You can memorize a large number of product codes for produce.
Fruits and vegetables sold in supermarkets in the U.S. are typically identified with unique product codes, which you will need to learn if you get hired to be a cashier. Your job may require you to learn product codes for more than 100 items. Fruits often have stickers affixed to them labeled with their product codes, and some produce items have their product codes printed on their twist ties. In cases where there is no code, you will need to enter it by memory into the cash register.
Instructions
1. Identify how much time your employer will allow you to learn the required product codes, and find out how many codes you have to learn. Breaking down the number of product codes you have to learn will make your task easier to manage than trying to learn them all at once.
2. Divide the number of codes by the number of days to figure out how many codes you should memorize each day. For example, if your boss gives you a deadline of two weeks or 10 workdays, and you have to memorize 120 product codes, you will need to learn 12 codes per day.
3. Write the name of a product on the front of a card. You can also draw a picture of the product, if you feel confident in your drawing ability, or cut out a picture of the product from the supermarket's weekly advertisement and glue it to the front of the card under the product's name.
4. Write the product code on the back of the card. Continue this procedure until you have made flash cards for each product code that you need to memorize.
5. Divide your flash cards into a number of stacks that is equal to the number of days you have allotted to learn them.
6. Pick up the first stack of flash cards. Look at the front of a card, and then turn it over to see the product code. Say the name of the product and the product code aloud to yourself to help you remember it. Go through the stack of flash cards repeatedly, until you are familiar with each card.
7. Put flash cards aside after you have correctly identified them, and continue drilling on the cards with product codes you were unable to identify.
8. Take your flash cards with you to go through them during idle moments, such as while you are waiting in a line, while you are on hold on the phone, or during a break.
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