A cashier is a person responsible for totaling the amount due for a purchase and then charging the consumer for that amount. In one form or another, cashiers have been around for thousands of years. In many businesses, such as grocery stores, the cashier is a "stepping stone" position. Many employers require you to be a cashier in order to move up to customer service or other positions such as produce. Consumers are individuals or households that consume goods and services generated within the economy. ... Historically, the term business referred to activities or interests. ... ...

Cashiers are at risk of repetitive strain injuries due to the repeated movements often necessary to do the job, such as entering information on a keypad or moving product over a scanner. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

A less-current meaning of the term referred to the employee of a business responsible for receiving and disbursing money. In a non-retail business, this would be a position of significant responsibility. With an ever-larger proportion of transactions being done using cash substitutes (such as checks, credit cards, debit cards, etc.), the amount of cash handled by such employees has declined, and this usage of the word "cashier" has been largely supplanted by the title comptroller. A cheque (British English) or check (American English), thought to have developed from Persian چك chek, is a negotiable instrument instructing a financial institution to pay a specific amount of a specific currency from a specific demand account held in the maker/depositors name with that institution. ... Credit cards A credit card system is a type of retail transaction settlement and credit system, named after the small plastic card issued to users of the system. ... A debit card is a plastic card which provides an alternative payment method to cash when making purchases. ... A and public comptrollers who audit government accounts and sometimes certify expenditures. ...

In the area of retail banking in the UK, the position of Cashier is the same as a Bank teller. A bank teller is an employee of a bank who deals directly with most customers. ...

See also

• Cashier balancing
• Cash register

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Its also a book of grievances. I have to do it for HW so ya... go SFHS!! Cashier balancing is a process usually conducted in businesses such as grocery stores, restaurants and banks that takes place at the closing of the business day or at the end of a cashiers shift. ... Antique crank-operated cash register A cash register or till (British English) is a mechanical or electronic device for calculating and recording sales transactions, and an attached cash drawer for storing currency. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ...