[Zeke]

First of all, cool that your HD has the single line system. The only place besides banks that do that here is Harbor Freight.

Well, I agree that the folks in line should have rushed the cashier to force them to not start the process to check out the scammer. This in turn would have gotten security's or management's attention.

Thom, if you were last in line there was no skin in the game but nevertheless, I am prone to yell out loudly when I see an inequity such as this. Disruption is effective sometimes. And I've done that several times.

The one incident that comes to mind is the shopper parked next to the handicapped parking space and after unloading their cart, shoves it square into the center of the HC space. When I saw this at about 30 feet I yelled out for the whole lot to hear, "What, you gonna let the handicapped person get out and move that for you?"

Got a few laughs actually, but the jerk just got in his car and left. I, of course, moved the cart to the rack.

Edit: Told my wife about this thread and she told me a story about being in a line at some store that used the conveyor belt (not grocery). She's got a couple items that she just placed on the belt when the end cleared when the Asian lady behind her rams her lightly with her cart and while reaching around my wife starts to place her siht on the belt as it inched forward — no bar separating the purchases. So, wife turns around and says loud enough for all to hear, "And am I supposed to pay for your things too?" She says some of the people in line began to clap. That's all of 115 pounds of feisty at work.