On Mar 26, 1:55*pm, Mark Thorson > wrote:
> Dave Smith 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.
>
> You bring up an interesting point. *Trader Joe's
> doesn't have express lines, and they usually are
> pretty quick to open a new checkstand if the
> lines are getting long. *(I wonder how many of
> their customers get heart attacks when they
> ring that dang bell.) *However, I don't usually
> notice people with very full carts shopping at
> Trader Joe's.
>
> A regular supermarket would seem to be very
> unfriendly toward single people if they did not
> have express lines. *I shop frequently, visited
> 3 grocery stores just this morning, but usually
> make small purchases.

I like it when a person goes thru the self-check line with a grocery
cart FULL of stuff. Isn't the self-checkout supposed to be a form of
express lane? And of course, the person takes about 10x longer to go
thru the self-chekcout than normal b/c h/she is scanning, bagging,
figuring out where to put the 10+ bags of groceries, etc. etc.

And whatever happened to letting someone go ahead of you when you have
50 items and they have 3 or 4? I've even been on the offering side
and the person DECLINED. ?!

-goro-