Les tribulations d'une caissière

Synopsis of Les tribulations d'une caissière

«Les tribulations d'une caissière» is Anna Sam's essay about her experience as a checkout clerk, published by Stock in hardback (190 pages, in French).

Anna Sam recounts her experience as a supermarket checkout clerk after eight years on the job and a university degree in literature. Through anecdotes about customers and the work routine, she shows the invisible and often ridiculed face of commerce: the checkout as a stage for lies, habits and small daily miseries.

Originally published in French on 4 June 2008. Part of the «Les documents» collection from Stock.

For readers with French proficiency interested in first-person accounts of the working world and everyday consumption.