[nhebb]

Fry's might not be a good example because many of their orders are ticketed items, so the cashier does more than just ring you up. For example, last week I bought a hard drive there, and it took a minute for the cashier to retrieve the item then print out the warranty disclaimer/waiver. Target, on the other hand, has checkout arrangement that looks like a rabbit warren.

[mattmcknight]

The Target near me is an interesting case, because the set of registers is so spread at least 30 checkouts, maybe 75m across. The time it would take some of these bumblers to get to the single line and then walk to the check out would cancel out a lot of the gain.