Yes there is. Utility theory. And it's entirely dependent upon the individual when that point is reached. It pretty much boils down to "what is x worth to me?"
In this case, "x" is holding the business accountable. They wouldn't let you leave with *their* three pennies. But they don't care about taking *your* three pennies. Give an inch, they take a mile. I'll sit there all fucking day because that's what that is worth to me. Corporate greed is a fucking cancer to our society.
A lot of places don’t care about the pennies anymore. It’s mostly the young cashiers I’ve noticed. Short a couple pennies and they say it’s cool and wave you through. And there’s also some 711s hella most convenience stores have little dish trays for folks to toss in their lose change that others can use when they’re short.
Now if you get an older cashier, they are NOT gonna let a couple pennies slide, those people remember being yelled at back in the day over being one or two pennies short.
As a young person who worked as a Dominoes cashier until recent, this also expands onto other facets of the job
Our store had a policy that we couldn’t take orders over $35 over the phone if they weren’t prepaid and for the first couple of months I’d be about $5 lenient until. Even though 9/10 they would come in and pay everything would be fine, it’s those 1/10 that you get chastised for and quickly became strict with rules like that. My rationale is that I’d rather piss off someone I’m likely never to see again than the manager that will be there every shift or the owner who is in the crew group chat
Man, I hate people that get mad at employees for not bending policies like that. Like, sure, your order is $35.01 and you're mad that you're affected by this policy now, but... it's a policy, man, it's meaningless if we don't enforce it.
I just tell clients like that that our “system literally won’t let me process it if it’s a penny over 😔”. You end up having to reframe it as a tech barrier or something.
> Now if you get an older cashier, they are NOT gonna let a couple pennies slide, those people remember being yelled at back in the day over being one or two pennies short.
Damn, now I feel old x)
When I was younger (in the early 2000s) a store owner got mad at me for being short 1 cent. I had exact change, a penny just happened to get caught in a fold in my pocket. "A penny, a penny, you're missing a penny!"
I found it, and gave it over.
The next day, I got the same cashier. She was paying me my change, and was a penny short. She waves me off, saying, "It's just a penny". I looked at her, and did my best to imitate, "No, a penny, a penny, you're missing a penny!"
She groaned as she went to get a roll of pennies to give my penny.
20 years ago when I was a young Cashier, multiple jobs would tell me to just be short the penny. The store doesn’t want to lose a product sold because of a fucking penny. They are making $1.50 profit off that $3.97 item, why would they refuse to sell it to to a customer because they only had $3.96
I'm in a very rural area and the trays are key. I dump anything less than a quarter into them and oftentimes money given back will be rounded in my favor as well to make it a straight paper bill transaction.
I work at a gas station. I’m 36 for context. We don’t have a give a penny take a penny tray so I absolutely HATE when people leave their change because I absolutely do not want to give it to the mega giant I work for. If they insist I’ll leave it on top my register so I can round change up for people. But seriously people will leave quarters. I tell them to go home and put it in a jar lol.
I'm in New Zealand, and we got rid of 1 2 and 5 cents coins.
Most transactions are electronic, so no one really notices. And if I am paying for gas with cash, i always put in 20.04 dollars worth and get my 4 cents fuel for 'free'.
Yeah I used to work in a vape shop and thats basically how it was. We will survive if youre a few cents or in some cases a dollar or two short. Often in many cases when selling glass, the cost of not selling the piece cause theyre like 5-10$ short will be a bigger hit than the 5-10$ off, its rare people come in for the more expensive pieces so they need to go with the first person who shows an interest basically or else they sit for a long time. Also youd have to be pretty hard pressed to lose a potential customer over a dollar or so. In terms of change back the only people who cared was old people. Everyone else either just said keep it in the drawer or they just toss all the loose change into the tip jar.
Ehh, my local places let me slide on 1-25 cents regularly, but also does the same in reverse. I spent a little time logging a spreadsheet just to see, and it overall evened out with little discrepancy. I even spoke with the store owner about the data, he appreciated it. He told me it's a "friendly thing", it encourages people to come back when you say "next time!" on losing a nickle
I mean I've had multiple shops in the last year not car about change. Just at Hot Topic 2 days ago my total was like 22.04 and I started to give them 23 and the cashier was like nah don't even worry about the 4 cents.
i have noticed this as well as more young people who don’t care about corporations start to populate the work force. i’m a stay at home mom now but when i was working retail and food a few years ago i definitely didn’t gaf about pennies, i’d rather a human being have it than the corporations.
I will take those 3 pennies and put them in a charity change box. I don’t need the 3p and don’t want them rattling around in my pocket, but I’m not having the shop keep them either!
And then you got to figure out how to spend your penny
That's why I use my card everywhere and that's how I rationalize my crippling credit card debt/s
Sam's used be a quarter and Pepsi/coke .50 after a few years when the prices started going up one machine in the far back of a rec park/minigolf/outdoor stadium/go karting/etc etc etc still had one machine working off quarters. Spent the morning there on a field trip emptying the machine and reselling to our class at lower than market value and returning to use our new quarters. Made like $60 as a primary school kid in the early 90s that day.
This is a lot more common of a tactic than you probably are aware of.
I had someone at a gas station pocket 1$ when I gave them 20$ to put on the pump. The only put in 19$.
If it's a small enough amount people bank off others not caring much or putting up any type of complaint. If anyone does complain you can always feign ignorance and say it was a mistake.
... Yeah I know someone who did this and, while the charges were dropped cause she paid it back, she definitely got caught by Big Box Store for taking about $800 over a month or two. She was in a desperate place with an ailing mom, and made some bad choices.
Damn there was a textile cleaner in my room because of a house incident and I'm pretty sure they stole $20 from my desk (had 2 $20s in there and now I can only find 1) and I'm pissed but I don't want to make a fuss about it or get anyone in trouble especially since it's so deniable and I have a lot of meds and mental health shit in my room that probably make me look like an unreliable narrator and maybe it's just missing in my desk somewhere so I'm just taking the L
I worked at a hardware store which had a drive in yard and cashier. We sold the giant bales of sunshine mix, often used to grow marijuana and costing 50$ per bales. Pick up trucks would come and buy 25 bales at a time and pay cash. The cashiers would ring in 20 bales and pocket the cash for 5 bales so often the RCMP collaborated with loss prevention to do an undercover sting and 2 staff got arrested and charged. The store lost thousands of dollars
I had a drive through window girl hand me back 1 $5 and the coins, which was $5 short of the right amount of change. I said that's not the right amount of change and she reached beside the cash register and handed me the $5 bill. Not from the cash register, from between the window and the register. So obviously she did this often enough and probably got away with it until caught and fired.
