Each department has a number of employees who have been trained specifically in ordering and stocking the shelves designated as that department's area of sales. The workers assigned to each department specialize in one particular area of supermarket production and sales and generally do not perform the duties of workers from different departments. For instance, butchers will not perform bakery duties, and vice versa.

While employees of the various departments are expected to have some general knowledge of the many duties performed within their department, each workers is generally assigned regular duties and usually does not perform other duties within the department. One example could be the bakery department where one worker may be trained as a decorator of cakes while another may be trained to perform the actual baking duties. Each performs one aspect of the overall bakery department duties and these duties usually will not overlap. In this...
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