Reply #62: Lots of transactions at the grocery store take up time. [View All]

[Horse with no Name]

So...how do you feel about couponers?

They take up lots of time.

What about new cashier trainees that don't know their produce codes and have to stop and look everything up?

They take up lots of time.

What about people buying a months worth of groceries at a time?

They take up lots of time.

What about Food Stamp, WIC transactions, and a cash purchase all in one?

They take up lots of time.

What about folks who buy cigarettes or Lottery Tickets? Most stores lock them up at a separate location and the cashier has to go across the store to get these items.

They take up lots of time.

What about allowing old people to write checks? It takes forever for some of them to write it out because of decreased motor skills, poor vision or generalized weakness.

They take up lots of time.

Why is that counting out MONEY in any form or fashion is more of a burden than any of these others types of transactions?

I'll give you the answer. Aesthetics. It is because most people do not want to SEE poverty and the stores do not want their other customers to feel uncomfortable about what they are being forced to witness.