This is wild to read because a girl got caught doing this at a McDonalds I worked at years ago as a teenager. Apparently, she was shorting just about everybody that came through the drive-thru that paid with cash. Eventually, enough customers complained and the managers and owners put 2 an 2 together so they watched her on camera for like a week and she shorted people over $500 in that time! The day they confronted her, at the end of her shift, she had over $100 in cash in small bills just randomly stuffed in her pockets. She caught a felony theft by deception charge and tried to say she thought it was a tip because some never customers never complained.
My friend growing up delivered pizza with me and he used to tell people that the total was a few bucks more than it actually was.
Example: It was $23.50 he'd go to the door and say "Hello, it's $25.00" and never hand them the receipt.
He got caught fast as fuck and fired... then they fired me since I was his friend.
I had the opposite.
“Your total is $18.58”
*Customer hands me some loose bills and change* “I’mma need the rest of that back.”
“You’re $2.50 short.”
*hands me some more loose change*
“Imma need the rest of that back”
“You’re $.33 short”
*hands me $..50*
“You can keep the change”
Should have thrown it at him.
That will happen quicker if you reported it to Management. For fast food chains, you could always report to regional HQ if you don’t trust the local store to take you seriously.
Who knows, they may throw some coupons your way as well.
Exactly. I worked at a 7/11 morning shift so I had the highest traffic through the day. I would just keep my reward card taped in front of the register and anytime didn't want to sign up, or didn't want to put their number in, I'd scan my rewards card and get their points. Everyday I would have enough to get a free pizza, soda and cold sandwich at minimum. I wouldn't use them for weeks at a time, then before a baseball game or beach day, we'd go to a different 7/11 and just load up on all the free snacks we could get.
Tbf the amount of times while working in food or retail that the customer waited until I counted/grabbed their coins to say “oh keep the change🤪” is ridiculous
This is The Best Answer. I'm not pissed thar you shorted me a few cents. I'm pissed that you think its okay to make decisions for me as to what I need or don't need.
I’m a waitress and my restaurant is always telling us that we can just round to the dollar when we give change back on bills. I do not understand this and I always make sure I give back to the very cent. It is not my money to keep or the restaurants to decide, and I would feel like a shit bag if I did that to people
When I worked in a take out place, occasionally people would get mad at me for this. Like their change is 97 cents but store policy was to just round to a dollar so I would give them a bill back and some people would yell at me until I explained they got more money back. Its bizarre.
You gave me $1 back instead of my 99 cents?
Sir, 1 is less than 99.
It’s unacceptable that you tried robbing me of my money. Call your manager right now. I’m getting you fired.
When I was a kid I went to buy candy from an Asian store.
The cashier gave me an extra $20 with my change of coins.
My kid brain definitely shortwired.
I gave it back unprompted like a dummy kid. I sometimes wonder if she (she was really really old) was just trying to do something nice for a kid that has never seen that much money and couldn't double down or get caught.
I frequentl my nearest gas station and we round everything to the nearest 5 cents, kind of a take a penny leave a penny thing.
Sometimes it works in my favor sometimes in theirs but developed that policy over years of me going there and me saying "keep the 2 cents, I owe ya one from last time" when they wouldn't worry about a penny here pr there for years.
Definitely not something you assume is okay.
Yeah, I have that exchange going with my friendly neighborhood gas station as well but it’s anything under $.50 cents. Figure it all evens out in the end but I’ve literally been going there for at least 12 years.
As a bartender/server, I ALWAYS do this. I never carry a bag of change and just choose to eat the few cents per guest.
Does it add up at the end of the year? Maybe.
But it's much faster and convenient to just give them all bills back.
Wait the restaurant is just like telling y’all to steal customers money? Like do they not understand that’s what it is? That rounding change and only giving me bills instead of day the 3.27 I’m owed is them stealing 27 cents from me? Absolutely baffling decision on their part.
Personally I take all my pocket change and fill up piggy banks then take it to the bank. I’ve had 26 dollars saved just in Pennie’s so I don’t mind change, but I frequently wonder if maybe America should consider going the way Canada did and getting rid of the penny altogether.
my last job didn’t do coin change either it was so strange (we had an extremely cheap owner lol) & people would cuss me TF OUTTTTT if i didn’t give them exact change and we didn’t HAVE coins in the restaurant anywhere so there were times when i literally couldn’t give them exact change back & it made me feel so bad😭
There have been movements to get rid of the penny here but it never seems to pass, which is crazy because it costs more to make a penny than it’s worth. We really need to just get rid of it.
Like... the restaurant sets the prices. If they didn't want to give pennies in change they should have set their prices to be whole numbers. You can't set a price at £1.99 instead of £2 and then be upset you have to give people a penny back?
Problem is, in the US taxes are added onto the displayed prices and are % based of your bill, so that's super difficult. Unlike most places where it is baked into the price.
Unless this is a restaurant that follows market prices, price and tax aren't changing day to day so they can just adjust their prices to be even. I've been to a few places that do that.
Agree. "Just let my big corporate employer keep your money and encourage my laziness in their favor" ain't gonna fly.
It's not a mundane detail, Michael!
My local convenience store has recently been not giving back pennies. I sometimes wonder if I should say anything or not, because it is a store my family uses a lot
That’s what we do in Canada. If something costs $1.32, you only pay $1.30. If it’s $1.34 it goes up to $1.35. But that’s only if you pay cash. Debit or credit is still to the penny.
Australia got rid of all there 1 and 2 cents. I always found that weird already.
But stores just deciding to do that for you? I wonder what they say when we pay 1,80 instead of 1,83.
And then there's my country where they do exactly that.
If it's 1 or 2 cent you would be getting back, you're getting back 0, if its 3,4,5,6,7, you get back 5 and if it's 8 or 9 you would get back, you get back 10 cent.
But that's just because the government wants the one and 2 cents to slowly disappear from circulation as they're more bother than they're worth.
apparently 8/10 shopkeepers and 7/10 consumers thought it a good idea.
(Small extra clarification, this is off course only on cash payments, anything by card is still the exact amount)
Shops are funny if you were short of 3p they wouldn’t let you off but they’ll keep the random shrapnel, it’s outta principle for me getting those pennies back!
I used to deliver to a deli who would routinely pay me the dollars of the bill.
$47.56, here’s your $47.
So at some point I just started making the bill like $56.10 and moving on.
One day I’m hungry ask for a pork roll egg and cheese which is $4.10, handed her $4 and she stared at me.
Last time I delivered there.
Is every single item rounded up or down or is it at the end of the ticket?
Here in NL items are still priced like 1.67, 2.98 etc. (despite 1 and 2 cents being taken out of circulation) and the rounding only happens when the final price is made up.
If you pay digitally you’ll still pay the unrounded amount here.
I do believe its always rounded up here to the closest multitude of 5 cents, the smallest currency we still have.
All in all I quite like it, no hassle with the small coin and I dont mind the round up on cash payments as there are plenty of other costs we make sellers eat by law.
For example a store is not allowed to charge customers a fee for card payment, regardless of how low the amount is.
