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Product: |
This is just a word that refers to all the shit on the shelves and/or counters, as in, "Hey, there's hardly any product on the shelf, is Sav-Way going out of business?" |
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Out of Code: |
For whatever reason, this means that the date on the product has expired. I really don't know where this "code" idea fits in when something reads "JUL 16 2000," unless it's just that the encryption is really, really bad. |
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Face the Aisle: |
Also, Front the Aisle. Means to pull all the product to the front end of the shelves and stack it neatly (with all the labels facing the customer!). When facing the aisle, it's also important to... |
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Dummy it Up: |
Or, to make it look like the shelf is packed out to the maximum capacity by facing all the product and stacking it high in front. For some reason, the asshole customers feel that baked beans taste way better if there's 55 cans on the shelf stacked to perfection rather than 7 cans in a not so neat fashion. I guess the customers feel that the product seems fresher this way even though it has the came code on it. And if so, why does this influence them when they shop for cat food or shampoo? |
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Grass: |
The term used in place of asparagus. There must be 15 different names for every item in produce but still the produce people love to use their own terminology. Berries mean strawberries. Not raspberries, blueberries, dingleberries or any other kind of berries, just strawberries. Or my favorite, "Value Added" or the "Value Added Section." Mostly anything that has been cut up before the customers get to it, like those bags of Dole Caesar Salad or cut up celery and carrots, are said to have added value. However, this does not apply to... |
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Fruit: |
At least in my store, fruit refers to the in-store prepared fruit salad. You can imagine the expression on my face as a newly made produce clerk when my boss asked me to see how much fruit was out in the aisle. |
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GMD and HBA: |
Stands for General Merchandise and Health and Beauty Aids. What Health and Beauty Aids are is fairly simple to comprehend but what in the hell is General Merchandise if not Tuna Helper or Eggo Waffles? Well, it's all the shit like VCR tapes and pencil sharpeners, ya know, that crap that doesn't belong in a supermarket. |
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Truck: |
And I don't mean that thing with a cab and trailer that delivers the ice cream. When you want to bring any Fruit, HBA, GMD, Grass, Eggo Waffles or any other product out of the back room, you need to put it on a truck. Even the out of code crap! A truck is that "L" shaped cart you see clerks riding on in the stores, but not to be confused with... |
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U-Frames: |
Like a Truck but shaped like the letter "U" (duh). A U-Frame is much harder to ride, so unless you're a master like Random Zen, stick with the trucks. |
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Tote: |
Those rectangular plastic boxes with the zigzag closing lid (usually gray but not always) that, more often than not, the GMD and HBA gets shipped in. Don't stand on them! |
Ring-Out
(Not the WWF!): |
Some of you older fuck-heads may have called this "checking." All it means is the act of processing a customer's groceries through the register for a price total. After the asshole customer pays, he/she has been rung-out. |
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Tare: |
Or, Scale Tare. Taking tare on a weighed item when ringing out a customer is when the cashier has the register take off a piddling amount of weight because we can't charge for the weight of the bag that your broccoli is in. Tare can also be taken off in the back room for items that are weighed and priced before they get to the register. Like all the crap that's wrapped and/or on those foam plates. "In the meat room, Butcher Bill used a 3 Tare for the ground sirloin." |
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Cutter: |
A small (usually metal but I've seen plastic) pocket sized devices with telescoping razor blades used to cut cardboard, plastic ties, and annoying customers' tires. No real supermarket man is ever without one on or near his person. At any given time, a clerk usually has ten to twelve of these scattered around their house. |
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Box: |
Also, Walk-In Box. That cold, closet-like place in the back room for storing perishable foods that clerks hang out in and smoke. |
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Gash: |
Any female employee or customer of said supermarket or in all actuality,
any femle in general.
In terms for all which they are good for, their gash.
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