Here's how to always get in the fastest line at the supermarket

Imagine people spend in queues to an average of 37 million hours per year! Apparently, scientists didn't like it either, and they came up with a few tricks that will help you to minimize the time wasting standing in line at the supermarket. The website for the rational shopping, so share these techniques with you.

1. Become the buyer with a full cart Probably you thought it was illogical, however, researchers and mathematicians to prove the opposite.

"Everyone needs a certain amount of time to say Hello, pay, say goodbye to the cashier and leave the place. This time is approximately 41 seconds, while the penetration of goods from the basket takes an average of 3 seconds per unit".

Dan Meyer (Dan Meyer), chief researcher of the project Desmos

Meyer calculated that the man who scored 100 units of different products, you will stand in 6 minutes. In the queue for 4 people with hands on 20 different products — 7 minutes. Thus, the faster moving place, where fewer people and buyers are filled with trucks.







2. Turn left is definitely better This is because most people are right-handed and instinctively choose the cash register on the right side. Become left, break the system.

3. At the checkout a woman? Great! Cashiers female, as a rule, faster and more efficiently cope with such a monotonous job as a customer service.

4. Inspect that the baskets of those who stand ahead of This must be done not out of curiosity, and because the goods are put into hard packaging and glass containers, and even the same brand, faster strikes. Sticker with a barcode on paper and plastic bags wrinkled, so the cashiers often have to enter it manually. That is, standing in front of the person who bought the yogurt and a bottle of soda, would leave the line faster than a buyer with packages of frozen vegetables and dumplings.







5. Don't stand in line that comes around the corner studies show that the operator who does not see the entire lineup as a whole, is slower.

According to the materials of the nytimes, whitman.syr.edu,
mrmeyer, desmos


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