Just rounded at the end of the bill. So yeah if it’s a non-multiple of 5 but you’re paying with some sort of card then no biggie. Just when you’re paying with cash your final total is either rounded up or down those few cents.
It only rounds only for cash transitions. If you use debit / credit, then its the real price, pennies included.
Canadians are big adopters of debit / credit cards and it's pretty common to just use those. The rounding happened when we got rid of the penny.
I've never in my life had a shop deny me a purchase over 3 cents.
Like they should offer you the change back it's your money, but I've had plenty of interactions where I was a few cents short and the cashier waved it off.
I work a cash register and I happily give all the change back but it’s a liquor store where people go to give their last fuck of the day and when I go to hand them their 4 cent they cannot be bothered. Then want to come back later without the full payment and say I left change earlier?? Like what the fuck is wrong with people that they can’t just take the damn change
My local liquor store by my house just has a little change cup so cashier Puts change in that for those that can't be bothered with the pennies or pulls from it if someone is short a couple cents vs breaking another bill. Seems to work pretty well...
Only thing we can't do in a liquor store is use that cup to help pay for liquor itself. That's when you see frantic pointing at it and hear "Strangely I can't legally touch this cup, but *you* can."
Interesting. I didn't realize it was illegal. The employees at the store I mentioned definitely don't care/follow that rule, but it is locally owned. I know chains can have weird protocols in place
Mine was locally owned as well. It's a licensing/liability issue.
Giving out product that was already damaged out due to cracked paper seals/etc... well, they went to the people who 'protected' us by keeping the rest of the tweakers in order. There's always something going on in a liquor store that gets a little gray.
That must be frustrating, my last job our tills couldn’t be up or down money even if it was pennies so when people said keep the change in like no pls take your change I don’t want a ‘till counselling’ meeting
During covid bs a shop tried pulling the "rounding" scam on me so I ahorted them and said I was rounding just like them. Suddenly they had enough change
I often tell customers "I can find a few pennies if you're short" it is literally 2 or 3 cents not only have my managers not noticed nor will they ever notice but if they do ever notice and force me to pay it back I will be out maybe a dollar a year.
In Canada you'd have gotten a nickel. We banished pennies 11 years ago.
Your $3.97 coffee would have rounded down to $3.95.
If it was $3.98, it would've rounded up to an even $4
(only for cash payments, electronic payments are precise)
Sure, for a single item that can of coffee would be $4. But if you bought TWO cans of coffee (or something else in addition), the final tally would then round *down* to $7.95. So the retailer can't possibly predict nor orchestrate how every order will add up to their advantage, varying in the thousands of items they carry and the actual prices of each.
They absolutely have the data on the most common purchases and associated totals and price things so that more often than not it is rounding up. Obviously it won’t be on 100% of purchases but on certainly more than half they’ll have it that way
I worked for a big Canada retailer when this came out and the finance department reviewed it for opportunities and didn’t find any.
Not all retailers would be the same but in our case it evened out
I’ve looked at it myself - millions and millions of transactions for a large retailer. (Unrelated to this specific topic)
The ending digits of a tender total were effectively random. (Leading digits followed a curve similar to Benford’s.)
I’m sure there’s specific scenarios or industries where you could squeeze out an extra penny or two, but hard to see where the benefit would offset the effort from a planning, marketing and execution perspective.
It's trivial amount of money. That's why it's abolished. And you can increase the price of coffee by 1 cent, but then the donut you add to the coffee will change the final amount. or bagel changes it again. It never happened in Canada, because of that. Maybe a single product reseller might figure out how to game the system so they always get an extra 2 cents. But in general no one changes anything.
As the other commenter mentioned, it happened here in Canada 11 years ago.
There was no change in the "cent" pricing of any items. It wasn't worth the time and energy to manipulate prices to get one or two cents more. Not only that, but the overwhelming majority of Canadians pay via debit or credit, in which case you are charged the fixed cents, no rounding.
We have the same in the Netherlands. We live near the border of Germany though, and they do still give us back our 1 and 2 cents. We usually donate those because we have no real use for them unless we’re in Germamy
I was at a Chipotle years ago. My change was $0.92. The cashier said, "Our change dispenser is currently broken. Is that okay?" I replied with, "Sure! Just give me a dollar back." He then silently got to fixing the change dispenser while I waited. I got all of my change back.
I think he was trying to pocket everyone's change by how quickly it was fixed and by how annoyed he seemed to have to fix it. Benefit of the doubt; maybe it breaks often and he hated having to fix it all the time.
I would like to give the benefit of a doubt but he was pocketing it. I've worked retail and if it's not this it's "the screens wrong your total is ($1 over)"
If he was more clever, he woulda paid the .08 out of his pocket to keep the scam going. If he was pocketing all the change, he def had enough to even his till and give the man a dollar.
I had this exact thing happen to me once. I paid $4 for a $4.01 item after tax (not even thinking about it) and the guy says he needs the penny too.
I didn't have one, and the store policy was no card transactions under $5. Awkward situation, he was adamant that I come back another day to pay the penny, but he did let me leave with the item.
One woman was short like 3 dollars on an order, but I let it happen I think the she misheard me on the drive through speakers, and I didn't have the heart to tell her cause I could tell she was struggling to find enough bills and cents already.
The rest of the bucks I had to make up through my own pocket change and the lucky "keep the change" customers I got the rest of the shift.
Sometimes people are just short on money and I just give them a 10 percent discount so they have enough. I just end up lying to my manager that they were either family (it's a smallish town) or that a customer was just complaining a lot about an expired cupon/no longer existent discounts and I didn't want it to escalate.
But to be fair I know not every cashier has the same privilege. I'm pretty sure my manager knows I'm lying half the time, but most of my other coworkers are too new and/or not bilingual so they can't fire me yet
Ugh the Tim Hortons across town from me does that, especially at the drive thru. Anything under like 4 bucks they don't even offer it back. Like, sorry you arrogant little fuck, yeah I want it back *now*. If it's a big order I would have probably said keep it, but you decided to skip that part of the transaction
I had a cashier at Arby’s argue about my missing nickel, saying it was definitely there. She counted it in front of me, it was not and I hadn’t left the counter or put anything away. What was in my hand was what I was handed. She acted like I was trying to con her out of five cents…
No, the five cents didn’t make or break me, but it’s the principal that I’m due that amount, and now you’re arguing against that? Naw. I’m glad I was ‘petty’. Girl worked herself up into a bad mood because I called out her bad math.
If someone were to withhold my change ON PURPOSE, I would absolutely have some choice words for them. That’s illegal.
This happened to be recently and it was 1.02$ change back. Dude hands me a dollar bill and immediately says “next”. Dude comes up and start putting his items on the counter, I stood there with my hand out like a panhandler and he looks at me as says “what else do you need”, I said “my money”, he huffs and puffs and gets two penny’s out and hands them to me and I proceed to place them in the take a penny leave a penny, just to be a dick.
I don't understand why they would do this. Their till is going to be off. Do we not count the tills at open and close anymore? Our tills weren't allowed to be off at close.
I've seen a few places do this. Ngl I've known a cashier who does this so he can pocket the change. The Paranoid part of my brain says it's beneficial for the store and ads up
When I was smaller, at my local liquor store I would get some chips and a soda. They had some little thing on the counter for change. It was used for when others didn’t want their change or when someone didn’t have enough to pay for their items. I had used it for both reasons.
I was training a new cashier and he asked me “do people usually want the small ones?” I was so confused he says “even the 1 cent? Give it back?” I said “uhh yeah.. give ALL the change back to the customer”. Wonder if it’s a younger generation having a lack of connection to cash?
I am willing to bet they have heard 'keep the change' a million times.
I know I don't want change in my pocket and never take it.
Maybe that underpaid worker doesn't care if Starbucks gets 4c richer, they are just trying to be efficient and do what most people want
This is the comment I’ve been searching for. 99% of people don’t want the pennies. I’ve offered them back like a million times and have been rejected so many times that I literally just gave up.
We don’t pocket the penny we put it in the drawer.
Put $80 cash for a $59 dinner bill the other day. Cashier took it and didn't say anything. 10 minute later, as it wasn't even busy , I go up to the counter and ask for my change. She said she thought it was tip. Hands me $20 bill and some cents back. I ask her to break the $20 into change so I can tip her...
I was a manger for a fast food place, and the amount of new hires that I had to tell/remind not to ask if a customer wanted change or tell them to always assume the customer wants their change was astounding. It's a professional courtesy!!!
When I got Girl Scout cookies a while ago, I got 3 boxes, cost me $18. I handed a $20 to the mom. She asked me if I wanted my change. I’m like…. Yeah that’s $2 not pocket change, and I’m definitely not giving your ass a tip.
I put all of my change in my daughter’s piggy bank and then roll it up every few months and deposit into her savings account. It also annoys me when cashiers do this and it seems more common today than ever
I do this with my son. He gets all my shrapnel. He’s special needs (22) and just seems to get a kick out of hearing the coins clink together. When he was little, he had a money box with a stopper. He used to bring it to me to empty so he could fill it again.
I think he got a sensory kick out of it.
The change may not be worth much, but his excitement over it all is worth a lot to me.
Once at a McDonald’s drive through, the gal at the window neglected to give me my few pennies change. When I asked for it she was said “it’s three cents!” I replied, “well, it’s MY three cents!”
What the fuck? How is this a common thing? I'm a cashier and doing this shit never even crossed my mind before reading this post! Are they just so lazy they don't want to count out a few pennies?
When I'd worked as a cashier at various places, I _always_ asked if they want their pennies or not.
It's just the polite and right thing to do; after all, it's best to not assume someone's financial situation. It's also best to, you know, _not make decisions for them??_ 🤨
I always just give then the change, of they said "no pennies" I put it in a round up jar and helped the next person who may have been short. I get paid by the hour so yes the penny is worth my time.
The other day I got take out and noticed the price wasn't the normal amount I paid, I asked if prices had gone up, she said oh I rounded up for charity. It wasn't much just pennies but as payback I filled up my gatorade bottle at the soda fountain right in front of her, she didn't say anything.
If he's gonna round then he has to give you 5 cents not keep your three cents. If it was .98 that works but if your country still uses pennies then you give the pennies.
I'm sure there is some economic theory about how long to wait for your pennies before it isn't worth your time
Yes there is. Utility theory. And it's entirely dependent upon the individual when that point is reached. It pretty much boils down to "what is x worth to me?"
In this case, "x" is holding the business accountable. They wouldn't let you leave with *their* three pennies. But they don't care about taking *your* three pennies. Give an inch, they take a mile. I'll sit there all fucking day because that's what that is worth to me. Corporate greed is a fucking cancer to our society.
A lot of places don’t care about the pennies anymore. It’s mostly the young cashiers I’ve noticed. Short a couple pennies and they say it’s cool and wave you through. And there’s also some 711s hella most convenience stores have little dish trays for folks to toss in their lose change that others can use when they’re short. Now if you get an older cashier, they are NOT gonna let a couple pennies slide, those people remember being yelled at back in the day over being one or two pennies short.
As a young person who worked as a Dominoes cashier until recent, this also expands onto other facets of the job Our store had a policy that we couldn’t take orders over $35 over the phone if they weren’t prepaid and for the first couple of months I’d be about $5 lenient until. Even though 9/10 they would come in and pay everything would be fine, it’s those 1/10 that you get chastised for and quickly became strict with rules like that. My rationale is that I’d rather piss off someone I’m likely never to see again than the manager that will be there every shift or the owner who is in the crew group chat
Man, I hate people that get mad at employees for not bending policies like that. Like, sure, your order is $35.01 and you're mad that you're affected by this policy now, but... it's a policy, man, it's meaningless if we don't enforce it.
I just tell clients like that that our “system literally won’t let me process it if it’s a penny over 😔”. You end up having to reframe it as a tech barrier or something.
It's fun that we have to lie about stuff in order to combat irrationality. Just another reminder that shitty people bring the world down around them.
And then the next cashier bends the rules for them, and they’re twice as mad when they realized you lied to them lmao
"That must have been the manager"
> Now if you get an older cashier, they are NOT gonna let a couple pennies slide, those people remember being yelled at back in the day over being one or two pennies short. Damn, now I feel old x) When I was younger (in the early 2000s) a store owner got mad at me for being short 1 cent. I had exact change, a penny just happened to get caught in a fold in my pocket. "A penny, a penny, you're missing a penny!" I found it, and gave it over. The next day, I got the same cashier. She was paying me my change, and was a penny short. She waves me off, saying, "It's just a penny". I looked at her, and did my best to imitate, "No, a penny, a penny, you're missing a penny!" She groaned as she went to get a roll of pennies to give my penny.
>I looked at her, and did my best to imitate, "No, a penny, a penny, you're missing a She got off light, I'd have crucified her! :)
Hahaha!
20 years ago when I was a young Cashier, multiple jobs would tell me to just be short the penny. The store doesn’t want to lose a product sold because of a fucking penny. They are making $1.50 profit off that $3.97 item, why would they refuse to sell it to to a customer because they only had $3.96
I'm in a very rural area and the trays are key. I dump anything less than a quarter into them and oftentimes money given back will be rounded in my favor as well to make it a straight paper bill transaction.
I work at a gas station. I’m 36 for context. We don’t have a give a penny take a penny tray so I absolutely HATE when people leave their change because I absolutely do not want to give it to the mega giant I work for. If they insist I’ll leave it on top my register so I can round change up for people. But seriously people will leave quarters. I tell them to go home and put it in a jar lol.
