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The ones I'm referring to are in Manhattan and Philadelphia.

If you're ever in downtown San Francisco, half the TJ store is the line when it's a little crowded!

It's absurd. Works pretty well though!

For the record, it's the only TJ's in SF that does this. And I agree, it works well given how much traffic it gets.

Same design in the downtown Boston branch. Line snakes through entire store with lots of opportunity to pick up things along the way.

It might be a SF thing or downtown thing, where there isn’t room for multiple lines.

None of the other SF stores are single line.

Same. VA / WI