Dan Abel wrote:
> In article >,
> Dave Smith > wrote:
>
>
>> Often? The way I figure it is first come first serve, and customers
>> making larger purchases deserve some respect.
>
> I like the way they do it at the military commissary here in the US.
> It's like a bank, there is only one line. You don't have to worry about
> which line to get in. When you get to the front of the line, you just
> go to the next free checker. If somebody has a lot of stuff, they don't
> hold up a line, they are just at the checkstand longer.
>


I like that idea. It beats playing checkout roulette. No more checking
out the number of people in line and the number of items in their cards,
not to mention how many of them are the old girls who will wait until
the cashier tells them the total before they start the search for the
purse and wallet and fumble around in their change purse to try to get
the right change. Heaven forbid they keep an eye on the cash register so
they can get out their money ahead of time instead of holding up the
people behind them.