Don't you wish they'd hang one of these at every damn checkout line in the country?

[MiddleFingerMom]

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[antiquie]

1. good one

[backwoodsbob]

2. rofl

that is perfect

[leftyohiolib]

3. well , it's insulting to your customers but maybe it needs to be there

[backwoodsbob]

5. after seeing far too many people with 80 + items in the express lanes

maybe a few insults will get the message across

[Chan790]

16. The local Target here in MD...

had such a problem with people with a lot more than 10-items (the limit there is 10 items) in the express lanes that after such signage (somewhat less offensive of an implementation) failed to work, they had to resort to English and Spanish PA announcements that basically say:

"If you get in the express lane with more than 10 items, the cashier has been instructed to refuse to ring you out and direct you to a non-express lane when you get to the register. Individuals with 3-or-less items and paying with credit or debit may check-out at customer service."

[ohiosmith]

4. Brilliant!

Funnier with two hands and a foot! Brilliant nonetheless!

[MiddleFingerMom]

6. Think of the possibilities with a 21-item limit!!!

[ohiosmith]

7. Hahahahaha!

Glad to see you back to your old self!

[Duer 157099]

8. Yes, but what counts as an item?

That is always my quandry. Is a six-pack of soda one item or six? What about 6 bottles of water, but that aren't packaged together?

If you get something in quantity that can be scanned with just one item, should it count as one?

So, a basket full of just one item, but multiples of it, what about that?

The things that keep me up at night...

[sharp_stick]

9. I go by number of scans

if it scans once (6 pack, bunch of apples in a bag) then it's one item.

[Duer 157099]

11. What if there are several of the same item?

Where they can do a quantity scan, scan once and multiply?

[MiddleFingerMom]

10. 4,356 grains of rice?

[RebelOne]

12. Kroger's express line sign reads "about 15 items." n/t

[rurallib]

13. ok - really no one has three hands

[Art_from_Ark]

14. So if you have 5 apples,

do they count as one item, or 5?
If you have 10 packets of Kool-Aid, do they count as one item, or 10 items?

Can someone with 3 avocados, 5 apples, 6 lemons, a can of grated cheese, and 2 boxes of the same cereal go through the express check-out, or should they be consigned to standing behind the person with a huge cart full of stuff?

[jmowreader]

18. The kool-aid would be 10 items

You probably picked 10 different flavors. If you want auto ordering to work they must be scanned separately.

At my stint at DU's Most Hated Company I worked Dairy. Because WM uses auto ordering we had tons of strawberry yogurt but kept running out of Boston Cream Pie...because the cashiers would scan one yogurt then use the quantity key for the other eleven.

[AmyDeLune]

15. +1000!

I can see going a little over, especially if the items are small and quickly scannable, but the people with the mounded cartload of stuff really take the cake!
A coworker of mine once had a customer innocently say "I have a few more than15, is that okay?" She said sure and went back to checking the two people ahead of the woman.

Then she looked up.

The woman was unloading an entire cartload of groceries onto the belt. She had over 50 items.

My coworker called her on it, and the woman whined, "but I'm in a hurry!"

My coworker said "So are all the people behind you!"

She made put all her items back in the cart and go to the appropiate line.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

17. heeeee heeeeeeee

[nyquil_man]

19. Now, if they can clear up ENTER and EXIT...