I work in a grocery store, i am the manager, my daughter also works for me, she is a cashier, now i've noticed this a few times. When someone usually pays with cash and she punches in lets say $20 and then the customer decided to give her the exact amount of cents. she is lost in what to give them back.
I know she feels embarrsed about this, and i guess i never noticed it before. i want to help her. is there some kind of games or something i could do to help her solve this issue.
2007-01-29 05:24:10 · 10 answers · asked by bluemnky1 2 in Business & Finance ➔ Careers & Employment
Give your daughter one of those Fisher Price cash registers to practice with. That's sure to help her compute simple math. She'll likely get a boost of confidence knowing that she is learning.
Be sure to use "fun" money...
2007-01-29 05:32:51 · answer #1 · answered by Jennifer S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If possible set up morning meetings once a week or once a month if you don't already. Then in the meeting (or "training session") you can talk to the whole class and teach methods of counting change. Include some other things as well. This will make it so you are not focusing on your daughter and embarrassing her and you never know if others have issues making change. At any rate 10-15 minute little meetings can only help the entire store as long as they are productive.
If you don't know how to provide change effectively yourself...or well enough to teach anyone have them count it back to the customer as follows:
Customer pays a $2.67 price with a $20.00 bill...then gives her the 67 cents.
So she has given a total of 20.67 now to give change start counting from the cost of the item 2.67 and put 1 dollar in the customer's hand...3.67. Another dollar 4.67, then another for 5.67.
Now a 5 for 10.67
Then a 10 for 20.67...the total of what she gave
It is much easier if you can get her to know that she can just drop the .67 from both but if she has problems doing math in her head it may not be the best thing to try.
In addition perhaps you could put a cheap calculator at each register.
2007-01-29 05:40:43 · answer #2 · answered by clearlyalienboy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't need a game for this, as the answer is very simple...but, upgrading her math skills would be great.
If the client is buying $14.36 in merchandise and your daughter punches in $20.00, the register will calculate that the client is due back $5.64. But, the customer wants to pay the change instead, so no problem - daughter keeps the change and gives her the dollar amount the register says plus $1, in this case $6.00. Very easy.
2007-01-29 05:36:47 · answer #3 · answered by walkinandrockin 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yikes, dad ... you need to shape on your parenting skills
There are numerous website on the internet where you can find math problem solving and tutorials. But sad enough to say, like it or not--you need to spend some time with your daughter to teach her basic math.
Plus doesn't grocery store has calculator function integrated to it? Like for say if you put 15.23, and the customer gave 20.23, doesn't the machine tells you to give back 5 bucks?
You can start with reader rabbit and math rabbit series if you would like to try some games, or if you want to go portable, get Nintendo DS and get the "Brain Academy" tittle.
2007-01-29 05:33:07 · answer #4 · answered by bandicoot_58 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No games anymore, it's time to be real! She needs to better understand basic mathematics. Best thing to do would be to simply start showing her how to count the correct change in that case. Set up few different scenarios in which exact change is given and tell her to figure it out on paper. Then do same scenarios with non-exact change. Worked at convenience store for 5 years and now I can calculate tax, interest, percentage, etc. all in my sleep!
2007-01-29 05:32:23 · answer #5 · answered by big mal 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i would sit her down and play role reversal. You the mom play the customer and your daughter the cashier. Maybe this will help
2007-01-29 05:30:30 · answer #6 · answered by tmac19742002 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
she just needs to get better at math
try the math blaster series of computer games, or heck - go the old fashioned way ---
Flash Cards
2007-01-29 05:34:10 · answer #7 · answered by BigD 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sure teach her the right way i see the same thing in stores if the register doesnt show them the correct change there lost.,show her the same way its called adding and subtracting
how did you learn ?
2007-01-29 05:33:26 · answer #8 · answered by unreal 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
she's an idiot. she has no math skills. keep her away from the cash box. she might be able to sweep the floor and scrub the shitter...
2007-01-29 05:38:04 · answer #9 · answered by buck74_99 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would put calculators by all your cashiers!
2007-01-29 05:35:03 · answer #10 · answered by Chad K 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