1x6+2x4+3x7+4x5=12?

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

I also got 55. Go me.

It's never occurred to me to count multiples of the same item as one item for purposes of checking out in the express lane. I guess I'm just weird like that.

[Skeksin]

Well dang! I only had 42.....

[MannersMakethMan]

Well dang! I only had 42.....

Still too many for a 12 items or less lane

[Becks]

I also did the math in the title before I looked at the thread...and got 55.

If I were that teller I would have refused and told her to go to another register.

Some places won't let the cashiers do that.

Trust me.

[Primer]

Everybody who got 55, would you please come explain to my students how you got it? They won't listen to me when I try to explain Oder of Operations Agreement!

<Primer: frustrated math teacher>

[MannersMakethMan]

Let's see... one 6 pack + half a 4x4 + 3 lucky sevens + 5 4-packs in celebration = one very good night.

1 x 8 x 7 x 11 x 5 = A hell of a big number of days to be spent in detention for not knowing your operation orders [3080, or just under 8 and a half years]

Might give them something to think about...

[Kyree]

It makes sense though. In terms of scanning only, you can probably scan the barcode of 459034908349034 of the same item once, use a quantity key, and the register will do the math just as fast, BUT your items take up way more room on the belt, and it takes ages to pack, and so on.

Only works if you have a quantity key At my grocery store, there is no quantity key. You ring everything up as one item.

[Chromatix]

My parents used to pick up a two-dozen tray of dog-food tins at a time. The tray made it easier to carry, and the supermarket we used at the time had a quantity system.

[driftwolf]

Let me guess. If the cashier had kicked her over to another line, and she had complained, it's the cashier who would have been reprimanded?