Question: The site manager is planning a different operational process for the in-store shoppers. Instead of having a shopper check out one order at a time,

The site manager is planning a different operational process for the in-store shoppers. Instead of having a shopper check out one order at a time, they will now shop for two customer orders, and then proceed to check out both orders. In this way, the time for picking items in one order remain the same ( 25 minutes on average). However, the time spent on checkout and moving items to the staging area is longer (18 minutes in total for two orders). With 11 in-store shoppers, what will be the capacity of the in-store shoppers? Provide your answer in orders/hour. Note: 1. Do not round your intermediate numbers (in case they are not integers, you may keep them as a fractional number). Round your final answer to 2 decimal places. 2. Hint: To calculate the capacity, you may first think about the time for processing every two orders. How does that convert to the capacity? Note that if the time required for completing two orders is 10 minutes, the capacity would be 1/102 orders/minute (why?). 3. Please not that the model of batching up two orders is applicable in this question only. In subsequent questions, we always consider the model in question 1 (i.e., no batching of orders when the shopper checks out at the cashier)
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