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Efficiencies in Supermarket Checkout Lines

posted by martyb on Sunday September 18 2016, @04:56PM   
from the slowest-line-is-the-one-I'm-in dept.

Appalbarry writes:

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reports on a former math teacher who claims to solved the question "Which checkout line up will be fastest?"

In a nutshell he has concluded that the number of people in the lineup is more important than the number of items a person has in their cart.

The critical factor, he says, is the average of 41 seconds that it takes a shopper to pay the cashier and engage in idle chit chat.

So a long line of people in the Express line, with two or three items each, will actual move slower than the checkout with one guy with a full shopping cart.

YMMV.

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• Try Costco Pharmacy lines... Try Costco Pharmacy lines... (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 18 2016, @05:32PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 18 2016, @05:32PM (#403444)

  They're like govt workers... Slower than a snail stuck to flypaper.

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• Re:Try Costco Pharmacy lines... (Score: 2) by turgid on Monday September 19 2016, @04:30PM

  by turgid (4318) on Monday September 19 2016, @04:30PM (#403826) Journal

  I like your use of imagery.

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