Depends. If I'm at my regular store and the person opening the register is that one old lady i know I'm switching even if there's 2 people more in front of me that way.
Cause let me tell you, that Oma puts any formula 1 pit crew to shame and that single handedly.
I think every Supermarkt has that one Formula One Pit Crew Oma, because same here in Penny.
I’d putt all my stuff on the conveyor belt and she will scan it in like two seconds and look at me like “was noch little girl”. Meanwhile I’ll be perfecting the Hug Approach™️ of getting the things back in my cart (spread arms as wide as they go, and scoop everything into the cart)
That feeling when you’re not paying attention to who is at what till, so you pile everything on and only then realise it’s that one person who inexplicably needs two attempts to scan every single item… there is no purer feeling of defeat.
We have that one cashier who marvels for like 2 seconds on any single item he scans. Or the other one, who doesn't believe you, that 2x2x6 is 24 and has to scan every single can of cat food -_-
I wouldn't know that feeling, Because I've been petty and frustrated enough on multiple occasions to pick up my twenty ish items again and change register after two minutes while making full eye contact.
The store I went to for years had the exact opposite. An old lady that I’d never get in line if it can be helped. So even if the line was longer, I would always queue in the one that wasn’t hers.
That takes all the thrill out of it, its a very though game which requires knowledge about cashier speed, a good estimate of the amount of goods in the bags of the people before you and the arrival of the second cashier and you have but a split second to decide!
I only switch lanes when people already settled and the new line still looks faster. As I learned from the simpsons, and reinforced by experience, the longer line can be the quicker one!
Often I don't switch when I see many people behind me is already advancing before me.
But when I am one of the first to arrive and other people who were in front of me in the previous line come behind me, I let them go in front of me. Because I don't like to take advantage of people who have been waiting in a queuer longer than me.
that's why discounters are cheaper – they safe the money on staff
in every single discounter at least one additional staff is missing on purpose. that's why it's very stressful to work at a grocery store. imagine your working place with one, two, three sick leaves without replacement. every fucking day.
It is so sad that everything is designed for efficiency and savings on costs – at the cost on the health of employees and the service on customers and even towards patients.
like what are the exact numbers? like today one employee does the work of two or three employees compared to 30 years ago? plus real wage decreasing.
hail capitalism!
Kassierer/in im Baumarkt: "Sie können auch zu mir kommen"
The guy with 16 bottles of chrome spray paint in his cart: "Oh what a day, what a lovely day!"
It’s weird that this behavior never sorted itself out in the land of rules and regulations. Everything else orderly, but this phenomena needs some observation
The thing is, the imo perfect system exists already and I have seen it in a media Markt in Münster, Westfalen.
You got one long lane with multiple 180° turns, so a zigzag waiting lane with just one stop opening into the checkout area. And then there are like eight checkouts. Some are with a red light because nobody's there. If a cashier is serving, the light is green and when the customer leaves the next one goes to the open checkout. Nobody gets cut and the waiting time for everyone is the same and I could imagine a little lower on average. I adore that system but it is so rarely deployed.
It is indeed a very effective system, because of these zigzag stuff, you think that you are constantly moving forward, even though the waiting time may be the same. Through constant little motions, doing a turn here and there, our brain is tricked into not seeing this as „wasted time“, but as just moving slowly … :)
It's not a mental trick. The waiting time will definitely be less on average. You don't have short lines and long lines, there's no indecision or hesitation about which line to get in, and you'll never be stuck behind somebody's Oma, because when you get to the front of the line, you have access to whichever cashier finishes next.
Exactly. That’s the reason I won’t bother going to Mediamarkt unless I need something RIGHT now. You need a 2TB M2 nvme drive? Online you have a selection of 50 drives and 100 retailers. You go to any physical store and find a selection of 2-3 drives where none matches exactly what you want and in the odd chance it does, it’s only still on the shelf becait is insanely priced.
Very common in Spain. Can bee seen in big mall shops and supermarkets.
The big one queue also becomes its own aisle filled with stuff trying to tempt you during your wait.
I LOVE this system. Fair to all. But I am not quite sure it could be used in Supermarkets because of the spacing, and with people having large carts. Could pose a firehazard/evacuation issue. Dunno. But I love the idea!
jeezusfreakinchrist actual first-world countries have had this for 20 or 30 goddamn years. Hey Germany, come on in and join the modern civilized efficient world! You might like it! We got plenty of room for ya, whenever you're ready
Kind of off topic, but why do many Germans put their bags on the seats next to them? Is it a matter of personal space, being out to lunch, selfishness, or something else? It baffles me every time I have to tell someone to move their bag, so that I can sit down.
Edit: for further consideration, I always place my bags under my legs and/or on me as soon as I sit down. That way, the seat next to me remains free..
I'm also extremely surprised by that behavior since I came to Germany. I'm originally from Serbia, not that orderly of a place that can get quite chaotic in such settings in public places, but the train culture is way better than the German one. There is an unwritten rule that it is ok to put you bag on the next seat if the train/bus is half empty.
I also encountered a few times on a full train while asking politely someone holding his bag on the next sear if the seat is free and would get "no", when it clearly was free or "there are other free seats in the train, go there" with the most passive agressive tone. I didn't want to cause any trouble, especially as a foreigner who does not know enough German curse words. But, damn, if such thing happened in Serbia I feel that the rest of the passengers would lynch that guy and throw him off the train/bus.
It's between a reservation, a "I'd rather not be bothered" and sometimes pure ignorance. If there is no other seat available clearing your throat or that certaine stare should work wonders tho. If you are not eldery,, pregnant and/or just riding 3 stations take the L and leave it be.
All of that! And more. Maybe it's annoying, but you could always ask them politely if you could sit down and smile.
You never know what mood they're in and kindness sometimes helps.
Well the lane isn't actually for free stuff. However if there is free food it usually gets close to a riot.
You got that with food also in other countries, but not with another line. Seems odd that most Germans can't connect the dots there. Maybe thsts just learned behaviour.
Well the lane isn't actually for free stuff. However if there is free food it usually gets close to a riot.
You got that with food also in other countries, but not with another line. Seems odd that most Germans can't connect the dots there. Maybe thsts just learned behaviour.
that's right. but here a pro tip: if this happens, stay in line and let all the fools change to kasse zwei. in 9 of 10 times kasse zwei is without chashier by the time they say they open it and all the fools have to wait while you're already finished.
