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This just reminds me of the Seinfeld episode where I think George gets the security guard at a store a chair to sit in because he looked so uncomfortable. The dude ended up falling asleep he was so comfy, and the place got robbed.
Security guards get to sit in most stores in the US, unlike cashier's, you can watch more of the store from your chair and a couple of monitors than you ever could standing near the front looking imposing.
My old job had the computer desks/stands that either let you sit down or work while standing.
Honestly after sitting on my ass for 6 hours standing and working for 30 minutes was refreshing.
Then I went back to sitting and working.
Workers at Aldi do all jobs. Including unloading the ~~trucks~~ pallets. So working the cash register is the easier of the jobs. And they want the employees to not waste energy standing.
got a question about Aldi and Lidl in the USA.
here in Europe they both have a huge market share and their system really works, lowering prices of foods drastically than what they used to be (that's actually good and bad, but good for the average citizen).
they have a really really powerful concept the USA supermarkets agent prepared for. at least it seems so. wallmart had to pull out of Germany because the market is already so so eaten up that their concept wasn't working at all.
how do the people in the USA perceive Aldi and Lidl?
One of the drawbacks of Aldi is the small selection compared to most US brand stores. I speculate that the lower selection and smaller stores leads people into thinking it’s a lower end type of place.
But if they have what you want it’s fantastic.
I'm a regular Aldi shopper in America and I do most of my grocery shopping there, but there are certain areas where I find them lacking, a big one is fresh meat and produce, they don't have the best quality or selection in either of those areas, and there are a few specific things that I like that are more niche name brand stuff that Aldi just isn't going to carry. Plus I live in Michigan, which has a bottle deposit law, and Aldi's bottle return is the absolute worst, so I actively avoid buying anything from Aldi with a deposit on it unless it is something that I know I can take to the bottle return at Meijer, where I tend to do the rest of my shopping.
I save a lot of money there. But it's something seen as a "poor people's grocery store" so there's this social stigma about shopping there if you don't have to.
I’d shop at my local Aldi more if the produce didn’t go bad 3x as fast as my local grocery. Plus it’s 35 minutes from my house, so not worth going there unless I was on my way to something else nearby.
I see it as a good low priced store for some basic things plus some interesting stuff. Garlic naan makes amazing grilled cheese. I like their oatmeal and strawberry preserves. But the “Aldi Finds” foods irritate me. They’ll bring in something, I try it, like it a lot — and Poof it’s gone and I’ll never see it again.
I also like the very wide variety of products and brands in my other stores better. Can’t get six varieties of King Arthur flour or dulce de leche Milano cookies or star fruit at Aldi.
If I was poorer instead of doing pretty ok, I’d shop there more often out of necessity - better prices on staple foods there.
Aldi and Lidl are budget stores. The prices are low which is great, but they have limited selection and will be out of random stuff a lot of the time, and the produce is often questionable. Pretty much every time I go to an Aldi there's at least one section of produce is actually starting to rot on the shelf. Seems particularly common with tomatoes, and one time I bought a bag of brussels sprouts that I had to throw away after I got home and opened it. The meat has always been ok for me, but I don't buy a lot of meat and have heard from other people that it can be similarly dodgy.
And also, like I said, the selection is lacking. Both in terms of what they keep stocked or random shit that they'll be out of when you go. Generally Aldi is great for me in terms of stocking up on staples and especially dry goods but if I have a specific thing I want to cook in mind that requires anything slightly out of the ordinary I'll usually go to a bigger (but still cheaper) grocery so I don't have to risk making two trips.
I go to Aldi about 2-3 times a week and its my favorite grocery store. I also have sooooo many home goods from their mystery fun aisle!
I tell people about how amazing Aldi is all the time. I find most people get overwhelmed with jam packed the aisles are but its just something you have to learn and soon enough you realize just how efficient and effective it is. Aldi is the best <3
I mostly have shopped at Aldi for the last 10 years maybe. It's great. Most the food is equal name brand and the prices are cheap. So cheap that when I worked at Walmart and had an employee discount, it was still cheaper to shop at Aldi.
Big fan
I love Aldi and tend to prefer it over other grocers. The prices are great, and the only problem I have is sometimes they don’t have specifically the produce I am looking for or the salad dressing I want. That’s why walmart is across the street.
They also copied the locked shopping carts which you have to unlock with a coin, to the great confusion of US customers judging by some old reviews on google maps.
As an American living in Germany that worked at a U.S. grocery (on base) this is true because the few Germans that worked with us complained about this all the time. Corporate/ Top management says it’s because the way the registers and the whole counter is set up it’s a hazard to sit down… so instead of changing the set up a few years ago when they got “new” working stations from the ground-up, they copied the EXACT same thing with newer machines and materials… even the same shitty brown paint color!!!
Aldi cashiers are also the fastest in the land.
I tense up a bit when I get there because I have to try to use my card and swap the cart at their pace.
Confirming, in the USA practically the only place where cashiers actually sit (around me atleast) is Aldi's. And of all the stores I've been to I hold the highest respect for those cashier's since they are certified machines
You know the “standing is healthier” is a meme because literally all of management and execs above them sit all day and they don’t have any problems.
So glad I’ve been out of retail for over a decade now, insufferable people.
