• Dempf@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Even when Susan is taking a huge cart through, a single queue for multiple service providers (self checkout) is always going to be theoretically more efficient than multiple queues - one per provider (one line for each cashier). The best of both worlds are places that have a single area to corral you into line, and a row of cashiers where you can go to the first available.

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      1 year ago

      I once was that guy who took a cartful of groceries to the self-checkout. The goddamn thing had to call staff no less than 6 times because we couldn’t fit everything on that damn scale.

      I’m not doing that again.

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        1 year ago

        I can’t even blame you that much when places like Costco do their damnedest to get everyone in the self checkout line. If you’re not paying attention it’d be easy to roll through there with stuff that doesn’t really work well for self checkout.