On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 21:02:48 +0100, Annabel Smyth wrote:

This is because we - I, at any rate - are far too busy packing up our
shopping while it is being passed to us, rather than requiring the shop
assistant to put it down in an increasingly unwieldy pile and causing
immense delays to the next person while we try to sort it out.

I've always been impressed by Aldi's approach - throw it back into the
trolley, then you move away and pack it at your leisure at a separate
"shelf" provided for the purpose (or into stack boxes in your car, thus
saving bags). They are *very* quick.

That said, in "normal" supermarkets I tend to find my credit card while
approaching the till, and place it on the handy shelf bit (while making it
obvious to the shop assistant that I have done so) such that payment can
be being processed while I finish the packing. OK, someone could nick it,
but it's unlikely.

Neil
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