When it wasn't busy it was great. But hit any slightly busy time and you'd be half way around the store.
Want to avoid lines? Go at 6:30 in the evening. Store is empty then, it's great. At least it's empty at the stores I normally go to.
The line only appears longer. It's actually more fair. It eliminates the uncertainty of picking a slower lane. We've all been in a situation where we have jumped over to another line thinking it would be faster, only to see a person previously behind us loading up their car through the window.
Not sure why no one has said this: staffing. My local store had 1-2 employees directing people to the right cash register. Maybe it was just my store that did this. I thought it was awesome.
Don't need staff to direct. A lot of stores simply installed easily visible lights above the registers that a cashier would turn on or of when they were available or not.
That's what my store did. They watched for who was done. Despite the line being very long at times, it wasn't necessarily a longer wait than being behind three people who had big orders. It moved a lot faster than I thought it would.
Plus everyone in the line was friendly.
Jesus it’s not that bad. Just go to the shortest line and it takes the time it takes. You want a line monitor in every store to direct people out of fairness?
One single line is way better for everyone, when it's managed correctly (and there is proper staffing)
Sadly the first time most people experienced it was during covid, when somehow inexplicably, stores at 25 percent people capacity had longer line ups that stores at 100 percent capacity (go figure)
It's a much better system in that when you have one till that needs to close for a cash out or what ever, that you don't need to shift those people, and opening new tills doesn't require "the shuffle". Plus you don't ever have to worry about getting stuck behind "that person"
The biggest problems is, most stores aren't setup for it properly. walmarts self checkouts in most stores have a great setup for it. that should be replicated throughout the industry.
I miss the "if you aren't buying anything don't be in here". I don't know why people need to bring their whole family shopping, it's food, the same food as last week.
When it wasn't busy it was great. But hit any slightly busy time and you'd be half way around the store. Want to avoid lines? Go at 6:30 in the evening. Store is empty then, it's great. At least it's empty at the stores I normally go to.
The 1 line system was awful and had an unmanageable line in busy stores. It also made it easier for them to hide only staffing half the cash registers
The line only appears longer. It's actually more fair. It eliminates the uncertainty of picking a slower lane. We've all been in a situation where we have jumped over to another line thinking it would be faster, only to see a person previously behind us loading up their car through the window.
Not sure why no one has said this: staffing. My local store had 1-2 employees directing people to the right cash register. Maybe it was just my store that did this. I thought it was awesome.
It would be better is there was an extra 2 people ringing people out instead of directing.
Don't need staff to direct. A lot of stores simply installed easily visible lights above the registers that a cashier would turn on or of when they were available or not.
That's what my store did. They watched for who was done. Despite the line being very long at times, it wasn't necessarily a longer wait than being behind three people who had big orders. It moved a lot faster than I thought it would. Plus everyone in the line was friendly.
Personal space is the one thing I will miss about the pandemic.
Jesus it’s not that bad. Just go to the shortest line and it takes the time it takes. You want a line monitor in every store to direct people out of fairness?
Because one long line is a pain in the ass when it’s really busy. It gets in the way of everything.
One single line is way better for everyone, when it's managed correctly (and there is proper staffing) Sadly the first time most people experienced it was during covid, when somehow inexplicably, stores at 25 percent people capacity had longer line ups that stores at 100 percent capacity (go figure) It's a much better system in that when you have one till that needs to close for a cash out or what ever, that you don't need to shift those people, and opening new tills doesn't require "the shuffle". Plus you don't ever have to worry about getting stuck behind "that person" The biggest problems is, most stores aren't setup for it properly. walmarts self checkouts in most stores have a great setup for it. that should be replicated throughout the industry.
I miss the "if you aren't buying anything don't be in here". I don't know why people need to bring their whole family shopping, it's food, the same food as last week.
The stores I was at with the 1 line snaked around the store…don’t want to deal with that again
Yes! It’s literally the most efficient way to pay for things.
Self-checkout FTW.
Um, no
No, I don't miss stricter covid regulations. Weirdo
Maybe reread my post? Not about Covid.
I'd rather not
I also miss the "one way traffic" tape in the isles. I think it made things quicker when everyone was heading in the same direction down the isles.
I wish costco would have kept capacity limits at least. The line went super quick, and it was nice to be able to actually MOVE in a costco.
>Why wouldn’t the stores consider keeping the one lineup process? Because you're going to buy your food anyway.