Sentences with phrase «someone waiting in line»

On a recent Friday morning in November, about 200 North Vancouver shoppers waited in line for a sleek new tech store

Think of it: if you enjoyed getting in a cramped space for hours after waiting in line, being patted down, and contributing to your kids» worlds flooding and pollution, would you need the illusion of sitting still for so long being enjoyable?

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With the proliferation of on - demand apps, there is virtually no need to wait in lines or even to leave your house if you're that much of a homebody.

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He has all the clients he can handle, with potential clients waiting in line to hire him.

The 120 teens waiting in line for Singh are predominantly girls; they pass the time clutching Lilly Singh fan art and using their smartphones to primp for their long - awaited selfies with her.

(You have to go to the store and wait in line to buy the darn stuff, and then there's all that unwrapping.)

The majority of study participants reported that it's all good, fine and kosher with them (well, technically «generally OK») to use a cell phone when walking down the street, riding public transit and waiting in line.

New authors have a dream of arriving at a bookstore to an adoring crowd waiting in a line that stretches out the building, down the side walk and around the corner.

«I surveyed people last year who waited in line for a promotion.

Remember, your next client, deal or referral partner can come from striking up a simple conversation while waiting in line at a store or standing on the subway.

This struggle reminds me of people just waiting in line at the grocery store, even though there's an empty line one or two lanes over that they could have accessed, if only they had stayed focused, rather than drifting away in la - la land.

She flew to Miami that next day, waited in line to get a passport and flew back to Jacksonville.

He proposed his baristas start it, while you're waiting in line for your grande skinny vanilla latte.

Each quiz can be completed in just a few minutes, making it the perfect time - waster during your morning commute or while you're waiting in line at the grocery store.

On the one hand, this sounds great for anyone who hates waiting in line and wants more than a convenience store.

That is aimed at addressing a long time irritant — lengthy waits in line — but perhaps just as importantly, to give shoppers more reason to use the Walmart app, a key tool in the discounter's battle with Amazon.com (amzn).

But it's still too early to tell whether it'll mirror the Nintendo Wii's early days in 2006, when people waited in line every weekend for the small number of consoles available.

After spending an hour daily waiting in lines at Apple's cafés on the 16,000 - person Cupertino, California campus, he pitched an app - based delivery and pre-order system to senior management.

«When you're waiting in line at the airport or you're in a taxicab.

What if you had a pizza store with 100 customers outside waiting in line, getting angry, fighting, threatening?

Some customers waited in line for about three hours to purchase cannabis legally at $ 64.90 for an eighth of an ounce.

Ever ordered a coffee from your phone and had to wait in line to pick it up?

Waiting in line at Starbucks, delayed trains, traffic, deadlines, proposals, friends, family, and many other things can all be a form of stress.

Those very expensive lifts, which reduced a skier's time spent waiting in line, drew patrons away from the neighbouring Whistler Mountain with its rickety lifts from the 1960s and»70s.

«Ambient scent may lead to an enhanced subjective experience for retail shoppers... the time consumers spend examining merchandise, waiting in lines, or waiting for help may be made to seem shorter than it actually is by introducing ambient scent into the environment,» the study read.

The folks at the Transportation Security Administration have a tough job, but that doesn't make it more pleasant for those of us waiting in line.

«We are a performance - based company driven through the lens of humanity,» Schultz told the cheering crowd of shareholders and employees who had waited in line for hours to hear the Starbucks leader speak.

People wait in line to play «Call of Duty, Infinite Warfare» at the Paris Games Week show last October.

Within a month, they pounced with commercials mocking people who waited in lines for new Apple products.

One traveler told the station that two people passed out waiting in line.

You have to wait in line in the facility to get your day pass, then about 5 minutes later the heavy metal doors are opened, and out you go.

I can recall waiting in line with my late father for hours to get a tank full of gas because shortages were so widespread that refineries around the country sat idle.

That means that passengers could easily spend longer waiting in line at immigration than in flight, if the usual experience of international travel is anything to go by.

After waiting in line for an hour to apply, he spotted the manager Jack Kelly, and went right up to him, shaking his hand and saying: «I just want you to know that I waited in line for the last hour to submit my application because I really want to work here,» he wrote.

It allows customers to place their order before arriving at their local outpost, and pick it up at a designated counter without having to wait in line.

They contend that shipping food from warehouses straight to homes is more efficient than shipping to a physical store and then expecting consumers to take a trip to the store, deal with the crowds, wait in line, and buy goods that could be purchased online.

Remember the last time you went into a grocery store and waited in line behind a woman who kept fishing through her purse for the right coupons?

For anyone who travels for business, it may not be too surprising that your Canadian colleagues say their biggest pet peeves include expense reporting and waiting in line.

They're scanning your blog content while waiting in line to order their coffee, commuting to work in the morning or downing mouthfuls of lunch at their desks.

As a result of these changes, entrepreneurs and established companies can spend time building their businesses and hiring instead of filling out forms and waiting in line.

Costco customers wait in line for gas at a Costco gas station in Santa Clara, Calif., Friday, May 27, 2011.

Whether it's a phone, tablet or wearable device, people are buying things and interacting with brands while they're on the go — walking to the car, waiting in line or boarding a plane.»

Rather than finding a Starbucks and waiting in line for ten minutes, you can click three buttons and have your coffee delivered to you directly.

About 10 people wait in line for one of four change rooms tucked away at the back of the store.

«Basically every mall in China has this store,» says Vanessa Chen, a 30 - year - old office assistant waiting in line at Pickering Town Centre on Miniso's opening day.

He recommends similar mini meditations that literally everyone has time for, including ones you can do while waiting in line at Starbucks or driving to work.

Smartphones are clearly time sucks, but we also tend to view them as overall productivity boosters - think of how you can check your email while you're waiting in line at the grocery store, call a cab with a couple of clicks, or Google that one key piece of information in an instant.

Shabnam Malek, a 44 - year - old lawyer and mother of three, waited in line for a half hour for Apothecarium to open its doors in San Francisco.