Date 04 June 2008
Pages 190
Format cm 14 x 22
Price € 20.50
EAN 9782234061637
Publisher Website www.editions-stock.fr

Checkout: A Cashier's Life

Author Anna Sam
Publisher Stock
COLLECTION Essais - documents
GENRE Sociology
Keywords Cashier - Humor - Everyday life
See the world and its people through the eyes of a supermarket cashier!

What can a cashier learn about us from the things we buy, what we say, the questions we ask? Paying at the cash register is in fact a very special moment. Mistakenly believing the experience a neutral one, we pay no attention. The person sitting at the register might as well be blind, almost a machine. So we reveal ourselves, unguarded. Yet when the cashier in question is named Anna Sam, has a Bachelor's in literature, and likes to keep her eyes and mind open, then our white lies, little acts of cowardice, and eccentric habits are recorded and analyzed. The result is a book like no other.

  • Sales in France 91,000 copies
  • Adaptations Adapted into a film of the same name (dir. Pierre Rambaldi, 2011).
  • As of: June 2021