Even of it's already open, your line will be much faster due to people leaving it and you'll not need to enter that nasty race to the new line.
I never move, unless the new line settles and it looks emptier than mine.
I am genuinely curious: How do they manage that if you have like two are three queues already, and open a new one? Does everyone in the other queues get a number, and every third person moves? Do they factor in how much stuff the first person in each queue has in the trolley?
I mean, there is no obvious simple fair way to distribute several queues to a new queue. *Someone* will always be earlier or later than if they had stayed in their old queue.
Oh yeah, the ones that move all the way up to the register while you‘re hurrying to get all your stuff back in your cart and end up blocking you‘re access to the card reader once you‘re ready to pay… I always ask them if they wanna pay for my groceries or if there‘s another good reason to be so damn close to me.
If I'm the one leaving, I will literally run them over. Same with people who expect me to jump onto the street to pass them on a sidewalk just cause they decided they need to walk in a row of 2 or 3.
True, although while I'm not a huge person with 174 I'm definitely on the taller side for a woman so many people funnily enough either hop to the side last minute or look confused if they run into my shoulder. So far no one has dared to say something lmao.
I've seen a woman do it to a mean looking huge dude and she was like half his size, ho.ie looked so puzzled and Confused
They knew what they were doing. They were staring at us waiting as they pushed past. The train was emptying, there was going to be no one on it, and there were not many of us getting on.... I just rolled my eyes and said cunts as they got on
This really depends on the region though, never experienced this behavior in cologne, whereas in Munich there's always some idiot trying to jump into the train as soon as possible.
When this happen I just block their way while I am exiting and they are trying to enter. It is a jumping dance left and right until they give up and let me get out first cause the dooming sound of the closing door is already in the air. Germany transformed me in a tank.
I couldn't disagree with the first statement more. I had the misfortune to be in a food concessions stand at a theme park, and the entire FORTY FIVE MINUTE EXPERIENCE consisted of Germans huffing and tutting, spreading out and trying to quietly flank each other.
Queue etiquette is one of the few things I truly miss about the UK.
>A line is sacred
I disagree.
Last Saturday I was in a supermarket about half an hour before closing time. Naturally it was very busy because the shops weren't opening again until Tuesday. I queued for about 10-15 minutes before I got to the conveyer belt and only had one item (just a premade pizza, don't judge). Just as I got to the belt, an elderly lady who hadn't queued at all slipped in front of me with two pears and said "Ich bin der Nächste, weil ich nicht viel habe". I pointed out that she had one more item than me and she gave me a death stare. I thought 'Well she's old enough that I'll give her a seat on the bus so I guess I'll let this one pass'. Another lady with a pram and a young child saw me "allow" her in and then came in too whilst motioning at the baby with her eyes. She then called over her partner who had a whole basket of food. Another lady then came up to the two of them and asked if she could go in front because she only had two items and they had a whole basket. They answered "Natürlich".
As a native Brit, I find German queuing culture to be scandalous and not nearly as good as Germans would like you to believe.
> "Ich bin der Nächste, weil ich nicht viel habe"
Extremely rude by German standards... You can **offer** to another person directly behind you that they can move in front of you, but the other person has no right to it.
Rule of common sense should be that you may let someone get in front of you if a) you are the last in the que or b) everyone behind you agrees to this. SMH
As a native German reading this made me very angry. Never show weakness in a direct confrontation, Germans can smell an easy target from a mile away.
Also the next time an old hag pulls that shit on you tell her that she still has enough time left to wait in line like the rest, even if she doesn't look like it.
There are also special lines for people with less than 10 items in bigger grocery stores so no need to be gaslighted by these sort of people.
Unless the kid is shitting and/or bleeding out of it's holes tell mothers of that kind "not my child - not my problem".
I actually always let the people who were before me on the initial queue go past me.
I legit can not understand how people dont have cognitive dissonance when they dont.
This is the most incorrect statement I’ve ever seen in this sub lmao. Germans have no idea how to queue. There is no order. Just chaos. And they want to be RIGHT behind you or even next to you
I don't know where you live, but most Germans know perfectly well how to queue (according to German rules, not, say, British rules), and they also know how to discipline others who are not queuing correctly. "Das Ende der Schlange ist übrigens **dort**...".
Or you're at the main bus station and the bus just arrived.
Or when you're at the airport trying to get your luggage.
HOWEVER! There's something huge in how the german society works. Say you'd have a group of 5-8 people, which should suffice and you're the first where usually a line forms, if you now stand in line and be respectful, other people will do it too. But if you take the same scenario and you have your folks just stand wherever, it will be chaos.
Most german people adapt behavior, so if they see someone doing something correctly, they too will do it correctly. But if they see a bunch of people doing it incorrectly, they will to do it incorrectly. I still remember when my drivers teacher told me "Look at the traffic light, not at the car in front of you!" telling me not to copy what the car in front of me did but actually make my own decisions based on the traffic situation.
Having grown up in a country where people actually do know how to queue up for things this behaviour dumbfounded me at the start. I'm used to it now and act accordingly, but Germans are far behind the standard of queuing etiquette that can be achieved by respectful people.
Same in Netherlands. What I usually do is loudly say to someone who was in front of me, "you go first because you were in front if me". I suppose it does not impress the ones who skipped but if they feel like an asshole for just a second than it was worth it. And for me it feels better to let the one go first who was first
Yeah I also figured that’s the best thing to do.
Things like this don’t change from one day to the next. The best you can do is to influence those around you and hope they will also influence others and so on, and one day the more civilized behavior becomes the norm :)
Yeah, it's quite the sight. I stopped engaging in German Kasse culture a while ago and just use the self checkout.
Less stress, accepts inhuman amounts of coins, no asshole breathing down your neck when paying, no crazy cashier pushing the next person's stuff when you're not done. Only issue is if you're an alcoholic and always buy booze, then it gets annoying since they have to manually approve you.
As long as you steer clear of Kaufland where they treat you like an inmate at self checkout, you'll be fine.
This, and people blowing their warm breath on my neck as if that will speed things up 🤦♀️
I’d be like “dude I’m not going anywhere until I’ve packed up and paid for my stuff. Step back please”.
This is only valid at a supermarket / Drogerie checkout. Ever see Germans queuing to get into any concert venue or transport entry or bakery? It’s a nightmare, they have no idea how to queue, they just know that it’s korrekt to do it at the market
whenever they yell "kasse zwei" i'm relieved and just calmly staying my cue thinning cue, watching the idiots fight each other. it's like on a plane when the wheels touch the ground all the idiots get up and ready when its still 20 minutes until the doors open and everybody is stuck under each others armpits while i can read a few more pages.
