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How to spot ****s on the underground....
"Annabel Smyth" wrote in message ... On Sun, 2 May 2004 at 10:20:38, wrote: I try to keep up with the packing, but I do clear stuff out of the way before I pay. Mind you, there's a woman in my local Lidl who is just so fast at getting stuff through that you haven't a hope of keeping up with her! If you want to see really high speed checkout operation, try Auchan, Grande Synthe (Dunkerque) or Carrefour, Cité Europe. Whatever you might think about the French, they always seriously out-perform the queue-creating slowcoaches I always seem to encounter in Tesco et al in this country! The French also do a nice line in rollers inset into their checkouts which make it much easier to manipulate, pack and remove your shopping (and they often pack it for you - sensibly - as they go!) Terry |
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On Mon, 3 May 2004 at 13:44:22, Terry Casey
wrote: If you want to see really high speed checkout operation, try Auchan, Grande Synthe (Dunkerque) or Carrefour, Cité Europe. Whatever you might think about the French, they always seriously out-perform the queue-creating slowcoaches I always seem to encounter in Tesco et al in this country! The French also do a nice line in rollers inset into their checkouts which make it much easier to manipulate, pack and remove your shopping (and they often pack it for you - sensibly - as they go!) Indeed, they are very nice places to shop, as the checkout operators (being used to the English piling their trolleys high with booze, etc), actually seem to try to be helpful, rather than the reverse! And they don't seem to try to be hurrying you away.... I supposed I hadn't noticed that they were as quick as Lidl, since in Lidl I usually only have a couple of items, and in Auchan or Carrefour (the former, ideally, and Grande Synthe DEFINITELY in preference to Coquelles/Calais), I usually have a trolley piled high (and a husband to do the actual paying!). This is OT, but may be of interest to some: I don't think that Auchan is open on 31 May (which is a holiday in France as well as here), but Cite Europe definitely is. If you're going to be there late afternoon/early evening, see you there! -- Annabel Smyth http://www.amsmyth.demon.co.uk/index.html Website updated 8 March 2004 |
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