But sometimes, some favors cannot be done well just with good intentions.
And Toji had also somewhat overestimated the intelligence of the people in front of him, as well as their ability to deal with problems and their professionalism.
For example, the position of cashier.
Unlike the barcode scanning of Kiyoshi's previous life, the cashier of this era was a highly professional job!
The so-called heart of a supermarket is the checkout. If the heart cannot beat well, then the entire supermarket will be on the verge of collapse.
The cashier job, which seemed to have no technical content at all in Zenin Kiyoshi's eyes, now made him sweat profusely.
The cash registers of the 2000s were far from as smart as they were when he transmigrated. Not only did they need to manually input a large number of product codes, but they also had to calculate product discounts, handle various denominations of cash, and even use various machines to handle credit cards, which were not yet popular at that time. The entire checkout process was extremely tedious.
Every step was far beyond Zenin Kiyoshi's expectations. Looking at the dissatisfied customers, he only felt that this was more stressful than facing Sukuna.
Zenin Kiyoshi stood in front of the cash register at this moment. He looked at the dense buttons and code book with some helplessness, and only felt that his life was as reliable as using a hundred billion subsidies and national subsidies...
He, Zenin Kiyoshi, only knew how to use a barcode scanner to "beep" the product!
How did this "primitive" cash register operation survive until the year 2000?!
Therefore, Zenin Kiyoshi, who was completely clueless about machinery, became even more flustered when there were slightly more customers. In his haste, he even made the cash register keep spitting out money!
And because he was not particularly familiar with Japanese yen, he would often make low-level mistakes of miscalculating change and entering the wrong product code. And the cash register getting stuck in his hands was a common occurrence. The queue became longer and longer, and complaints were heard one after another.
But fortunately, those people saw that Zenin Kiyoshi was a child and didn't say anything. They just secretly planned to take advantage of him.
It's not my own store, why should I care what kind of people they hire!
As long as I can spend less money to buy more things, why should I be a busybody?!
And those middle-aged women who were good at calculating had also seen that Zenin Kiyoshi was not skilled in operating the cash register.
Not only did they not feel any dissatisfaction, but their hearts were filled with ecstasy.
A few aunties with classic hairstyles looked at each other and then tacitly stepped forward, one after another, bombarding Zenin Kiyoshi:
"Why is your processing efficiency so slow?! The frozen meat I bought is almost spoiled in the shopping cart now?! And my car is parked outside and I have to pay for it. Because of you, I have to pay more for parking. Are you going to compensate me here?"
"Yes, yes! How do you work as a cashier? If you're not proficient in your business, you should practice well at home before you come out! Hasn't anyone told you not to always add trouble to others?!"
"My child is about to be dismissed from the interest class. How much longer will it take for you to settle my bill? If you delay my child's dismissal, the托管 fee there is 5,000 yen an hour. Can you reimburse me?"
"Why are the banknotes you gave me so old? I need you to change some cleaner banknotes for me! Otherwise, I have reason to suspect that you are giving me counterfeit money!"
These aunties, after seeing Zenin Kiyoshi's inexperience, almost at the same time, began to launch a psychological offensive against him.
They could see that although Kiyoshi's operation was not particularly skilled, his learning speed was very fast, and he basically wouldn't make the same mistake twice.
If this continued, it wouldn't be long before Kiyoshi completely learned all the knowledge of cashiering. At that time, it would not be so easy for them to get some small advantages from him.
Therefore, what they needed to do at this time was to constantly put psychological pressure on Zenin Kiyoshi, so that he could not achieve inner peace in this environment. In that case, he would definitely make mistakes again due to his own emotional tension.
As long as Zenin Kiyoshi made a mistake, they would be able to get a little discount or a free gift from him in this way.
Even if it was just a green onion, or just a cucumber, it would be enough to make these aunties happy for a while.
For their daily life, which was so trivial that it was almost boring, a little bit of ripple was enough for them to put in two hundred percent of their effort.
And sure enough, for the malicious siege of these aunties, even if Zenin Kiyoshi could remain calm, under the joint发言 of four or five mouths, his voice had almost no meaning. As soon as he said it, he would be drowned in the words that were besieging him.
And at this moment, a somewhat cold voice came, which stunned everyone present:
"Zenin-kun, leave this to me. You can help me appease the customers behind. It will be done soon."
With that, Nanami calmly scanned the various chaotic scenes and mess in front of Kiyoshi.
After a short thought, his still slightly small fingers flew across the keyboard, entering codes. Almost none of the codes were wrong.
As for giving change and discounts, there was not a single bit of hesitation. His fingers were almost flying on the computer, and when he was giving change, he even left an afterimage. Zenin Kiyoshi roughly estimated that Nanami's processing speed was more than four times his!
What was more exaggerated was that Nanami could even operate the cash register, give change to people, and at the same time point out the various mistakes that Zenin Kiyoshi had made before.
Just by standing there, he was frighteningly reliable.
Those aunties looked at the Kento Nanami in front of them, who was as clear-headed as a human calculator, and the little bit of scheming in their hearts had long since vanished.
And Zenin Kiyoshi looked at the prototype of the future "reliable adult" in front of him, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but twitch for a moment.
"Sure enough, sometimes, a thing like talent is really something that can never be caught up with by hard work..."
However, the disaster in the supermarket was far from being limited to Zenin Kiyoshi's place. The more chaotic and disorderly place was the fresh food area managed by both Riko Amanai and Yuki Tsukumo.
No one knew why Riko appeared in the fresh food area, just as Riko didn't know why Yuki was her partner.
Under the circumstances that neither of them knew why the other was here, they formed a bond called the Star Plasma Vessel of the fresh food area.
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