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Checkout Girl: My Life On The Supermarket Conveyor Belt (2009)

by Tazeen Ahmad(Favorite Author)

3.24 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0007327722 (ISBN13: 9780007327720)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Friday Project

review 1: As a former checkout girl myself I found this to be an interesting read. Seeing another person's point of view was nice, albeit the fact that the girl in question was a writer only undertaking the job to write about it took away some of the naturalness from the read. Heavy with statistics and facts and figures which many check out girls/shop assistants don't care two figs for (believe me, I know) it was informative to a degree and at times sweet, sad and funny. A light read, in the end, but not quite as good as it could have been.
review 2: This was so soooo funny. I think I found it even funnier as I have worked in retail myself though not at Sainsburys as the lady who wrote this book did. I worked at WH Smiths but it seems that the management there are quite ... moresimilar to those at Sainsburys that feature in this very humourous book. I read it and at time I laughed out loud, I sympathised as I have been that girl on the checkout when the scanner wont work and the queue is snaking down the store. The whole thing about the relationships you have with customers is so true too. I was made redundant in 2009 and still people I used to serve speak to me when they see me. The stories about the customers are not even exaggerated they dont need to be as they are so true to life it is amazing. I even have done the whole dropping yourself in it by being friendly to certain customers.This is the sort of book you can dip in and out of or like me read loads of in one sitting as I couldnt put it down. its a roflol book (Roll On Floor Laugh Out Loud for those that dont do text speak) less

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