[LintMan]

Originally posted by Sheap:
Finally since the self-service checkout is restricted in the number of items you can bring through, and many people are reluctant to use them, and because the line leads to four checkouts instead of one, the lines are much shorter and move faster. Which is important to me, not because my time is exceptionally valuable, but because I really, really hate waiting in line.

On the other hand, I do agree with Arryn that self-serve gasoline is an absolute necessity of life. I am simply glad that New Jersey is a small state that I don't live in. There are many reasons for this, but among them is that when I have to drive through it, I can fill up beforehand and not have to wait in their gas lines. It's like the oil embargo, all over again.

The self-service checkouts I've seen don't have any maximum item limits. The biggest problem I've had with them is that they've been miserable to use. One had the worst, most confusing credit card interface I've ever seen, and another had a conveyor belt that kept on pushing my packing boxes back at me.

As for gas lines at NJ pumps: if you're waiting on a long gas line in NJ, you're either going to the wrong stations, or your only experience is with the rest area stations on the Garden State Parkway and NJ Turnpike. The local town/city gas stations (which you'd be using if you lived there, rather than the Parkway ones) don't get like that.