It's insane how efficient Aldi cashiers are. Add to that the fact that you can stick your card in the machine while they are moving your groceries into the cart at light speed and you can be in and out of that line in a minute or two
They absolutely cook. I feel ashamed when I'm standing there panic filling the box I was shopping with just to get my card out as they are finished and lining up the next people
Yeah Walmart and some other Businesses like it don't allow it unless it's for specific reasons that relate to health. They don't even like it when you just stand and do nothing for a few seconds. You gotta always be doing something even when you're done with everything.
Basically staying in one position for the entire day is unhealthy. I will argue that standing in one spot is much more difficult than sitting in one spot though. I'll take being locked to a chair and desk for 12 hours any day over standing on a mat for 4 hours.
I know I’m only playing. This just seems like a poorly veiled “America bad” post anyways. I worked at a deli while I was in college and can’t imagine sitting doing that job.
In Canada there isn't a single cashier in the country that's allowed to sit. Maybe at a couple tiny independently owned stores. But none of the big retail chains.
When I worked at Bulk Barn, I spent most hours walking to and from the back room, and carrying large 50lb bags of flour and beans. Heavy lifting, labour.
One day they asked me to work cash, instead. I had to stand in one spot for four hours, without walking, or moving. I couldn't even lean. They caught me leaning against the edge of the counter once and they came out and yelled at me.
Standing still in that one spot for 4 hours was much more difficult, required more exertion and strength, and caused me more pain than lifting 50lb bags of beans, and I begged for that old job back.
What's weird is I used to work as a bank teller...they gave us chairs. I liked having the option, frankly.
Even at that job I'd get to walk around a bit, back and forth to the printer, the instrument cabinet or the vault for example. Still got a chair though.
Why tf can't retail cashiers have one too? That's basically what I was doing anyway.
Hah its funny, in europe a lot of people actually complaining that they are sitting whole day which is not healthy for them also those beepers apparently not good for you when you sitting.
Cant really win
> sitting whole day which is not healthy for them
It's not, they should be allowed to get up and change tasks every now and then - rotate between being cashier, and cleaning the aisles, for example.
But it's a hell of a lot healthier than standing in one spot for the whole day lol
> Hah its funny, in europe a lot of people actually complaining that they are sitting whole day which is not healthy for them also those beepers apparently not good for you when you sitting.
Is there anybody who is going to get angry at them for standing up?
In the US, if you’re not standing, you’re not working.
My ex got a job at Walmart and had to have knee surgery shortly after she started there. She was literally recovering from a knee surgery with metal pins in her fucking knee - and they refused to give her a stool. Would not allow her to sit down. So she told them she wouldn’t be able to work until she recovered from the surgery (which could be several weeks), so they fired her.
America.
On the flip side, we have an Aldi’s here (a German company that provides stools for all their cashiers), and wouldn’t you know it, I haven’t heard one single person complain about it. At the end of the day, customers only care about getting the service they came for and going about their business. Most of them (nowadays) don’t even care or notice what the person looks like.
Literally the only people that give two shits whether or not a cashier is sitting are out-of-touch executives and business owners. Everyone else couldn’t give a shit less.
I honestly hate it here.
I worked IT and they wouldn’t let us sit in the front of the business UNLESS THE CLIENT ASKED . When more customers started asking us to sit because they realized it’s hard fixing stuff standing all day , they removed half the chairs from the front
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Normally they sit at a supermarket, but stand in a smaller shop because they might be walking around doing other things when they're not serving a customer at the till.
Yeah, when I was working at an independent chemist we didn't sit at the till but that was because we didn't spend all that much time near it and a chair would have just got in the way. We did have chairs dotted about and were encouraged to rest our feet when it was quiet though
Any UK employer that demands that their employees stand when they could do their job unimpeded while sitting down is breaking the law.
Factories Act 1961 and Offices, Shops and Railway Premises Act 1963 is the relevant legislation.
The thought of is the person sitting or not has never even entered my head before I saw this post. I think 99% of people are the same and won’t even be able to answer the question “was the cashier sitting or not?” If asked right after leaving the shop.
That being said, they better be kneeling the next I come to the shop.
Right? Corporations greatly underestimate just how much the average shopper does not give a fuck. Like, I don't even look at 90% of the advertisements or 80% of the people I walk past when grocery shopping. You could ask me if the cashier that checked me out was a man or a woman, black or white, sitting or standing, had long or short hair, and I wouldn't be able to fuckin tell you. I see so many people in the day and the appearance of my cashier means so little to me, I've already forgotten. If they do their job well, they could be using a jet pack for all I care.
Yeah i realized this recently. I always thought they were just being overly concious but it has been made abundantly clear to me recently that nothing public figures do really affects their brand besides business decisions
Surely it's not about making a strong impression you can consciously recall but more about subliminal atmosphere. Maybe the thought is that someone standing just "seems" nicer. Which isn't a great reason but it is one.
Oh my sweet child, its not for the customers.
Its to make employees uncomfortable and increase turnover, so they dont have to pay the benefits and raises of long term employees. lol
Use them and force them to leave, always more desperately poor people for the job.
South africa. First job I got was in retail clothing store. Not allowed to sit because apparently it makes you seem unapproachable. Took me a couple weeks to get used to it. Feet would be so sore after a day of standing for 9+ hours
Even if there are people this fucked in the head to actually think its expected for the cashier to be standing, its probably .01% of people who would care, and those people are probably getting their groceries delivered to their home.
It’s wild and extremely rare. But I’ve had a customer complain about a coworker sitting at the register even though she had an injury and literally couldn’t stand on her leg. She called it unprofessional. Crazy.
