Convenience Store Worker From Another World Chapter 172

Episode 172. If you don’t know, just learn (2)

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Among my sister’s personalities, there is one aspect that always makes me wonder how that is possible. Even when talking to someone I meet for the first time, she is not awkward at all.

He said that he was the most humorous person I’ve ever met. As soon as he heard that there was a new part-timer, his eyes widened and he smiled brightly and spoke to the glass guy.

“Part-timer? Are you starting your part-time job here starting today?”

“yes.”

“Hey, now I can stop seeing you worrying about your sister… Oh, I’m Seo Yoon-ha. I work part-time in logistics here, and my main job is a hunter.”

After saying this, he reached out to Yuri, but the guy grabbed her hand with both of his and shook it. He looked like a new employee who was meeting the president of a business partner for the first time.

“?”

Maybe because it wasn’t a normal reaction, my older sister also looked puzzled. I thought about what I could say in this situation, and something appropriate came to mind, so I said it.

“This is his first time doing this since entering society, sis.”

Not only that, but it was almost my first time shaking hands, you know. At those words, my older sister looked down at her hand that was being held, smiled faintly as if something came to mind, and continued speaking.

“You don’t have to be nervous. It’s better to just think of me as a friendly neighborhood older sister.”

“Are you the neighborhood’s friendly older sister?”

“Yes. How old are you?”

“I’m twenty years old.”

“I envy you. I’m in my 30s now. Since we’ll be seeing each other often, let’s talk comfortably. Is that okay?”

After the guy nodded to his sister’s words, he started staring down at his sister’s feet as if something else had come to mind. After a while, he said one word.

“If you’re thirty, you’re only one and a half times older than me, sis.”

“no.”

I guess this is what he came up with when he told me to speak comfortably. If I had said the same thing, a low kick would have come right after and split my shin in two… .

“… Yuri, you too will be here soon. Do you think you’ll never age like me?”

I wonder if this is just cute, but she just smiled back. Why is your reaction so different from when I told her my age? Do you want to live in sorrow?

“That’s 1.03 times my age, sis.”

“Do you want to get hit?”

“If I break my shin, who will do the work? I’ll just eat some ramen and go right back.”

“I was going to bring the container and go to your house to play. But now that I think about it, if I go to your house to play, that cat will probably make a fuss again… .”

He pretends to think hard and strokes his chin, then looks down at the glass guy and concludes his speech.

“I think you should teach him. I think it’ll be more fun than playing by yourself.”

“Or so.”

It’s 8:20 now. Assuming that the school start times in this world are similar to where I used to live, there will be a lot of elementary school students swarming around 40-50 minutes. That’s because school starts at 8:50.

Before that, all the logistics had to be finished. As I untied the knot that tied the bundle, the piled up things like ramen boxes and toys came pouring out.

Fortunately, the main stream didn’t come in today. I looked through the receipt paper, but there was nothing written down. After grabbing a pen from the counter, I held up the paper and started explaining.

“Yuri. I’ll tell you what to do when the logistics arrive. Look.”

“Yes, brother.”

How does convenience store logistics work?

It’s simple in words. Just check the number and item names of the products that came in, and then check if they are as written on the receipt.

It sounds simple, but this task is not only tedious, but also involves many variables. When the quantity is large, it can be a struggle to even check the logistics…

One particularly annoying variable is when the product name on the invoice is different from the actual product name. As an example, I just happened to receive a product.

“Most of it is fine if you just do as I say, but look at this. This… magma-flavored potato chip?”

I almost had a brain freeze halfway through. How did you make magma taste like potato chips, and what does magma taste like in the first place? Is it a completely inferior flavor to the fire flavor?

As I was staring at the bag of potato chips in amazement, I saw that it said that the spiciness was 5 times that of fire flavor. On the receipt, it said, “Fire flavor 5 times,” without a single space.

“Brother?”

“… Oh, there are cases where they write the product name like this. It’s easy to get confused just by looking at the product name, so you have to look elsewhere to figure it out.”

In this case, check the barcode number and product name, and if it looks like ‘this is probably it’, then it’s the same product if it’s the same as the one written on the receipt.

“Yes. 88006… .”

“You don’t have to look at the first few rows. All products in the same category are the same in the first row. You only need to look at the last few rows.”

“Same category?”

“Candies are all the same to each other, and toys are all the same to each other.”

Once you get used to this method, you will eventually stop looking at the product name and only look at the barcode number. Since the product name is long, you should write down a short summary or two.

“And this is a tip, if you will. There are things that look the same but have different weights. Abalone porridge is 288g, and beef porridge is 289g.”

“yes.”

“If you have these, it’s easier to find the weight. The letters are bigger than the barcode number, and most products have the weight written on the lower left.”

After explaining this, I glanced at the glass face and blinked once or twice, which seemed to hurt my eyes quite a bit. Well, the letters were so tiny that it was understandable for my eyes to hurt.

It seemed like he was keeping his mouth shut because he had another question. I waited quietly, and Yuri carefully held the end of the slip and muttered.

“After cookies, there’s porridge, after porridge, there’s candy, after candy, there’s ramen.”

“I’m also not satisfied with that. Things like snacks and ramen are listed as if they’re stepping stones. Why is that?”

