Grocery Shopping?: Choose the fastest lane at the Grocery Store!
Ok, so we have all been there. Picking up the last minute items for dinner, rushing to get home and get cooking, only to find “rush hour traffic” at the grocery store check out lane.
Now what? You cast and eye a basket content, checker speed, presence of children and then shoulders slump, and you grudgingly place your bet.
My experience has been that 8 times out of 10 I pick the wrong line. Just like in a traffic jam, I watch the baskets in the other lanes whiz past me!. I’ve even tried the self-check out lane – I’m a whiz at bagging, but there’s always some item that doesn’t scan! In some stores in the Northeast they even have a scanner you take with you while you shop – if you scan as you go, you get special offers and are ready to plug in at check out! (although my first couple of times were slow, because I didn’t read the rest of the directions….) But that doesn’t help with the others in the line.
finding the fast grocery lane
So of course, someone, somewhere, paid good money to study this problem and found it’s the number of people in the line, not the contents of the basket that makes the difference – so go for the shortest line! See for yourself! Even so, I’m still not convinced!
Of course you can solve the problem by always keeping some TSG in the cupboard for last minute inspiration!
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