I witnessed a victory for the Express Lane at the store today

[Tom]

what really pisses me off is, I'm standing in line for 10 minutes, and right when it gets to be my turn, they open another register !

 

[cubby1223]

That's not so bad. The cashier could scan one and type into the register that there are 59 more identical items, and it would go quick. What's worse is the people with a cart full of items wanting to use the self-checkouts. The small area with the scale is only big enough for two full grocery bags & some cases of pop & milk.

And don't even start another thread on those damn kiddie carts that are super-long & an extra foot wide, you cannot pass by them in the aisles...

 

[waggy]

not much the cashier can do about it anyway. when i worked at wal-mart they said you can not tell them to switch lines. all you can do is explain that it is a express lane and please try to keep it under 20 items next time. I hated it. every now and then you would get some idiot with a full cart. they know there is nothing you can do about it.


i went through the express lane at wal-mart about a month ago. i had a bunch of small items. as i was pilling them on the counter the lady gives me a dirty look and says this is a express lane and in the future keep it under 20 items. there was a line of people and she said it loudly. when i got the receipt it said i had 19 items! i showed her the receipt and asked if 19 was More then 20. she didn't say anything. so i turned to the person behind me and asked him if 19 was less then 20. well the 3rd person behind us had a cart half way full. i told him to watch out the lady at the counter will bitch you out even if UNDER 20!


actually it wouldnt have bothered me if the lady was not so damn slow. it took her a good 5 minutes to ring me up. a 80yr old should not be on a express line. heck they shouldn't be checking anyone out anywhere.

 

[Jeff7]

Depending on the register, and depending on how well-organized the cans were, it could have gone incredibly quickly.

When I worked at K-mart, the customers who knew the routine would keep the various flavors in separate stacks. I'd count the number of cans in each stack, type in that in the keypad, press Qty, scan one can, and bag the stack. Other stores require you to press Enter after each can. Buy a 24-pk, and the cashier has to press Enter 23 times.
Most customers will just bring a crapload of cans though, with several different UPCs. Well people, if you don't want the inventory system totally screwed up, we need to scan every unique UPC. Otherwise your poor Fluffy might have to endure Beef and Liver when it's his Seafood Deluxe night.

I think I've seen it recommended that you NOT vary your pet's diet, or it can make them picky, especially if you go "Aww, don't you want this? Here, I'll give you this instead," and open another can. Just give them the same thing every day. They might be fussy the first day, but to a cat or dog, finely-ground animal mush is still damn tasty, no matter what it happened to be previously.
My cats have been eating the same flavor of catfood for most of their lives now. Every day they get it, it's like it's the greatest thing in the world all over again.


What I'm trying to say is, if the customer and cashier are both smart about it, and the register has a working Quantity function, you can quickly scan and bag 100 cans of cat food as 10 items. 10 stacks of 10, sorted by UPC. It works. I've done it.

 

[thedarkwolf]

I worked at a grocery store and had to work the hellish express lane many times. Alot of stores don't let you do the cool swipe one can and just punch a couple keys to ring up 10 more. Our store didn't trust us to be able to count that high and took that ability away so we had to scan every item. It always amazed me how many people could go into the same store for 20 years and suddenly forget register # whatever is an express lane and try to get away with full cart. I hated my job and didn't have a problem making people get out of the line

 

[dxkj]

Originally posted by: thedarkwolf
I worked at a grocery store and had to work the hellish express lane many times. Alot of stores don't let you do the cool swipe one can and just punch a couple keys to ring up 10 more. Our store didn't trust us to be able to count that high and took that ability away so we had to scan every item. It always amazed me how many people could go into the same store for 20 years and suddenly forget register # whatever is an express lane and try to get away with full cart. I hated my job and didn't have a problem making people get out of the line

Shopko disables the quantity button unless it is back to school/christmas/one other holiday season.

I once bought 300 shoebox storage tubs there and they had to scan and enter many many times

 

[FrustratedUser]

Originally posted by: Aharami
did she look like a mean bitch also?

"DOES .. HE .. LOOK .. LIKE .. A .. BITCH!!?"

 

[axelfox]

Originally posted by: Tom
but the woman may have been right. When a store sells "lots", which this might be, then a lot would be considered a singular item in many legal situations, which is what takes place at a register. It's a type of transaction that is governed by the legal system.

And if they were all the same, they wouldn't each have to be scanned.

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