With these tricks, it's faster at the supermarket checkout
If you stick to a few rules and know a few tricks, you will not only finish up faster with your errands, but you can also help make things faster for everyone.
First of all in general: When is it the most emptier in the supermarket?
If you want to avoid the crowd at the cash register, you should first choose a day for shopping, which is generally not so much going on.
Least in the supermarket is usually on Tuesdays and Wednesdays: Many people do their weekly shopping before the weekend and Monday is also not a good day: Here go shopping for those who have noticed over the weekend that they need something else.
No matter when you want to go shopping: You should avoid the weekend around the first month, like the devil the holy water! Because: Many people get their money first and then do the "big shopping" right away.
Which cash register is the fastest?
We know that: it's always the other cash-queues that seem to be faster than your own. But even if we can never know whether the woman in front of us pays small amounts of money or, in our case, the bonus role is over: you can analyze the buyers in front of you and draw conclusions as to how fast it will go forward ,
First of all, you should always opt for the snake, where few people are present (beware: always pay close attention to whether the four people standing there do not even belong together!). Seven full-car customers can get through faster than ten buyers with few items. Because: What really stops at the cash register, is not the scanning of the articles (this is really fix these days!), But the payment process (including the search for the Payback card and the granting of the shopping cart).
By the way: You can assume that men in the queue stay longer than women. Annoying background: Women have more shopping routine and are therefore faster when it comes to paying.
What to do if another fund is opened?
It's just a checkout and the line already reaches the dairy department? Then attention! At this moment, it may be smarter to NOT hiring, but in front of the cashier area to "lurking" that opens another box office. Because: In most supermarkets, the employees are encouraged to call reinforcement, if the queue is too long (but otherwise call the waiting customers like loud ...).
However, if you are already in line and the good news is announced that another box office is opened: Exactly balance! Yes, it can be smart to storm quickly into the still empty cash register - but only if you have a short way! Because: At this moment, a large part of the customers will rush to the "new" cash register - and it is probably even faster, if you do not leave your place in this case.
Because: By opening the new cash register shrinks your queue together, it may be synonymous customers go to the new box office, which were just in front of you. And: until the employee arrives and the new cash register is really up and running, time will pass!
What can I do when it's my turn?
The time has come: You have reached the front of the queue - can we now make your contribution that it does not take so long for the customers behind you and you are also quickly out again? Again, there are a few tricks:
? First, the deposit: If you have dispensed bottles, you should submit the receipt at the beginning, even before your first articles are scanned. Then you can mentally hook it up and start packing up your purchases. Tip: If you also tend to forget the receipt while shopping, it helps to put it in your wallet - then you will be remembered at the latest when paying!
? If you need to buy a plastic bag, put it in the front of the cash register, so it can be scanned first and you can give your purchases directly. Even better: Always have a cloth bag with you - or a folding box in the shopping cart. These boxes are even easier to fill!
? If you buy multiple items, you usually do not have to put all on the tape: One copy is enough if you say at the cashier, how many you still have in the car. Even with beverage crates, it is usually sufficient to put a bottle on the conveyor belt for scanning.
? Before you think about whether you have a customer card or Payback card and if you want to show them. The moment you are asked about it, you should already have it at hand - it's time to start searching now!
? When paying: make it as easy as possible! If you want to pay in cash, just give out the next larger note and at the very most, look again in the coin pocket, if you also have matching change.Now scrape the copper coins out of the cracks, perhaps even cent cent to pay, brings the customers behind you to the white heat.
? It's even faster when you pay with a card: here the device does it all by itself and the time it takes to read your card and process the data is great for packing your purchases. Today, even many supermarkets and cash card providers support the function of contactless payment: Here you have to hold the card just in front of the terminal and with smaller amounts (usually less than 25 euros) not even enter or sign a PIN - it does not get any faster!
