On 18/10/2016 15:37, Bob Eager wrote:
On Tue, 18 Oct 2016 05:45:33 -0700, Tricky Dicky wrote:

Other than that things were as usual, two people dealing with one
customer, a line of waiting customers (yes there were people in there
buying things not the usual desert) and no one would think of opening
another till!

I've just been learning about how Aldi handle this. At the start of the
day, a number of employees are given a 'queue number' from 1 to (number
of tills). If it gets busy, employee on existing till pushes a button and
it pages the next on the list, who has to stop what they're doing and
hotfoot it for their till.


I think Lidl must have some sort of automated system - which doesn't
work very well! On a number of occasions, I've heard a message like
"Please use Till No. 4" - and then, what seems like 30 seconds later,
"Till No. 4 is closing, please use one of the other tills"!
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Cheers,
Roger
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