Description
Receive and disburse money in establishments other than financial institutions. May use electronic scanners, cash registers, or related equipment. May process credit or debit card transactions and validate checks.
- • Supervise others and provide on-the-job training.
- • Help customers find the location of products.
- • Receive payment by cash, check, credit cards, vouchers, or automatic debits.
- • Issue receipts, refunds, credits, or change due to customers.
- • Count money in cash drawers at the beginning of shifts to ensure that amounts are correct and that there is adequate change.
- • Greet customers entering establishments.
- • Establish or identify prices of goods, services, or admission, and tabulate bills, using calculators, cash registers, or optical price scanners.
- • Issue trading stamps, and redeem food stamps and coupons.
- • Answer customers' questions, and provide information on procedures or policies.
- • Weigh items sold by weight to determine prices.
- • Calculate total payments received during a time period, and reconcile this with total sales.
- • Compute and record totals of transactions.
- • Sell tickets and other items to customers.
- • Keep periodic balance sheets of amounts and numbers of transactions.
- • Bag, box, wrap, or gift-wrap merchandise, and prepare packages for shipment.
- • Sort, count, and wrap currency and coins.
- • Process merchandise returns and exchanges.
- • Request information or assistance, using paging systems.
- • Compile and maintain non-monetary reports and records.
- • Monitor checkout stations to ensure they have adequate cash available and are staffed appropriately.
- • Post charges against guests' or patients' accounts.
- • Offer customers carry-out service at the completion of transactions.
- • Assist customers by providing information and resolving their complaints.
- • Maintain clean and orderly checkout areas, and complete other general cleaning duties, such as mopping floors and emptying trash cans.
- • Assist with duties in other areas of the store, such as monitoring fitting rooms or bagging and carrying out customers' items.
- • Cash checks for customers.
- • Answer incoming phone calls.
- • Stock shelves, sort and reshelve returned items, and mark prices on items and shelves.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
