Just a Thought....The Checkout Lane

Just a thought....The checkout lane. So we have all been to the store to buy food, household items or things for leisure activities. I am sure that all of you have been to a huge retail store like Wal-Mart, Target, Costco,....etc. So once you have made your way throughout the facility to find exactly what you needed or not needed but impulses told you that you needed it. Then we must find a lane to check out our items. So we see about twenty lanes but only two are open and one is usually the ten items or less aisle So the only other option is the self-checkout lanes which also have about eight stations but only three are working and none of them take cash, so if you have ten thousand dollars in cash to purchase whatever you want, guess what. Your shit out of luck. So with so many customers in these huge palaces of commerce, my question is why so many lanes if your only going to have a few open. That never made sense to me. I thought the concept of having so many aisles is that you want to offer convenience to your customers. Get in and get out. I can walk into a place like Quicktrip, which of those of you who aren't familiar, is a gas station. They may only have three cashiers at any one time but have six registers and each cashier can man two registers at once and move the line in and out, lickity split. What a concept. So why have so many aisles and no cashiers to man these stations? It frustrates me to no end sometimes when I just want to grab items but have to wait thirty minutes because one cashier is going on break or there is a problem when you scan an item in the self-checkout and the cashier who is supposed to be watching the self-checkout aisles is busy talking to another cashier on break or the on-duty police officer. I know this sounds like petty bitching and let's be honest, it is, but when you have four kids in tow who have the patience of a hummingbird. It can get frustrating waiting in a long line. Anyways enough bellyaching for tonight, so until the next day this was .....just a thought.