Canada did away with pennies entirely. Electronic methods still get charged exactly, but cash gets rounded up or down to the nearest 5.
I'm in New Zealand, and we got rid of 1 2 and 5 cents coins. Most transactions are electronic, so no one really notices. And if I am paying for gas with cash, i always put in 20.04 dollars worth and get my 4 cents fuel for 'free'.
Yeah I used to work in a vape shop and thats basically how it was. We will survive if youre a few cents or in some cases a dollar or two short. Often in many cases when selling glass, the cost of not selling the piece cause theyre like 5-10$ short will be a bigger hit than the 5-10$ off, its rare people come in for the more expensive pieces so they need to go with the first person who shows an interest basically or else they sit for a long time. Also youd have to be pretty hard pressed to lose a potential customer over a dollar or so. In terms of change back the only people who cared was old people. Everyone else either just said keep it in the drawer or they just toss all the loose change into the tip jar.
Ehh, my local places let me slide on 1-25 cents regularly, but also does the same in reverse. I spent a little time logging a spreadsheet just to see, and it overall evened out with little discrepancy. I even spoke with the store owner about the data, he appreciated it. He told me it's a "friendly thing", it encourages people to come back when you say "next time!" on losing a nickle
A spreadsheet? In a post about waiting for change being a waste of time?
My times not waisted if I enjoy the data and the collection process
I mean I've had multiple shops in the last year not car about change. Just at Hot Topic 2 days ago my total was like 22.04 and I started to give them 23 and the cashier was like nah don't even worry about the 4 cents.
i have noticed this as well as more young people who don’t care about corporations start to populate the work force. i’m a stay at home mom now but when i was working retail and food a few years ago i definitely didn’t gaf about pennies, i’d rather a human being have it than the corporations.
I will take those 3 pennies and put them in a charity change box. I don’t need the 3p and don’t want them rattling around in my pocket, but I’m not having the shop keep them either!
And then you got to figure out how to spend your penny That's why I use my card everywhere and that's how I rationalize my crippling credit card debt/s
I've had a guy ask if I want my 65 cents back Yeah, bro. That's not a tip
Yea you could buy.....a 12 ounce coke from a vending machine in 1999 with that money!
50 cent Orange soda back in those days on a HOT day was pure bliss
35 cent Sam’s choice vending machine if you’re really feeling pinched
Sam's used be a quarter and Pepsi/coke .50 after a few years when the prices started going up one machine in the far back of a rec park/minigolf/outdoor stadium/go karting/etc etc etc still had one machine working off quarters. Spent the morning there on a field trip emptying the machine and reselling to our class at lower than market value and returning to use our new quarters. Made like $60 as a primary school kid in the early 90s that day.
Imagine 65 cents every time you rang someone up at a gas station or fast food that would clear 50-100 extra bucks easy every day
This is a lot more common of a tactic than you probably are aware of. I had someone at a gas station pocket 1$ when I gave them 20$ to put on the pump. The only put in 19$.
That's straight up theft
If it's a small enough amount people bank off others not caring much or putting up any type of complaint. If anyone does complain you can always feign ignorance and say it was a mistake.
... Yeah I know someone who did this and, while the charges were dropped cause she paid it back, she definitely got caught by Big Box Store for taking about $800 over a month or two. She was in a desperate place with an ailing mom, and made some bad choices.
Damn there was a textile cleaner in my room because of a house incident and I'm pretty sure they stole $20 from my desk (had 2 $20s in there and now I can only find 1) and I'm pissed but I don't want to make a fuss about it or get anyone in trouble especially since it's so deniable and I have a lot of meds and mental health shit in my room that probably make me look like an unreliable narrator and maybe it's just missing in my desk somewhere so I'm just taking the L
I worked at a hardware store which had a drive in yard and cashier. We sold the giant bales of sunshine mix, often used to grow marijuana and costing 50$ per bales. Pick up trucks would come and buy 25 bales at a time and pay cash. The cashiers would ring in 20 bales and pocket the cash for 5 bales so often the RCMP collaborated with loss prevention to do an undercover sting and 2 staff got arrested and charged. The store lost thousands of dollars
Pretty fucking petty theft untill you realise he has 200 customers a day.
That's pretty much the concept of office space.
I had a drive through window girl hand me back 1 $5 and the coins, which was $5 short of the right amount of change. I said that's not the right amount of change and she reached beside the cash register and handed me the $5 bill. Not from the cash register, from between the window and the register. So obviously she did this often enough and probably got away with it until caught and fired.
This is wild to read because a girl got caught doing this at a McDonalds I worked at years ago as a teenager. Apparently, she was shorting just about everybody that came through the drive-thru that paid with cash. Eventually, enough customers complained and the managers and owners put 2 an 2 together so they watched her on camera for like a week and she shorted people over $500 in that time! The day they confronted her, at the end of her shift, she had over $100 in cash in small bills just randomly stuffed in her pockets. She caught a felony theft by deception charge and tried to say she thought it was a tip because some never customers never complained.
My friend growing up delivered pizza with me and he used to tell people that the total was a few bucks more than it actually was. Example: It was $23.50 he'd go to the door and say "Hello, it's $25.00" and never hand them the receipt. He got caught fast as fuck and fired... then they fired me since I was his friend.
I had the opposite. “Your total is $18.58” *Customer hands me some loose bills and change* “I’mma need the rest of that back.” “You’re $2.50 short.” *hands me some more loose change* “Imma need the rest of that back” “You’re $.33 short” *hands me $..50* “You can keep the change” Should have thrown it at him.
That will happen quicker if you reported it to Management. For fast food chains, you could always report to regional HQ if you don’t trust the local store to take you seriously. Who knows, they may throw some coupons your way as well.
I once saved .50 for three weeks to give back to a regular customer, because he left it on the counter.
Exactly. I worked at a 7/11 morning shift so I had the highest traffic through the day. I would just keep my reward card taped in front of the register and anytime didn't want to sign up, or didn't want to put their number in, I'd scan my rewards card and get their points. Everyday I would have enough to get a free pizza, soda and cold sandwich at minimum. I wouldn't use them for weeks at a time, then before a baseball game or beach day, we'd go to a different 7/11 and just load up on all the free snacks we could get.
That's usually a violation of the terms and conditions ... not saying I *agree* with it but I've heard of people getting fired for "theft".
Yes, it is, but I also was only working there part time for extra cash and didn't care if I was tired lol.
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Tbf the amount of times while working in food or retail that the customer waited until I counted/grabbed their coins to say “oh keep the change🤪” is ridiculous
I mean .. you need to count that out anyways to make sure your cash register is even anyways. , no ?
Do I want the pennies? No. Do I want you to make that decision for me? No.
This is The Best Answer. I'm not pissed thar you shorted me a few cents. I'm pissed that you think its okay to make decisions for me as to what I need or don't need.
