Ever been in that situation

WTF? No downblouse then?

Next you're going to tell me that the frozen food section is to keep products from spoiling...

aarcuda69062 wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@news.chi.sbcglobal.net:

I refuse to use the self-checkouts, and I make that fact known to the cashier I end up at. When I eat out at a restaurant, am I expected to go to the kitchen and place my own food order with the cooks?

Self-checkouts are a sneaky way for retail outlets to cut their labor costs. That's all.

Y'know what /is/ a really good idea? What Wal-Mart has done as a test in certain stores. They've arranged several checkouts to be served by one lineup. Sort of like the teller line at your bank, but better: you are told visually and audially which checkout to go to as it becomes available. Very nice. No more getting stuck in a line that gets held up by a price check or some old lady fumbling through her purse for change or some other glitch. I've often wondered why other retailers haven't tried that.

I like it.

Exactly. Creeping incrementalism.

Great, what an improvement... now *everyone* gets stuck in a line that gets held up by a price check or some old lady fumbling through her purse for change.

About a month ago, I saw an article somewhere on the intenet about some new electronic shoppinng carts that have built in price scannners.Why can't Wal Mart buy some decent shopping carts? Most of them have at one wheel out of line, it makes the karts want to go all over the place.Wal Mart stores have some neat battery powered pusher thingys which have a remote control.They are used for pushing the long lines of empty shopping carts from the parkng lot back into the store.Those guys used to use Flexi 26 feet long dog leashes (just like the one I use for my dog) to pull those shopping carts back into the store. cuhulin

No you wouldn't. One line queuing multiple registers.

No more 'oh shit I picked the wrong register again.'

Simpson wrote in news:EmhFj.35289$ snipped-for-privacy@newssvr14.news.prodigy.net:

You've got that quite backwards.

If you go to your local bank and one of the tellers gets stuck with some old lady who wants to tell her all about her new great-grandson, do you have to wait until she's done? No. One of the other tellers will be available long before that.

That's the beauty of the "single customer line, multiple cashier" approach.

I think the banks abandoned the "single line, single teller" model, oh, about 1980. It may be fairly said that other retailers are still stuck in

Nope, you dont get a discount. I think the system is in custom evaluation and development so that eventually the machine will supplant the check out counter person. People are expensive.

I use these counters when the lines are long and moving slowly. Most people dont use the automated checkout stands, so I can avoid the wait. It is a time saver, which is compensation of a sort.

We call that a cafeteria, Tegger ;>) Advantage is that you can see the food as you order, is faster, maybe a little cheaper.

If we go out to "dine", we can expect to spend an hour or two in the restaurant. If we go to "eat", we can cut that time in half.

"HLS" wrote in news:jGOFj.4510$ snipped-for-privacy@nlpi070.nbdc.sbc.com:

All right then...

If you go to a cafeteria, are you expected to run the cash register when you pay for your order?

Exactly aarcuda's point.

"*" wrote in news:01c88dc9$55e0d500$8190c3d8@race:

No, you deal with the cashiers. THEY deal with the kitchen.

And you also pay less than you would at a sit-down restaurant.

Every chance I get.