A Long Line for a Shorter Wait at the Supermarket »
Posted by: TechnologyExpert 1 year, 1 month agoFor its first stores here, Whole Foods, the gourmet supermarket, directs customers to form serpentine single lines that feed into a passel of cash registers. Because people stand in the same line, waiting for a register to become available, there are no "slow" lines, delayed by a coupon-counting customer or languid cashier.
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TechnologyExpert1 year, 1 month ago
This never occurred to me. How many of you have gotten stuck behind someone really slow (for the life of me I don't know why ANYONE still writes checks). In my case, my wife and I sometimes split it (and I'm sure you have too) to maximize chances of getting there faster.
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