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Re: "Can I help the next person in line?"
By: Isisnin Date: January 26, 2020, 12:52 pm
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The woman probably wasn't paying attention which would explain
why it took her longer to react. Not paying attention would make
the incident her responsibility (and she was making a big deal
out of nothing).
The ever-so-reliable and true internet tells me that grocery
stores don't do queue lines (one line for all registers) due to
space, but if they moved the displays of candy and magazine at
each register to create the queue line, they would be using that
freed space. Plus, they would be able to put more items on
display in the queue line and thus sell more. I know if they had
displays of over-the-counter drugs and kitchen tools (for
example), I'd be all "I could use that".
This issue of "next person in line" is the one (easy to deal
with) knock against each-register-has-it's-own-line-system of
which I'm (now) aware. Wish my store would be back to it
#Post#: 46193--------------------------------------------------
Re: "Can I help the next person in line?"
By: malfoyfan13 Date: January 26, 2020, 8:00 pm
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I must have run into the same lady recently. LOL we were at a
wine store and were walking towards the one open register. I
noticed this lady walking along the area where the registers are
but she didn't stop at the open register, she kept walking. So
we go up there and lay our stuff on the counter and get ready to
pay. She comes up behind me (I'm behind DH) and says loudly "I
was actually next" in a very aggrieved tone. I turned around
and said, OK, go ahead then, even though she was clearly NOT
next because she wasn't even going towards the dang register!
She replied No and continued to look daggers at us, at which
point I just turned back and we continued our transaction and
left. Sheesh. I asked DH after we left if he thought we did
anything wrong, because she was so angry about it but he said
No, because she wasn't even in line. He said it felt like she
was having a bad day and was looking for a confrontation.
It really annoys me when you tell the person, OK, go ahead then
and they won't go ahead. So why did you even say anything,
except because you want to be a jerk??
#Post#: 46199--------------------------------------------------
Re: "Can I help the next person in line?"
By: TootsNYC Date: January 26, 2020, 9:33 pm
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[quote author=Hmmm link=topic=1605.msg46185#msg46185
date=1580062170]
[quote author=Lula link=topic=1605.msg46167#msg46167
date=1580043000]
I vote you weren't rude, and the other lady is not very good at
life.
[/quote]
I agree and love the "not good at life" line.
[/quote]
Ditto!
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Re: "Can I help the next person in line?"
By: Aleko Date: January 27, 2020, 1:22 am
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Here in the UK, when they open a new register they don't
normally call 'the next person in line'. At most supermarkets
they just open it without comment, and it's up to the most alert
people at the neighbouring tills to notice and shift their stuff
fast. But at Aldi, one of the budget stores, they announce over
the PA system 'Till Number Five is now opening', and the
resulting stampede is like a herd of wildebeest on the Serengeti
plains.
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Re: "Can I help the next person in line?"
By: Rose Red Date: January 27, 2020, 6:35 am
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^I remember that's the norm in the 70's and 80's. When you're in
line, you're always on high alert scanning the cashier stations
and ready to move. move. move. My mom was an expert at
bulldozing her way to being first. I dreaded when a new cashier
opened up, and won't move now that I'm an adult unless the
cashier actually and obviously singles me out.
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Re: "Can I help the next person in line?"
By: TootsNYC Date: January 27, 2020, 9:59 am
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and this is why NYers prefer a single queue. There's a drugstore
that has multiple cash registers on a counter in the front, and
they WANT people to form individual lines because it uses the
crowded space more efficiently.
People simply won't do it. No matter how much the manager urges
them.
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Re: "Can I help the next person in line?"
By: lowspark Date: January 27, 2020, 10:28 am
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I way prefer the single queue system. Most of the grocery stores
here do not do it, but there are a couple of exceptions.
Trader Joe's does and even when the line is long, I never seem
to be in line more than a couple of minutes. It just moves.
There's a store here called Central Market which is an upscale
version of HEB and they do a single queue but only for the
Express lane. And again, even if the line is long, it moves.
I think they don't do it at many grocery stores is that they
sort of *want* you to wait in line at least a little bit so
you'll pick up the impulse items. I don't know why they don't
take a page out of Trader Joe's book though. There are LOTS more
impulse items all along that pathway that you have to follow
than there are per register in other stores. And believe me,
people pick that stuff up with alarming frequency. I bet they
make a pretty high percentage of their sales from people
grabbing stuff as they wait in line for the register.
In regular stores, I do see some people grabbing a candy bar,
but mostly they look at the magazines and put them back.
To answer the OP, I don't think you did anything wrong either. I
agree with "you snooze you lose". And I've often been the
snoozer! And I kicked myself for it, but certainly I can't blame
the person who stepped up. If they don't, the person behind THEM
will and they will be the snoozer. You were kind to relinquish
the spot in the end, especially since you only had the one item
and she had several.
ETA: I forgot to say, when people get huffy over simple things
like this, I chalk it up to them having a bad day. I've had bad
days where nothing goes right so I can understand. So if I'm
having a normal day or a good day, I just try to remind myself
of that and let it roll off my back.
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Re: "Can I help the next person in line?"
By: TootsNYC Date: January 27, 2020, 11:26 am
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a single queue takes more room--that's another reason grocery
stores don't do it, especially because people have big carts.
#Post#: 46219--------------------------------------------------
Re: "Can I help the next person in line?"
By: oogyda Date: January 27, 2020, 2:18 pm
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The Trader Joe's near ODD doesn't do the single line formation
for the manned checkouts, but it does fo chr the self-check
area. (I verified that with Middle DGS, since he works there
after school)
The only grocery store I go to that does is the local military
commissary. They always have.
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Re: "Can I help the next person in line?"
By: jpcher Date: January 27, 2020, 4:39 pm
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I wish my grocery store had a single line. They have 3 lines of
registers with two registers in each line. It does get quite
confusing as to who is actually next in line.
Let's see if I can explain it better:
Register 15 items or less -- Register 15 items or less (all one
line)
Aisle
Register -- Register (again all one line)
No-man's land (where the cashiers get to their register)
Register -- Register (and again all one line)
So you line up in one line for each of the double registers, and
maybe two people can go to the front register while everybody
else waits at the back register until the front register clears
then the next person waiting in line at the back register moves
to the front.
(I'm confusing myself ::) LOL! . . . does anybody else have this
type of situation?)
They had to put up signs at each of the 3 registry lines.
"Please stand in line here (arrow on the floor). When the first
register is empty, please move forward to that line."
Today I went to grab a few items. The 15 or less registers were
closed so I got in line behind three groups of people that had
quite a few items. I looked longingly over to the closed 15 or
less and lo and behold someone stepped up to the register,
looked at me and said "I can take you here."
I said thank you very much and was on my way. While I was
gathering my bag, after payment, I glanced back and there were
at least 3 people standing behind me.
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