, billion with a B.
One time I predicted a customer would give me $200 cash, so I typed 20000, and she actually did give me $200. i typed 20000 a second time and my bagger had a stroke XD
All in gift cards. It was during the 4x fuel points we had. So many people looked over at the customer specifically, that we now have an unwritten rule that we never say the total amount of it's over $500.
In terms of groceries? I've checked out about $800 once. It was for an end-of-the-year school event.
Largest welfare subsidized? Roughly about $200, more or less.
I've processed a $400 school order once. That was /fun/.
Last year I had a guy buy $900 worth of groceries. But here it's not uncommon to see 500-600 dollar orders. But majority of the time they are using ebt ... -__-
but we do have people purchase 500-600 with cash. The most I've seen with cash was last week some big black guy with a 700 dollar order looks like it was all for a cookout though.
Not uncommon to have black people dressed in gangsta hood rat attire, flashing obvious gangsta C notes and buying everything a link card can cover....Then whining and crying and throwing a BITCH fit over at Subway because they won't take link.
Yes, I wrote BLACK PEOPLE. I have yet to see ONE white person pull this ****.------------Yet, any way. This country is FUKED I'm moving to the Philippines.
This country is FUKED I'm moving to the Philippines.
Haha, that's where I'm from.
Anyway, my store's in an affluent area. Needless to say, a certain demographic makes up a huge majority of our welfare and benefits transaction. The same group also makes the longest lines to pay bills at our guest care.
$620 ebt the other day. I was so mad. I was like why can't I get free food. And then five minutes later I get sent out to give the fuel center person a break and the same lady comes up to get gas in what looks like a 2007-2008 ford explorer at least a 15k-20k vehicle...
$620 ebt the other day. I was so mad. I was like why can't I get free food. And then five minutes later I get sent out to give the fuel center person a break and the same lady comes up to get gas in what looks like a 2007-2008 ford explorer at least a 15k-20k vehicle...
Newbie here...again. That post was unnecessary, mean, and vulgar. However, funny as hell. You might, if you are not already, return to school..communication is your forte.
Highest total I ever saw was over $2,000 for gift cards. I had a customer buy four Visa GC's to which she wanted $500 on each. It was around Christmas time.
Highest grocery bill though? Probably between $400-500. It would have been much higher if not for the Kroger plus card savings and what not.
Not as bad as the lady the other day who payed for over $300 worth of groceries (I think it was $371), payed for it with ebt and since there was no one else in the store she asked me to bring them out to her car for her (2 carts) and she had I kid you not a 2013 Mercedes suv.
I know its a 2013 because my neighbor has one. He is an evp of some health insurance company.