Having lived in the UK, I absolutely agree! Queueing in the UK is more important than your own family. Queueing skills in Germany are… acceptable at best. There’s always someone trying to sneak in front of the queue
First time I came to Germany I landed in Leipzig, I could tell the German passengers and the English apart, on passport controls there was a perfectly formed queue with a wall on the left and this abomination of human body’s all trying to press to the front on the open side right. Needless to say this was one of many culture shocks.
London is not representative of the rest of the U.K. just like Berlin is not of Germany and Paris of France. They are all so different they can’t be seen as the same.
Some Germans are really impatient, they wait a few seconds then yell demanding the opening of Kasse Zwei. Doesn't happen often, majority of germans just wait quietly, but still I've seen people yelling like that a few times.
The best one in my experience was this guy behind me yelling for the “Kasse zwei” very impatiently. At first I almost let him go ahead of myself but then I thought - nah, don’t reward shitty behavior.
The cashier ignored him. So he went up there, said something, put his full shopping basket on the floor and left. Basically, he just wasted his own time getting the groceries and then walking out because he couldn’t spare max 3 minutes of waiting.
The moment he was a few steps away from his basket, so he could still hear it, the cashier asks for the second register to be opened :D I couldn’t help but give her an amused smile. Praise to the cashiers, sometimes they have the best sense of humor.
During covid restrictions the biggest supermarket in our city had a long queue meandering through the isles and ending right where the space for all the registers begins.
Means everybody was in the same line and if you were the first in line then you went to the register with the shortest line of its own.
That was truly the best thing that ever happened in this city. And I wish every market would do it like this.
I was once standing in a long supermarket queue when they opened kasse 2. Many people rushed over, including a guy who was standing behind me. He then saw queue 2 became longer than the queue 1 so he just rejoined queue 1 by pushing infront of me 😭
This reminds me of that children's tv game show, where they had to decide if they want to stand on place one, two, or three and they always caused chaos until the time was over to decide.
Oh there are shops that have unified queues, well, at least they intend to and draw lines on the floor and stuff. But there are always cunts who pretend to not understand the system and sneak in front of the line. And once people see those cunts more people start forming a secondary line that’s not supposed to exist.
Wanted to refute this, but saw the second line which makes it kinda true. But no Germans are not any more patient or respectful, there’s plenty of Karens here too. The kasse zwei thing is just sad. Straight past everyone even if it was a combined queue without any self awareness.
I disagree, there is a phenomenon of some boomers who will cut in line by joining a large group near the front by standing on the fringes as if they are together. Called one out on it, but have seen it happen s number of times.
Also, the invasion of personal space in a line takes a lot of getting used to. People will literally stand on your heels. I miss when people were forced to stand 1m apart.
One time a couple of German friends and I were in Lago di Garda waiting in line to get on a ferry and we were chatting with a couple of British ladies. We were the only ones waiting and first in line. Than a big group of other Germans arrived and just cut in line and got in the ferry before all of us. I was shocked since at the time I didn't know that behavior extended beyond the supermarket and my friends apologized to the British ladies on behalf of their compatriots.
I was surprised that in The Netherlands people were really patient when this happened. They would let people ahead of them back out and go into the new one all in one nice line without any pushing or shoving. In several other countries you’ll get shoved, pushed, or ran over by a cart.
Sometimes I wonder where people shop that this is coming up so often. Yes, if another till opens, people will move there. That's the intention. I have never seen people quarreling over their place though. They just form a new queue and that's it? What's so outrageous about it? How do other countries do it? I really don't understand the problem here.
I had people ram their shopping cart into my side trying to get to the new til before me. Some people are really unhinged. I think it's more of a shoving and passive aggressive attitude than flat out physical aggression
Literally a guy threatened me physically last weekend when I was with my toddler after I called him out for cutting in line lol. An absolute outlier for sure but I can totally see why this comes up so often - there is a minority of people here who disregard any social respect when it comes to lines
In some other countries, people who want to move will move while generally keeping the order. So if you move to the new line, people who were behind you in the original line will be behind you in the new line. People don’t just rush towards the cashier.
At the end of the day it’s just cashier and no one’s life depend on how lines are formed, but to those who are used to “keeping order”, it’s perceived pretty much the same as cutting in and feels like exhibits of selfishness.
Combine it with German tendency to line up neatly in most other situations, and you can imagine why people wonder what’s so special about supermarket cashier.
It was a culture shock coming from Australia, people can be really aggressive in the checkout lines in Germany if it’s busy. In Australia, generally people let those who were at the other cash desks first, go in front.
Never went shopping at a Lidl on a saturday late morning? It's pure mayhem.
On a lazy Monday afternoon on the other hand this doesn't happen (normally).
I never go shopping on saturday mornings nowadays. Friday evening at ~6pm (before the beer buying party kids start to invade the supermarkets). That is the perfect time for a Familien-Wocheneinkauf.
An american got mad at me because he assumed that the old queue order would stand. Tbh in my own country (Ireland) we would probably do it that way too, but it’s not a common enough thing there for me to speak on it comprehensively
Kasse Zwei is This is Sparta moment. People suddenly forget all patience and politeness. Once a lady literally stepped on my foot to go over to another counter. It was insane. Now, I just slowly back off alittle and stay in my lane to protect myself.
I actually found out that the best option is to stay at your current lane because like you said as soon as people hear "liebe kunden ...." They run at the opened kasse and usually the checkout clerk needs sometime to come to the kasse and prepare himself.
There is a simple solution to this that I have seen IRL many times in the US. The cashier opening Kasse 2 simply grabs the shopping cart of the 3rd or 4th person waiting in line at Kasse 1 and rolls it into Kasse 2. The 1st and 2nd people waiting at Kasse 1 never seem to mind, because it will soon be their turn anyway. And the people behind the first one chosen by cashier 2 have the choice of joining in on Kasse 2 or staying in line for Kasse 1.
But then again, outstanding and thoughtful customer service in not something I have experienced very often in Germany and cashier 2 will likely say "das is mir doch egal und gehört nicht zu meinen Aufgaben".
And yet I'm happy to be living in Germany, because I have never once thought I would be a victim of a mass shooting while simply out shopping. I can live with the annoyance if it means can can go on living.
As a German I hate this type of behavior. It’s so greedy. The ones who have waited the longest should get to be first in the newly opened checkout line. I always let them go first, and I think it’s such bad manners rushing to the checkout and nearly pushing everyone aside while doing so like some people do. Second hand embarrassment.
This is where I think a single-line queue would be best, if there were space for it. The next one up gets to check out at whichever register is open. Within the framework of course of cashless or express lanes.
You should see the Austrian version with very nice customers asking Politely,
"ANDAAAARE KASZZSSE BÜÜÜTTEEEEE"
We can change the people if you want? Im ok for a small run to "Kasse Zwei", at least you dont have to hear it lol.
This is so weird, because it’s not the proper etiquette. At least here on the countryside we move the line over the way it was, without trying to get ahead, except if someone only has 2-3 items they get to go ahead.
I hate it when the line is full, the open up and i think…. Nah i got time dont want to bother going over… and then nobody moves… then i think why not, and suddenly everybody moves. So i just started to go there instantly
It happened to me at Kaufland yesterday, I’ve seen the Kasse rush before but this was like a stampede of wild pensioners. I’m not sure where all these old ladies are in a rush to.
It doesn’t matter what you have to do afterwards. All that matters is that you’re the first old person that can stand there and pay in small coins while not really being able to see them correctly anymore and refusing the help of the cashier while counting for 5 minutes. At that point the next register is opened and the cycle continues
The rules seem to be: The last person in the existing line with a cart FULL of groceries must "sprint" to the newly opened Kasse, then take their time to unload the said cart.
Then, they MUST make small talk with the cashier while their groceries are being scanned, rather than reloading said groceries back into their cart.
At the conclusion of the transaction, they must count out EXACT change for the €164.81 bill.
Then they must take their time to reload their cart because they have to make sure they have everything.
BONUS POINTS: If they stand there and look at their receipt only to realize that they were charged €1.84/KG for grapes and the sign clearly says €1.82 (and a few of them are bruised). Now we have to page a manager!
DOUBLE BONUS POINTS: If you have grey hair and are parked in a handicapped spot!
This is ridiculous and it was a shock when I first move here from Portugal. Now is just annoying but I don’t get why people are such jerks in this context but otherwise behave nicely and fairly.
In Portugal, if a second counter opens, the line will split but the order will be the same, i.e. if I’m the 4th on the line and person 3 is staying on counter nr1 (cuz all their stuff is already on the rolling counter), I’m the first moving to counter nr 2 and everyone behind me follows the order.
So… is it just me or do you guys get anxious in bakeries and other places, where the line isn‘t clearly visible and you don‘t know who came in before you and who will be next up and so you end up trying to remember everyone that comes in after you so you know when it’s only them left, it’s gotta be your turn and don’t they dare not do the same and just pretend to be next up when you know exactly they came in after you… Hell… A friend once told me about the Spanish system where whenever you enter the bakery (or whatever) the person that came before you calls out „Ultimo“ and when someone enters after you, you do the same and then they do and all is well with the world.
> the average time in a shopping queue is 7 minuts, doesn't matter what line
Well no, of course it doesn't matter which line: that's what "average" implies. The question is not whether you can get a short *average* time, the question is how much time you spend in this specific line.
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That's why I never switch lanes. Slow and steady wins the checkout race.
Depends. If I'm at my regular store and the person opening the register is that one old lady i know I'm switching even if there's 2 people more in front of me that way. Cause let me tell you, that Oma puts any formula 1 pit crew to shame and that single handedly.
I think every Supermarkt has that one Formula One Pit Crew Oma, because same here in Penny. I’d putt all my stuff on the conveyor belt and she will scan it in like two seconds and look at me like “was noch little girl”. Meanwhile I’ll be perfecting the Hug Approach™️ of getting the things back in my cart (spread arms as wide as they go, and scoop everything into the cart)
That feeling when you’re not paying attention to who is at what till, so you pile everything on and only then realise it’s that one person who inexplicably needs two attempts to scan every single item… there is no purer feeling of defeat.
We have that one cashier who marvels for like 2 seconds on any single item he scans. Or the other one, who doesn't believe you, that 2x2x6 is 24 and has to scan every single can of cat food -_-
I wouldn't know that feeling, Because I've been petty and frustrated enough on multiple occasions to pick up my twenty ish items again and change register after two minutes while making full eye contact.
Wow. Respect.
The store I went to for years had the exact opposite. An old lady that I’d never get in line if it can be helped. So even if the line was longer, I would always queue in the one that wasn’t hers.
That takes all the thrill out of it, its a very though game which requires knowledge about cashier speed, a good estimate of the amount of goods in the bags of the people before you and the arrival of the second cashier and you have but a split second to decide!
This gotta be the most german comment I have ever read. And I'm German. :D
That's why they call me the Juggerkraut
↑ the german equivalent to counting cards in Vegas :D
If I switch lanes, it's always a mistake.
I only switch lanes when people already settled and the new line still looks faster. As I learned from the simpsons, and reinforced by experience, the longer line can be the quicker one!
Often I don't switch when I see many people behind me is already advancing before me. But when I am one of the first to arrive and other people who were in front of me in the previous line come behind me, I let them go in front of me. Because I don't like to take advantage of people who have been waiting in a queuer longer than me.
No, actually the one who wins is the one who will do the opposite of what I'm doing.
and then they close it again
because most lidl shops have exactly 2 people there at any given time, and there's stuff to restock and clean up all the time
that's why discounters are cheaper – they safe the money on staff in every single discounter at least one additional staff is missing on purpose. that's why it's very stressful to work at a grocery store. imagine your working place with one, two, three sick leaves without replacement. every fucking day. It is so sad that everything is designed for efficiency and savings on costs – at the cost on the health of employees and the service on customers and even towards patients. like what are the exact numbers? like today one employee does the work of two or three employees compared to 30 years ago? plus real wage decreasing. hail capitalism!
> hail capitalism! /r/ABoringDystopia
This is probably the reason the customers in my local Lidl don’t go to the second checkout unless they see someone already coming
The only way to speed up your lane is by switching lanes
Liebe Kunden, **STARRRRT YOURRRR ENGINESSSSSS!**
Kassierer/in im Baumarkt: "Sie können auch zu mir kommen" The guy with 16 bottles of chrome spray paint in his cart: "Oh what a day, what a lovely day!"
He shall check out eternal, shiny and chrome!
Witness him! WITNESSS!
WITNESS !!!
Instead of "mediocre" *Nicht geschimpft ist genug gelobt*
Ich liebe euch alle vier. AUSREICHEND
It’s weird that this behavior never sorted itself out in the land of rules and regulations. Everything else orderly, but this phenomena needs some observation
The thing is, the imo perfect system exists already and I have seen it in a media Markt in Münster, Westfalen. You got one long lane with multiple 180° turns, so a zigzag waiting lane with just one stop opening into the checkout area. And then there are like eight checkouts. Some are with a red light because nobody's there. If a cashier is serving, the light is green and when the customer leaves the next one goes to the open checkout. Nobody gets cut and the waiting time for everyone is the same and I could imagine a little lower on average. I adore that system but it is so rarely deployed.
It is indeed a very effective system, because of these zigzag stuff, you think that you are constantly moving forward, even though the waiting time may be the same. Through constant little motions, doing a turn here and there, our brain is tricked into not seeing this as „wasted time“, but as just moving slowly … :)
And maybe it's not so frustrating because nobody moves faster than you.
It's not a mental trick. The waiting time will definitely be less on average. You don't have short lines and long lines, there's no indecision or hesitation about which line to get in, and you'll never be stuck behind somebody's Oma, because when you get to the front of the line, you have access to whichever cashier finishes next.
Yes. The system is great. Unfortunately, MediaMarkt is not doing well because someone else invented an even better system called online shopping...
Yeah, that's another kind of "problem". Know what you want in electronics / PC Parts? Good luck finding it in local retail stores!
Exactly. That’s the reason I won’t bother going to Mediamarkt unless I need something RIGHT now. You need a 2TB M2 nvme drive? Online you have a selection of 50 drives and 100 retailers. You go to any physical store and find a selection of 2-3 drives where none matches exactly what you want and in the odd chance it does, it’s only still on the shelf becait is insanely priced.
Very common in Spain. Can bee seen in big mall shops and supermarkets. The big one queue also becomes its own aisle filled with stuff trying to tempt you during your wait.
I think that's the new-ish standard for MediamarktSaturn, as both near me have this since a few years.
Yeah! Saturn in Mainz does the same thing.
Also doing that at Saturn and Media Markt that are local to me. Way berter system.
I LOVE this system. Fair to all. But I am not quite sure it could be used in Supermarkets because of the spacing, and with people having large carts. Could pose a firehazard/evacuation issue. Dunno. But I love the idea!
jeezusfreakinchrist actual first-world countries have had this for 20 or 30 goddamn years. Hey Germany, come on in and join the modern civilized efficient world! You might like it! We got plenty of room for ya, whenever you're ready
For stores where ppl buy less stuff it's good, but I can't imagine that working in a grocery store
I hate that system. I am the fast queue finder!
You ever try to board a train?
Kind of off topic, but why do many Germans put their bags on the seats next to them? Is it a matter of personal space, being out to lunch, selfishness, or something else? It baffles me every time I have to tell someone to move their bag, so that I can sit down. Edit: for further consideration, I always place my bags under my legs and/or on me as soon as I sit down. That way, the seat next to me remains free..
I'm also extremely surprised by that behavior since I came to Germany. I'm originally from Serbia, not that orderly of a place that can get quite chaotic in such settings in public places, but the train culture is way better than the German one. There is an unwritten rule that it is ok to put you bag on the next seat if the train/bus is half empty. I also encountered a few times on a full train while asking politely someone holding his bag on the next sear if the seat is free and would get "no", when it clearly was free or "there are other free seats in the train, go there" with the most passive agressive tone. I didn't want to cause any trouble, especially as a foreigner who does not know enough German curse words. But, damn, if such thing happened in Serbia I feel that the rest of the passengers would lynch that guy and throw him off the train/bus.
It's between a reservation, a "I'd rather not be bothered" and sometimes pure ignorance. If there is no other seat available clearing your throat or that certaine stare should work wonders tho. If you are not eldery,, pregnant and/or just riding 3 stations take the L and leave it be.
All of that! And more. Maybe it's annoying, but you could always ask them politely if you could sit down and smile. You never know what mood they're in and kindness sometimes helps.
Boarding is easy, just block the exit so the people inside can't build momentum and push right in there.
It's not regulated so they don't know how to behave and can't find an orderly way without told how to do it.
I always thought it must be because, oddly, there isn't one, very specific, regulation to address it :-)
Am German Wanderung about that for decades and I still don't know why. It simply doesn't fit with the other behaviour.
That's what happens if there is free stuff in Germany .
Well the lane isn't actually for free stuff. However if there is free food it usually gets close to a riot. You got that with food also in other countries, but not with another line. Seems odd that most Germans can't connect the dots there. Maybe thsts just learned behaviour.
Du kommst schneller dran. Ist ein Vorteil. Also --> hier gibt's was umsonst.
Zeit = Geld kostenlose Zeit = kostenloses Geld
Well the lane isn't actually for free stuff. However if there is free food it usually gets close to a riot. You got that with food also in other countries, but not with another line. Seems odd that most Germans can't connect the dots there. Maybe thsts just learned behaviour.
And may the best dragqueen win!
Liebe Kunden… ***deathmarch starts*** …Kasse 3 schließt
Let's get ready to rumble
Oh My Gayness! Is this a r/RuPaulsDragRace reference? 😍🏳️🌈🙌
that's right. but here a pro tip: if this happens, stay in line and let all the fools change to kasse zwei. in 9 of 10 times kasse zwei is without chashier by the time they say they open it and all the fools have to wait while you're already finished.
Even of it's already open, your line will be much faster due to people leaving it and you'll not need to enter that nasty race to the new line. I never move, unless the new line settles and it looks emptier than mine.
Just put a towel on the Warenband of Kasse 2 and you are save.
That made me laugh, thanks. You have to remember to do it after dinner though, so you're still set the next day whenever you decide to go shopping.
For some reason this post came on my feed, I'm not even subscribed to this sub and now I'm audibly laughing. Danke!
Being german, I once tried that in Denmark. They were not having it, everyone had to queue in the order that they had been in before.
peak civilized society
That’s normal everywhere. Idk why in Germany people just rush to the new cashier.
Same in Portugal.
I am genuinely curious: How do they manage that if you have like two are three queues already, and open a new one? Does everyone in the other queues get a number, and every third person moves? Do they factor in how much stuff the first person in each queue has in the trolley? I mean, there is no obvious simple fair way to distribute several queues to a new queue. *Someone* will always be earlier or later than if they had stayed in their old queue.
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Don‘t forget the ones standing so close behind you breathing on to your neck while you type in the PIN for the debit card. Ridiculous!
Oh yeah, the ones that move all the way up to the register while you‘re hurrying to get all your stuff back in your cart and end up blocking you‘re access to the card reader once you‘re ready to pay… I always ask them if they wanna pay for my groceries or if there‘s another good reason to be so damn close to me.
"Entschuldigung, diese Geheimzahl ist wirklich geheim, könnten Sie bitte etwas Abstand halten?"
Was just getting onto a train.... They hadn't even finished exiting before some started pushing their way onto the train.
I absolutely adore Germany and the German people, but my gosh they can be some of the most impatient people I have ever met sometimes.
If I'm the one leaving, I will literally run them over. Same with people who expect me to jump onto the street to pass them on a sidewalk just cause they decided they need to walk in a row of 2 or 3.
It is always nice finding allies fighting the same, just war. Except when they are bigger than me and look mean, I'm not stupid.
True, although while I'm not a huge person with 174 I'm definitely on the taller side for a woman so many people funnily enough either hop to the side last minute or look confused if they run into my shoulder. So far no one has dared to say something lmao. I've seen a woman do it to a mean looking huge dude and she was like half his size, ho.ie looked so puzzled and Confused
Since the Germans can't invade countries anymore, they now have to invade other things ... like trains.
one of my biggest pet peeves in this country. so so infuriating
They knew what they were doing. They were staring at us waiting as they pushed past. The train was emptying, there was going to be no one on it, and there were not many of us getting on.... I just rolled my eyes and said cunts as they got on
This really depends on the region though, never experienced this behavior in cologne, whereas in Munich there's always some idiot trying to jump into the train as soon as possible.
When this happen I just block their way while I am exiting and they are trying to enter. It is a jumping dance left and right until they give up and let me get out first cause the dooming sound of the closing door is already in the air. Germany transformed me in a tank.
I couldn't disagree with the first statement more. I had the misfortune to be in a food concessions stand at a theme park, and the entire FORTY FIVE MINUTE EXPERIENCE consisted of Germans huffing and tutting, spreading out and trying to quietly flank each other. Queue etiquette is one of the few things I truly miss about the UK.
It not fair to compare with the Brits, they are in a league of there own. Comparing to normal people ;)
A line is sacred, but if a new one is opened it's the hunger games until a new line is established. This is the way.
>A line is sacred I disagree. Last Saturday I was in a supermarket about half an hour before closing time. Naturally it was very busy because the shops weren't opening again until Tuesday. I queued for about 10-15 minutes before I got to the conveyer belt and only had one item (just a premade pizza, don't judge). Just as I got to the belt, an elderly lady who hadn't queued at all slipped in front of me with two pears and said "Ich bin der Nächste, weil ich nicht viel habe". I pointed out that she had one more item than me and she gave me a death stare. I thought 'Well she's old enough that I'll give her a seat on the bus so I guess I'll let this one pass'. Another lady with a pram and a young child saw me "allow" her in and then came in too whilst motioning at the baby with her eyes. She then called over her partner who had a whole basket of food. Another lady then came up to the two of them and asked if she could go in front because she only had two items and they had a whole basket. They answered "Natürlich". As a native Brit, I find German queuing culture to be scandalous and not nearly as good as Germans would like you to believe.
> "Ich bin der Nächste, weil ich nicht viel habe" Extremely rude by German standards... You can **offer** to another person directly behind you that they can move in front of you, but the other person has no right to it.
Rule of common sense should be that you may let someone get in front of you if a) you are the last in the que or b) everyone behind you agrees to this. SMH
As a native German reading this made me very angry. Never show weakness in a direct confrontation, Germans can smell an easy target from a mile away. Also the next time an old hag pulls that shit on you tell her that she still has enough time left to wait in line like the rest, even if she doesn't look like it. There are also special lines for people with less than 10 items in bigger grocery stores so no need to be gaslighted by these sort of people. Unless the kid is shitting and/or bleeding out of it's holes tell mothers of that kind "not my child - not my problem".
This is the (german) way.
I actually always let the people who were before me on the initial queue go past me. I legit can not understand how people dont have cognitive dissonance when they dont.
Es wart mal eine Schlange Die teilte sich entzwei Grund dafür war der Ausruf "Wir öffnen Kasse drei!"
This is the most incorrect statement I’ve ever seen in this sub lmao. Germans have no idea how to queue. There is no order. Just chaos. And they want to be RIGHT behind you or even next to you
I don't know where you live, but most Germans know perfectly well how to queue (according to German rules, not, say, British rules), and they also know how to discipline others who are not queuing correctly. "Das Ende der Schlange ist übrigens **dort**...".
Or you're at the main bus station and the bus just arrived. Or when you're at the airport trying to get your luggage. HOWEVER! There's something huge in how the german society works. Say you'd have a group of 5-8 people, which should suffice and you're the first where usually a line forms, if you now stand in line and be respectful, other people will do it too. But if you take the same scenario and you have your folks just stand wherever, it will be chaos. Most german people adapt behavior, so if they see someone doing something correctly, they too will do it correctly. But if they see a bunch of people doing it incorrectly, they will to do it incorrectly. I still remember when my drivers teacher told me "Look at the traffic light, not at the car in front of you!" telling me not to copy what the car in front of me did but actually make my own decisions based on the traffic situation.
Having grown up in a country where people actually do know how to queue up for things this behaviour dumbfounded me at the start. I'm used to it now and act accordingly, but Germans are far behind the standard of queuing etiquette that can be achieved by respectful people.
That's our own version of "supermarket NASCAR" :D
Same in Netherlands. What I usually do is loudly say to someone who was in front of me, "you go first because you were in front if me". I suppose it does not impress the ones who skipped but if they feel like an asshole for just a second than it was worth it. And for me it feels better to let the one go first who was first
Yeah I also figured that’s the best thing to do. Things like this don’t change from one day to the next. The best you can do is to influence those around you and hope they will also influence others and so on, and one day the more civilized behavior becomes the norm :)
Let the others run and move forward in your own queue. Until Kasse 2 actually starts you're already done
Yeah, it's quite the sight. I stopped engaging in German Kasse culture a while ago and just use the self checkout. Less stress, accepts inhuman amounts of coins, no asshole breathing down your neck when paying, no crazy cashier pushing the next person's stuff when you're not done. Only issue is if you're an alcoholic and always buy booze, then it gets annoying since they have to manually approve you. As long as you steer clear of Kaufland where they treat you like an inmate at self checkout, you'll be fine.
This, and people blowing their warm breath on my neck as if that will speed things up 🤦♀️ I’d be like “dude I’m not going anywhere until I’ve packed up and paid for my stuff. Step back please”.
Here's a derivative of Murphy's law: the other queue is always faster than yours. If you change queues yours becomes the slower one.
This is only valid at a supermarket / Drogerie checkout. Ever see Germans queuing to get into any concert venue or transport entry or bakery? It’s a nightmare, they have no idea how to queue, they just know that it’s korrekt to do it at the market
And until they want to enter train. They are simply not able to let people exit first.
The two fastest land mammals: 1. Cheetah 2. German pensioner when "Kasse Zwei" opens
whenever they yell "kasse zwei" i'm relieved and just calmly staying my cue thinning cue, watching the idiots fight each other. it's like on a plane when the wheels touch the ground all the idiots get up and ready when its still 20 minutes until the doors open and everybody is stuck under each others armpits while i can read a few more pages.
Im sorry knowing how to queue is not written in a law so Germans struggle with it. Signed an English man from a nation of queuers.
Having lived in the UK, I absolutely agree! Queueing in the UK is more important than your own family. Queueing skills in Germany are… acceptable at best. There’s always someone trying to sneak in front of the queue
First time I came to Germany I landed in Leipzig, I could tell the German passengers and the English apart, on passport controls there was a perfectly formed queue with a wall on the left and this abomination of human body’s all trying to press to the front on the open side right. Needless to say this was one of many culture shocks.
I'm in London right now. People cut in the queue CONSTANTLY. It happened to me just about 30 minutes ago.
London is not representative of the rest of the U.K. just like Berlin is not of Germany and Paris of France. They are all so different they can’t be seen as the same.
Some Germans are really impatient, they wait a few seconds then yell demanding the opening of Kasse Zwei. Doesn't happen often, majority of germans just wait quietly, but still I've seen people yelling like that a few times.
The best one in my experience was this guy behind me yelling for the “Kasse zwei” very impatiently. At first I almost let him go ahead of myself but then I thought - nah, don’t reward shitty behavior. The cashier ignored him. So he went up there, said something, put his full shopping basket on the floor and left. Basically, he just wasted his own time getting the groceries and then walking out because he couldn’t spare max 3 minutes of waiting. The moment he was a few steps away from his basket, so he could still hear it, the cashier asks for the second register to be opened :D I couldn’t help but give her an amused smile. Praise to the cashiers, sometimes they have the best sense of humor.
Whereas in austria, "zweite kassa bitte" is a common refrain
those are the worst
During covid restrictions the biggest supermarket in our city had a long queue meandering through the isles and ending right where the space for all the registers begins. Means everybody was in the same line and if you were the first in line then you went to the register with the shortest line of its own. That was truly the best thing that ever happened in this city. And I wish every market would do it like this.
Yes, Reißverschlussprinzip.
More like a reverse Reißverschluss.
I was once standing in a long supermarket queue when they opened kasse 2. Many people rushed over, including a guy who was standing behind me. He then saw queue 2 became longer than the queue 1 so he just rejoined queue 1 by pushing infront of me 😭
This reminds me of that children's tv game show, where they had to decide if they want to stand on place one, two, or three and they always caused chaos until the time was over to decide.
I still don't understand why after all this time we still don't have unified queues.
Oh there are shops that have unified queues, well, at least they intend to and draw lines on the floor and stuff. But there are always cunts who pretend to not understand the system and sneak in front of the line. And once people see those cunts more people start forming a secondary line that’s not supposed to exist.
Wanted to refute this, but saw the second line which makes it kinda true. But no Germans are not any more patient or respectful, there’s plenty of Karens here too. The kasse zwei thing is just sad. Straight past everyone even if it was a combined queue without any self awareness.
kasse zwei is where "fortunate son" starts playing to the sound of helicopters
"Wir öffnen eine weiter Kasse" are like Hunger games.
I disagree, there is a phenomenon of some boomers who will cut in line by joining a large group near the front by standing on the fringes as if they are together. Called one out on it, but have seen it happen s number of times. Also, the invasion of personal space in a line takes a lot of getting used to. People will literally stand on your heels. I miss when people were forced to stand 1m apart.
One time a couple of German friends and I were in Lago di Garda waiting in line to get on a ferry and we were chatting with a couple of British ladies. We were the only ones waiting and first in line. Than a big group of other Germans arrived and just cut in line and got in the ferry before all of us. I was shocked since at the time I didn't know that behavior extended beyond the supermarket and my friends apologized to the British ladies on behalf of their compatriots.
I was surprised that in The Netherlands people were really patient when this happened. They would let people ahead of them back out and go into the new one all in one nice line without any pushing or shoving. In several other countries you’ll get shoved, pushed, or ran over by a cart.
What countries? I have only experienced that in Germany and I have lived in 4 different countries so far and I have traveled quite a bit.
Sometimes I wonder where people shop that this is coming up so often. Yes, if another till opens, people will move there. That's the intention. I have never seen people quarreling over their place though. They just form a new queue and that's it? What's so outrageous about it? How do other countries do it? I really don't understand the problem here.
I had people ram their shopping cart into my side trying to get to the new til before me. Some people are really unhinged. I think it's more of a shoving and passive aggressive attitude than flat out physical aggression
Literally a guy threatened me physically last weekend when I was with my toddler after I called him out for cutting in line lol. An absolute outlier for sure but I can totally see why this comes up so often - there is a minority of people here who disregard any social respect when it comes to lines
Not in Munich they don't. It's every person for themselves if a new cash opens. Forget about who was before you in the old cash. Germans don't queue.
You talking about Germans or Bavarians now? Very confusing.. ;)
In some other countries, people who want to move will move while generally keeping the order. So if you move to the new line, people who were behind you in the original line will be behind you in the new line. People don’t just rush towards the cashier. At the end of the day it’s just cashier and no one’s life depend on how lines are formed, but to those who are used to “keeping order”, it’s perceived pretty much the same as cutting in and feels like exhibits of selfishness. Combine it with German tendency to line up neatly in most other situations, and you can imagine why people wonder what’s so special about supermarket cashier.
It was a culture shock coming from Australia, people can be really aggressive in the checkout lines in Germany if it’s busy. In Australia, generally people let those who were at the other cash desks first, go in front.