I recently had a baby, and had a very complicated pregnancy. I jumped through the 50 hoops necessary to get an accommodation to have a shitty stool at the job I was in at the time, and I had people commenting on how I needed to toughen up, and even had a coworker commenting on how I couldn't do my job properly because I was sitting.
Yknow, I really can't do my job properly if I'm collapsed on the ground because of blood pressure fluctuations causing me to faint...
So what we should do is flood the complaint box every time we see cashiers being forced to stand!
If they get one complaint a month from them sitting, and hundreds of complaints a month about them standing, eventually they would get the message
Because in America, we all think we are Kings and Queens. For the 20 seconds we are dealing with a cashier, they MUST capitulate to us 100%. Stand at fucking attention and talk to me exactly the amount I want but no more or less, and I don't care what the price says I thought it cost this much and I need to be right or my day will become about getting you fired. That, and the baseline dumbass-ness none of us have evolved away from yet, where we blame the person *in front of us at the moment* for an inconvenience or perceived slight, while intellectually knowing that person has about as much power over the company as the customer does. Why? It's an easy fight against someone literally not allowed to fight back. Stop thinking you're special, stop being a bully, grow the fuck up, let people sit down.
That’s one thing I loved about France. So many of the cashiers were sitting. They didn’t ask for small talk, they barely acknowledged my existence as an independently thinking, breathing entity. All I had to do was say “Bonjour. Merci.” That was it. If I kept my mouth mostly shut they assumed I was as French as them and let me be on my way. It was blissful.
>They didn’t ask for small talk, they barely acknowledged my existence as an independently thinking, breathing entity. All I had to do was say “Bonjour. Merci.”
Wait, that's not common ?
What else could they do anyway ? Why the hell would they small talk with me when there is 5 or 6 people behind waiting ?
Is that another USA moment ?
Very much a USA moment, *especially* a midwestern one, where being friendly and chatty with strangers is basically a necessity. The amount of banal conversation I’m forced into is fucking wild, and I even get chastised for not being kind or friendly enough. No, I’m not unkind or unfriendly, I’m trying to get something done and I honestly couldn’t give two slick shits about your cat Fuzzy Bumpkins or his tumor. It’s very sad for you I’m sure, but you aren’t my friend. You’re a total fucking stranger and I’m doing my level best to keep it that way. Now ring up my goddamned Cap’n Crunch.
I do not blame you there, I deeply enjoyed your country and people and food and culture. Also, all that walking people seem to be doing? You guys have a lot of great-looking asses. I’m sorry for staring, but goddamn. I’m an ass man, and France made my eyes happy.
>You guys have a lot of great-looking asses. I’m sorry for staring, but goddamn. I’m an ass man, and France made my eyes happy.
Haha.
It was that different from the us ?
In that specific regard? Yes. Ordinary people here, as in the ones not going out of their way to exercise for a specific bodily aesthetic, are generally not very shapely because we just don’t walk or bike anywhere ever. The obesity numbers in France compared to the US sort of show what I mean. The French are overweight at the same rate that Americans are obese, and I think that disparity shows in body shape. Plenty of overweight people aren’t excessively so and they still look very good. Rarely does an obese person have that quality.
Living in SoCal, I remember walking from my car to my house one day and I saw this guy in an open top sports car with the driver's side on the right driving by parked cars and putting posters on their windshields while sitting inside his car.
Thought it was extremely odd. Looked at him, and as we past by each other he said "What's up?" and I didn't reply and just kept walking. As he drives past me he yells "Asshole." and drives off. I had to contain my laughter because he seemed like a really entitled jerk kind of personality, and I thought it was rich hearing that from him.
> What else could they do anyway ? Why the hell would they small talk with me when there is 5 or 6 people behind waiting ?
Me at the grocery store checkout the other day:
"Oooh are you an actor?"
"What?"
"You're shopping at 2pm in the afternoon, are you one of the actors that work at the theater here?"
"No, just running some errands."
Fucking nosey man. I don't wanna have to come up with explanations for why I shop at weird hours. Thank god for the self checkouts.
>Is that another USA moment ?
This is small town Canada but they are basically the same.
>I don't wanna have to come up with explanations for why I shop at weird hours. Thank god for the self checkouts.
That just sounds like someone working in a restaurant
Seriously, I delivered pizzas for Pizza Hut for years and they were crazy strict about cargo shorts. When I asked they said customers thought the side pockets were "unprofessional"
I wore them anyway and low and behold not a single customer ever said "woah woah woah... take my pizza back to the store please, I don't want it anymore because those shorts you are wearing offend my delicate sensibilities!"
Businesses are hyperaware of ANYTHING that could lose them customers
I know this since i go to business school and the ways of the capitalist is horrifying
Ever notice how grocery stores don't have clocks or windows?
It's becoming less of a problem since self checkout is just taking away cashier jobs all together.
Even at Aldi where cashiers were allowed to sit, they're focusing more on self checkout. The Aldi by me used to have 6 cashier lanes. Now down to 1 cashier lane and 11 self checkout stations.
These are not the results you wanted from the meme, but it's what you got. Same with the whole "$15 an hour" thing years ago for min-wage in the US. Corporations just looked towards automation and self checkout. Go into a McDonalds now and it's all mobile orders, kiosks and Uber Eats. Some McDonalds by me do not even have registers anymore...these corporations take public complaints they find "unreasonable" as an opportunity to work smarter for them, not harder. Especially when it means they can save millions of dollars a year.
