On Thu, 18 Apr 2019 11:25:12 -0400, Ed Pawlowski > wrote:

>On 4/18/2019 10:44 AM, jmcquown wrote:
>> On 4/18/2019 2:20 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
>>>
>>> "jmcquown" > wrote in message
>>> ...
>>>> On 4/14/2019 1:23 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>>>>> On 2019-04-14 12:40 p.m., jmcquown wrote:
>>>>>> On 4/14/2019 10:51 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>> Maybe it is a cultural thing. There are a lot of Italians in that
>>>>> city and old Italian women can be pretty pushy. We get most of our
>>>>> meat from an Italian butcher these days. When we first started going
>>>>> there it was pretty frustrating dealing with these little old ladies
>>>>> because they would walk up to the counter ahead of me. The counter
>>>>> people knew it was a problem and tried hard to deal with those who
>>>>> were there first. Thank goodness they got a numbered ticket system.
>>>>>
>>>> Absolutely no markets like that anywhere I've ever lived.
>>>
>>> Weird!
>>
>> It's not weird.* It's demographics.* I've only ever encountered a ticket
>> system like that at the DMV.* Definitely not when buying food, not even
>> at the local meat market.
>>
>> Jill
>
>I see it a lot at the deli counter. They also do it at the DMV here but
>you can also make an appointment and they give you a coupon for a free
>car wash.

DMV, plumbing/lighting store/deli counter/Costco eyeglass center, some
parts of Home Depot -- there's more, I know. But, Jill is single and
doesn't do a lot of the stuff that others do so doesn't go in many
different stores .
Janet US