We have to do this a lot: considering my husband and I take care of his mom, there are times where we have to separate her things from ours and pay for them with different debit cards. Even though we share the household finances, we do try to keep ours separate: so we will have one cart with two orders.
Yes, but AFAIK you can only do that with a **debit **card, not with a **credit **card. So if somebody had a credit card, a checkbook, and no debit card, and they wanted cash, they’d have to write a check.
Not unless the kid was paying for the other portion of the order.
Yes the child can pay, as the child is a dependent of the parent and the parent is able and expected to provide needed funds for the child. But in the savings of time for everyone involved it would be faster just to allow then to have it rung up together.
Requiring the child to pay separately would make the line move slower, not faster.
Or look at it this way, 2 adults pool their items into a single order totaling more then the express isle allows, but they do that to save time for all involved, should that not be allowed? Should they be forced to pay separately even thought the intent was to speed up the line?
The express lane is for transactions of X items or fewer.
Two people with their own sources of income who shared a cart = two transactions. As long as both transactions are separately under X, they’re fine. If the two combined are over X, don’t put them together in the express lane, even if you think it will save five seconds of time.
Two people, one of whom is the dependent of the other, where only one person will be paying for both sets of items = one transaction, even if they try to fudge it as two. I’m not talking about making the child pay separately for their juicebox–I’m saying you can’t split your order into two where one is “yours” and one “belongs” to your ten-year-old-child but you’re still handing over the money/swiping the card/whatever, so that you can push 20 items through a 12-items-or-fewer lane.
No it’s fine, because it’s 20 items PER customer. Not per shopping cart. Each person that pays is a customer. If one person pays twice that is one customer with two charges. If the second lady paid with the first lady’s credit card, that would also be incorrect, 'cause that would mean they were deliberately trying to be sneaky.
Two customers, two seperate bills, two forms of payment from each person equals fine.
Markxxx, I think you just said the same thing I was trying to get at, but you phrased it much better.
LOL! I just went through this.
I asked a friend to take me to Wal-Mart for a new Rx at their $4 price. We had 2 hrs to kill. So we wandered about and picked up random stuff here and there. When we got to the checkout aisle, we discussed this very situation (we were using one cart).
When I suggested we use the express line because we had two different transactions, each well under the 20 items, he reluctantly agreed.
Some random guy, also standing in line trying to figure out which line to get into, turned to us and put his hand on my friend’s shoulder. He said, “That’s damn good logic.”
Yay for me!
No violation, either in spirit or the letter of the Express Lane law.