Omelet wrote:
>
>>> I like the sign in a store where I shop every couple of weeks.
>>> It says About 10 items or fewer. Works for me. So long as
>>> people follow the spirit of the rule. I can't get all aggravated
>>> if someone's in line with 13 items.
>> A sign like turns it into a regular lane. That invites people with
>> 30 or more items since everybody's definition of "about 10 items"
>> differs, especially when the other lanes are all full.
>>
>> That's not an express lane.
>>
>> -sw
>
> If I have 20 cans of a single type of canned veggie, doesn't that count
> as one item? <g>

Or a bag of potatoes, a bunch of bananas ?

I still have trouble with the idea of a store being expected to keep a
checkout station open to accommodate the the shoppers buying the
smallest amounts and making the customers with more purchases wait
longer when they are making more profit from a cart full of goods than
12 or less.