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  • By 2003, every fool was getting into real estate. The checkout girl at my local supermarket handed me her newly printed real estate agent business card.

    Girl   Real   Cards  
  • I think, on a personal level, everybody, when you go through the checkout line after you get your groceries and they say, 'Paper or plastic?' We should be saying, 'Neither one.' We should have our own cloth bags.

  • There's a game called Checkout where there's grocery items and it's how much you think the manufacturer's suggested retail price is and we add up your total, then your total has to be within $2 of the regular total. I don't think I could ever win that game.

  • Went to the grocery store, got everything on my list and went up to the checkout. I put a bag of pet food for our rabbit on the conveyor. The girl looked at me and said, Do you have a rabbit? I looked at here and said deadpan, Nope. Just like 'em 'cause they're crunchy. Here's your sign.

    Girl   Pet   Lists  
    FaceBook post by Bill Engvall from Mar 20, 2013
  • Real mothers don't just listen with humble embarrassment to the elderly lady who offers unsolicited advice in the checkout line when a child is throwing a tantrum. We take the child, dump him in the lady's cart, and say, "Great. Maybe you can do a better job." Real mothers know that it's okay to eat cold pizza for breakfast. Real mothers admit it is easier to fail at this job than to succeed.

    Mother   Jobs   Children  
    Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.178, Simon and Schuster
  • As part of our ongoing series of reports on the environment, 'America Goes Green,' we take on the question that can make otherwise competent adults quake with fear. We've all been there. You come to the end of the checkout line and then comes that question: 'Paper or plastic?' For that one brief moment, we grocery buyers are made to feel like the fate of the planet hinges on our decision.

    Fate   America   Decision  
  • Reading is the creative center of a writer's life." -

    Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.92, Simon and Schuster
  • This is a record I ended up having to make to get on to the next stage of my life. What I did was a desperate thing to do. I'm aware of the fact that it was irrational. I didn't mean to make it sound like it was my master plan. The tour had even been going all right, but I was just kind of fed up with the situation as it was, playing the same old rock and roll crap that everyone goes through, the general moaning when you really should be grateful that you don't work in the checkout counter at the grocery.

    Grateful   Mean   Rocks  
  • Self-Checkout Line – The place where customers of an establishment become unpaid employees of the establishment.

  • Here are some passing thoughts. Imagine looking up at the moon and seeing it burning. Imagine seeing the grocery store’s checkout girl grow horns. Imagine growing younger instead of older. Imagine feeling more powerful and more capable of falling in love with life every new day instead of being scared and sick and not knowing whether to stay under a sheet or venture forth into the cold.

  • Don't give me no rotten tomato, 'cause all I ever wanted was your sweet potato.

    Sweet   Giving   Tomatoes  
    Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.87, Penguin
  • When I'm in the grocery store, I'll do lunges up and down the aisles. In the checkout line, you could do squats. I used to worry about what people thought of me, but I don't care anymore. I know I'm going to get the last laugh.

    Laughing   Worry   People  
  • Reading is the creative center of a writer’s life. I take a book with me everywhere I go, and find there are all sorts of opportunities to dip in. The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as in long swallows. Waiting rooms were made for books— of course! But so are theater lobbies before the show, long and boring checkout lines, and everyone’s favorite, the john. You can even read while you’re driving, thanks to the audiobook revolution. Of the books I read each year, anywhere from six to a dozen are on tape.

    Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.92, Simon and Schuster
  • Our grocery store now has self-checkout, for your convenience. It's like getting punched in the throat, for your comfort.

    Self   Comfort   Stores  
  • Holocausts do not amaze me. Rapes and child slavery do not amaze me. And Franklin, I know you feel otherwise, but Kevin does not amaze me. I am amazed when I drop a glove in the street and a teenager runs two blocks to return it. I am amazed when a checkout girl flashes me a wide smile with my change, though my own face had been a mask of expedience. Lost wallets posted to their owners, strangers who furnish meticulous directions, neighbors who water each other's houseplants - these things amaze me.

    Girl   Running   Children  
    Lionel Shriver (2010). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.250, Profile Books
  • The woman just ahead of you at the supermarket checkout has all the delectable groceries you didn't even know they carried.

