Cashier sheepishly uses self-checkout machine while shopping on day off

PICKERING, ON—Might have been a good idea not to go to the same store you usually work at.

According to reports, Mina Johnson, a 36-year-old cashier at a Real Canadian Superstore location in Pickering, is being viewed as a total sell-out by her colleagues after using the store's self-checkout machine while buying some groceries when she had the day off.

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"In my defense—and I am not saying that what I did was acceptable in any way—I only had a few minutes to do my shopping," said Johnson. "I was in a real rush to get in and out, and the self-checkout is just so much faster than th— wait. Nothing. I wasn't saying anything. Please don't print that."

Asked what his reaction would be if a fellow cashier came into the store on their day off and used the self-checkout instead of visiting with one of their fellow grocers, Johnson's co-worker Brendon Plooms spoke cagily.

"If that were to happen—and I'm not going to say I may or may not have seen a certain co-worker come in and shop or not shop the other day, and may or may not have made use of what I, and the other cashiers, and even that particular cashier who may or may not have come in regularly call the enemy—well that… that would certainly come across as some sort of betrayal," said Plooms. "I'm glad that almost certainly never happened, or that if it did, that it almost certainly would or would not ever happen again.

"Sorry, I've lost track of my double-negatives."

At press time, Johnson said that she would never again use the self-checkout line, "unless it was an emergency or… oh god does that person have 17 items in the 1–15 express line? Sorry, sorry, I give in to the machines, sorry I have to go, it's self-check for me from here on out."

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