On 1/09/2015 12:37 PM, Mark Thorson wrote:
> I try not to buy anything from Safeway
> because of the ways they rip off their
> customers, but I wanted a piece of my
> favorite cheese which isn't available
> anywhere else nearby.
>
> The piece I selected was $5.26. I was
> hoping I had $0.26 in change, so Safeway
> wouldn't load me down with nickels and
> dimes, but no such luck. I did have a
> penny, so giving them $20.01 gets me to
> the nearest quarter.
>
> As expected, I only get two quarters in
> change, but then two dimes and four pennies
> come out. I gave the idiot checker $20.01
> but he entered it as $21. I tried to
> explain his error, and he tried more than
> once to give me the errant dollar.
>
> I should have taken it. When I tried to
> exchange the $0.24 for the quarter he
> owed me, he couldn't do it. The change
> drawer had been replaced right between
> the previous customer and me, and the new
> one had no quarters at all! He had a penny,
> so I ended up with two dimes and five pennies.
> He hardly had any change at all in the new
> drawer.
>
> I will never do that again. Other stores
> don't rip off their customers like Safeway
> does. They are a criminal organization.
> They deserve to lose whatever monies their
> minimum IQ employees give away. I should
> have taken that dollar and I'll never make
> that mistake again!
>
> HATE SAFEWAY HATE SAFEWAY HATE SAFEWAY
>
I learnt long ago never to confuse sales assistants with ideas of trying
to even out the change. Even with a cash register that works out the
correct change for them, it's still a practice fraught with risk. Far
better to give them an even dollar note (10s 20s, etc.) rather than have
them actually try to do some mental gymnastics with the arithmetic. I
have seen them flounder in abject confusion when I have already worked
out the change required without even having the resources of an
arithmetically minded cash register.

I know only too well why some bright spark invented cash registers that
tell the sales droids exactly how much change is required to be given.
Now we need one that knows exactly what change is in the register, lists
each denomination, the quantity required, then displays it for the droid
to follow.

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Xeno