As befits a store with Superstore right in its name, this place has a massive line of checkouts like what you'd see in a hypermarket in decades past. 17 non-self checkouts certainly isn't the most I've ever seen in a store (Fred Meyer used to have a huge number of them in most of their stores until a few years back, and Walmart and Target a bit further back than that), but it's certainly a lot for the 2020s! And they aren't just sitting unused -- Real Canadian Superstore seems to periodically advertise that they guarantee all checkouts to be open at peak times. I don't think I've ever been to a store with this many checkouts open at one time! Maybe some busier Costcos have a comparable number, but I'm not actually sure how many checkouts they have since they don't number them and I've never counted.
Ha, while these are a lot of checkouts, it is still nothing compared to the ~50 than Auchan had in Houston! Fry's Electronics also had 30+ cashiers during their prime, but that was in a single queue layout.
ReplyDeleteI wonder what is on those hanging sheets of paper at the end of the aisles. Planograms maybe?
Yeah, those early hypermarkets were insane! I didn't realize that about Fry's -- the only time I ever visited one of their stores was when they weren't far from shutting down, and they certainly didn't have a lot of active checkouts at that point!
DeleteI think those were paper directories for customers to take. I'm not used to seeing those except when there's an ongoing remodel/reset, but maybe Real Canadian Superstore has them all the time, or maybe there had been a recent reset and I just didn't know any different!