Saturday, October 25, 2014

Queuing theory

Dear Mona, Which Is The Fastest Check-Out Lane At The Grocery Store? | FiveThirtyEight:



"I couldn’t find much research on express lanes specifically, but one paper from Amsterdam found the reduction in wait times for express-lane customers didn’t offset the overall increase in wait times for everyone. Maybe life would be easier if the supermarket didn’t have an express lane — or, better yet, if it got rid of multiple lines altogether and had all customers join a single infinitely sprawling line where there were no winners and losers. That might sound nightmarish, but the math actually suggests it would be anything but."


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