When shopping in supermarkets, you usually get stuck in the check-out line. Usually people look for lines that are shorter than others for faster transaction. But I learned from our economics class that it is better to get into the nearest line than to look for a shorter line because it is all the same. It has something to do with people being rational so those shoppers in the different lines before you are already equalizing the length of lines and if by chance there is a shorter line but people are not filling it up then they must know something that you do not know, like the cashier is slow or something is wrong with that cashier’s POS system, it’s not working properly. So next time I go grocery shopping, I will just get into the nearest line and not try to lug my groceries around looking for a shorter queue.
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