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To the line bitch at the grocery store, there are two lanes for self-scan (it was clearly marked). Don’t be straddling both pretending the is only one just so you can get through quicker. Also telling other customers there is only one line is fuckin’ rude. —Pick A Lane And Wait
This article appears in Feb 7-13, 2013.
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I had a woman charge in front of me yesterday while waiting at the Post Office in Lawtons, Scotia Square – my ‘EXCUSE ME, LADY!’ was loud enough that she scuttled back in line.
Knock her out, especially if she was a price matching coupon hoarder holding everyone up.
Yeah, there’s only one line; that’s the way it works.
You see, in pre-school and even in elementary, we learned that we line up and we take our turn on a first-come first-served basis. It boils down to common courtesy, ergo one line at the self-serve grocery scanners.
Don’t believe me? Ask at the Customer Service Centre or your friendly neighbourhood pre-school teacher!
Where are these two clearly marked lanes? I use self-checkout all the time and there is one line which is accessible for four check-outs ….. I’ll check for the two line shit later this afternoon …….
These are all great comments.
(*Groan*)
my grocery store’s sign has a line drawn on the sign vertically. to me this mean one line up so we all use one line.
Koda, I’m guessing they were on Joe Howe.
There are 8 scanners, two sets of 4 and no clearly marked ‘lines’ for either proposal…
so common sense (which is severely lacking these days and is the entire reason for this bitch) would dictate there are two lines and a crapshoot at picking the quicker one.
I could write a separate bitch about the dumb people who take a fully loaded cart (over 50 items) to the self check out. C’mon! Really!? Do you think you are faster at ringing your groceries through than the trained employees, who also have most or all of the produce codes memorized? Sometimes there will be 4 such morons taking up all the self checkouts and here I am with just a jug of milk waiting for them to pick up the pace.