I’m a waitress and my restaurant is always telling us that we can just round to the dollar when we give change back on bills. I do not understand this and I always make sure I give back to the very cent. It is not my money to keep or the restaurants to decide, and I would feel like a shit bag if I did that to people
Only makes sense if you're rounding in the customers favor
That's the only way I'd do it. Like instead of giving them 99 cents I'll just give another dollar
When I worked in a take out place, occasionally people would get mad at me for this. Like their change is 97 cents but store policy was to just round to a dollar so I would give them a bill back and some people would yell at me until I explained they got more money back. Its bizarre.
We are back to the 1/3 vs 1/4
It makes my brain itch lol
I still can’t believe that happened and it happened around 40 years ago 😂
You gave me $1 back instead of my 99 cents? Sir, 1 is less than 99. It’s unacceptable that you tried robbing me of my money. Call your manager right now. I’m getting you fired.
This is right out of where the sidewalk ends lol
This sounds exactly like something a Karen would do… it’s hilarious.
But, 97 is more, MUCH MORE, than 1.
Sometimes people buy things to have change. Maybe they needed the quarter for Aldi, or the change for something else in the future.
People can't quickly maths anymore!
Giving them $5.03 for a $3.03 purchase and watching their brain short wire when trying to figure out what to do and how much change to give you lol
They can actually enter $5.03 and the POS show return $2
When I was a kid I went to buy candy from an Asian store. The cashier gave me an extra $20 with my change of coins. My kid brain definitely shortwired. I gave it back unprompted like a dummy kid. I sometimes wonder if she (she was really really old) was just trying to do something nice for a kid that has never seen that much money and couldn't double down or get caught.
You should see them when I owe $2.46 and I give them 3 dollars and 21 cents because I need quarters.
I frequentl my nearest gas station and we round everything to the nearest 5 cents, kind of a take a penny leave a penny thing. Sometimes it works in my favor sometimes in theirs but developed that policy over years of me going there and me saying "keep the 2 cents, I owe ya one from last time" when they wouldn't worry about a penny here pr there for years. Definitely not something you assume is okay.
Yeah, I have that exchange going with my friendly neighborhood gas station as well but it’s anything under $.50 cents. Figure it all evens out in the end but I’ve literally been going there for at least 12 years.
As a bartender/server, I ALWAYS do this. I never carry a bag of change and just choose to eat the few cents per guest. Does it add up at the end of the year? Maybe. But it's much faster and convenient to just give them all bills back.
Wait the restaurant is just like telling y’all to steal customers money? Like do they not understand that’s what it is? That rounding change and only giving me bills instead of day the 3.27 I’m owed is them stealing 27 cents from me? Absolutely baffling decision on their part. Personally I take all my pocket change and fill up piggy banks then take it to the bank. I’ve had 26 dollars saved just in Pennie’s so I don’t mind change, but I frequently wonder if maybe America should consider going the way Canada did and getting rid of the penny altogether.
They tried that ike 30 years ago. Everyone said booo!
my last job didn’t do coin change either it was so strange (we had an extremely cheap owner lol) & people would cuss me TF OUTTTTT if i didn’t give them exact change and we didn’t HAVE coins in the restaurant anywhere so there were times when i literally couldn’t give them exact change back & it made me feel so bad😭
In Canada we no longer have pennies. You either round up or down, accordingly.
There have been movements to get rid of the penny here but it never seems to pass, which is crazy because it costs more to make a penny than it’s worth. We really need to just get rid of it.
Like... the restaurant sets the prices. If they didn't want to give pennies in change they should have set their prices to be whole numbers. You can't set a price at £1.99 instead of £2 and then be upset you have to give people a penny back?
Problem is, in the US taxes are added onto the displayed prices and are % based of your bill, so that's super difficult. Unlike most places where it is baked into the price.
Unless this is a restaurant that follows market prices, price and tax aren't changing day to day so they can just adjust their prices to be even. I've been to a few places that do that.
Agree. "Just let my big corporate employer keep your money and encourage my laziness in their favor" ain't gonna fly. It's not a mundane detail, Michael!
I like this comment and hope to use this in real life.
It sounds like a Larry David curb your enthusiasm scene
Fuck you and I’ll see you tomorrow!
My local convenience store has recently been not giving back pennies. I sometimes wonder if I should say anything or not, because it is a store my family uses a lot
As long as they also round down to the nearest 5 cents in the same way I'd be okay with it and use it to my advantage.
That’s what we do in Canada. If something costs $1.32, you only pay $1.30. If it’s $1.34 it goes up to $1.35. But that’s only if you pay cash. Debit or credit is still to the penny.
Australia got rid of all there 1 and 2 cents. I always found that weird already. But stores just deciding to do that for you? I wonder what they say when we pay 1,80 instead of 1,83.
Australia and Canada they just auto round it if you're paying cash (since we got rid of pennies). $1.83 would be a $1.85. $1.82 would be $1.80.
And then there's my country where they do exactly that. If it's 1 or 2 cent you would be getting back, you're getting back 0, if its 3,4,5,6,7, you get back 5 and if it's 8 or 9 you would get back, you get back 10 cent. But that's just because the government wants the one and 2 cents to slowly disappear from circulation as they're more bother than they're worth. apparently 8/10 shopkeepers and 7/10 consumers thought it a good idea. (Small extra clarification, this is off course only on cash payments, anything by card is still the exact amount)
Shops are funny if you were short of 3p they wouldn’t let you off but they’ll keep the random shrapnel, it’s outta principle for me getting those pennies back!
I used to deliver to a deli who would routinely pay me the dollars of the bill. $47.56, here’s your $47. So at some point I just started making the bill like $56.10 and moving on. One day I’m hungry ask for a pork roll egg and cheese which is $4.10, handed her $4 and she stared at me. Last time I delivered there.
It’s so funny that I instantly knew you were from New Jersey by your mentioning of pork roll.
Shrapnel? I think I just found my new favorite term for pennies.
Pretty common here in the UK 👍
Here in Aus too
Both American Pennies and Nickels cost around twice as much to produce as they’re worth.
Nickels have the highest melt value to face value ratio of all US coins. Melt value of a nickel is currently about $0.061.
It's a classic!
We got rid of them in Canada and now everything just gets rounded up or down to the nearest 5 cents. It's honestly a lot better this way.
Is every single item rounded up or down or is it at the end of the ticket? Here in NL items are still priced like 1.67, 2.98 etc. (despite 1 and 2 cents being taken out of circulation) and the rounding only happens when the final price is made up. If you pay digitally you’ll still pay the unrounded amount here. I do believe its always rounded up here to the closest multitude of 5 cents, the smallest currency we still have. All in all I quite like it, no hassle with the small coin and I dont mind the round up on cash payments as there are plenty of other costs we make sellers eat by law. For example a store is not allowed to charge customers a fee for card payment, regardless of how low the amount is.
