Thank goodness.
That reminded me of a physician who was a patron of the library where I was employed.
He wore rubber gloves all the time I saw him.
:dubious:
Well, if I did have one, it would be designed so that if anyone put there crap closer than 6" from the bar, it would announce, in a voice that sounded like Rosie O’Donnell’s: Back off, motherfucker!
That would have been a good design project in under graduate school.
You could sell, “Kosher! Kosher!” in Brooklyn and Long Island.
Oooh! In Jewish stores, “Flesich!” or “Milch!”
Meat! Dairy!
I apologize in advance for my Yiddish spelling.
Wouldn’t Samuel L. Jackson be better: Get yo’ mutha. fuckin. shit. away from me! ?
I’ve paged our resident independent grocer. We’ll see what he has to add to the story.
Some Californians want to ban them because they discriminate:
http://duhprogressive.com/index.php/148-california-set-to-ban-grocery-store-checkout-lane-dividers
By the way, I asked the manager at Target about them and he said he can order them from the same supply company they get bags and stuff from. I assume it is a Target warehouse of sorts.
Dennis
:dubious: This article, if you can call it that, is from 2011 on a site called “Duh Progressive” that has the slogan “Humor + Politics = Power™”
In Israel, the stores don’t use them at all. You leave an empty spot after the previous person’s stuff.
Poe’s Law in action. Besides, it is the kind of thing that silly state would come up with. :rolleyes:
I remember these dividers being common in the UK up to maybe 10/20 years ago but I haven’t seen one now for a long time. The checkout design is the same, and yes there is often a little wait while the outgoer packs their bags before the next person’s items start getting scanned. I’ve often stood there pondering why you never see them any more. If anyone knows I’d be interested to find out why.
Our local supermarket does the same thing. And after the items have been rung up, they bag then for you too…and if you ask, they will take them out and load them in your car for you.
It’s called “service”.
Because those bloody Yanks do.
Yes, but that slows down the checkout line. And anything that makes the checkout line slower costs the store real money.
That empty space is just wasted; it means the next customer has less room to put their groceries on the belt, and so they have to wait longer to finish emptying their cart onto the belt, and longer before they can go to the end and start bagging their groceries. So it all adds up to more time taken for each customer.
Also, there is an increased chance that the empty space is mis-interpreted, and the cashier either scans part of the next customer’s stuff with yours, or leaves some of your stuff behind with their order. Either one annoys customers (especially if not caught until they leave the store), and when found forces the cashier to make corrections to the register, thus taking more time.
So they are used quite often in America.
More like “servitude”. Sheesh.
I see them on every checkout lane in Britain. They are mostly white plastic.
Although we don’t have baggers anywhere as far as I know.
I have no idea why you don’t see them any more. Maybe ask an optometrist?
Don’t think I’ve ever been to a UK supermarket that doesn’t have them.
If you have to ask, it’s not service.
And supermarket checkout divider thingies in all the supermarkets here, but no advertising on them (thank God). Just the name of the store. They would, of course, like to get rid of the checkout lanes and go entirely self-service, but they’ve already reallised that’s not going to happen: for one thing, the “potato discount” is already very common for fresh fruit/vegetables.
:smack::smack::smack: You know what I’m thinking of the wrong thing. I take it all back. I was thinking of those pivoting divider things you used to see at the end of the checkout that the cashier would swing across so that the shopper could pack their bag while the next person was having their stuff scanned and wouldn’t have to wait.
No need for that.
Fair enough.
I have attempted to get one of the dividers out from under the gum and had it slip into the crack between the platform the belt runs on and the shelves of the next aisle.
I have seem many items roll under the shelves in the megamart. Since I rarely feel like getting down onto my stomach so I can reach under the shelves to retrieve these items, I suspect there is enough product under the shelves to stock a small store.
I wonder if stores consider the products under the shelves when they calculate shrink.