Or, go to Walmart, where they have 64 lanes but only one staffed by a cashier and all can wait together.
I always pick the line with the most men in it.
They always seem to be in more of a hurry.
;)
I always chose the longest line and I use the time to read the National Enquirer without paying for it.
I am shocked that people still write checks at the grocery store.
Some people don’t even get ready to pay until they’ve argued about some price for ten minutes. And this happens at Walmart more often than anywhere else.
The lesson is....never switch lines. It comes with some kind of curse.
If I get stuck in line and get tired of waiting and move to the next stand, something will go wrong and take even longer.
I actually prefer self-checkout if buying only a few items. Many of the “slow” customers in the lines avoid them. However, occasionally I encounter self-checkout customers who seem to have no idea of how to work the terminal or act as though they recently had a lobotomy.
Self checkout.
Third corollary to Murphy’s law: The other line always moves faster.
—because I am a jinx on anything that is supposed to move faster—
The rules of life.....
I don't know if this is true anymore. I swipe my card, enter the pin number and hit OK before they're even done ringing up my groceries while the person paying cash in front of me always seems to have to dig around for exact change.
I like it when the checker says to the customer in front of me “Oh, I think some of your items may have coupons in one of this week’s flyers, let me look” and proceeds to fumble through a stack of flyers, page by painful page.
“Veer to the left most people are right-handed so we have a natural inclination to turn right. Do the opposite, queues on the left may be emptier.”
Works some times.
How sad is this? Just last night flipping channels, I ran across an Archies cartoon (college era I think) and in the minute or so I watched it was Reggie trashing Archie for having done a news story on wait for it..........Why is it the checkout line you choose always seems to go slower than the others. Nice to know where the Telegraph gets it’s story ideas.
I was taught in higher education is that this is a great example of Smith’s Postulate to Murphy’s Law, simply stated: Murphy was an optimist! :)
This really isn't true AT ALL, as anyone behind a single cart belonging to an Amishman and his wife buying for the whole community can ruefully verify.
HOWEVER, the reason to avoid express lanes is a dirty little secret well known to all those who've ever worked in a supermarket or high-volume retail outlet: Managers always assign their fastest checkers to the high volume lanes, and their slowest ones to "express" lanes, knowing the slow clerks -- who are usually, paradoxically, the least accurate clerks as well -- will be far less annoying when they only have a few items per customer.