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When work is a game

Dennis Crowley notes that Target is turning checking people out into a game for their cashiers in order to speed things up.

Girl running the checkout [...] said the whole thing "makes work feel like a game".

Update: A Target employee chimed in with more information in the comments here.

By Jason Kottke    Dec 8, 2009 at 11:29 am    denniscrowley   games   target

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