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Argentina: Large Hailstones Break Through Supermarket Roof, Customers Run For Cover

An intense hailstorm struck Bahía Blanca, Argentina, on Sunday, February 2. At a Cooperativa Obrera supermarket, hailstones broke through the roof over the cashier area, forcing people inside the store to take shelter.

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US Has Not Seen Evidence Of Hezbollah Cash Under Hospital - Beirut

Conversations between journalists and hospital personnel take place through the cashier’s window, as the media documents the hospital’s day-to-day operations on October 22, 2024. U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Wednesday that he had not seen evidence that there was a Hezbollah bunker filled with cash built under a hospital in Beirut, adding that Washington would continue to work with Israel to get better insights. Israel's military said that Hezbollah has stashed hundreds of millions of dollars in cash and gold in a bunker built under a hospital in Beirut, adding that it would not strike the facility as it keeps up attacks against the group's financial assets. Photo by Fadel Itani/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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INDONESIA-BANDUNG-INT'L WOMEN'S DAY-VISUAL IMPAIRED-BARISTA

(240308) -- BANDUNG, March 8, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Sri Ayu checks bills at the cashier desk of a coffee shop in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia, on March 8, 2024. Sri Ayu is a visually impaired woman and works as a barista in Bandung, Indonesia. On March 8, the International Women's Day, she made coffee for customers in the cafe as usual. Sri Ayu wishes to further improve her professional skills and become an excellent barista. (Photo by Septianjar Muharam/Xinhua)

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CHINA-HAINAN-OFFSHORE DUTY-FREE SALES (CN)

(231018) -- HAIKOU, Oct. 18, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on Nov. 28, 2016 shows tourists lining up at a cashier of Sanya International Duty Free City in Sanya, south China's Hainan Province. Since introducing relevant policies 12 years ago, south China's island province of Hainan has recorded total offshore duty-free sales of 202.4 billion yuan (about 28.19 billion U.S. dollars), according to local authorities. As of Monday, 37.22 million shoppers had purchased 268 million duty-free products on the island, according to the customs of Haikou, the provincial capital of Hainan. (Xinhua/Yang Guanyu)

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Traditional tea culture in Türkiye

STORY: Traditional tea culture in Türkiye DATELINE: Jan. 10, 2023 LENGTH: 0:03:40 LOCATION: Ankara CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of tea in Türkiye 2. various of people drinking tea 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (Turkish): OSMAN ATAK, Cafe owner in Ankara 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Turkish): ERKAN OZPOLAT, Cashier at a shop in Ankara STORYLINE: Türkiye has a tea culture that's steeped in hundreds of years of tradition. It has become a big part of Turkish people's daily life. SOUNDBITE 1 (Turkish): OSMAN ATAK, Cafe owner in Ankara "We consume tea at any time of our daily life. In Türkiye, people mostly consume black tea which is consumed at any time of the day, starting with breakfast. When it's consumed about half an hour following meals, tea can ease the fatigue of the body, can enhance your mind, and make you feel better in general." SOUNDBITE 2 (Turkish): ERKAN OZPOLAT, Cashier at a shop in Ankara "Tea is a big part of our life, for example, in my family we don't say 'breakfast is ready,' but 'tea is ready.' We drink t

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Shopping with Bitcoin

TOKYO, Japan, Dec. 21 Kyodo - A cashier holds a tablet displaying a barcode used for payment by bitcoin at the annex of department store Marui's Shinjuku outlet in Tokyo on Aug. 7, 2017.

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Prosecutors raid home of Wakayama gov't cashier over bid-rigging

WAKAYAMA, Japan - Satoaki Mizutani, chief treasurer of the Wakayama prefectural government, is escorted Osaka District Public Prosecutors Office on Oct. 12 in connection with a bid-rigging scandal involving tunnel projects in the western Japan prefecture.

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Roman bar owner hangs inflatable mannequin to protest energy bill hike

STORY: Roman bar owner hangs inflatable mannequin to protest energy bill hike DATELINE: Sept. 22, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:12 LOCATION: Rome CATEGORY: SOCIETY/ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of an inflatable mannequin hanging on the window of a bar 2. various of the entrance of the bar 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (Italian): LAURA RAMONI, Bar owner in Rome 4. various of a chef cooking 5. various of the bar's cashier 6. shot of the bar's menu 7. SOUNDBITE 2 (Italian): LAURA RAMONI, Bar owner in Rome 8. various of customers STORYLINE: The persistent energy crisis in Europe has worsened the business environment of the continent, burdening the catering industry in particular. Laura Ramoni, a bar owner in Rome, has hanged an inflatable mannequin on the window of the bar, with a yellow sign on the mannequin's chest reading: "The bill has arrived." Laura says she wants to attract the attention of the public about the bill hike. SOUNDBITE 1 (Italian): LAURA RAMONI, Bar owner in Rome "All the bills have changed, so is my electricity b

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Chinese-built railway injects fresh vitality into Kenya's economy

STORY: Chinese-built railway injects fresh vitality into Kenya's economy DATELINE: Aug. 10, 2022 LENGTH: 00:03:20 LOCATION: MOMBASA, Kenya CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Mombasa Terminus 2. STANDUP 1 (English): RUTH WANGARA, Xinhua reporter in Kenya 3. various of Mombasa Terminus 4. various of SGR cargo transportation 5. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): PHILIP MAINGA, Managing director of Kenya Railways Corporation 6. various of Bamburi Beach Hotel 7. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): GLORIA CHAHONYO, Operations manager of Bamburi Beach Hotel 8. various of Mayura Restaurant at Mombasa Terminus 9. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): BEATRICE MBIKU, Cashier at Mayura Restaurant STORYLINE: STANDUP 1 (English): RUTH WANGARA, Xinhua reporter in Kenya "What you are seeing behind me is the Mombasa modern railway station, you may wonder why I emphasize on its modernity. Well, you see growing up in Kenya myself and experiencing the old railway that was over 100 years old, I understand the excitement of the new Standard Gauge Railway (SG

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Malaysia's inflation increases 3.4 pct in June

STORY: Malaysia's inflation increases 3.4 pct in June DATELINE: July 23, 2022 LENGTH: 00:02:01 LOCATION: Kuala Lumpur CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of crowds queuing up at the cashier counters in supermarket 2. various of crowds doing their grocery shopping in supermarket 3. various of supermarket staff tidying the bottled cooking oils on rack 4. various of crowds picking fish at the seafood counter in supermarket STORYLINE: Malaysia's inflation, as measured by consumer price index, increased by 3.4 percent in June from a year ago, due to higher food prices, official data showed Friday. The increase surpassed the average inflation of 1.9 percent in Malaysia for the period January 2011 to June 2022, the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM) said in a statement. According to DOSM, the food index increased 6.1 percent and remained as the main contributor to the rise in the inflation during the month of June. Other groups except communications also recorded increases. Transport incr

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GREECE-ATHENS-INFLATION

(220621) -- ATHENS, June 21, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A cashier works at a supermarket in Athens, Greece, on June 21, 2022. Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced on Tuesday the extension of a subsidy for fuel consumption for the next three months, to ease the burden on budgets of households and businesses amid the ongoing international energy crisis. Greece's annual inflation rate hit 11.3 percent in May, a 29-year record, the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) said earlier this month. (Xinhua/Marios Lolos)

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(SP)CHINA-BEIJING-WINTER OLYMPIC GAMES-MAIN MEDIA CENTER

(220110) -- BEIJING, Jan. 10, 2022 (Xinhua) -- A staff sorts out a cashier at the Media Dining Hall of the Main Media Center for the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in Beijing, capital of China, Jan. 10, 2022. (Xinhua/He Changshan)

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UNIQLO Harajuku Store Opening Commemorative Preview

At the UNIQLO Harajuku store, which opened in June 2008, a partition was installed in each of the face-to-face cash registers. Transparent guards have also been installed between the cashier and the customer. (June 3, 2020, Shibuya Ward, Tokyo; Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images)

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UNIQLO Harajuku Store Opening Commemorative Preview

At the UNIQLO Harajuku store, which opened in June 2008, a partition was installed in each of the face-to-face cash registers. Transparent guards have also been installed between the cashier and the customer. (June 3, 2020, Shibuya Ward, Tokyo; Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images)

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UNIQLO Harajuku Store Opening Commemorative Preview

At the UNIQLO Harajuku store, which opened in June 2008, a partition was installed in each of the face-to-face cash registers. Transparent guards have also been installed between the cashier and the customer. (June 3, 2020, Shibuya Ward, Tokyo; Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images)

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UNIQLO Harajuku Store Opening Commemorative Preview

