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The problem I noticed with the system like this is that cashier is idling for a bit while the next customer walks from the head of single line to the specific r
by mynegation 8y ago
The problem I noticed with the system like this is that cashier is idling for a bit while the next customer walks from the head of single line to the specific register. Depending on the layout this can be a significant distance. There’s no such idling in multiple lines.
That is why some places started to use hybrid system. One single line until very end where someone marshals you at the end of many very short lines.
- bobthepanda 8y agoI should be clear; there are actually multiple lines and multiple registers. It's just that no line corresponds to a specific register. Imagine four lines arranged next to each other, at the head of eight registers arranged similarly to a self-checkout area. There will always be four people at the head of the lines. The first person in the first line gets to go, then the first person in the second line, then the first person in the third line, then the first person in the fourth line, and then it cycles back. Because in practice it is extremely rare for four out of eight registers to simultaneously open up, the next person is always at the front of their line already, which avoids this particular travel distance problem.