[Buckeye McFrog]

In all Europe’s Grocery stores (Tesco etc. ) every cashier is sitting and they charge you for bags.

Aldi does that in their stores over here, although despite this they still run a pretty tight operation with some good deals. Ergonomic standards for cashiers were proposed by OSHA some years ago. I think they were overruled by George W.

[antiRepublicrat]

Aldi does that in their stores over here, although despite this they still run a pretty tight operation with some good deals.

Aldi used to have fairly skilled labor and no barcodes. Seriously. Every cashier previously worked as a stocker until he learned all of the three-digit codes for all of the products in the store. Then as a cashier nothing was scanned, instead the cashier very quickly typed in the three digit code for everything as he pulled it across. A good cashier was faster than a scanner, as he could type in the codes for items all the way back on the belt before they got to him, shoving items by in bulk.

They were, also, paid accordingly well.

[dangerdoc]

“Ergonomic standards for cashiers were proposed by OSHA some years ago. I think they were overruled by George W.”

They were not ergonomic standards, it was the trial lawyer full employment act.