What is the point of 20 items or less line if Walmart wont enforce it? (recall, Target)
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Yours might, but what about the dolts that scan their cards upside down or forget their pin, have to ask the cashier for help, and then after all that, get cash back, which adds more delay?
I said credit card, not debit...no PIN, no cash back.
I swipe while waiting for things to be scanned, as soon as I've unloaded so could insert it upside down and sideways and correctly long before the order is done.
Who is going to enforce it? The police? Security? the cashier?
It's a courtesy request. People should abide. But no one is going to enforce it, because it's bad for the business. They want to keep every customer - not make them angry.
Ya well ya know how ppl are about that!! (They usually dont UNLESS FORCED )
It's the 80-20 rule. If 80% of folks respect the "express line" guideline, then the traffic flows faster, even though 20% don't, for whatever reason.
It's not a federal law or city ordinance; it's just a store rule that they hope most people will respect. In the end, everyone gets checked through and is on their way pretty quickly.
I've waited forever in express check-out lines, and I've zipped right through the regular lines; there's no rhyme or reason to it and it sometimes just depends on how fast the cashier is, or whether they have to do a price check or has to deal with food stamps and the like.
If you are behind six or seven people in the express check-out, you might be better off getting behind one giant shopping cart in a regular line because you might well make it through first. Scanning seems to be the fastest part of the operation. Then you have to wait while people fumble for their wallet, wait for change or figure out what button to press on the debit machine etc.
And people who do that irritate me!
They come and stand behind me with my overflowing cart and then give me that puppy dog look....."Won't you let me go in front of you?"
Ummm......NO! Go get in line at the express lane.....where you belong!
If there is no express lane open, then I will let them go ahead of me.
They come and stand behind me with my overflowing cart and then give me that puppy dog look....."Won't you let me go in front of you?"
Ummm......NO! Go get in line at the express lane.....where you belong!
If there is no express lane open, then I will let them go ahead of me.
No I didn't mean they should cut in front of the person with the overflowing cart. Just that one customer with a big basket may get checked through faster than 7 customers with small purchases, so it's more worthwhile to get behind such a customer, sometimes.
I love the self-checkout and I use it whenever I can. I will put more than the 20-item limit through there if I'm shopping late at night and there's nobody waiting behind me to use the self-checkout. There are four kiosks and they have never filled up any time I have put a full cart through. I'm also pretty damn fast with it because I lay my merch out in the cart as I shop so it's organized and easy to pull out, scan, and bag.
If I was holding people up by doing this, I'd stop doing it. And one time I did swing by the self-checkouts and saw there were a lot of people using them, so I went to a regular line instead and re-bagged my groceries off to the side after their bagger crammed them into my reusable bags in REALLY weird ways. I really hate it when other people bag my groceries. I have a SYSTEM.
Our self checkouts have no limits. You can scan one item or one hundred, doesn't matter. The other day I saw all four scanners being used by people who had heaping baskets of 'stuff'. That doesn't happen very often but it was a VERY busy day so they were trying to get through the fastest way they could. It isn't really all that fast when they have to have an attendant 'fix' something every minute! lol For instance, our scanners will tell them "unexpected item in bagging area" when there's NO reason for it. Drives me nuts and makes customers mad.
I am an organized shopper myself. I'm very picky about how my things are bagged and don't WANT to have to 'redo' it later. Ugh. Some folks don't seem to care but the older ones sure do! lol I haven't had any complaints about how I bag for my customers and I do for them like I would for me.
Our self checkouts have no limits. You can scan one item or one hundred, doesn't matter. The other day I saw all four scanners being used by people who had heaping baskets of 'stuff'. That doesn't happen very often but it was a VERY busy day so they were trying to get through the fastest way they could. It isn't really all that fast when they have to have an attendant 'fix' something every minute! lol For instance, our scanners will tell them "unexpected item in bagging area" when there's NO reason for it. Drives me nuts and makes customers mad.
I am an organized shopper myself. I'm very picky about how my things are bagged and don't WANT to have to 'redo' it later. Ugh. Some folks don't seem to care but the older ones sure do! lol I haven't had any complaints about how I bag for my customers and I do for them like I would for me.
Bagging groceries... that's really a whole topic unto itself!
No I didn't mean they should cut in front of the person with the overflowing cart. Just that one customer with a big basket may get checked through faster than 7 customers with small purchases, so it's more worthwhile to get behind such a customer, sometimes.
I knew what you meant.
I am talking about the people who do that and then try to catch your attention......like you should feel guilty and let them go ahead of you.
Express lanes are not enforceable, they are courtesy lanes for shoppers with few items. Those that abuse the courtesy are the problem, not the store employees.
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I really do not recall ever having this problem at either Target or Walmart.
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Go get in line at the express lane.....where you belong!