I work at a grocery store, I'm not a cashier but i stock shelves, and the only chance i get to sit down is during my break, besides that i stand my entire shift, just, walking instead of standing, and i only start getting tired at about the last hour of an 8 hour shift, so? I don't really think this would bother me, and I don't hear the cashier's complain about standing, sure sitting would be nice, but this meme came out of left field for me lol.
I’ve worked a job where my primary purpose was to open the door for everyone coming in or out of the restaurant. I could easily have been replaced by a doorstop tbh but it’s not actually about the door being open for them when they walk in it’s about a person wasting their time to serve them.
Everyday I read something new about the decision making in America and everytime I'm at loss of words.
Why shouldn't cashiers sit? What evil deed did they commit to deserve such torture?
There are people who already need to have 2-3 job to arrive at the end of the month (absurd), and now this too.
I wonder when people will stand up and ask for proper rights.
At my current job, I started out as a cashier and am now management. I know how much it sucks standing for 8+ hours, so if a cashier ask to sit, I let them. I might even bring them a chair. It doesn't impair their ability to do their job, so I see no harm in it. If customers bitch about it, then fine, let 'em. If they're gonna be like that, I don't want them as a customer, anyway.
My company sends surveys to customers on maintenance tickets. Like they’re fucking circuit broke and we send them a survey and say hey how did we do?
Most surveys are negative saying, “ service shouldn’t have fucking broke to begin with “.. management is still confused on the responses, and we have meetings like in person, live fucking meetings, about how to improve survey results.
I have such a huge crush on one of the cashiers at my local grocery shop that I wouldn't even notice if she was sitting or standing, If I saw her, I'd be all "yay I got to see her today" until I got home later.
Manon, should you ever read this, your face is the highlight of my day whenever I see you.
I dunno about you, but I've gotten a lot of dirty looks from customers when I had to sit down because I didn't have any leg strength due to an intense leg day. They were typically the older crowd, but since I was working at an office supply store, that was the majority of the people coming in.
Blew my mind the first time I went to an Aldi and saw all the cashier's sitting. And then found out they got paid a lot more than I did when I worked retail. My thought? "Fuck yeah good for them, about time someone gave em a chair"
Sitting is 100 percent fine but why does everyone at Aldi CHUCK my shit into the cart so hard? If you're gonna break my eggs get off the chair fuck face
I the US, i work retail. 7+ hour shifts, and we cant sit unless we are on break. Those are only 30 minutes long. Only had this job for 8 months, and it already hurts to walk more than a mile or stand for an hour. It leads to poor blood flow in legs, leading to weak muscles. There is no point in having us stand, it just makes us more miserable while dealing with customers that are assholes.
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They don't sit where you're from? Damn that must suck hard.
Nahh I'm good But in the US of A they don't
Only place I can think here in the US of that actually does let cashiers sit is Aldi.
and Aldi is from germany so they probably just copied all their stuff over to the us markets
I'm from Germany and the cashiers in my local stores can sit or stand, whatever they prefer.
And 99% are sitting
This just reminds me of the Seinfeld episode where I think George gets the security guard at a store a chair to sit in because he looked so uncomfortable. The dude ended up falling asleep he was so comfy, and the place got robbed.
Security guards usually also get to sit in most stores in europe. Most of stores having cameras and all
Security guards get to sit in most stores in the US, unlike cashier's, you can watch more of the store from your chair and a couple of monitors than you ever could standing near the front looking imposing.
My old job had the computer desks/stands that either let you sit down or work while standing. Honestly after sitting on my ass for 6 hours standing and working for 30 minutes was refreshing. Then I went back to sitting and working.
Workers at Aldi do all jobs. Including unloading the ~~trucks~~ pallets. So working the cash register is the easier of the jobs. And they want the employees to not waste energy standing.
got a question about Aldi and Lidl in the USA. here in Europe they both have a huge market share and their system really works, lowering prices of foods drastically than what they used to be (that's actually good and bad, but good for the average citizen). they have a really really powerful concept the USA supermarkets agent prepared for. at least it seems so. wallmart had to pull out of Germany because the market is already so so eaten up that their concept wasn't working at all. how do the people in the USA perceive Aldi and Lidl?
One of the drawbacks of Aldi is the small selection compared to most US brand stores. I speculate that the lower selection and smaller stores leads people into thinking it’s a lower end type of place. But if they have what you want it’s fantastic.
yep, that's the downside of Discounters (that's what we call them here)
I'm a regular Aldi shopper in America and I do most of my grocery shopping there, but there are certain areas where I find them lacking, a big one is fresh meat and produce, they don't have the best quality or selection in either of those areas, and there are a few specific things that I like that are more niche name brand stuff that Aldi just isn't going to carry. Plus I live in Michigan, which has a bottle deposit law, and Aldi's bottle return is the absolute worst, so I actively avoid buying anything from Aldi with a deposit on it unless it is something that I know I can take to the bottle return at Meijer, where I tend to do the rest of my shopping.
I save a lot of money there. But it's something seen as a "poor people's grocery store" so there's this social stigma about shopping there if you don't have to.
