In article ,
Harry Bloomfield wrote:
charles expressed precisely :
In my Lidl queues often go well behind the belt, sometimes five or six
people waiting to unload their items.

I don't know what you meant by belt, but the queue we joined stretched
halfway back along the first, quite long block of shelving. Not quite
as bad as it sounds, because of distancing.

belt = the conveyor belt onto which you load your shopping

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