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but If you watch it's usually the 1st and 3rd person that goes over there
I do watch.
And that is not what happens in my area.
#3 does not jump over #2 if there is only one line.
First in line gets the next available cashier when there is only one line.
Our Walgreens do not have any conveyors belts either! I have not seen one that does....
I personally prefer the sort of line waiting where there are multiple checkers but one line leading up to the checkout line. That way, whoever is next is simply next - there's no hoping you chose the right line to get into, hoping the line gods are in your favor, and hoping you don't get stuck behind someone who is slllllloooooooowwwwwlllllyyyyyy writing a check, or has a problem, or the receipt tape gets jammed or whatever.
I take all my stuff to the lady at the cosmetics counter at Walgreens. I think she's on commission or something, she always says "be sure and come to me."
I didn't know there was a specific protocol at all. Iv'e seen the 1st and 3rd thing. Or everyone else stays and waits until the person called over gets done, and if the cashier is still around, the next in line goes. But sometimes its random. I personally stay put until someone calls me over. I'm pretty zen most of the time and just stay in my lane unless someone urges me to move. I also don't really mind if people go out of order...they might just be in a hurry.
Again, I didn't know there was any specific protocol. It seems like, in general, most people are fairly polite about it and it all works out.
Same here. I won't move unless the cashier calls me over. I can only recall a few times that a new line opened up and I was specifically called over, but it was usually just, "I'm open" and first-come first-served.
Here it seems to depend on store layout. At the grocery store, if a new lane opens up, it's expected that people form a line at it too, not keep drawing one at a time from another line. At my local drugstore, the layout isn't designed for multiple lines so one line naturally forms and you get called to the next checkout, in whichever direction that is.
At CVS near me, we usually make one line. As one person leaves one register, the next person in line goes to that one, and so forth. It's the fairest way to do it and it works well. Same as the bank, or the post office, usually one line and you go to whatever teller opens up. A supermarket is different, because the cash registers are all separate lanes with dividers.
I personally prefer the sort of line waiting where there are multiple checkers but one line leading up to the checkout line. That way, whoever is next is simply next - there's no hoping you chose the right line to get into, hoping the line gods are in your favor, and hoping you don't get stuck behind someone who is slllllloooooooowwwwwlllllyyyyyy writing a check, or has a problem, or the receipt tape gets jammed or whatever.
It's been proven that this way has the fastest average transaction time. Under the typical grocery store model of all separate lines, you might get lucky and get out fast or get unlucky and be stuck, but over time, you'll spend more time in line than the communal then divide way.
Here it seems to depend on store layout. At the grocery store, if a new lane opens up, it's expected that people form a line at it too, not keep drawing one at a time from another line. At my local drugstore, the layout isn't designed for multiple lines so one line naturally forms and you get called to the next checkout, in whichever direction that is.
Yes. At the grocery, Costco or Lowe's - where there are numerous lines adjacent to each other, the cashier opening a new lane, will call the next person in an adjacent lane, after that it's fair game.
It's been proven that this way has the fastest average transaction time. Under the typical grocery store model of all separate lines, you might get lucky and get out fast or get unlucky and be stuck, but over time, you'll spend more time in line than the communal then divide way.
I believe you.
When I'm in the grocery store, if I see someone behind me with just a couple of items and I have several more, I nearly always let them in front of me.
Life can be so capriciously unpredictable in a grocery checkout line!
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Same here. I won't move unless the cashier calls me over. I can only recall a few times that a new line opened up and I was specifically called over, but it was usually just, "I'm open" and first-come first-served.