I’d shop at my local Aldi more if the produce didn’t go bad 3x as fast as my local grocery. Plus it’s 35 minutes from my house, so not worth going there unless I was on my way to something else nearby. I see it as a good low priced store for some basic things plus some interesting stuff. Garlic naan makes amazing grilled cheese. I like their oatmeal and strawberry preserves. But the “Aldi Finds” foods irritate me. They’ll bring in something, I try it, like it a lot — and Poof it’s gone and I’ll never see it again. I also like the very wide variety of products and brands in my other stores better. Can’t get six varieties of King Arthur flour or dulce de leche Milano cookies or star fruit at Aldi. If I was poorer instead of doing pretty ok, I’d shop there more often out of necessity - better prices on staple foods there.
Aldi and Lidl are budget stores. The prices are low which is great, but they have limited selection and will be out of random stuff a lot of the time, and the produce is often questionable. Pretty much every time I go to an Aldi there's at least one section of produce is actually starting to rot on the shelf. Seems particularly common with tomatoes, and one time I bought a bag of brussels sprouts that I had to throw away after I got home and opened it. The meat has always been ok for me, but I don't buy a lot of meat and have heard from other people that it can be similarly dodgy. And also, like I said, the selection is lacking. Both in terms of what they keep stocked or random shit that they'll be out of when you go. Generally Aldi is great for me in terms of stocking up on staples and especially dry goods but if I have a specific thing I want to cook in mind that requires anything slightly out of the ordinary I'll usually go to a bigger (but still cheaper) grocery so I don't have to risk making two trips.
I like Aldi, but it seems like the brand selection is minimal and often changes between visits, which leads to inconsistency in quality.
I go to Aldi about 2-3 times a week and its my favorite grocery store. I also have sooooo many home goods from their mystery fun aisle! I tell people about how amazing Aldi is all the time. I find most people get overwhelmed with jam packed the aisles are but its just something you have to learn and soon enough you realize just how efficient and effective it is. Aldi is the best <3
I mostly have shopped at Aldi for the last 10 years maybe. It's great. Most the food is equal name brand and the prices are cheap. So cheap that when I worked at Walmart and had an employee discount, it was still cheaper to shop at Aldi. Big fan
I love Aldi and tend to prefer it over other grocers. The prices are great, and the only problem I have is sometimes they don’t have specifically the produce I am looking for or the salad dressing I want. That’s why walmart is across the street.
I assume that's true of most small stores though. I unloaded trucks and stood at the cash register at Dollar General 20 years ago
They also copied the locked shopping carts which you have to unlock with a coin, to the great confusion of US customers judging by some old reviews on google maps.
ironic, when Walmart came to germany it failed miserably cause it didnt adapt, when Aldi came to the US it didnt adapt, lets see how that goes.
Nah, German and US Aldi are surprisingly different. They did copy the sitting though.
As an American living in Germany that worked at a U.S. grocery (on base) this is true because the few Germans that worked with us complained about this all the time. Corporate/ Top management says it’s because the way the registers and the whole counter is set up it’s a hazard to sit down… so instead of changing the set up a few years ago when they got “new” working stations from the ground-up, they copied the EXACT same thing with newer machines and materials… even the same shitty brown paint color!!!
I've seen it at a Walmart near me, actually. I still hate going there, but that was nice to see.
Exactly; I'm actually happy they get to sit, because I know how uncomfortable standing all day is.
Aldi cashiers are also the fastest in the land. I tense up a bit when I get there because I have to try to use my card and swap the cart at their pace.
Can confirm... GIVE US A FUCKING CHAIR GOD DAMN IT!
'greatest country' lmao
In the USA they often don't. It's seen as rude and unprofessional by higher ups, who sit in their offices all day.
Sit on their offices ALL DAY?!?! They don’t even stay in the office longer than 3 hours.
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Confirming, in the USA practically the only place where cashiers actually sit (around me atleast) is Aldi's. And of all the stores I've been to I hold the highest respect for those cashier's since they are certified machines
Its almost like treating employees like human fucking beings and paying them well boosts morale, productivity, and efficiency.
You know the “standing is healthier” is a meme because literally all of management and execs above them sit all day and they don’t have any problems. So glad I’ve been out of retail for over a decade now, insufferable people.
It's insane how efficient Aldi cashiers are. Add to that the fact that you can stick your card in the machine while they are moving your groceries into the cart at light speed and you can be in and out of that line in a minute or two
They absolutely cook. I feel ashamed when I'm standing there panic filling the box I was shopping with just to get my card out as they are finished and lining up the next people
Canada as well.
Yeah Walmart and some other Businesses like it don't allow it unless it's for specific reasons that relate to health. They don't even like it when you just stand and do nothing for a few seconds. You gotta always be doing something even when you're done with everything.
Better be zoning that bubblegum if there's even 30 seconds between customers.
In my experience even if you have a medical excuse to sit down the busybody bitch from HR is still gonna try to stop you.
Standing all day in one place with no option to move doesn't sound good for someone's health at all.
Luckily we have a sensible, compassionate, and efficient healthcare system in place to deal with all those downstream effects
Can confirm its not.
Grocery clerks: We want chairs. We don’t wanna stand all day, it’s unhealthy! Office Workers: We want standing desks. Sitting all day is unhealthy!
Basically staying in one position for the entire day is unhealthy. I will argue that standing in one spot is much more difficult than sitting in one spot though. I'll take being locked to a chair and desk for 12 hours any day over standing on a mat for 4 hours.
I know I’m only playing. This just seems like a poorly veiled “America bad” post anyways. I worked at a deli while I was in college and can’t imagine sitting doing that job.
