The lunch hour rush!
Queues at supermarket checkouts, long queues caused by insufficient staff or not enough tills, don’t you just hate them? You’ll hate them all the more after reading this expose, one that explains why they are totally unnecessary!
The problem is simple, as is the solution. Office staff and shop staff go to lunch between the hours of 12 noon and 3pm. That leaves those shops and supermarkets that follow that age old practice, short of staff, which, as I’ve mentioned, is totally unnecessary.
In the case of shops that trade from 9am to 6pm, that’s 8 hours plus an hour break for lunch. 8 hours per day, 5 days a week = 40 working hours per week.
Now comes the ‘oh so obvious’ solution. Two shifts working 6.5 hours a day. Morning = 9am to 3.30pm, afternoon = 11.30am until 6pm, 6 days a week. In addition to that, I have allowed for staff getting in 10 minutes early to open up and 10 minutes for cashing up at the end of the day. Total time = 40 hours. The same.
That gives shops a full compliment of staff between 11.30am and 3.30pm. Plenty enough staff to avoid unnecessary queues in the future.
March 2020. In as much as this article was written in August 2019 and that, prior to publishing this to the internet, the TRUTH intended to: ‘contact the following supermarkets by e-mail, informing them of the solution to ‘The lunch hour rush’. The World wide Coronavirus has halted that. If, when the problem is over, however, there is no noticeable reduction in the named supermarket’s queues, and on a long-term level, then, clearly, the supermarkets in question have nothing but contempt for their customers!
The Truth will be watching!
UPDATE! May 2020. Yet again, like so many other people, singletons in particular, I found myself having to queue up to enter a local supermarket – Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Lidl and Iceland. Of those four, only Sainsbury’s is lacking in organisational skills, letting customers into the shop in groups of five, instead of keeping a balance: 1 out 1 in. On a comparative basis, it’s like waiting until a production line is totally empty before commencing the next production, thereby having everyone in the production line waiting and idle.
May 20 2020, and I spoke too soon. While queuing outside my local Iceland, four customers left the high street supermarket before just one person, the one in front of me, was allowed inside the shop.
Note. It is worth re-iterating the following point from the TRUTH’s editorial page: ‘That which contradicts the TRUTH is a LIE!’
The names of the supermarkets the TRUTH intends to contact:
Sainsbury’s, Iceland, Tesco, Lidl, Morrisons, Asda.
Of those, both Sainsbury’s and Morrisons e-mail addresses are invalid, while Iceland actually blocked the TRUTH’s informative e-mail.
See the TRUTH’s new article: ‘Contemptuous e-mails’ (how to avoid the paper chase of blame).
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