checkout counter

“At the checkout counter the cashier surveyed with undisguised curiosity the ten cans of red salmon, six cans of crabmeat, five frozen lobster tails, eight cans of boned chicken, and two packages of frozen jumbo shrimp.”

The Cat Who Moved A Mountain

“Customers in Saunders’s grocery entered through a turnstile at one end of the store, picked up wire baskets, and, following a predetermined route between rows of shelves, exited through a checkout counter at the other end.”

Simon & Schuster: Makeshift Metropolis