Dave Smith > wrote in
:

>
> It is not efficient for me to be standing in a long line to check out
> 20-30 items while people who came into the store while I am in line,
> gets their one crummy item and checks out while I am still waiting in
> line.

I sometimes pop over to the supermarket in between getting off the train
and my bus arriving. I want only a few things (bread, milk etc.), and
standing behind someone checking out 30 items while I miss my bus is not
efficient for me.

Don't assume that people who buy small amounts a) only every buy small
amounts - I also do large grocery shops at the same supermarket or b) only
come in once in a blue moon - some weeks I may buy small amounts on several
days.

--
Rhonda Anderson
Cranebrook, NSW, Australia

Core of my heart, my country! Land of the rainbow gold,
For flood and fire and famine she pays us back threefold.
My Country, Dorothea MacKellar, 1904