Sentence examples for slow checkout from inspiring English sources

The slow checkout line?

Slow checkout lanes could be the answer.

"A Long Line for a Shorter Wait at the Supermarket" (front page, June 23) reminded me of inching along one of many slow checkout lines at a Baltimore supermarket one Saturday afternoon in 1974.

If you've ever been stuck behind a slow poke in a shop, or worse, an oblivious chatterbox, you will be delighted to hear about a study that says supermarkets should set up special slow checkout lanes – albeit for older people.

As shoppers flocked to websites to snap up some of the best deals of the year, they encountered outages and slow checkouts.

In an ideal world, older people, the lonely, the friendless and the freelance – anyone in need of a friendly chat and some attention – would be catered for without the need for special training or slower checkout lanes.

This taxlike penalty is self-imposed, since no law prevents anyone from filling his pockets with pennies before leaving the house, but even people who do use small change bear the burden of lugging it around and sifting through it — the old-lady-with-a-coin-purse problem, which has doubtless been slowing checkout lines since the Lydians invented coinage, in 500 B.C. or so.

While service is sometimes a bit slow — my checkout took 15 minutes, and involved much official stamping of a wad of receipts — the staff was friendly and helpful.

Now that he mentioned it, I did resent that I had to draw attention to myself by separating my Priceline purchases, slowing the checkout line.

I've always trusted that the system works well — and I've tapped my foot impatiently when a shopper ahead of me slowed the checkout process by closely watching the prices that came up, as if the scanner might have recorded the wrong product code.

It slows down checkout and it can be embarrassing to ask the cashier to pinch pennies off your total.