[SanFranDan]

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

[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.