Publisher's Synopsis
Seemingly anonymous to her customers, the girl at the till finds them the source of endless entertainment: lovers' tiffs, farcical family feuds and intimate secrets. And then there's the frolicking between the aisles; the result is a delicious soap opera... Life as a checkout girl, at the start of the recession, revealed the nation's way of coping with job cuts, rising food prices and a billion-pound economic deficit. The answer was white bread, ice cream and lots of potatoes. Checkout girls are sworn at and flirted with - but there's always mouth-watering gossip about what happens on the shop floor...
