What is the longest you have waited in line to pay for groceries?
By 4monsters4me
@4monsters4me (2569)
United States
October 5, 2006 4:03pm CST
I went to Wal-mar today to get groceries. I got there around 10:30am and got in line just after 12noon. I finally got done checking out at 12:50. I was planning on going to Target afterwards and stop and get Subway but I didn't have time. I got home just in time for dh to run out the door to work. There were only 3 checkout lanes open on the grocery side (and 3 express on that side, 1 each on the GM side) and each lane had at least 8-10 people in it. It was crazy. I have never seen that on a Thursday at noon.
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16 responses
@pumpkinjam (8768)
• United Kingdom
24 Oct 06
I think I may have waited for about 15 or 20 minutes, if a queue looks too long, I won't go in it unless there is no other option. I won't wait more than half an hour anyway.
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@4monsters4me (2569)
• United States
24 Oct 06
Well there were no other options that day. Every register had at least 8 people waiting in line. Everyone had to wait for almost an hour to pay for their stuff.
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@purplestar87 (141)
• United States
17 Oct 06
You know whats odd? When i used to work at a walmart the general rule was, if a lane had 3 or more customers waiting they had to open another lane. It was all in the cashier training book.
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@4monsters4me (2569)
• United States
18 Oct 06
Yeah--they don't do that anymore, lol. I know when I worked there they were constantly calling people from other departments to work as cashiers, meaning those people never got to finish their work. And they would call cashiers back to the front when they were on their lunch break and they would refuse to go because it was their break time. It was crazy. Luckily I was never trained to work the cash registers so I didn't have to worry about it.
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@bhbirdie6 (1765)
• United States
18 Oct 06
I've waited 40 minutes. That was ridiculous. The cashier kept stopping... literally stopping scanning and talking to everyone in front of me. And she took her good sweet time.
@ArsonCuff (3114)
• United States
24 Oct 06
Never timed it..fast food drive thrus though..way long
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@MrsFrizzle (1963)
• United States
26 Oct 06
I am not sure but one time we sat in dennys for about 2 hours before anyone even acknowlaged us.. We where going to get up and leave but after a while it was like funny how long will it actualty take. They did not even appologize.
@sunrisekn (1466)
• United States
5 Oct 06
I live in Surfside Beach,SC about 4 miles from Myrtle Beach,SC and we are a huge tourist location, in our prime season is here a person can wait just as long. It is crazy!! During the summer, we go shopping at 700 am before the tourist get up.
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@bblessed (1822)
• United States
5 Oct 06
Not as long as I have had to sit in the Doctors office haha. And its even worse if you have a crying baby too, they should let you at the front of the line haha. Not that the crying baby would bother me, just everyone else, I love a crying baby sounds like they are singing baby language :)
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@Sheila_Abram (1908)
• United States
10 Oct 06
The longest I have waited in line to pay for groceries is one hour. I hate it because, I always think I have gotten in the fastest moving lane.
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