About the author

Michael is a part-time cashier at Sam’s Club. He graduated with his Associates degree in Liberal Arts (but only because proper classes weren’t available for an English major), and will be attending an anonymous, but perfectly legitimate University for his Bachelors degree in Journalism and Mass Communication.

Between scanning slabs of meat at the register and training to become the next video game pro, Michael spends his time writing about the things he sees (putting actions into words), or morphing apples and white tigers together in Photoshop.

Cashier Observations is written by a cashier and is primarily about, but not limited to: experiences dealing with shopping, cashiering, and interactions with common chores in a daily lifestyle.

To contact me, please e-mail to ms.ulfy@gmail.com. I welcome comments, suggestions, and always criticisms.

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A Forward About the Blog

So, why create a blog about cashiering? I could write about anything. Maybe that’s the point.

I am a part-time cashier at my local Sam’s Club (Like Costco or B.J’s; a wholesale dealer). I intend to keep this job until a better one lands at my feet through my college shenanigans. There are a few components to why my writing as a cashier is interesting to me, and you.

I love my job

There are many people who dislike their jobs. I am not one of them. It’s the people I work with that make me love my job. I consider myself a lucky person. I also don’t have the bills or payments that others have tying themselves down, or living from paycheck to paycheck.This gives me opportunity to observe with an open mind, without the consequence of negative feelings weighing me down.

The ghost on the register

As a cashier, I have a chance to see people doing normal chores. Cashiers are handlers that interact with people as they complete their normal routines. In this is an important point. Cashiers are not meant to relate with the shopper on a personal level, they are not meant to become any more than the person who rings up your groceries. A cashier is the last person on someone’s mind until the final purchase; the final interaction. My point is not that cashiers are lowly people and bottom feeders not worthy of a shopper’s attention. My point is that a cashier is simply there to ring up the purchase. No more, no less. Cashiers are as soon forgotten the moment a shopper is back to their own business.

This gives me an opportunity to observe society in an outwards manner. Observing actions and putting them into words is always a new and entertaining experience. This is especially true when comparing others thoughts to your own. And what could be as natural as something like shopping — and as uncanny as putting those actions into words.

Enjoy,

Michael Stephen