Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>
> However, when I have a "better" day out
> shopping, I enjoy seeking out the cashiers and clerks who maintain a
> cheerful demeanor, can hold a brief intelligent exchange, and know their
> job.

Have you actually found one of those in the last couple decades?

Pete wrote on Sat, 15 Nov 2008 09:19:50 -0600:


> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>>
>> However, when I have a "better" day out
>> shopping, I enjoy seeking out the cashiers and clerks who
>> maintain a cheerful demeanor, can hold a brief intelligent
>> exchange, and know their job.


>Have you actually found one of those in the last couple decades?

It may be a result of an apparent campaign by higher management to
rescue a failing business but the cashiers seem uniformly cheerful and
efficient in my local Giant store.

The efficiency does not necessarily extend to other branches. I wanted
to buy a single bottle of milk in the Gaithersburg branch and the two
payment lines open (including a 10 item one) were occupied by people
apparently shopping for orphanages or schools.
--

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not

In article >,
says...
> Pete wrote on Sat, 15 Nov 2008 09:19:50 -0600:
>
>
> > Wayne Boatwright wrote:
> >>
> >> However, when I have a "better" day out
> >> shopping, I enjoy seeking out the cashiers and clerks who
> >> maintain a cheerful demeanor, can hold a brief intelligent
> >> exchange, and know their job.
>
>
> >Have you actually found one of those in the last couple decades?
>
> It may be a result of an apparent campaign by higher management to
> rescue a failing business but the cashiers seem uniformly cheerful and
> efficient in my local Giant store.
>
> The efficiency does not necessarily extend to other branches. I wanted
> to buy a single bottle of milk in the Gaithersburg branch and the two
> payment lines open (including a 10 item one) were occupied by people
> apparently shopping for orphanages or schools.
>

Might just be that store. I've noticed that in some of the Stop &
Shop's, Shaw's and Price Rite's around my area.

On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:26:19 GMT, James Silverton wrote:

> Pete wrote on Sat, 15 Nov 2008 09:19:50 -0600:
>
>
>> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>>>
>>> However, when I have a "better" day out
>>> shopping, I enjoy seeking out the cashiers and clerks who
>>> maintain a cheerful demeanor, can hold a brief intelligent
>>> exchange, and know their job.
>
>
>>Have you actually found one of those in the last couple decades?
>
> It may be a result of an apparent campaign by higher management to
> rescue a failing business but the cashiers seem uniformly cheerful and
> efficient in my local Giant store.
>
> The efficiency does not necessarily extend to other branches. I wanted
> to buy a single bottle of milk in the Gaithersburg branch and the two
> payment lines open (including a 10 item one) were occupied by people
> apparently shopping for orphanages or schools.

i shop the giant store in silver spring (also md). i've seen maybe a small
handful of clerks there who i would say are stupid in almost ten years.

your pal,
blake

On Sat 15 Nov 2008 08:19:50a, Pete C. told us...

>
> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>>
>> However, when I have a "better" day out
>> shopping, I enjoy seeking out the cashiers and clerks who maintain a
>> cheerful demeanor, can hold a brief intelligent exchange, and know their
>> job.
>
> Have you actually found one of those in the last couple decades?
>

Actually, yes, and in more than one store. Their stocking clerks also know
exactly where a product is located when you ask. At the same time, I know
the ones to steer clear of.

--
Wayne Boatwright
(correct the spelling of "geemail" to reply)
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