At the UNIQLO Harajuku store, which opened in June 2008, a partition was installed in each of the face-to-face cash registers. Transparent guards have also been installed between the cashier and the customer. (June 3, 2020, Shibuya Ward, Tokyo; Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images)

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Yokohama Takashimaya started to expand some sales areas from self-restraint

On May 18, 2008, Yokohama Takashimaya resumed sales of clothing, school bags, glasses, and other items. The store will encourage customers to wear masks, disinfect, and observe social distance, and will take thorough measures to prevent the spread of infection, including wearing masks and face shields and installing droplet prevention sheets at cash registers. The photo shows a cashier handing over merchandise with a sheet in between. All Takashimaya employees wear face shields, while some employees of stores that have opened stores wear only masks. Photo: Yokohama Takashimaya Department Store in Yokohama City's Nishi Ward on May 18, 2020; Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

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Yokohama Takashimaya started to expand some sales areas from self-restraint

On May 18, 2008, Yokohama Takashimaya resumed sales of clothing, school bags, glasses, and other items. The store will encourage customers to wear masks, disinfect, and observe social distance, and will take thorough measures to prevent the spread of infection, including wearing masks and face shields and installing droplet prevention sheets at cash registers. The photo shows a cashier handing over merchandise with a sheet in between. All Takashimaya employees wear face shields, while some employees of stores that have opened stores wear only masks. Photo: Yokohama Takashimaya Department Store in Yokohama City's Nishi Ward on May 18, 2020; Credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

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Shopping with Bitcoin

A cashier holds a tablet displaying a barcode used for payment by bitcoin at the annex of department store Marui's Shinjuku outlet in Tokyo on Aug. 7, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Prosecutors raid home of Wakayama gov't cashier over bid-rigging

WAKAYAMA, Japan - Satoaki Mizutani, chief treasurer of the Wakayama prefectural government, is escorted Osaka District Public Prosecutors Office on Oct. 12 in connection with a bid-rigging scandal involving tunnel projects in the western Japan prefecture. (Kyodo)

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New coronavirus

Tape markers on the floor of a supermarket in Osaka show customers where to queue at a distance while waiting to be served by a cashier due to the coronavirus pandemic on April 9, 2020. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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E-CNY Lanched In Shanghai

A sign reading Welcome to E-CNY stands out in front of the cashier's counter at the New World City on Nanjing Road in Shanghai, China, March 8, 2021. This is the first time Digital RMB has launched a marketing campaign in Shanghai.

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E-CNY Lanched In Shanghai

A sign reading Welcome to E-CNY stands out in front of the cashier's counter at the New World City on Nanjing Road in Shanghai, China, March 8, 2021. This is the first time Digital RMB has launched a marketing campaign in Shanghai.

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E-CNY Lanched In Shanghai

A sign reading Welcome to E-CNY stands out in front of the cashier's counter at the New World City on Nanjing Road in Shanghai, China, March 8, 2021. This is the first time Digital RMB has launched a marketing campaign in Shanghai.

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E-CNY Lanched In Shanghai

A sign reading Welcome to E-CNY stands out in front of the cashier's counter at the New World City on Nanjing Road in Shanghai, China, March 8, 2021. This is the first time Digital RMB has launched a marketing campaign in Shanghai.

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E-CNY Lanched In Shanghai

A sign reading Welcome to E-CNY stands out in front of the cashier's counter at the New World City on Nanjing Road in Shanghai, China, March 8, 2021. This is the first time Digital RMB has launched a marketing campaign in Shanghai.

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China Digital RMB E-CNY

consumer uses a digital yuan red envelope in a mobile phone to buy goods at a digital yuan cashier's desk at the Wangfujing Bookstore on Wangfujing Street in Beijing, China, Feb 16, 2021.

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China Digital RMB E-CNY

A digital RMB cashier stands at Wangfujing Bookstore on Wangfujing Street in Beijing, capital of China, Feb 16, 2021.

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China Digital RMB E-CNY

A digital RMB cashier stands at Wangfujing Bookstore on Wangfujing Street in Beijing, capital of China, Feb 16, 2021.

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China Digital RMB E-CNY

A digital RMB cashier stands at Wangfujing Bookstore on Wangfujing Street in Beijing, capital of China, Feb 16, 2021.

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China Digital RMB E-CNY

A digital RMB cashier stands at Wangfujing Bookstore on Wangfujing Street in Beijing, capital of China, Feb 16, 2021.

