I don’t know why they don’t always have someone doing that. It speeds everything up so much

A few months ago I was at a Costco in Carlsbad (near San Diego), long line and one person was scanning everyone's items which made checkout go faster and smoothly.

Bell_curve

That had never occurred to me but it's a great idea. It could even be as simple as giving the baggers scanning guns and having them parallel scanning the easy stuff.