Is it 10 items or a quantity of 10

[sharkie]

This has happened on a few occasions, I have been into the supermarket to purchase a few things.
I get the items along with a several bottles of water, I then go to the "ten items or less" checkout, whereupon people start to complain that I am in the wrong que, because they say I have to many "items".

[sequenci]

People who use the 10 items or less queue when they have more than 10 items.

[sharkie]

Big white smelly baggy pants

[barracad]

Until they start putting up signs that are grammatically correct and make sense in English, then I'll just use them regardless of how many items I have.

The sign should say 10 items or fewer. If it says 10 items or less then it makes no sense.

[gyzmo]

You could wait until the new James Bond movie comes out on DVD, buy 1 dozen copies or so and when challenged say you dunno how many - just a quantum of solace.....

Either way I think mesing with semantics in a cheque out queue just gets you, the shop and everyone else wound up. But yes, it should say 10 or fewer.

And i have seen some rather bizarre situations where multipack items have been bought, or where someone has bought twenty bottles of the same thing, just passed one through and told cashier there's 19 more. This followed a refusal to servcewhich wasted more time than it would have done than to simply press a couple of buttons. And don't get me started on people who actually count how many things you have....

[barracad]

I'm sure I saw somebody buy a bag of grapes at the "10 items or less" [sic] checkout. There must have been more than 10 grapes in the bag.

[dave]

Waitrose is the only supermarket I know of that actually has this correct.

Technically, anyone in the queue in a "10 items or less" checkout with more than one item the same is breaking the rule. If you had 10 boxes of cornflakes, you'd be ok, and 10 boxes and one of coco-pops and you'd be fine, as you only have 2 items.

[sharkie]

For me its the number of items on the receipt, if you go to the till with two trolleys filled with the same item they would not enter all, they would simply ask how many and punch that in, so time is not an issue.