sf > wrote in message
...
> On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 12:59:09 -0800, The Ranger
> wrote:
> > On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 12:45:56 -0800, sf >
wrote:
> > > > Mindless stuff. Of course its enforceable.
> > >
> > > And they DO enforce it... to bad the complainers come from
> > > areas that train their staff so poorly.
> >
> > And of course you can provide the store name with its generic
> > address to back up your claims of "properly trained staff"
that do
> > enforce the express lane counts? ("Safeway" alone doesn't
count;
> > "Andronico's in Diablo" would.)
> >
> The Safeway on Monterey Ave. for starters. While they
> aren't going to bat an eye at 2 items over, they certainly
> do tell customers who are grossly over the limit which isle
> they should be standing in.... and I've never witnessed a
> confrontation over it.

Wow. Two things amaze me over this: 1) That a clerk at Safeway
would have the backbone to say ANYTHING negative to a customer and
2) that none of the customers being reminded of what an express
lane is got huffy over being reminded by that clerk... Good for
those clerks, on both counts.

I, OTOH, have seen just the oppostive, to the point that I don't
shop in Safeway without a specific loss-leader list. Andronico's
sees my money a lot less, too, nowadays.

The Ranger