Most of the time, you just add an 's' at the end. That's all! One cashier, two cashiers!
With certain names, you have the option of doing something extra: 'The Joneses have invited us over!' That's because, the name Jones ends with an 's' anyway, so people have done plurals this way for a long time; and you pronounce it that way, too.
'Count all the 3s, and ...' Well, today it's not considered too strange to write 'Count all the 3's, and ...' Did you notice the apostrophe? It's not required, but it makes the sentence look a tiny bit less strange. Same rule applies to sentences about decades. You are allowed to write 'The 1970's were an ...' whatever.
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