“Is there something you don’t know?”

“I don’t know most of the time. But I’ve made some guesses.”

For example, light items are easy to carry, so register them as soon as you can get your hands on them, and heavy drinks are registered later.

Of course, the people who register logistics will know the inside story, but as a freeloader, I honestly feel frustrated. Wouldn’t it be better if you could organize snacks, ramen, candy, etc. by each receipt page?

“But cigarettes and drinks are clearly written.”

“That’s right. Anyway, if you’ve entered the correct product report, just check the appropriate box. Like this.”

As he spoke, he circled the name of the Magma Flavored Potato Chips he had seen earlier. He glanced at the right side as if he was curious about the reason for this, and asked me.

“There’s a note on the right end, bro.”

“If you check that, you’ll have to keep rolling your eyes left and right to check later. If you circle the product name, you’ll be able to see it right away and say, ‘I saw this earlier.’”

“aha.”

“Honestly, it’s something you can do however you want. There’s no set rules.”

If you go to Moro Garden Seoul, you can do it. I briefly handed him a pen, and he checked the stack of products and the receipt alternately before picking up a bag of ramen.

After that, he stared at the receipt, circled the part where the same name was written, and clicked his pen. It seemed like he was going to do as I told him.

“Okay, brother.”

“You just have to do it 47 times.”

“Number 47?”

“There wasn’t much cargo coming in today. You’ll be scared when you see the containers later.”

The biggest reason why logistics is a frustrating task is because you have to do this while also serving customers. Since the store is large, there is a lot of logistics coming in at once.

I said it with the intention of teasing him, but after saying it, I realized that I had scared the guy who was just starting out. However, after a while, the guy answered me in a slightly excited voice.

“I think it will be fun.”

Yes. Anything is fun when you first start it. Anyway, I think this is enough for logistics. What should Pyeon-dol do next after finishing logistics?

I have to put it on display. So I have to let you know about this too, but looking at the receipt, I don’t think I can tell you about this right now.

This is because all the products that came in this time were new. It’s not impossible to somehow fill the shelves now, but…

“No. It’s not.”

It seems impossible. I checked the receipt again, and the new products came individually, not in a bundle. Why did the store manager place the order like this?

When I asked this, my older sister shrugged and answered.

“My sister said this when she placed the order. She wanted to set up a display case near the main entrance to see which products would sell well.”

“Uh… do we have a makeshift display case?”

“It should be in the basement. If you’re not sure, just wait until your sister comes.”

I think that’s the way it should be. Even if I were to assemble the display cases, displaying new products is a matter of commercial sense. I’ve never opened my own store.

So I wrapped the bundle tightly again and asked my older sister to put it in the ramen warehouse before I came back. On the way back, Yuri kept muttering while holding the receipt and pen.

“Barcode number, weight, and….”

“You don’t have to try hard to remember it now. You’ll get better at it after a few times.”

“Is that really true?”

“You can trust me, it’s true. This time, the logistics arrived just in time, so I told you… In fact, there are other things you need to do well.”

“What is it?”

The first thing I worry about is receiving guests. In fact, this is what I worry about the most.

This process is also simple. When a customer comes, you scan the barcode, receive a payment method such as a card or cash, calculate the amount, and send it back. But this isn’t an ordinary store, is it?

There is a vein of water that draws the truth underground, and judging from my experience of suffering for a month, it is clear that this vein would have doggedly followed me to this location where I had teleported.

I wonder if this guy, who has never experienced those truths, can endure them or not. Enduring them is not something that can be taught. It is a matter of personality.

I thought about it for a moment and then let it go. I guess this is something you have to experience to know.

But I can at least tell you how to receive guests now. Before I came back, I brought back one of the new ramen noodles that my older sister had mentioned.

“Is this the new ramen that my older sister was talking about?”

“Anything new is fine. But when did you take this out?”

“I brought it out for you to look at, Sister. Yuri, I’ll show you how to pay, so come in and take a look.”

“yes.”

He came over to me at my words and stood next to me, staring intently at the ramen. My older sister, who was looking at Yuri like this, snickered again and took out a card from her wallet and handed it to me.

“Lee Chan. He listens to you really well, man.”

“You have to listen carefully since you are learning. It’s 1,800 won, sis.”

“uh.”

I scanned the ramen barcode, selected the card as the payment method on the POS screen, inserted the card into the reader, waited for a moment, and the payment was complete. I gave the card back to my older sister and spoke to Yuri.

“You can do this all day long. There are several payment methods available….”

“I’m more worried about something else, Lee Chan. He looks so innocent, but do you think he’ll be able to deal with the real people?”

My older sister worked at this store for a while. She helped the store manager for a while and then quit. She said she quit because she was tired of dealing with the real people.

Maybe that’s why my older sister seems to have the same worries as I do, but there’s nothing I can do about it right now. If the truth-telling people listen to me so well that they come when I tell them to, then they weren’t truth-telling people in the first place.

– Jangle.

On the way, the front door bell rang and I looked… Oh my god.

“Hey, you piece of shit.”

8:20 AM, Academy District. Charlie the Chihuahua came. His eyes were so red that the blood vessels looked like they were going to burst.

He came right up to me and asked me this out of the blue.

“Do you sell poison here? The kind that leaves no traces.”