In article , "Dave Plowman (News)"
writes
In article ,
fred wrote:
Because it would slow things down, their tills operate at the speed of
light, and with the queues they need to!

No . What slows down checkouts is bloody women who (a) wont look for
their purse until asked to pay and (b) then spend 1/2 hour looking for
that last penny in said purse.

Another reason for self checkout. One queue - if there is one - for all
the checkouts. Reducing the chances of getting stuck behind one of those.

Now if there was one queue for all the manned checkouts, it would remove
the gamble of getting stuck behind Huge.

I always advise people not to stand in the queue behind me because if
something is going to f** up it will be in my queue.
--
bert