Supermarkets
I come from the UK but I now live in Holland. the local supermarket in the UK had 80 tills, if you were in a big Q they will kindly open a new till for you to pay. Easy, as it should be.

Holland : Supermarket has 8 tills. They have shelf stackers all over the place but think it OK to have a Q of 15 + people for each of the 2 open tills. I ask the manager why when the supermarket was designed they thought it needed 8 but manager thinks 2 is fine when the place is packed? What is the logic of haveing full shelves when people have no means (unless you wait half an hour) to exit the bastard place. He refused to open a till for me which was a shame as I was trying to help him. I waited a good ten minutes then fucked off leaving a very full trolley standing in the Q of death. So that's over 100 pound of food wasted, which would have paid for 2 more tills to be open ALL day. I continue to do this as you can't see the size of the Q until the end. I don't like it as i have to go and use another supermarket but what can i do ?
(amsterdam_neild, Mon 5 May 2008, 13:08, 2 replies)

not that this is relevant
15minutes. I always love it, I eat a packet of biscuits in the line.
(woo who?, Mon 5 May 2008, 15:21, closed)

tills
Its the same here in France. older shops have half a dozen tills, with 3 open at the most. Newer shops have loads of tills, generally with 3 open at the most.
If you read back to the Shoplifting question of the week, I was once so peeved with the queue I walked out the shop with my trolley of unpaid goods through the gaps between empty checkouts where the barrier hadnt been shut.
(dave likes cheese, Mon 5 May 2008, 18:24, closed)