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on Sunday September 18 2016, @04:56PM
from the slowest-line-is-the-one-I'm-in dept.
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: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 18 2016, @07:22PM
So this is what I gather from this thread.
Women are more likely to be selected for cashier jobs in the first place because employers prefer them for the job (ie: looks and getting customers in the door since customers prefer women too).
When there is a man at the cashier he is likely just filling in for someone else and so he has less experience.
Hence the women are naturally going to be faster since they are the regular cashiers and hence they are more experienced.
So when we see a slow man it's because he's inexperienced and he's filling in for someone else. He is being more chatty to kill time for the fact that he doesn't know what he is doing due to a lack of experience.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 18 2016, @10:24PM
Also men should be in the back someplace lifting something heavy not in the front attending to the cash register.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 19 2016, @12:16PM
When I were a lad they put the queer and camp fellows on the delicatessen and checkouts along side the totty.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday September 19 2016, @05:16PM
Additional detail: If the supermarket has a lingerie section, guy cashiers are kept as far away from it as possible, even when that requires switching multiple cashiers to cover a break.
The belief is that most women will just drop those purchases on the nearest shelf corner, rather than hand them to a guy cashier, and that's way too much margin to lose.