Selon la caissière, ce sac coûte moins cher ailleurs.

According to the cashier, this bag costs less elsewhere.

Breakdown of Selon la caissière, ce sac coûte moins cher ailleurs.

• ce: this
• le sac: the bag
• moins: less
• selon: according to

Questions & Answers about Selon la caissière, ce sac coûte moins cher ailleurs.

What does selon mean here, and can I use d’après instead?

Both selon and d’après mean “according to (a person/source).”

• They’re interchangeable in this sentence: D’après la caissière, ce sac coûte moins cher ailleurs.
• Nuance: selon is neutral/formal. d’après can also mean “based on” (evidence) or “after/in the style of” (art), but with a person as a source it’s fine.

Why is it la caissière? What’s the masculine form, and is gendering job titles normal?

• Masculine: le caissier; feminine: la caissière (note the accent: è).
• Many French job titles have masculine/feminine forms (e.g., vendeur/vendeuse, serveur/serveuse).
• If you don’t want to specify gender: in speech you might say la personne à la caisse; in writing you often see forms like le/la caissier(-ère).

Why the definite article la (and not une) before caissière?

• la caissière refers to a specific, identifiable cashier (e.g., the one at this store right now).
• une caissière would be “a cashier” in general, not necessarily the one involved in the situation. It’s possible, but it shifts the meaning.