    Food   Shopping   Cooking  
    Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.49, BookBaby
  • The point is that petty, frustrating crap like this is exactly where the work of choosing comes in. Because the traffic jams and crowded aisles and long checkout lines give me time to think, and if I don't make a conscious decision about how to think and what to pay attention to, I'm going to be pissed and miserable every time I have to food-shop, because my natural default-setting is the certainty that situations like this are really all about me, about my hungriness and my fatigue and my desire to just get home.

    Home   Thinking   Giving  
    "'Plain Old Untrendy Troubles and Emotions'". www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2008.
  • I remember being a kid and seeing the 'National Inquirer' at the grocery store checkout line. When somebody actually picked up a copy, it was mortifying. You felt dirty for them. But now it's perfectly acceptable to read something like that. There's absolutely no taboo surrounding that kind of exploitation.

    Dirty   Kids   Naughty  
  • The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows.

    Long   Tricks   Teach  
    Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.92, Simon and Schuster
  • These days, when people are alone, or feel a moment of boredom, they tend to reach for a device. In a movie theater, at a stop sign, at the checkout line at a supermarket and, yes, at a memorial service, reaching for a device becomes so natural that we start to forget that there is a reason, a good reason, to sit still with our thoughts: It does honor to what we are thinking about. It does honor to ourselves.

  • There are some forty-five thousand items in the average American supermarket and more than a quarter of them now contain corn. This goes for the nonfood items as well: Everything from the toothpaste and cosmetics to the disposable diapers, trash bags, cleansers, charcoal briquettes, matches, and batteries, right down to the shine on the cover of the magazine that catches your eye by the checkout: corn.

    Eye   Shine On   Average  
    Michael Pollan (2006). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals”, p.31, Penguin
  • ...when the armed robber of unhappiness knocks over the Keebler cookie display of our complacency, and bangs the samurai sword of negativity on the checkout counter of our dreams, we must not be afraid to hurl the fruit cocktail can of hope.

  • Don't believe everything you read.

    "Molly Sims Defends Josh Duhamel" by Brian Orloff, people.com. November 11, 2009.
  • If you are demanding registration before checkout, you need to cease this practice immediately. It is costing you a fortune.

    Practice   Design   Needs  
  • The local grocery store was a gathering, a community place. You knew the owner, if you didn't have any money they'd let you go for a couple days. You talked. It was a friendly place. Supermarkets are totally impersonal. I mean, you may say hello to the checkout girl or something, but the personal connections are all gone.

    Girl   Couple   Mean  
    Source: brightestyoungthings.com
  • Self-checkout is negative because more and more retailers are losing the personal touch. People want to do business where people know their name and communicate with them. With a world full of email and more self-service we will begin to start seeking out the basics from retailers who create emotion. There is not emotion out of self-service and most people buy out of emotion.

    Self   Names   People  
  • Or I can choose to force myself to consider the likelihood that everyone else in the supermarket's checkout line is just as bored and frustrated as I am, and that some of these people probably have much harder, more tedious or painful lives than I do, overall.

    David Foster Wallace (2009). “This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life”, p.87, Hachette UK
  • What is eternity? You're on the checkout line at a supermarket. There are seven people in front of you. They are all old. They all have two carts and coupons for every item. They are all paying by check. None of them have ID. It's the checkout girl's first day on the job. She doesn't speak any English. Take away fifteen minutes from that, and you begin to get an idea of what eternity is.

    Girl   Jobs   Ideas  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • That's like buying asparagus and then leaving it at the checkout. Why would you do that?

  • Once she'd loved my filet mignon, my carnivore inklings, but now she was a vegan princess, living off of beans. She'd given up the cheese and bacon, sworn off Burger King, and when I wouldn't do the same she gave me back my ring. I stood there by the romaine lettuce, feeling my heart pine. Wishing that this meatless beauty still would be all mine. She turned around to go to checkout, fifteen items or less. And I knew this was the last go-round, so this is what I said. ... "Don't you ever give me no rotten tomato, 'cause all I ever wanted was your sweet potato.

    Sweet   Kings   Princess  
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