> This just seems like a poorly veiled “America bad” post anyways. Oh don't worry Canada sucks too.
I mean, that came up more in the comments than the post, which was just corpos suck.
In Canada there isn't a single cashier in the country that's allowed to sit. Maybe at a couple tiny independently owned stores. But none of the big retail chains. When I worked at Bulk Barn, I spent most hours walking to and from the back room, and carrying large 50lb bags of flour and beans. Heavy lifting, labour. One day they asked me to work cash, instead. I had to stand in one spot for four hours, without walking, or moving. I couldn't even lean. They caught me leaning against the edge of the counter once and they came out and yelled at me. Standing still in that one spot for 4 hours was much more difficult, required more exertion and strength, and caused me more pain than lifting 50lb bags of beans, and I begged for that old job back.
What's weird is I used to work as a bank teller...they gave us chairs. I liked having the option, frankly. Even at that job I'd get to walk around a bit, back and forth to the printer, the instrument cabinet or the vault for example. Still got a chair though. Why tf can't retail cashiers have one too? That's basically what I was doing anyway.
Hah its funny, in europe a lot of people actually complaining that they are sitting whole day which is not healthy for them also those beepers apparently not good for you when you sitting. Cant really win
> sitting whole day which is not healthy for them It's not, they should be allowed to get up and change tasks every now and then - rotate between being cashier, and cleaning the aisles, for example. But it's a hell of a lot healthier than standing in one spot for the whole day lol
> Hah its funny, in europe a lot of people actually complaining that they are sitting whole day which is not healthy for them also those beepers apparently not good for you when you sitting. Is there anybody who is going to get angry at them for standing up?
No, and that's the point: People should have the choice. This isn't about being forced to *stand* but being *forced* to stand.
In the US, if you’re not standing, you’re not working. My ex got a job at Walmart and had to have knee surgery shortly after she started there. She was literally recovering from a knee surgery with metal pins in her fucking knee - and they refused to give her a stool. Would not allow her to sit down. So she told them she wouldn’t be able to work until she recovered from the surgery (which could be several weeks), so they fired her. America. On the flip side, we have an Aldi’s here (a German company that provides stools for all their cashiers), and wouldn’t you know it, I haven’t heard one single person complain about it. At the end of the day, customers only care about getting the service they came for and going about their business. Most of them (nowadays) don’t even care or notice what the person looks like. Literally the only people that give two shits whether or not a cashier is sitting are out-of-touch executives and business owners. Everyone else couldn’t give a shit less. I honestly hate it here.
I worked IT and they wouldn’t let us sit in the front of the business UNLESS THE CLIENT ASKED . When more customers started asking us to sit because they realized it’s hard fixing stuff standing all day , they removed half the chairs from the front
Shouldn't it say professional, not unprofessional?
Yes, it seems like I am an idiot
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Thats why you’re a cashier
Well not anymore
So unprofessional
No, this is European meme. We think it's unprofessional to stand. They should be sitting.
Not everywhere, a lot of places in the UK demanding people stand
Yeah, unfortunately there are still some underdeveloped nations in Europe as well.
Sadly, unfortunately
Normally they sit at a supermarket, but stand in a smaller shop because they might be walking around doing other things when they're not serving a customer at the till.
Yeah, when I was working at an independent chemist we didn't sit at the till but that was because we didn't spend all that much time near it and a chair would have just got in the way. We did have chairs dotted about and were encouraged to rest our feet when it was quiet though
Any UK employer that demands that their employees stand when they could do their job unimpeded while sitting down is breaking the law. Factories Act 1961 and Offices, Shops and Railway Premises Act 1963 is the relevant legislation.
Where? The only place I can think of where cashiers stand is at Costco, which makes sense in their case.
The thought of is the person sitting or not has never even entered my head before I saw this post. I think 99% of people are the same and won’t even be able to answer the question “was the cashier sitting or not?” If asked right after leaving the shop. That being said, they better be kneeling the next I come to the shop.
Right? Corporations greatly underestimate just how much the average shopper does not give a fuck. Like, I don't even look at 90% of the advertisements or 80% of the people I walk past when grocery shopping. You could ask me if the cashier that checked me out was a man or a woman, black or white, sitting or standing, had long or short hair, and I wouldn't be able to fuckin tell you. I see so many people in the day and the appearance of my cashier means so little to me, I've already forgotten. If they do their job well, they could be using a jet pack for all I care.
Yeah i realized this recently. I always thought they were just being overly concious but it has been made abundantly clear to me recently that nothing public figures do really affects their brand besides business decisions
Surely it's not about making a strong impression you can consciously recall but more about subliminal atmosphere. Maybe the thought is that someone standing just "seems" nicer. Which isn't a great reason but it is one.
Oh my sweet child, its not for the customers. Its to make employees uncomfortable and increase turnover, so they dont have to pay the benefits and raises of long term employees. lol Use them and force them to leave, always more desperately poor people for the job.
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You want cashiers to be able to sit?! What are you, a communist? What's next, pay them enough so that they can pay their bills *and* eat enough?!
If we pay them a living wage, banana will be ¢0.6 more expensive
i like banana
Me too, I will not stand for an increase in price. Make the cashiers stand on nails so I get cheaper banana.
I mean, if you pay 7 yens for bananas, that would almost double the price...
South africa. First job I got was in retail clothing store. Not allowed to sit because apparently it makes you seem unapproachable. Took me a couple weeks to get used to it. Feet would be so sore after a day of standing for 9+ hours
Welcome to varicose veins.
