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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 18 2016, @08:23PM
Single line requires allocation of floor space for the collection area, or else rely on community behavior from the people waiting in line (which often breaks down when someone "doesn't see" the line and walks up right behind the customer being tended to at a checkout station).