The Checkout Girl

The Checkout Girl
Tazeen Ahmad

How much do you know about what really goes on at your local supermarket?We see them every week and they are privy to some of our most intimate secrets - those we wouldn't even share with our closest friends. To us they are the anonymous helpers for whom nothing is too much trouble. But for them, every customer has a part in a gripping soap-opera of lovers' tiffs, family feuds and extraordinary innuendos - turning the daily life of a checkout girl into a hilariously entertaining farce.As we began to contend with the recession, Tazeen Ahmad realised that the supermarket checkout was the perfect place to gauge how the nation was coping with increasing job cuts, sky-high food prices and a billion pound hole in our economy. The answer, it turns out, was with white bread, ice cream and lots and lots of potatoes.Sworn at, flirted with and at the receiving end of endless customer rants, The Checkout Girl is the deliciously gossipy memoir of life on the supermarket conveyor belt where each one of us has unwittingly had a walk-on part. Reading her story will change the way you shop forever.

The Checkout Girl

TAZEEN AHMAD

My Life on the Supermarket Conveyor Belt

Dedication (#ulink_8148fa18-c4da-536f-a389-e6212d7cbb6c)

For Cogs everywhere

Contents

Title Page (#u659c7f8f-0308-508c-8bab-f4f344159bc8)

Dedication

Prologue

Saturday, 8 November 2008

Sunday, 9 November 2008

Monday, 10 November 2008

Thursday, 13 November 2008

Friday, 14 November 2008

Saturday, 15 November 2008

Sunday, 16 November 2008

Thursday, 20 November 2008

Thursday, 27 November 2008

Friday, 28 November 2008

Saturday, 29 November 2008

Thursday, 4 December 2008

Friday, 5 December 2008

Saturday, 6 December 2008

Saturday, 13 December 2008

Wednesday, 17 December 2008

Thursday, 18 December 2008

Friday, 19 December 2008

Saturday, 20 December 2008

Tuesday, 23 December 2008

Saturday, 27 December 2008

Saturday, 3 January 2009

Sunday, 4 January 2009

Thursday, 8 January 2009

Friday, 9 January 2009

Saturday, 10 January 2009

Thursday, 15 January 2009

Friday, 16 January 2009

Saturday, 17 January 2009

Friday, 23 January 2009

Saturday, 24 January 2009

Friday, 30 January 2009

Saturday, 31 January 2009

Friday, 6 February 2009

Saturday, 7 February 2009

Friday, 13 February 2009

Saturday, 14 February 2009

Tuesday, 17 February 2009

Friday, 20 February 2009