A cashier's job description can include many tasks, such as:
- Greeting customers: Welcoming customers when they enter the store and thanking them when they leave
- Processing purchases: Scanning items, bagging them if requested, and taking payment
- Handling payments: Accepting cash, checks, credit cards, and coupons
- Making change: Calculating sales and change quickly and accurately
- Managing cash: Balancing the cash register at the beginning and end of shifts, and reconciling sales receipts and records
- Processing returns and exchanges: Generating refunds or store credits, and dealing with other returns as needed
- Providing customer service: Answering questions, helping customers with other needs, and maintaining positive customer relationships
- Maintaining a safe and clean environment: Complying with rules and regulations, and keeping the store clean