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China Digital RMB E-CNY

A digital RMB cashier stands at Wangfujing Bookstore on Wangfujing Street in Beijing, capital of China, Feb 16, 2021.

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China Digital RMB E-CNY

A digital RMB cashier stands at Wangfujing Bookstore on Wangfujing Street in Beijing, capital of China, Feb 16, 2021.

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China Digital RMB E-CNY

A consumer uses a digital yuan red envelope in a mobile phone to buy goods at a digital yuan cashier's desk at the Wangfujing Bookstore on Wangfujing Street in Beijing, China, Feb 16, 2021.

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China Digital RMB E-CNY

A digital RMB cashier stands at Wangfujing Bookstore on Wangfujing Street in Beijing, capital of China, Feb 16, 2021.

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China Digital RMB E-CNY

A digital RMB cashier stands at Wangfujing Bookstore on Wangfujing Street in Beijing, capital of China, Feb 16, 2021.

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Spar shop cash desk, cashier, a hand disinfection, sprayer disinfectant solution, shopping cart, trolley, supermarke

Spar shop cash desk, cashier wearing a face mask, a hand disinfection, sprayer disinfectant solution, shopping cart, trolley, supermarket, Sukosan, Croatia, on June 27, 2020. (CTK Photo/Libor Sojka)

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Spar shop cash desk, cashier, a hand disinfection, sprayer disinfectant solution, shopping cart, trolley, supermarke

Spar shop cash desk, cashier wearing a face mask, a hand disinfection, sprayer disinfectant solution, shopping cart, trolley, supermarket, Sukosan, Croatia, on June 27, 2020. (CTK Photo/Libor Sojka)

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Spar shop cash desk, cashier, a hand disinfection, sprayer disinfectant solution, shopping cart, trolley, supermarke

Spar shop cash desk, cashier wearing a face mask, a hand disinfection, sprayer disinfectant solution, shopping cart, trolley, supermarket, Sukosan, Croatia, on June 27, 2020. (CTK Photo/Libor Sojka)

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Risk of fire from anti-COVID-19 nylon sheets

A firefighter in Kanazawa, central Japan, carries out a combustion experiment on sheets set up at restaurants and store cashier stands to prevent droplet infections of the novel coronavirus on June 17, 2020. The experiment was conducted to highlight the risk of fire as such sheets are often made of nylon or vinyl and are flammable. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Scenes in Wuhan

A supermarket cashier wears a face mask and a face shield at his store on May 21, 2020, in Wuhan, a central China city which was the epicenter of the outbreak of the new coronavirus in January. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Osaka Castle tower reopens

A plastic shield sits on the cashier counter of a gift shop at the reopened Osaka Castle tower on May 20, 2020, to reduce the risk of coronavirus infections. The tower reopened to the public the same day after the western Japan prefecture eased business restriction requests over the weekend in response to dwindling infections. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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New coronavirus

A plastic sheet curtain is placed between a cashier and a shopper at a Lawson convenience store in Tokyo on April 13, 2020, to avoid coronavirus infections. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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New coronavirus

A plastic sheet curtain is placed between a cashier and a shopper at a Lawson convenience store in Tokyo on April 13, 2020, to avoid coronavirus infections. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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New coronavirus

A cashier wearing a face mask and gloves disinfects a table at a supermarket in Osaka due to the coronavirus pandemic on April 9, 2020. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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New coronavirus

Photo taken April 9, 2020, shows a note posted at a supermarket in Osaka requesting customers queue at the cashier while keeping a distance from one another due to the coronavirus pandemic. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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New coronavirus

A cashier wearing a face mask and gloves works at a supermarket in Osaka due to the coronavirus pandemic on April 9, 2020. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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New coronavirus

Photo taken April 8, 2020, shows a plastic sheet separating a cashier and customer at a 7-Eleven convenience store in Osaka amid the spread of the new coronavirus. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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New coronavirus

A clear acrylic board separates a cashier and customers at a do-it-yourself store in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on April 9, 2020, in the middle of the coronavirus crisis. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Cashier-less convenience store

Photo taken Feb. 18, 2020, shows a QR code that customers need to scan to enter Japanese convenience store chain Lawson Inc.'s checkout-free outlet in Kawasaki, near Tokyo. Opening on a trial basis on Feb. 26, the experimental store allows customers to pick up items and leave with payment automatically processed through a dedicated app. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo