Whats the real reason grocery stores have so many checkout aisles?

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The Something Awful Forums > Main > General Bullshit > Whats the real reason grocery stores have so many checkout aisles?

maybeadracula: Sep 9, 2022; by sebmojo

Vampire Panties posted:

Real answer: a long time ago, grocery stores didn't have barcode scanners. This required the clerk to manually punch in codes for literally everything. This took time. To accomodate for the time this took, grocery store opened up additional checkout aisles. IIRC this used to be the delineator between a grocery store and a supermarket

That is in no way the real answer

Most people are not shopping at antediluvian markets, these are recent constructions

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maybeadracula: Sep 9, 2022; by sebmojo

Vampire Panties posted:

Why would they build new ones differently?

Because there aren't using all that infrastructure?

They're already different anyway as the self checkout zones exist and regular lanes are very different in design than 20+ years ago

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