{"id":2717,"date":"2012-03-13T09:57:33","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T16:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/?p=2717"},"modified":"2012-05-08T16:29:02","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T23:29:02","slug":"decisionmaking-and-the-grocery-checkout-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/2012\/03\/decisionmaking-and-the-grocery-checkout-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Decisionmaking and the Grocery Checkout Line"},"content":{"rendered":"
This entry is part 9 of 9 in the series Decision Making<\/a><\/div>

We were discussing situation and influences on our decision making processes.\u00a0 One that I have not brought up yet is the cost of getting it wrong.\u00a0 I always get in the wrong line at the grocery store.\u00a0 I try to get it right, but always seem to pick the wrong line that ends up taking longer to get through.<\/p>\n

Decisions, and getting them right, can be effected by the impact of getting it wrong.\u00a0 Bigger decisions can cause people to become skittish in making a decision.\u00a0 This can delay action and cause even more impact that making a bad call.<\/p>\n

Small decisions are easier to make \u2013 everyone would agree with that.\u00a0 Quick decisions on a day-to-day basis are part of a CAD Managers job.\u00a0 They need to make a choice and get things moving.\u00a0 It becomes almost second nature to them.\u00a0 Many have learned from good and bad decisions what it takes to move quickly and make a good choice.<\/p>\n

But when the decisions get bigger, the choices get tougher to make.\u00a0 Get it right and you will see everyone else get happy and you will look great.\u00a0 Everyone can join in and reap the benefits of a good decision.\u00a0 Get it wrong and your stand alone.\u00a0 You will take the blame.\u00a0 You will be impacted the most.<\/p>\n

So you can see that when the impact of a decision grows in scope, it gets harder to actually define the direction to move.\u00a0 You freeze with indecision and shiver at the thought of making the wrong call.<\/p>\n

The weight of making a bad decision can stall even the best decision makers.<\/p>\n

Here is one thing that I can suggest you keep in mind when the impact of\u00a0 your decision starts looming in your mind.<\/p>\n

Do not let the impact of past decisions that went sour influence your current decision process.\u00a0 In other words, don\u2019t let a negative yesterday impact moving to a better tomorrow.<\/p>\n

Research has been done that took into account a series of decision.\u00a0 The decisions were structured so that the outcome provided a negative impact even when the decision was sound.\u00a0 It was a good choice gone badly.\u00a0 The persons in the test group were give the option to switch a decision after it was made based on the immediate outcome of the decision even when the data supported it as a good choice.\u00a0 The test groups switched based on impact not on sound judgment.\u00a0 They took into account the short-term outcome and switched decisions when the option was given.<\/p>\n

The Grocery Line<\/p>\n

Think of it like selecting a line to join at the checkout stands in the grocery store.\u00a0 I always seem to pick the wrong one.\u00a0 I look ahead and guess which line will move quicker based on number of items in the shopping cart, the amount of kids someone may have with them, the mobility of the persons in front of me, the type of items and quantity of each.\u00a0\u00a0 I make my choice and then the person in front of me need three item price checks and my line slows to a crawl.<\/p>\n

The problem is that the grocery store has retained an outdated method of checking people out that has not changed since the five and dime stores of the 1920\u2019s.\u00a0 The reason is that most shoppers want to feel like they are making an impact even though statistically they have very little to bear on changing their chances of choosing the right line.<\/p>\n

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It is explained in this easy to understand video – “Why the other line is likely to move faster”
\nhttp:\/\/youtu.be\/F5Ri_HhziI0<\/a><\/p>\n

So as the video points out, the best lines are made up like Old Navy or others that use a single queue to feed multiple registers.\u00a0 It also explains why the other lines seem to move faster.<\/p>\n

Back to my point\u2026<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t let the impact of a decision weigh so heavily on your mind that you freeze up.<\/p>\n
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This entry is part 9 of 9 in the series Decision Making<\/a><\/div>

We were discussing situation and influences on our decision making processes.\u00a0 One that I have not brought up yet is the cost of getting it wrong.\u00a0 I always get in the wrong line at the grocery store.\u00a0 I try to get it right, but always seem to pick the wrong line that ends up taking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"series":[69],"class_list":["post-2717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cad-management","series-decision-making"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2717"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2766,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2717\/revisions\/2766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2717"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}