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I'm a supermarket cashier since five years. I enjoy it, it's not that heavy if you know how to do things properly. We alternate between sitting and standing and have check-outs back to back so we don't always do things in the same direction. I'm pretty tired by the end of the day, but nothing lethal. I'm impressed by some of my co-workers though, who work full-time and also single-handedly raise wonderful kids. I don't understand how they manage.
We have two men and maybe twenty women cashiering at my store. The rest of the store is fairly evenly manned. It varies between stores though, some have 50/50 in the check-out too. Part of the reason can be that most cashieres get recruited by a friend already working there. I don't think either gender is better at cashiering, I've seen my share of good and crappy male and female cashiers. It'd be nice with a more even share at my job though, for some variation. (A bit of eye-candy wouldn't hurt either, all the hotties are way over at the deli for some reason!)
In Sweden customers do their own bagging, in fact we don't have any greeters and "courtesy clerks" whatever that is either. When I read stories from my american colleagues it always seem like there are a lot more people working in an american grocery store than in any european I've been in. If I ever go to the USA the sight I'll be most curious to check out is a typical grocery store, how weird is that?
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