On the days before holidays, every line in the store but the muslim one will be 6 deep with customers buying alcohol. Again, unhappy customers.
Since muslims will gravitate to the muslim checker, customer perception may be that this is a muslim-only line. You guessed it - unhappy customers.
You run into Wegmans to buy a six pack before the big game. As you approach the registers you realize they are all packed with shoppers, but the little muslim girl has no customers at all. The game starts in 5 minutes. Are you happy or mad as hell?
From a management perspective: You have 15 full time employee checkers, 14 of whom will checkout everything, & one who refuses to check certain items, & their list grows daily as they realize how many products (50, 100, or more?) have alcohol or pork products in them. Which employees are keepers, & which would you fire? How will you resolve the conflict when a customer insists they have no pork or alcohol, but the checker insists a certain product contains one or both? Will you publicly humiliate the customer, the employee, yourself, or all of the above?
And what about the Hindu clerk who has a religious aversion to beef? Or the Vegan who refuses to handle any meat? Has Wegmans heard of Equal Protection or Discrimination or the Holder Justice Dept.? I smell meat, & a lawsuit.
Here's another for your amusement: You, the manager, bought a truckload of pork ribs to sell on 4th July weekend. You stand to make a nice profit if you can sell most of the ribs. But when customers enter the very busy store, they realize that if they just skip the ribs, or leave them on the candy isle, they can join the much shorter muslim line & checkout quicker. So, they leave the ribs & get the chicken instead. How's that muslim only line working out for you?
If you think about these scenarios, you realize Wegmans cannot succeed with this policy. The grocery business is highly competitive & very customer conscious. Angering customers with what amounts to religiously designated checkout lines is not a formula for success. Forcing customers to memorize an ever growing list of muslim banned products ain't gonna happen. Denying a customer the use of an empty checkout line because they are buying bologna or mouthwash is gonna infuriate busy customers. The result will be constant conflict & lower revenue.
Since times are tough no one is in there pushing around store managers ~ everybody will check out anything you want to buy.
Like Mr. Hussein across the way says, the prohibition is on eating pork, not on handling it.
I suspect the other poster from NY is correct ~ the clerk (probably a young woman) is underage for ringing up beer and wine.
The other half of the equation is common here too ~ they'll take a newbie and put up a sign "NO MEAT SALES" ~ which has to do with breaking in the cashier ~ didn't they used to call that ON THE JOB TRAINING?
First the drygoods with barcodes, then the items sold by weight, and that'd include fresh meat and veggies.
Next week she'll be handling pork snouts without a whimper.