This is for all the people who go in the express line up with more than 10 items. Just because its express does not give you the right to use that cashier. Next time you go in the store to get stuff and got more than 10 items , just go in the proper line up and wait longer rather than wasting others time. Can you not read clearly enough to understand 10 items or less???!!!!! —Grrrrr Learn to Read
This article appears in Jan 19-25, 2012.
the registers should stop at 10 items. and the idiot should have to go to the back of the line for the rest of the items. THIS would make me laugh. I wouldn’t mind being held up to watch this go down LOL
It does when the cashier says “I can help you here”.
a guy said to me one day, that he could read really well, but couldn’t count. another guy said almost the same thing. that he count real well, but couldn’t read too good. so there you have it o.p. a math whiz that can’t read, and an avid reader, that can’t cout. me, i just go where ever is smallest line. they still get their money, no matter what. and i also find, that those 10 items lines, move the fucking slowest.
Isn’t it “… or fewer” http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/origin…
I’ve told people before to get out of the express line if they have too many items, but normally the cashiers do that before I have to. If a cashier did let someone ring in 20 items I would complain to the supervisor and try to get them in trouble.
That’s a great idea Frenchie! lol
Yeah, the express cashier sometimes waves you in when you have more than ten items and you’re waiting in a long lineup and they’re free.
Thats exactly like the Do-it yourself check out’s at the bedford walmart…. I had literately a binder in my hand and there were people at all checkouts with definitely more then 10 items. Theres even a Sign on and before the check out’s that say “10 Items or Less”
How about making the width of the “10 Items or less” checkout smaller, say 24″width ….that would prohibit the fat assholes from pushing their thunderous asses through with 11 bags of chips for dinner.
It really wouldn’t be all that hard to program the POS (Point of Sale, not the other definition :P) system to stop at a certain number of items. I’m not entirely sure why it isn’t done already, TBH.
Because it would piss off customers, ‘gasmatron. Once the items hit the belt, cashiers HAVE to ring them through (store policy) — it doesn’t matter how many items they have. They can’t ask the customer to move their shit to another cash. 🙁
And some sneaky fuck customers figure multiple amounts of one type of item counts as “one item” (for example the asshats who run other retail stores who come in when pop is on sale for 97 cents and buy 135345322354 bottles of it and mark it up for 4 bucks a bottle in their stores). Those people used to piss me the fuck off when I worked at the Stupid Store.
I think more stores should get into gradual express lanes — have a 1-5 item lane, a 1-10 item lane and then a 1-15 lane or even a 1-20 lane. Even when it’s 1-10 items (or 1-15 like SS and S-obeys have) it’s a pain in the bum to have two items and be paying by cash and be stuck behind a bunch of people who has 15 items and is paying by debit or credit (so maybe a cash only lane? Now that I pay by cash most of the time, I see how much faster it is).
Also, sebas-tard: I’m fat, but I’m not wide. You better pray to the gods of rectum I don’t get ahead of you in the line up with my 11 bags of chips.
Speak up, if someone has 15 or more items in that checkout, I always make it a point of saying something to them, like “you do realize this is the 10 items or less checkout right?”. It brightens my day to watch them turn red in the face and shift around uncomfortably waiting for their shit to be processed, especially when the cashier overhears my comment. I actually said that once and the cashier told them that she couldn’t serve them, and they had to pack all their shit and move to another checkout… Akward!!! Lol.
I like the idea of a cash only lane… that’d eliminate a great percentage of people all looking to get their reward points or air miles or whatever…
and people with a shit ton of stuff likely won’t use it very often either… unless they just happen to always carry 100-200 bucks on em.
web monkeys of the internetz… ensure someone with a bit of swag at one of these places sees these comments and DOES something about it for a change.
I have been to stores in the US that total automatically after the tenth item.
IT can be done, but the comment I read about not pissing customers off , who have more than 10 & telling them they need to go to another check out!?!
WTF ?
By having a ‘signed’ 10 items or less ‘lane’ & allowing someone to bring more than 10 items….YOU ARE PISSING PEOPLE OFF !
Your pissing off the other 6+ people in the line with UNDER 10 items !
You obviously have never worked retail More.. by telling a customer they aren’t allowed to do something makes them irate, demand to speak to the manager, insult your intelligence/education, refuse to move, etc, etc. That takes a lot of time and pisses off more people than someone having an eleventh item because most people aren’t paying that close attention to such things.
11 or 12 items shouldn’t cause anyone to bust a gasket, unless they are totally anal/OCD. Heck 15 is ok with me. The only time I get upset is when people toss 20+ items on the 10 or less register belt.
When you’ve got a cart full of stuff & I’ve got 1 item…yeah I notice.
I also say something, after all it has to be tough on you in todays society, being not only unable to read, you can’t count either !
Zed, obviously you haven’t been behind somebody (usually an old woman) who painstakingly search for their cash and count out to the penny their purchase.