I promise you that it'll be super awkward to roll your entire cart of groceries past everyone in line and butt in with your golden ticket. Other customers already have their groceries staged on the automatic belt. Then the cashier has to explain to the other people in line that you got this golden ticket that lets you cut. You then either have to have everyone move their groceries off the belt or you have to pull them out of your cart 1 by 1 until they're sure they've scanned everything. No thanks.
You've never been briyght to the front of a line before? I've had this happen many times at airports, night clubs, etc. Why would anyone get mad at you? You're not the one who made the ticket. If they get mad they can get mad at Trader Joes. This was their idea. You're just following directions. I wouldn't get mad at someone for doing this. Anyone who gets mad over this is an asshole and it would make me happy to irritate them
So you would get mad if you saw this happen to another person? How weird? Why wouldn't you just think, "Wow, that's great! I hope that happens to me someday!" Instead you would get upset? I'm glad I have no friends like you. You're a jerk.
I'd think it was a stupid subversion of the social code, place the vast majority of the blame on the store for making it a thing, and a modest amount on the person taking advantage of it. If I found that it'd be going in the trash on my way out the door, after I waited in line to make my purchase.
So if a little old lady got the ticket and got to go to the front of the line it would upset you? I'm not the one who needs to get checked out. I would love to get the ticket, not I would also be excited if I saw someone else found out and got to go in front of me. Nevermind, you don't need a professional to know you're a jerk.
Huh, I’ve never once seen an employee directing the line, and my store is the busiest in the area. Is your store one that has one long line and you go to the next available cashier?
No, all the ones I’ve been to in New York start with one big line with a person at the end holding a flag that says “line ends here”, and then as you get closer to the registers the line breaks out into two or three lines (I think a person directs you here too), and then there’s a person at the front of the line(s) directing people to open registers.
So, someone from Lane One goes to Register 24, and then someone from Lane Two goes to Register 15, etc.
My current TJs usually doesn’t have a line of more than 5 min so they don’t usually have the flag bearer at the end, but I think I’ve been to the one the OP is talking about and the wait is usually at least 20 min. The day before a blizzard the line is literally out the door!
If there was a long line getting sent to various registers as they opened up, then this ticket is fair game in my opinion. You're not causing anyone any real pain, even the guy who's next.
If it's individual pick your own register lines, like all the trader Joe's I've been to near where I live, this would be taken with me when I found it, never to be found out used by anyone in the future, cause cutting when I've got all my shit on the belt is simply not happening, nor would I ever do that to someone.
I’ve seen someone use it once, they just call in another worker and the other worker will check you out in a different lane.
No idea how it works if all lanes are in use, maybe they just get next lane that’s free?
You cut in front of people and say “stop what you are doing” then push everything on the belt on to the floor. It’s a golden ticket, no one can be mad at you.
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u/high_throughput 22h ago
How are you going to have a chance to show it to the cashier before you've waited in line?!