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| Thread ID: 114987 | 2010-12-27 22:08:00 | No Cutting In Line! (Queue, in UK-type Places) | SurferJoe46 (51) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 1165119 | 2010-12-27 22:08:00 | Ever get into the slow lane? The shortest-now-slowest-moving line at the grocery check out? Here's why it happens to you::: www.engineerguy.com |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 1165120 | 2010-12-27 22:55:00 | That's rubbish ... the slowest lane always has the sexiest looking checkout girl .... :devil | SP8's (9836) | ||
| 1165121 | 2010-12-27 23:16:00 | That's rubbish ... the slowest lane always has the sexiest looking checkout girl .... :devil There's none where I work! |
qazwsxokmijn (102) | ||
| 1165122 | 2010-12-27 23:36:00 | Hi Joe. The single queue, multiple checkouts works for me. Our local Post Shop uses this process with four check-outs and is great. | Scouse (83) | ||
| 1165123 | 2010-12-28 01:15:00 | They also use the single line feed at airports, its true that they are psychologically disturbing | The Error Guy (14052) | ||
| 1165124 | 2010-12-28 01:31:00 | They also use the single line feed at airports, its true that they are psychologically disturbing Only to those predisposed to psychological disturbance . I find them most efficient . But then I'm a pedantic b*stard, so most of my friends would say . |
johcar (6283) | ||
| 1165125 | 2010-12-28 08:05:00 | they are faster, but not an efficient use of space | Greven (91) | ||
| 1165126 | 2010-12-28 16:20:00 | Just as a sidebar: There was an Alpha-Beta (supermarket for food in California) once in Fullerton, where my dad shopped all the time . He was standing in line one day and noticed that even with very few customers in the store, that #1, #2 and #13 check-out counters/registers were manned and operating . Then it dawned on him: Alpha-Betas, by design only have 12 check-out registers . He called their La Habra Regional Offices, and a couple of suits showed up at his home and escorted him to the store, across the street . They asked him to check out in the #13 lane and once the operator took the money from my dad, the suits asked to see the manager, and after the sale, they asked my dad to leave where they could then handle 'official business' . The manager was seen going away in handcuffs later that day . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 1165127 | 2010-12-28 19:43:00 | Very lateral thinking of the manager!! And smart of your dad to work it out... | johcar (6283) | ||
| 1165128 | 2010-12-29 03:22:00 | My dad had very powerful powers of observation and of the arcane and juxtapositional things in life. (OK - I made that word up) He had a more parallax view than I! |
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