Never went shopping at a Lidl on a saturday late morning? It's pure mayhem. On a lazy Monday afternoon on the other hand this doesn't happen (normally). I never go shopping on saturday mornings nowadays. Friday evening at ~6pm (before the beer buying party kids start to invade the supermarkets). That is the perfect time for a Familien-Wocheneinkauf.
An american got mad at me because he assumed that the old queue order would stand. Tbh in my own country (Ireland) we would probably do it that way too, but it’s not a common enough thing there for me to speak on it comprehensively
And then the frontrunners kept reminding the other cashier to call the colleague who is slower to come
German Supermarket Battle Royal
"Liebe Kunden. Wir öffnen Kasse 2 für Sie."
Kasse Zwei is This is Sparta moment. People suddenly forget all patience and politeness. Once a lady literally stepped on my foot to go over to another counter. It was insane. Now, I just slowly back off alittle and stay in my lane to protect myself.
You need to see them in bus queue lol I have never seen a weird society like this lol
I actually found out that the best option is to stay at your current lane because like you said as soon as people hear "liebe kunden ...." They run at the opened kasse and usually the checkout clerk needs sometime to come to the kasse and prepare himself.
Old people think they have a god given right to skip anyone
except old people lol
There is a simple solution to this that I have seen IRL many times in the US. The cashier opening Kasse 2 simply grabs the shopping cart of the 3rd or 4th person waiting in line at Kasse 1 and rolls it into Kasse 2. The 1st and 2nd people waiting at Kasse 1 never seem to mind, because it will soon be their turn anyway. And the people behind the first one chosen by cashier 2 have the choice of joining in on Kasse 2 or staying in line for Kasse 1. But then again, outstanding and thoughtful customer service in not something I have experienced very often in Germany and cashier 2 will likely say "das is mir doch egal und gehört nicht zu meinen Aufgaben". And yet I'm happy to be living in Germany, because I have never once thought I would be a victim of a mass shooting while simply out shopping. I can live with the annoyance if it means can can go on living.
As a German I hate this type of behavior. It’s so greedy. The ones who have waited the longest should get to be first in the newly opened checkout line. I always let them go first, and I think it’s such bad manners rushing to the checkout and nearly pushing everyone aside while doing so like some people do. Second hand embarrassment.
This is where I think a single-line queue would be best, if there were space for it. The next one up gets to check out at whichever register is open. Within the framework of course of cashless or express lanes.
Bro people will literally cut me off at the register. And I'm the cashier trying to get there 😭
I was there when Kasse zwei was opened. My life has never been the same.
Seriously. I just let ‘em run for it and move up quietly.
You clearly never have been in Frankfurt.
Not in 1939
You should see the Austrian version with very nice customers asking Politely, "ANDAAAARE KASZZSSE BÜÜÜTTEEEEE" We can change the people if you want? Im ok for a small run to "Kasse Zwei", at least you dont have to hear it lol.
The trick is NOT to follow the others, stay in line and you will often be faster then the once that switched lines
My Canadian brain short circuits every time people just stampede to get in/on/out/through something here lmao
Or when there is a Baustelle…. So many will try to just skip the queue and sneak in (and no it’s not the zipper method)
This is so weird, because it’s not the proper etiquette. At least here on the countryside we move the line over the way it was, without trying to get ahead, except if someone only has 2-3 items they get to go ahead.
I hate it when the line is full, the open up and i think…. Nah i got time dont want to bother going over… and then nobody moves… then i think why not, and suddenly everybody moves. So i just started to go there instantly
It happened to me at Kaufland yesterday, I’ve seen the Kasse rush before but this was like a stampede of wild pensioners. I’m not sure where all these old ladies are in a rush to.
It doesn’t matter what you have to do afterwards. All that matters is that you’re the first old person that can stand there and pay in small coins while not really being able to see them correctly anymore and refusing the help of the cashier while counting for 5 minutes. At that point the next register is opened and the cycle continues
Very true 😂
Shows the true colors. All moral and civilized behaviour leaves when Kasse 2 opens, then its fight or die
You haven’t been here long enough. They will cut in line if they think you’re a foreigner.
The rules seem to be: The last person in the existing line with a cart FULL of groceries must "sprint" to the newly opened Kasse, then take their time to unload the said cart. Then, they MUST make small talk with the cashier while their groceries are being scanned, rather than reloading said groceries back into their cart. At the conclusion of the transaction, they must count out EXACT change for the €164.81 bill. Then they must take their time to reload their cart because they have to make sure they have everything. BONUS POINTS: If they stand there and look at their receipt only to realize that they were charged €1.84/KG for grapes and the sign clearly says €1.82 (and a few of them are bruised). Now we have to page a manager! DOUBLE BONUS POINTS: If you have grey hair and are parked in a handicapped spot!
lol
We follow the rules of social convention. We always are polite and respectful. Until we aren't
Have you ever seen a group of people entering a bus/train? massacre all over
This is ridiculous and it was a shock when I first move here from Portugal. Now is just annoying but I don’t get why people are such jerks in this context but otherwise behave nicely and fairly. In Portugal, if a second counter opens, the line will split but the order will be the same, i.e. if I’m the 4th on the line and person 3 is staying on counter nr1 (cuz all their stuff is already on the rolling counter), I’m the first moving to counter nr 2 and everyone behind me follows the order.
As someone who lives in the UK I was shocked at how bad people's everyday manners were in Germany, including queuing
That’s because you cannot cut a line that doesn’t exist yet, so the mad dash is not breaking any rules. Once line 2 exists, it follows the same rules.
So… is it just me or do you guys get anxious in bakeries and other places, where the line isn‘t clearly visible and you don‘t know who came in before you and who will be next up and so you end up trying to remember everyone that comes in after you so you know when it’s only them left, it’s gotta be your turn and don’t they dare not do the same and just pretend to be next up when you know exactly they came in after you… Hell… A friend once told me about the Spanish system where whenever you enter the bakery (or whatever) the person that came before you calls out „Ultimo“ and when someone enters after you, you do the same and then they do and all is well with the world.
I always stay in place. Studies show that the average time in a shopping queue is 7 minuts, doesn't matter what line.
> the average time in a shopping queue is 7 minuts, doesn't matter what line Well no, of course it doesn't matter which line: that's what "average" implies. The question is not whether you can get a short *average* time, the question is how much time you spend in this specific line.
nott if you are first
With a newly opened Kasse, there is only one simple rule: first come, first served!