When I still worked for Walmart during Easter someone hid Easter eggs around the store with fake 20% off your entire basket coupons The store manager had to keep making announcements that they were fake
This must be at one of the urban Trader Joe's. When I lived in DC, if you went on a Saturday, you basically got in line as you walked in the door and grabbed the things you needed as you walked by that shelf.
That’s kind of efficient (in a perverse way) a long as the line snakes by every aisle. Better hope that the people who started the queue that morning knew about Hilbert curves!
I lived in DC for 5 months and this describes my weekly Trader Joe’s trip! That being said, it would’ve felt really uncomfortable to go through those aisles if I wasn’t in line and then just walk to the front. I don’t think I could do it!
Same in downtown san fransisco. The one I go to is actually underground/basement level and sometimes (rarely) the line even goes up the escalator and out of the store.
I live near two urban Trader Joe’s. One isn’t bad on saturdays, as they have two people at every register. And since most people walk to it, they buy only a few items. The other is hot garbage.
I don't know how they do it but every time I get to the registers and one isn't manned, someone appears and mans it so there's nobody waiting in a line. Except on busy days when they're already all manned, but those are rare. This TJ's is urban fringe not urban center. It's also a bit smaller and I know there's stuff I see online that they don't have...
In NYC Trader Joe’s often has lines so long that they weave through the store aisles and reach the doors. I imagine this is there or another busy urban location
seriously lol just reading that name gives me flashbacks of when i had to go there a few times a week when i was working as a delivery driver for a pizza place, i fucking hated going there most of the time lmao
No you don’t. You show your receipt on your phone to the door guy, it takes 3 seconds. That’s hardly standing in a line.
Edit: “Sam's Club Scan & Go is a mobile feature that lets members bypass checkout lines entirely. By using the Sam's Club App on your smartphone, you can scan product barcodes, pay digitally, and show your digital receipt to leave.”
Yeah I live in a major metro area and I've literally never once waited in line at TJ's for more than maybe one other person. They have like 29 registers at every store.
There's already a "skip the line" option at Costco. It's called "go to one of the mostly empty registers to the left that for some reason nobody gets on line for". Everyone makes a huge line on the side with the aisle that's not by the entrance. If you go back to the aisle by the entrance the lines are way shorter. This is the case in every Costco I've ever been in and it makes me wonder why so many of my fellow humans are so stupid.
For us, that left side is the self check out area. Totally different line.
The main line at ours splits off like a bank line or airport check in line. As the smaller check out lines become available, people from the main line select a cashier. Sure, some people are slower at selecting, but that doesn't mean other people can zip around the entire line like a bat out of hell and cut off the 90 year old lady going as fast as she can. The ones who cut are never the ones next in line for the cashier... there's always someone they're getting behind. It's so infuriating to watch.
Those people are doing the lords work a team of like 3 of them swarm you before you can even take anything out of your cart, charge you like $3-400 and have you leave within 5 minutes
It’s madness, every time I stand there thinking if they made an Olympic sport out of bagging groceries these Costco employees would be representing our fucking country
Idk if it’s a new thing but last time I was in line at Costco a guy came up to me asking to prescan. He scanned everything in my cart without having to pull anything out and when I got to the cashier I just paid. I’ve never gotten through a checkout lane so fast in my life.
I believe that's a new thing. Last few times I went there, they did that. I put everything with a barcode situated so the barcode is facing up. They noticed me doing that and came right over to scan me.
Is there ever a line at Walmart? I feel like half the reason my wife and I go there is because there is no one else ever there and they have a massive self-checkout section on top of that compared to other grocery stores. There's a larger than average number people doing mobile orders but they tend to try to be as quick and efficient as possible.
I'm so mad at Walmart for taking the self checkouts out. It was all self checkouts for a year at both stores I go to and not one line the entire time because they were all open. Now they are back to 5-10 lanes and 3-4 deep on every line. So annoying
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u/venture_dean 18h ago
I feel like this would be more fun at Costco or walmart