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BULLETIN" 1044, U. S. DEPARTMENT OE AGRICULTURE. 

The checker, standing at a in figure 3, takes the basket of merchan- 
dise from the customer and calls the price of each article to the 
cashier at &, who registers it on the adding machine. If there are 
any articles to be weighed, the checker weighs them on the scale at 
his side and then calls the amount to the cashier. After all the pack- 
ages have been taken out of the basket the cashier totals the amount, 
presents the adding-machine slip, receives the money from the cus- 
tomer, and makes the change. Meanwhile the checker wraps the 
merchandise. By this arrangement the customer is taken care of in 
j, the least possible 
time. The only ob- 
jection to using two 
employees at the exit 
is that during certain 
parts of the day 
there are not enough 
customers passing 
through to keep them 
busy. At such times 
one employee can 
serve both as cashier 
and checker and free 
the other for restock- 
ing the shelves and 
other work. 
In wrapping it is 
advisable to use 
paper bags entirely. 
This is somewhat 
more expensive so 
far as the actual cost 
of paper is con- 
cerned, but the sav- 
ing in time by this 
method more than 
offsets the increased 
cost of the bags over paper and twine. The railing should be about 
3J feet high and should extend the entire length of the counter. It 
should be so close to the counter that customers are forced to pass 
before the checker and cashier in single file. This prevents confusion 
and facilitates the proper checking of all purchases. 
In case the volume of business is very large and the store is such 
that only one exit can be provided the plan shown in figure 4 is 
suggested. Such an arrangement, while not so efficient as the one 
A — Cash register 
Fig. 4 
-One-way exit where several checkers and wrap- 
pers are employed.' 
