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...success is quick service to move goods fast. All new Food Fairs have low counters so that the housewife can quickly spot whatever she wants and move on. The Friedlands were fast to adopt prepackaged meat; their new stores have a conveyor-belt system for groceries at the checkout counter, and teams of five to count and package the orders. The Friedlands are moving just as fast as the customers. In the next year, they plan to build 19 new stores...
...Eugene, Ore., the Big Y store installed four "Rest-a-Checks" at the checkout stations so that customers could take it easy while waiting to pay bills. The Rest-a-Check is a circular turntable divided into three sections, each with a foam-rubber seat big enough to hold three people. When the check-out clerk is ready, he presses a lever which rotates the seats in merry-go-round fashion; the customer pays sitting down...
...Every day for the past two weeks it has been the same," said a checkout girl in a Detroit A & J supermarket. "I just get the prices fixed in my mind when the manager comes up with another half-dozen raises. Eggs are down two cents today-that I can remember...
...Burger, who had bought an armful of groceries for their lunch, said: "Mr. John, I want to tell you what happened to me at the checkout counter." Mr. John raised his arm defensively. "Margaret," he said, "don't tell me you were shortchanged! I'll cry." She had not been cheated, but a bag of pecans was so poorly marked that the checker had to look up the price. John examined the bag and allowed he would have to jog someone about those markings...
Although Widener Library's circulation desk will continue its two-week checkout system during the Christmas holidays, the Boylston, Union, and Widener reading rooms will not permit students to take books home over the vacation...