Originally Posted by
vanillabean
In a grocery line, I put a checkout divider after my items. It’s the thing to do, the kind of social glue that makes for a nice day. And if I have thirty items and the one behind me has two, it doesn’t make me any smaller by letting the person go ahead of me. When using a basket, of course you stack it on the floor after emptying. And I have never pictured it to be a store clerk responsibility. The same mostly for security screening, so I’m with OP.
To use your analogy, you are putting your grocery bin away pre-security. Further using your grocery analogy... after you have "cleared checkout", do you go back and put the bin away... or do you grab your bags as quickly as you can so the next person is not delayed?