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Ed Pawlowski Ed Pawlowski is offline
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Default Fight at Costco!

On 7/10/2016 12:02 PM, Dave Smith wrote:

>
> I used to leave carts full of groceries at one store where we used to
> shop. They had a dozen and a half checkouts but cashiers at only four or
> five, If I was in line long enough that ice cream started melting I
> walked away. The last time I left a cart I only had about 20 items
> and went to the express lane, 1-8 items because there were long lines at
> the others and no one at the express lines. She said I had too many
> items. She insisted on maximum 8. No a problem if there are been a line,
> but she was standing there doing nothing so I figured she could check
> out my relatively small order instead of doing nothing. She didn't see
> it that way, so I left.
>
>


I've had the opposite where the cashier waved me over with a modest but
over limit cart. Overall it benefits everyone.