It's just before 06:00 on a Friday morning and on a busy central London street a queue is growing by the second. It's dark and chilly, but I'm told the people at the front of this line have been here ...

Queuing techniques are systems put in place to serve customers in an orderly manner. Queuing techniques prevent chaos in customer service by ensuring the company can serve one at a time, on an ...

Queuing theory is the mathematical analysis of waiting in line. The line might involve data waiting for processing, equipment parts waiting in an assembly line or people waiting in line at various ...

HARARE, ZIMBABWE — We have been waiting for bread for nearly two hours in a rubbish-strewn lane behind a supermarket. It is midmorning, the sun already blazing down on the 50 or so people in line, ...

Are checkout lines slowing you down this holiday season? With some simple queueing theory stores could could make lines more efficient, saving themselves money, and ...

Apple is releasing its latest iteration of the iPhone (iPhone 15) in store on September 22nd. Now, think of an Apple Store on that day and you can already picture the scene. Hundreds of people all ...

The British love to queue, but online supermarket delivery firm Ocado has pushed this love to its limit. Shoppers were shocked this morning to be told as they attempted to pay for their wares: “You ...