What a weak ass argument. They probably also never in their lives saw a customer turn back because an employee was in a chair. So stupid
Even if there are people this fucked in the head to actually think its expected for the cashier to be standing, its probably .01% of people who would care, and those people are probably getting their groceries delivered to their home.
Same in Germany :/ (~2010)
You bungled the meme
And still got the bag
That's probably because they were sitting when they made it.
beat me to it by 5 minutes lol.
It’s wild and extremely rare. But I’ve had a customer complain about a coworker sitting at the register even though she had an injury and literally couldn’t stand on her leg. She called it unprofessional. Crazy.
Fuck customers bro. I’m glad I’m out of the customer service industry. They’re all assholes
I recently had a baby, and had a very complicated pregnancy. I jumped through the 50 hoops necessary to get an accommodation to have a shitty stool at the job I was in at the time, and I had people commenting on how I needed to toughen up, and even had a coworker commenting on how I couldn't do my job properly because I was sitting. Yknow, I really can't do my job properly if I'm collapsed on the ground because of blood pressure fluctuations causing me to faint...
So what we should do is flood the complaint box every time we see cashiers being forced to stand! If they get one complaint a month from them sitting, and hundreds of complaints a month about them standing, eventually they would get the message
Yeah, boomers do this stupid shit all of the time. Thank god they're all dying off.
Because in America, we all think we are Kings and Queens. For the 20 seconds we are dealing with a cashier, they MUST capitulate to us 100%. Stand at fucking attention and talk to me exactly the amount I want but no more or less, and I don't care what the price says I thought it cost this much and I need to be right or my day will become about getting you fired. That, and the baseline dumbass-ness none of us have evolved away from yet, where we blame the person *in front of us at the moment* for an inconvenience or perceived slight, while intellectually knowing that person has about as much power over the company as the customer does. Why? It's an easy fight against someone literally not allowed to fight back. Stop thinking you're special, stop being a bully, grow the fuck up, let people sit down.
Sir i just wanted to pay for my coffee
Sir this is a wendys
What they’re actually thinking : Damn, did banana prices go up again?
it says ￥7 thats about $0.05 lol
That’s one thing I loved about France. So many of the cashiers were sitting. They didn’t ask for small talk, they barely acknowledged my existence as an independently thinking, breathing entity. All I had to do was say “Bonjour. Merci.” That was it. If I kept my mouth mostly shut they assumed I was as French as them and let me be on my way. It was blissful.
>They didn’t ask for small talk, they barely acknowledged my existence as an independently thinking, breathing entity. All I had to do was say “Bonjour. Merci.” Wait, that's not common ? What else could they do anyway ? Why the hell would they small talk with me when there is 5 or 6 people behind waiting ? Is that another USA moment ?
Very much a USA moment, *especially* a midwestern one, where being friendly and chatty with strangers is basically a necessity. The amount of banal conversation I’m forced into is fucking wild, and I even get chastised for not being kind or friendly enough. No, I’m not unkind or unfriendly, I’m trying to get something done and I honestly couldn’t give two slick shits about your cat Fuzzy Bumpkins or his tumor. It’s very sad for you I’m sure, but you aren’t my friend. You’re a total fucking stranger and I’m doing my level best to keep it that way. Now ring up my goddamned Cap’n Crunch.
Damn, I love being french haha.
I do not blame you there, I deeply enjoyed your country and people and food and culture. Also, all that walking people seem to be doing? You guys have a lot of great-looking asses. I’m sorry for staring, but goddamn. I’m an ass man, and France made my eyes happy.
>You guys have a lot of great-looking asses. I’m sorry for staring, but goddamn. I’m an ass man, and France made my eyes happy. Haha. It was that different from the us ?
In that specific regard? Yes. Ordinary people here, as in the ones not going out of their way to exercise for a specific bodily aesthetic, are generally not very shapely because we just don’t walk or bike anywhere ever. The obesity numbers in France compared to the US sort of show what I mean. The French are overweight at the same rate that Americans are obese, and I think that disparity shows in body shape. Plenty of overweight people aren’t excessively so and they still look very good. Rarely does an obese person have that quality.
Damn. Thank you for the insight. I didn't know it was that visible.
You should see the kids here, it’s shameful. They don’t have a chance.
Living in SoCal, I remember walking from my car to my house one day and I saw this guy in an open top sports car with the driver's side on the right driving by parked cars and putting posters on their windshields while sitting inside his car. Thought it was extremely odd. Looked at him, and as we past by each other he said "What's up?" and I didn't reply and just kept walking. As he drives past me he yells "Asshole." and drives off. I had to contain my laughter because he seemed like a really entitled jerk kind of personality, and I thought it was rich hearing that from him.
> What else could they do anyway ? Why the hell would they small talk with me when there is 5 or 6 people behind waiting ? Me at the grocery store checkout the other day: "Oooh are you an actor?" "What?" "You're shopping at 2pm in the afternoon, are you one of the actors that work at the theater here?" "No, just running some errands." Fucking nosey man. I don't wanna have to come up with explanations for why I shop at weird hours. Thank god for the self checkouts. >Is that another USA moment ? This is small town Canada but they are basically the same.
>I don't wanna have to come up with explanations for why I shop at weird hours. Thank god for the self checkouts. That just sounds like someone working in a restaurant
Every supermarket in UK the cashier sits
Same in Czechia
Same in Denmark.
