Re:Home Depot Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against Visa, MasterCard
by Johnny555 on Friday June 17, 2016 @02:13PM
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I've seen some grocery stores with double grocery belts, so the cashier can start checking out the next customer while the first one is finishing payment, they just sweep a divider over so the groceries go down the next belt.
This was well before chip-and-pin, they probably did because of the slowness of writing checks.
Though maybe this is all moot with self-checkout since the store doesn't really care that much if it takes you a bit longer to check out. Especially if they can show you ads while you wait.
For example, the Wawa chain of convenience stores on the East coast are very good at moving people through the registers. Around 10-15s per transaction sustained throughput is common: one or two items, beep beep good day. If someone pays by check or chip, the whole thing grinds to a halt and everyone taps their foot.