Book description
How much do you know about what really goes on at your local supermarket?
We see them every week and they are privy to some of our most intimate
secrets - those we wouldn't even share with our closest friends. To us
they are the anonymous helpers for whom nothing is too much trouble. But
for them, every customer has a part in a gripping soap-opera of lovers'
tiffs, family feuds and extraordinary innuendos - turning the daily life
of a checkout girl into a hilariously entertaining farce.
As we began to contend with the recession, Tazeen Ahmad realised that
the supermarket checkout was the perfect place to gauge how the nation
was coping with increasing job cuts, sky-high food prices and a billion
pound hole in our economy. The answer, it turns out, was with white
bread, ice cream and lots and lots of potatoes.
Sworn at, flirted with and at the receiving end of endless customer
rants, The Checkout Girl is the deliciously gossipy memoir of life on
the supermarket conveyor belt where each one of us has unwittingly had a
walk-on part. Reading her story will change the way you shop forever.
Tazeen Ahmad has been a TV presenter and reporter for over 12 years,
most recently working for Channel 4's Dispatches for whom she has made
films that include Women Only Jihad, Undercover Mother, Christmas Credit
Crisis and The Truth About Beauty Creams.'
