"Dave Smith" > wrote in message
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> 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.

No shit. That drives me ****ing nuts. It's like, didn't you know you were
going to spend money here? Didn't you have a ****ing clue as to an
approximation? Why did you start filling out the check when the cashier was
finished?

They have a service that's new to me as I haven't used a check in years (I
use a debit card). You simply hand the cashier a blank check, they run it
through the scanner, your account is debited and they hand you the check
back.

I was in line behind one of the ancient ones as she fumbled for her pen.
The cashier said, "Ma'am, you'll get your check back."
Grandma Moses found her pen and appeared to write her autobiography with her
shaking hand.

The cashier repeated several times that she'd be getting her check back.

Autobiography finished, God's mother finally hands over the check. It's
scanned and passed back to her within seconds.

5 more minutes pass as the cashier has to explain why she didn't keep the
check.

If I'm just buying a few items with cash, I can get really close to the
total mentally. I hand them the money before they ever have to redundantly
tell me what is displayed on two 14 inch lcd monitors for the world to see.

I think all this boils down to the fact that most people are inherently
stupid.

TFM®