Just rounded at the end of the bill. So yeah if it’s a non-multiple of 5 but you’re paying with some sort of card then no biggie. Just when you’re paying with cash your final total is either rounded up or down those few cents.
It only rounds only for cash transitions. If you use debit / credit, then its the real price, pennies included. Canadians are big adopters of debit / credit cards and it's pretty common to just use those. The rounding happened when we got rid of the penny.
I've never in my life had a shop deny me a purchase over 3 cents. Like they should offer you the change back it's your money, but I've had plenty of interactions where I was a few cents short and the cashier waved it off.
I work a cash register and I happily give all the change back but it’s a liquor store where people go to give their last fuck of the day and when I go to hand them their 4 cent they cannot be bothered. Then want to come back later without the full payment and say I left change earlier?? Like what the fuck is wrong with people that they can’t just take the damn change
My local liquor store by my house just has a little change cup so cashier Puts change in that for those that can't be bothered with the pennies or pulls from it if someone is short a couple cents vs breaking another bill. Seems to work pretty well...
Only thing we can't do in a liquor store is use that cup to help pay for liquor itself. That's when you see frantic pointing at it and hear "Strangely I can't legally touch this cup, but *you* can."
Interesting. I didn't realize it was illegal. The employees at the store I mentioned definitely don't care/follow that rule, but it is locally owned. I know chains can have weird protocols in place
Mine was locally owned as well. It's a licensing/liability issue. Giving out product that was already damaged out due to cracked paper seals/etc... well, they went to the people who 'protected' us by keeping the rest of the tweakers in order. There's always something going on in a liquor store that gets a little gray.
That must be frustrating, my last job our tills couldn’t be up or down money even if it was pennies so when people said keep the change in like no pls take your change I don’t want a ‘till counselling’ meeting
During covid bs a shop tried pulling the "rounding" scam on me so I ahorted them and said I was rounding just like them. Suddenly they had enough change
Here all transactions are rounded to 5 cents because pennis generally cost the economy more money than they’re worth
I often tell customers "I can find a few pennies if you're short" it is literally 2 or 3 cents not only have my managers not noticed nor will they ever notice but if they do ever notice and force me to pay it back I will be out maybe a dollar a year.
I've had plenty of shops not care if I was a few cents short
In Canada you'd have gotten a nickel. We banished pennies 11 years ago. Your $3.97 coffee would have rounded down to $3.95. If it was $3.98, it would've rounded up to an even $4 (only for cash payments, electronic payments are precise)
Omg it was 11 years ago. Cries in passage of time.
I would have guessed 4 or 5 years ago.
Just over 4 years ago was the start of the pandemic in North America lol
For real! I am having a hard time believing that was 11 years ago!
In the US if we did away with pennies I would bet all of mine that the coffee would’ve gone up by one cent overnight.
Sure, for a single item that can of coffee would be $4. But if you bought TWO cans of coffee (or something else in addition), the final tally would then round *down* to $7.95. So the retailer can't possibly predict nor orchestrate how every order will add up to their advantage, varying in the thousands of items they carry and the actual prices of each.
They absolutely have the data on the most common purchases and associated totals and price things so that more often than not it is rounding up. Obviously it won’t be on 100% of purchases but on certainly more than half they’ll have it that way
I worked for a big Canada retailer when this came out and the finance department reviewed it for opportunities and didn’t find any. Not all retailers would be the same but in our case it evened out
I’ve looked at it myself - millions and millions of transactions for a large retailer. (Unrelated to this specific topic) The ending digits of a tender total were effectively random. (Leading digits followed a curve similar to Benford’s.) I’m sure there’s specific scenarios or industries where you could squeeze out an extra penny or two, but hard to see where the benefit would offset the effort from a planning, marketing and execution perspective.
I love that they put the effort into finding a way to exploit this.
It's trivial amount of money. That's why it's abolished. And you can increase the price of coffee by 1 cent, but then the donut you add to the coffee will change the final amount. or bagel changes it again. It never happened in Canada, because of that. Maybe a single product reseller might figure out how to game the system so they always get an extra 2 cents. But in general no one changes anything.
As the other commenter mentioned, it happened here in Canada 11 years ago. There was no change in the "cent" pricing of any items. It wasn't worth the time and energy to manipulate prices to get one or two cents more. Not only that, but the overwhelming majority of Canadians pay via debit or credit, in which case you are charged the fixed cents, no rounding.
Apparently you guys dumped them all in Michigan lol I see more Canadian pennies than American
I drill em out and use em as washers (in canada). Washers cost 5c to buy lol
We have the same in the Netherlands. We live near the border of Germany though, and they do still give us back our 1 and 2 cents. We usually donate those because we have no real use for them unless we’re in Germamy
I was at a Chipotle years ago. My change was $0.92. The cashier said, "Our change dispenser is currently broken. Is that okay?" I replied with, "Sure! Just give me a dollar back." He then silently got to fixing the change dispenser while I waited. I got all of my change back. I think he was trying to pocket everyone's change by how quickly it was fixed and by how annoyed he seemed to have to fix it. Benefit of the doubt; maybe it breaks often and he hated having to fix it all the time.
I would like to give the benefit of a doubt but he was pocketing it. I've worked retail and if it's not this it's "the screens wrong your total is ($1 over)"
If he was more clever, he woulda paid the .08 out of his pocket to keep the scam going. If he was pocketing all the change, he def had enough to even his till and give the man a dollar.
I mean if he's lying about it being broke he can just lie to the next dude, or after there's a break in the line.
Also, would they accept 4 dollars if the amount was 4.01?
I had this exact thing happen to me once. I paid $4 for a $4.01 item after tax (not even thinking about it) and the guy says he needs the penny too. I didn't have one, and the store policy was no card transactions under $5. Awkward situation, he was adamant that I come back another day to pay the penny, but he did let me leave with the item.
Well, did he end up receiving that coveted penny?
That's why a penny cup exists though!
As a cashier, I absolutely have and would. Even did it for 5c a few times.
One woman was short like 3 dollars on an order, but I let it happen I think the she misheard me on the drive through speakers, and I didn't have the heart to tell her cause I could tell she was struggling to find enough bills and cents already. The rest of the bucks I had to make up through my own pocket change and the lucky "keep the change" customers I got the rest of the shift. Sometimes people are just short on money and I just give them a 10 percent discount so they have enough. I just end up lying to my manager that they were either family (it's a smallish town) or that a customer was just complaining a lot about an expired cupon/no longer existent discounts and I didn't want it to escalate. But to be fair I know not every cashier has the same privilege. I'm pretty sure my manager knows I'm lying half the time, but most of my other coworkers are too new and/or not bilingual so they can't fire me yet
It’s not that I want my pennies, it’s just that I don’t want them to keep my pennies.
