On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 14:22:31 +0100, Nathalie Chiva
> wrote:

>Frogleg a écrit :
>
>> Bagging your own stuff (common in Europe, I believe) can reduce these
>> problems.
>
>Not only common - it's the only way. Reading this thread, I don't regret it....

There was, briefly, a discount grocery store here which had
self-bagging and the same arrangement I remember from Norway -- a sort
of shunt that sent A's groceries one way, and B's (next customer)
another, so that B was being checked out while A was finishing up
gathering its purchases. Seemed to work very well.