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Title    Efficiencies in Supermarket Checkout Lines
Date    Sunday September 18 2016, @04:56PM
Author    martyb
Topic   
from the slowest-line-is-the-one-I'm-in dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=16/09/18/0223200

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.

Original Submission

Links
  1. "Appalbarry" - https://soylentnews.org/~Appalbarry/
  2. "Canadian Broadcasting Corporation " - http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/business/former-teacher-uses-math-skills-to-find-fastest-checkout-line-1.3765237
  3. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=15912
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