WAITING in a long queue at the supermarket is acknowledged as one of modern life’s stresses.
So anything that helps ease this sounds like it’s welcome. Certainly, I’m willing to try out the findings of consumer magazine Which? on the subject.
The magazine sent researchers into supermarkets nationally to look at check-out speeds and discovered that Asda had the longest (4 minutes 52 seconds) and Tesco the shortest (2 minutes 43 seconds).
They also found that shoppers instinctively chose the right-hand queues, suggesting it might be worth taking the left-hand ones next time you’re shopping.
And they advised that queuing behind shoppers with full trolleys was not necessarily a mistake as it took six people with a small number of items in their basket as long as two people with full trolleys.
Now, I’d like some research on the rotten trolley “driving” in supermarkets and how we can improve that!
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