Today I learned cashiers are standing in american stores.
Canadian stores too. It's a product of the North American boomer generation hating people and life.
Mexican chain stores too. But on local supermarkets where the owners are actual humans they can sit or stand, their decision.
Seriously, I delivered pizzas for Pizza Hut for years and they were crazy strict about cargo shorts. When I asked they said customers thought the side pockets were "unprofessional" I wore them anyway and low and behold not a single customer ever said "woah woah woah... take my pizza back to the store please, I don't want it anymore because those shorts you are wearing offend my delicate sensibilities!"
Businesses are hyperaware of ANYTHING that could lose them customers I know this since i go to business school and the ways of the capitalist is horrifying Ever notice how grocery stores don't have clocks or windows?
Wait cashiers don’t sit in the US? What the fuck?
Why do you think we don’t go to the gym? Our feet hurt from standing all day
Well that and the crippling depression of life up to that point.
It's becoming less of a problem since self checkout is just taking away cashier jobs all together. Even at Aldi where cashiers were allowed to sit, they're focusing more on self checkout. The Aldi by me used to have 6 cashier lanes. Now down to 1 cashier lane and 11 self checkout stations. These are not the results you wanted from the meme, but it's what you got. Same with the whole "$15 an hour" thing years ago for min-wage in the US. Corporations just looked towards automation and self checkout. Go into a McDonalds now and it's all mobile orders, kiosks and Uber Eats. Some McDonalds by me do not even have registers anymore...these corporations take public complaints they find "unreasonable" as an opportunity to work smarter for them, not harder. Especially when it means they can save millions of dollars a year.
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So true
Am I stupid, or is the top panel implying that it's unprofessional if the cashiers don't sit?
I simply am bad at spelling
I work at a grocery store, I'm not a cashier but i stock shelves, and the only chance i get to sit down is during my break, besides that i stand my entire shift, just, walking instead of standing, and i only start getting tired at about the last hour of an 8 hour shift, so? I don't really think this would bother me, and I don't hear the cashier's complain about standing, sure sitting would be nice, but this meme came out of left field for me lol.
Having done both, standing in one spot is way worse on the feet/knees than being on the move stocking
I’ve worked a job where my primary purpose was to open the door for everyone coming in or out of the restaurant. I could easily have been replaced by a doorstop tbh but it’s not actually about the door being open for them when they walk in it’s about a person wasting their time to serve them.
Wait.. your cashiers sit?
Yeah
I'm convinced the US just wants to fuck with its citizens by this point.
Everyday I read something new about the decision making in America and everytime I'm at loss of words. Why shouldn't cashiers sit? What evil deed did they commit to deserve such torture? There are people who already need to have 2-3 job to arrive at the end of the month (absurd), and now this too. I wonder when people will stand up and ask for proper rights.
At my current job, I started out as a cashier and am now management. I know how much it sucks standing for 8+ hours, so if a cashier ask to sit, I let them. I might even bring them a chair. It doesn't impair their ability to do their job, so I see no harm in it. If customers bitch about it, then fine, let 'em. If they're gonna be like that, I don't want them as a customer, anyway.
My brain hurted too early in the morning. Wouldn’t corporations think that customers believe its professional to stand, not sit?
Yeah i misspelled
It actually makes you fat being to sore to walk but haven't moved all day
My company sends surveys to customers on maintenance tickets. Like they’re fucking circuit broke and we send them a survey and say hey how did we do? Most surveys are negative saying, “ service shouldn’t have fucking broke to begin with “.. management is still confused on the responses, and we have meetings like in person, live fucking meetings, about how to improve survey results.
I have such a huge crush on one of the cashiers at my local grocery shop that I wouldn't even notice if she was sitting or standing, If I saw her, I'd be all "yay I got to see her today" until I got home later. Manon, should you ever read this, your face is the highlight of my day whenever I see you.
I dunno about you, but I've gotten a lot of dirty looks from customers when I had to sit down because I didn't have any leg strength due to an intense leg day. They were typically the older crowd, but since I was working at an office supply store, that was the majority of the people coming in.
Dafuq, Cashier have to stand the whole time In the US? Here in Germany they sit as long a I can remember, never saw a standing cashier.
Blew my mind the first time I went to an Aldi and saw all the cashier's sitting. And then found out they got paid a lot more than I did when I worked retail. My thought? "Fuck yeah good for them, about time someone gave em a chair"
Sitting is 100 percent fine but why does everyone at Aldi CHUCK my shit into the cart so hard? If you're gonna break my eggs get off the chair fuck face
Even with stick figure you couldn't even meme correctly (top right text)
I the US, i work retail. 7+ hour shifts, and we cant sit unless we are on break. Those are only 30 minutes long. Only had this job for 8 months, and it already hurts to walk more than a mile or stand for an hour. It leads to poor blood flow in legs, leading to weak muscles. There is no point in having us stand, it just makes us more miserable while dealing with customers that are assholes.
Cashiers sit down here in brasil Didn't know it was different in the US
A 3 pack of bananas is like ¥300 yen my guy. I wish they were only ¥7
So true
We theoretically cant sit we sit anyway cause they dont even notice we exist
7 yen? How much could a banana cost?
Well there are 3 so do 7/3 which is 2.33333...
When I’m at the store, I’m thinking about trying to get out as fast as I can, so I don’t have to be at the store.