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Re: Is this line cutting?
DIR By: andi
Date: December 9, 2018, 11:13 am
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Grandma cut. Her transaction was separate so she should have
gone to the end
I work retail and “run point” during peak shopping times - doing
my best to make sure the next person really is the next person
to get waited on. It never ceases to amaze me how purposely
oblivious some people’s me are when it comes to lines.
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Re: Is this line cutting?
DIR By: daen
Date: December 11, 2018, 6:12 pm
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I thought of this thread today. I came up to the counter as a
woman was finishing her transaction, and I put my item down on
the lower level of the counter. (The checkouts are really weird
at this store - about a foot of counter before the scale, and
then it drops down a foot or so beside the cash register.) The
payment transaction took a little longer than usual, no big
deal, and just as I was about to hand over my item, a woman came
in and plunked her items down in front of me - and the cashier
took her without a blink.
I stood back, pleasantly, thinking, "Oh, so we're doing it this
way, are we?" After the cashier rang through Step-In Sally's
items, she also picked up and rang through some items I had
assumed were extra bulk-item bags that had been left behind.
(They appear to have been disposable piping bags, once I looked
at them.) And then Step-In Sally finished her transaction and
the cashier served me next.
I go back and forth on whether or not this was line-cutting.
Even if it wasn't, I would have appreciated a quick word from
the cashier that Step-In Sally had been there first, and it
would only be a moment, just so that I knew...
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Re: Is this line cutting?
DIR By: Luci
Date: December 11, 2018, 9:59 pm
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--- Quote from: daen link ---
>
> I thought of this thread today. I came up to the counter as a
woman was finishing her transaction, and I put my item down on
the lower level of the counter. (The checkouts are really weird
at this store - about a foot of counter before the scale, and
then it drops down a foot or so beside the cash register.) The
payment transaction took a little longer than usual, no big
deal, and just as I was about to hand over my item, a woman came
in and plunked her items down in front of me - and the cashier
took her without a blink.
>
> I stood back, pleasantly, thinking, "Oh, so we're doing it
this way, are we?" After the cashier rang through Step-In
Sally's items, she also picked up and rang through some items I
had assumed were extra bulk-item bags that had been left behind.
(They appear to have been disposable piping bags, once I looked
at them.) And then Step-In Sally finished her transaction and
the cashier served me next.
>
> I go back and forth on whether or not this was line-cutting.
Even if it wasn't, I would have appreciated a quick word from
the cashier that Step-In Sally had been there first, and it
would only be a moment, just so that I knew...
>
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That happens at the antique mall often. They tell us we can put
stuff on the counter so we don’t have to carry it around while
we finish shopping. They have plenty of counter space, so it’s
fine, but rather awkward. It doesn’t seem to bother anyone. It’s
not quite the same atmosphere as a pharmacy, though.
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Re: Is this line cutting?
DIR By: Chez Miriam
Date: December 12, 2018, 5:24 am
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--- Quote from: Luci link ---
>
> [quote author=daen link=topic=860.msg21179#msg21179
date=1544573553]
> I thought of this thread today. I came up to the counter as a
woman was finishing her transaction, and I put my item down on
the lower level of the counter. (The checkouts are really weird
at this store - about a foot of counter before the scale, and
then it drops down a foot or so beside the cash register.) The
payment transaction took a little longer than usual, no big
deal, and just as I was about to hand over my item, a woman came
in and plunked her items down in front of me - and the cashier
took her without a blink.
>
> I stood back, pleasantly, thinking, "Oh, so we're doing it
this way, are we?" After the cashier rang through Step-In
Sally's items, she also picked up and rang through some items I
had assumed were extra bulk-item bags that had been left behind.
(They appear to have been disposable piping bags, once I looked
at them.) And then Step-In Sally finished her transaction and
the cashier served me next.
>
> I go back and forth on whether or not this was line-cutting.
Even if it wasn't, I would have appreciated a quick word from
the cashier that Step-In Sally had been there first, and it
would only be a moment, just so that I knew...
>
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That happens at the antique mall often. They tell us we can put
stuff on the counter so we don’t have to carry it around while
we finish shopping. They have plenty of counter space, so it’s
fine, but rather awkward. It doesn’t seem to bother anyone. It’s
not quite the same atmosphere as a pharmacy, though.
[/quote]
We go to a second-hand place and do this [put our stuff on the
counter while we continue shopping], but we never once assumed
that because our purchases are on the counter already that means
we get to be served before someone who is physically standing in
front of us, waiting to pay.
That makes me cranky when it happens to me, so when I see an
unattended trolley in a queue, I get in front of it pretty
quickly - before the person who is still shopping realises that
I may have queue-jumped. I don't see it a queue-jumping,
because there is no-one there waiting to pay in front of me. :-\
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