Several days later people were still queuing in their dozens and even hundreds, in the hope of picking up a discounted television or fridge.
Mr Ahmadinejad, whose second term will end in August, was declared the winner as some Iranians were still queuing up to vote.
Despite the problems which have plagued the WTO almost since its creation in 1995, as part of the Uruguay round deal, countries are still queuing to join.
And, despite his departure into unfamiliar and perhaps discomfiting territory, the audiences are still queuing round the block to see one of Edinburgh's favourite performers.
Days after the opening, Mumbaikars, mostly the young, were still queuing for up to an hour to grab their Frappuccinos, while madly updating their Facebook statuses.
On Sunday night hundreds of Libyans were still queuing up to view Gaddafi's corpse, which has been kept since last week in cold storage in Misrata.
Thousands of people were still queuing at the airport to escape the desperate chaos of their city even as they lamented the destruction the typhoon had wreaked on their island.
Television networks called it for the incumbent at 11pm local time after early returns from rural counties gave him an apparently unassailable lead even as voters were still queuing to cast ballots at polling stations in Milwaukee, a Democratic stronghold.
As the Italian example shows, if any one of the 12 new members, especially Romania and Bulgaria, were still queuing to enter the EU, there would now be a heated debate about immigration, and the EU keystones of free movement of people, capital, goods and services might soon be under attack.Second, money.
As the game was about to kick off, fans were still queuing to get in.
