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Cargando... The Checkout Girlpor Tazeen Ahmad
   Ninguno Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.  davidmasters | Oct 13, 2017 |   Publisher: Friday Project Pages: 262 How much do you know about what really goes on at your local supermarket? The Checkout Girl by Tazeen Ahmad is about her experiences as a Checkout Girl or COG in Sainsburys supermarket at the start of the recession. Tazeen writes about the lovers' tiffs, family feuds, flirty customers, and endless customer rants & complaints she saw daily. I enjoyed Tazeen Ahmad's book The Checkout Girl. It was well written, funny and lighthearted. I enjoyed reading about her experiences with awkard, cheeky and friendly customers alike, as well as how she dealt with her colleagues. Available at Amazon.co.uk. (  ) Rai29 | Jun 6, 2012 | annesadleir | Jul 20, 2011 | sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
How much do you know about what really goes on at your local supermarket? We see them every week and they are privy to some of our most intimate secrets - those we wouldn't even share with our closest friends. To us they are the anonymous helpers for whom nothing is too much trouble. But for them, every customer has a part in a gripping soap-opera of lovers' tiffs, family feuds and extraordinary innuendos - turning the daily life of a checkout girl into a hilariously entertaining farce. As we began to contend with the recession, Tazeen Ahmad realised that the supermarket checkout was the perfect place to gauge how the nation was coping with increasing job cuts, sky-high food prices and a billion pound hole in our economy. The answer, it turns out, was with white bread, ice cream and lots and lots of potatoes. Sworn at, flirted with and at the receiving end of endless customer rants, The Checkout Girl is the deliciously gossipy memoir of life on the supermarket conveyor belt where each one of us has unwittingly had a walk-on part. Reading her story will change the way you shop forever. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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It's written as a series of diary entries, and every day is very similar: no comfy chairs to sit on, rude customers, the occasional joke, more rude customers, and never-ending complaints about the cost of food and the state of the British economy. It reminded me of my time working for a national retailer.
The book lacked an overall storyline, and seemed to have no investigative journalistic purpose other than exposing how boring it is to work in a supermarket, and how rude people can be when they're stressed from shopping.
There are some brighter moments - mainly from customers buying pregnancy testing kits, customers who budget carefully and don't fall for special offers (so they don't end up swearing when they see the final bill), and trolley boy - the quirky staff member who is full of random facts. I also enjoyed the author's angry letters she composed in her head to Gordon Brown/Rude Customers/Sainsbury's managment.
The one redeeming feature was that I was reminded how much I don't want to go back to working in retail.
Overall, not recommended. This would have made a good feature article in a magazine. It should never have been made into an book. (