Pick the queue on the left

[NotAllThere]

Unless you're in Germany because you're behind the old granny who insists on paying with the exact small change and therefore spends an inordinate amount of time going through her purse and counting out every bloody cent

Take a big enough sample and you'll find that it what I said is the case.

I don't know how it is oop north (or in the UK), but the southern German check-out peeps at Lidl and Aldi are super fast, so it doesn't matter which queue you're on. You're still through at breakneck speed. Perhaps the grannies are better trained here?

[administrator]

Same with Lidl here. They chuck your goods through at a rapid rate of knots, no time for slackers.

[FatLazyContractor]

I never queue. My butler does my shopping

[WTFH]

I join the queue with the most men in it. They tend to know where they keep their money/credit card when it comes to paying and are capable of packing while things are being rung through the till.


No waiting round while the child is put down, then the hand bag, then the phone, then the handbag is emptied very slowly until the purse is found, then the last 5 years of grocery receipts are pulled out to see if there is a £20 note in the back, then there isn't so that all gets put away to find the credit card, no, not that one, the other one, then the purse gets zipped up and put away, the credit card is used to pay, the purse comes out again, another quick check for the £20, and then the packing starts.


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[original PM]

:sigh:

If you are in 1 of ten queues there is a 10% chance your will be the fastest moving

and a 90% chance it will not be.....

jeezus

[Eirikur]

I check the amount of pensioners and load in trolleys before deciding which queue. Oh and avoid at all times a queue where the checkout girl is in training or way above 65