Checkout capers

If I've already queued and am next in line, unless the person in front of me has only just unloaded a full trolley on to the conveyer belt I'd stay right where I am and let those behind me fight it out to be first at the newly opened till.

Otherwise you lose your place at the checkout you've just been on which is a bit of a bummer if you end up last in both queues.

I'd probably have moved across too

BlueBelle, I think you rather overreacted there, TBH. In that sort of situation it's really first come, first served. Not worth getting uptight about.

If I arrived a the checkouts and was confronted with an empty checkout or a queue. now which one would I join ?

I agree, BlueBell

Also, where was the other woman from if it had to be pointed out that 'we queue fairly in England?'

Mars?

Now hold on a bit you were all queuing and an assistant opened up a new till now it's very normal for a number of people in the original queue to see it as an opportunity to go ahead and try to change, isnt that all there was to it in all honesty when I first read your post I thought the woman had seriously pushed in front of you in the queue, but it was just an opportunity taken and she beat you to it
i would say that sort of thing happens every day as you were already next in the queue to be served why did you feel the need to move ....you should have stayed where you were.... hardly anything to get upset about

It's usually those people that move fastest that get to the next till, but sometimes the assistant speaks directly to somebody ( usually about the third person in line) to move queues.I never worry about it.

Sorry Danni

Danny very British.

Hope you have tweeted? I had reason to, twice, once about people driving the wrong way round the Waitrose car park one way system. "No entry " signs appeared the following week And the second time to moan about builders vans taking up the disabled spaces on a Saturday afternoon. Immediate response!

My world does not feel as dangerous as the one some of you live in!

I'm not brave enough to say anything but I would have tutted very loudly!

No manners and no discipline anymore I'm afraid. I wouldn't say boo to a goose for fear of reprisals, so much badness in society these days, it's very sad.

Oh dear! Sadly there are folk, from all walks of life, who have a view that they are more important than anyone else and can take priority!

In Waitrose this week waiting to pick up 10 pairs of black school sox for my DD for the DGDs. The counter was staffed by one assistant who was obviously fully occupied with a customer. The queue grew and grew. We all grew impatient. I caught the eye of another Waitrose person who said she would go and get someone. We waited. No-one came. A woman, two or three people behind me in the line, caught the floor manager as he tried to walk by and spoke to him. He disappeared. A few minutes later he returned with her click & collect order and off she went! Eventually another person arrived to serve but it took 25 minutes to pick up the sox. Could have almost driven to the nearest John Lewis and got them direct! I have contacted the store!

I normally stay in my queue as that has happened to me before also. For once I have kept my mouth shut on those occasions.

People at the end of a queue are looking out for an opportunity to move to a quicker till - it happens all the time. You were lucky the woman just smirked - many would have given you a mouthful!

Unfair but probably quite typical I'm afraid. I think twice about challenging any behaviour nowadays as you can never gauge the reaction anymore. Some people are very volatile and over react to any criticism. Its not right but maybe sensible.

Unless they were going to close the checkout you were on you would have been better off staying where you were if you were next.