What does a Cashier do?

According to people in this career, the main tasks are...

TaskImportance
Receive payment by cash, check, credit cards, vouchers, or automatic debits.
95%
Greet customers entering establishments.
94%
Calculate total payments received during a time period, and reconcile this with total sales.
93%
Issue receipts, refunds, credits, or change due to customers.
93%
Count money in cash drawers at the beginning of shifts to ensure that amounts are correct and that there is adequate change.
91%
Issue trading stamps, and redeem food stamps and coupons.
90%
Assist customers by providing information and resolving their complaints.
90%
Monitor checkout stations to ensure they have adequate cash available and are staffed appropriately.
89%
Establish or identify prices of goods, services, or admission, and tabulate bills, using calculators, cash registers, or optical price scanners.
88%
Post charges against guests' or patients' accounts.
88%
Weigh items sold by weight to determine prices.
88%
Compute and record totals of transactions.
88%
Answer incoming phone calls.
87%
Answer customers' questions, and provide information on procedures or policies.
87%
Sort, count, and wrap currency and coins.
87%
Keep periodic balance sheets of amounts and numbers of transactions.
87%
Request information or assistance, using paging systems.
85%
Help customers find the location of products.
85%
Compile and maintain non-monetary reports and records.
85%
Supervise others and provide on-the-job training.
84%
Assist with duties in other areas of the store, such as monitoring fitting rooms or bagging and carrying out customers' items.
83%
Sell tickets and other items to customers.
83%
Stock shelves, sort and reshelve returned items, and mark prices on items and shelves.
83%
Bag, box, wrap, or gift-wrap merchandise, and prepare packages for shipment.
82%
Cash checks for customers.
81%
Process merchandise returns and exchanges.
80%
Maintain clean and orderly checkout areas, and complete other general cleaning duties, such as mopping floors and emptying trash cans.
80%
Offer customers carry-out service at the completion of transactions.
78%