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

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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  • (Score: 2) by isostatic on Monday September 19 2016, @10:14PM

    by isostatic (365) on Monday September 19 2016, @10:14PM (#404005) Journal

    No it doesn't solve the problem, as there is a non zero time from head of queue to counter.

    And impulse buys have nothing to do with it - many supermarkets have impulse buys in the single line and at the till while the basket is wrung up.

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