What is the English term for this?

[nq:1]Is there a word in English for the separator that we put on the conveyor belt at the grocery store ... from its readers and the response was overwhelming. They've taken the best ones and are now polling for a winner.)[/nq]
I think if I had to refer to it, I'd call it a "divider".

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[nq:1]Is there a word in English for the separator that we put on the conveyor belt at the grocery store to distinguish our food items from the next customer's?[/nq]
Quality goods precursor / inferior goods terminator.

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[nq:1]Is there a word in English for the separator that we put on the conveyor belt at the grocery store to distinguish our food items from the next customer's?[/nq]
Sorry: pressed the Post button too soon. The term I mentioned refers to the separator preceding our purchases.
Nigel

[nq:2]Is there a word in English for the separator that ... store to distinguish our food items from the next customer's?[/nq]
[nq:1]Quality goods precursor / inferior goods terminator.[/nq]
Reminds me of a late-1970s TV advert in Edmonton, Alberta that always amused me: a local moving company proudly boasted that all goods were kept separate: "Nobody else's stuff mixed in with your valued

[nq:2]Is there a word in English for the separator that ... store to distinguish our food items from the next customer's?[/nq]
[nq:1]Sorry: pressed the Post button too soon. The term I mentioned refers to the separator preceding our purchases.[/nq]
I just call it the bar.
And the movable bar attached to the slider ramp that the checker flops back and forth to enable the bagger to finis

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[nq:1]Is there a word in English for the separator that we put on the conveyor belt at the grocery store ... from its readers and the response was overwhelming. They've taken the best ones and are now polling for a winner.)[/nq]
I've always referred to them by the words printed on them. So the English name is "the next-customer" and t

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[nq:1]Is there a word in English for the separator that we put on the conveyor belt at the grocery store ... from its readers and the response was overwhelming. They've taken the best ones and are now polling for a winner.)[/nq]
Depending on the design, it's a billyclub...when my parents separated, my grandfather recommended that my mother get one and keep it in the

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[nq:2]Is there a word in English for the separator that ... the best ones and are now polling for a winner.)[/nq]
[nq:1]Depending on the design, it's a billyclub...when my parents separated, my grandfather recommended that my mother get one and keep it in the car to cudgel anyone who tried to molest her..[/nq]
They have them in a club store that I fre

[nq:1]I suspect that, if I worked in a grocery or other such store, I wouldhave a more technical name for it. I don't even know anyone who has sucha job. Which may give an inkling of my age, or of my prosperity.[/nq]
Well then, here's a little project for sci.lang contributors (despite our sheltered lives, most of us must go occasionally to a supermarket or grocery). Use your best linguistic f

Or, for a more reliable result: "There aren't enough of these things here could you ask the person at the next checkout to lend us one of theirs?" Then listen to the dialogue.
Nigel
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