Dan Abel wrote:
>
>> I still have trouble with the idea of a store being expected to keep a
>> checkout station open to accommodate the the shoppers buying the
>> smallest amounts and making the customers with more purchases wait
>> longer when they are making more profit from a cart full of goods than
>> 12 or less.
>
> If 10 people buy 10 items each, or one person buys 100 items, then
> ignoring checkout costs, the store makes the same amount of money.
> During checkout, it should cost the store the same to scan and bag those
> 100 items. The only difference is accepting payment from 10 people
> versus one. The store knows darn well that people will not wait in line
> to buy one item unless it is a quick checkout station. They'll go to
> the convenience store instead.


True. But they can one one person through with woo items faster than
they can do ten people with ten items because it is usually the cash
transaction that takes up the time.