Shared vs Separate Checkout Lines Simulation

Archived study

Simulates shared and separate queues with the same customer arrivals and service times at three counters. The archive compares average waits and the slowest-customer tail under several fictional scenarios.

Interpretation and limits

The recorded summaries favor pooling on scenario averages, but some individual runs do not. The conversation's broad claim that one line is always faster should not be interpreted as a universal result.

Package and provenance

The original .science export and matching poster are preserved byte-for-byte from the upstream case. The package contains the conversation, session metadata, and the resources inventoried in its internal manifest. This introduction summarizes the archived record; the research, external sources, and model evaluations were not rerun for this import.