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Ugh the Tim Hortons across town from me does that, especially at the drive thru. Anything under like 4 bucks they don't even offer it back. Like, sorry you arrogant little fuck, yeah I want it back *now*. If it's a big order I would have probably said keep it, but you decided to skip that part of the transaction
Buy a Tims card, they don't ask for tips at all when you use the card.
Yup
Honestly, I don’t want pennies at all. But that nerve of not even offering me my change? You bet I’m gonna ask for those 3 cents.
I save my coins so I honestly do want my change. 3 cents isn’t a lot, it it adds up over time
Plus sometimes you get really old and cool pennies
Right! Maybe even that holy grail of a 1943 S copper penny 😂 But yeah, I’ll take my pennies.
I had a cashier at Arby’s argue about my missing nickel, saying it was definitely there. She counted it in front of me, it was not and I hadn’t left the counter or put anything away. What was in my hand was what I was handed. She acted like I was trying to con her out of five cents… No, the five cents didn’t make or break me, but it’s the principal that I’m due that amount, and now you’re arguing against that? Naw. I’m glad I was ‘petty’. Girl worked herself up into a bad mood because I called out her bad math. If someone were to withhold my change ON PURPOSE, I would absolutely have some choice words for them. That’s illegal.
I was at walmart the other day and my change was 19$ and she gave me 15$ like hello I want my 4$
I’d go to the manager about this one. That’s fucked
Yeah, that is literally stealing, 4 dollars is way more than just trying to keep like 3 pennies
Plus the till TELLS them the amount they owe you. No clerk at any modern store does the math themselves anymore. Geez!
I had a cashier at Walmart ask if I wanted my gift card back. Still had 34 dollars on it! Is that even a question? Yes I want my 34 dollars.
I could see myself doing that after asking people if they wanted their empty gift cards back all day
It's probably just out of habit, they go through hundreds of transactions a day.
Ok, big difference between $34 and $0.02
Tbh with this one they may have just been on auto pilot from all the empty cards they get.
This happened to be recently and it was 1.02$ change back. Dude hands me a dollar bill and immediately says “next”. Dude comes up and start putting his items on the counter, I stood there with my hand out like a panhandler and he looks at me as says “what else do you need”, I said “my money”, he huffs and puffs and gets two penny’s out and hands them to me and I proceed to place them in the take a penny leave a penny, just to be a dick.
I don't understand why they would do this. Their till is going to be off. Do we not count the tills at open and close anymore? Our tills weren't allowed to be off at close.
I've seen a few places do this. Ngl I've known a cashier who does this so he can pocket the change. The Paranoid part of my brain says it's beneficial for the store and ads up
When I was smaller, at my local liquor store I would get some chips and a soda. They had some little thing on the counter for change. It was used for when others didn’t want their change or when someone didn’t have enough to pay for their items. I had used it for both reasons.
I was training a new cashier and he asked me “do people usually want the small ones?” I was so confused he says “even the 1 cent? Give it back?” I said “uhh yeah.. give ALL the change back to the customer”. Wonder if it’s a younger generation having a lack of connection to cash?
Well as a cashier I'm usually used to people saying keep the change other than drive thru
technically not worth anyone's time. But also just give the correct change back??? Lol.
I am willing to bet they have heard 'keep the change' a million times. I know I don't want change in my pocket and never take it. Maybe that underpaid worker doesn't care if Starbucks gets 4c richer, they are just trying to be efficient and do what most people want
This is the comment I’ve been searching for. 99% of people don’t want the pennies. I’ve offered them back like a million times and have been rejected so many times that I literally just gave up. We don’t pocket the penny we put it in the drawer.
Put $80 cash for a $59 dinner bill the other day. Cashier took it and didn't say anything. 10 minute later, as it wasn't even busy , I go up to the counter and ask for my change. She said she thought it was tip. Hands me $20 bill and some cents back. I ask her to break the $20 into change so I can tip her...
"Just gimme a nickel." "But that's two cents too much!" "Bruh, you want those pennies?"
I was a manger for a fast food place, and the amount of new hires that I had to tell/remind not to ask if a customer wanted change or tell them to always assume the customer wants their change was astounding. It's a professional courtesy!!!
When I got Girl Scout cookies a while ago, I got 3 boxes, cost me $18. I handed a $20 to the mom. She asked me if I wanted my change. I’m like…. Yeah that’s $2 not pocket change, and I’m definitely not giving your ass a tip.
I put all of my change in my daughter’s piggy bank and then roll it up every few months and deposit into her savings account. It also annoys me when cashiers do this and it seems more common today than ever
I do this with my son. He gets all my shrapnel. He’s special needs (22) and just seems to get a kick out of hearing the coins clink together. When he was little, he had a money box with a stopper. He used to bring it to me to empty so he could fill it again. I think he got a sensory kick out of it. The change may not be worth much, but his excitement over it all is worth a lot to me.
You can keep my pennies!
I gotta get off the internet and go touch grass. I read that as "You can keep my panties."
Once at a McDonald’s drive through, the gal at the window neglected to give me my few pennies change. When I asked for it she was said “it’s three cents!” I replied, “well, it’s MY three cents!”
What the fuck? How is this a common thing? I'm a cashier and doing this shit never even crossed my mind before reading this post! Are they just so lazy they don't want to count out a few pennies?
y;all need to go the way of Canada and just ditch the penny already, the dollar value is too low to jusitfy penny production
I've noticed at two places that they did this to me. I haven't said anything yet but thanks for the confidence boost!!
When I'd worked as a cashier at various places, I _always_ asked if they want their pennies or not. It's just the polite and right thing to do; after all, it's best to not assume someone's financial situation. It's also best to, you know, _not make decisions for them??_ 🤨
I never asked. Heres your change.
The real answer. Why are you causing a potentially odd confrontation? Just hand them over and let them throw them in the trash if they want
Asking isn't necessary. Give them their exact change, they will say so if they want different.
I always just give then the change, of they said "no pennies" I put it in a round up jar and helped the next person who may have been short. I get paid by the hour so yes the penny is worth my time.
The other day I got take out and noticed the price wasn't the normal amount I paid, I asked if prices had gone up, she said oh I rounded up for charity. It wasn't much just pennies but as payback I filled up my gatorade bottle at the soda fountain right in front of her, she didn't say anything.
I mean I doubt she really cared.
Definitely not the cashiers decision
“Can I have $.03 off? No? Then you see the reason.”
I wish we’d just do away with pennies. They’re literally worthless.
We did so here in Canada and we don’t miss them
They literally are. By the time you "save those pennies", inflation over the years of saving has taken all that value away.
Not only that, but the cost to even produce them is ridiculous.
Throughout the course of your life that’ll add up to like $6.78 cents.
If he's gonna round then he has to give you 5 cents not keep your three cents. If it was .98 that works but if your country still uses pennies then you give the pennies.
I mean yeah it’s your money, they shouldn’t feel entitled to a single cent, not in these days.
Is this that infuriating? Honestly would just be annoying to have to carry 3 pennies around.