I once did this in reverse- I gave the cashier a dollar extra so I could just get a 10 back, and she said “here, you gave me too much”, and handed the 1 back
Same, I bought something years ago that amounted to something like $15.05, I had a $20 and some change so I tossed in an extra dime so I wouldn’t have to fill my wallet with singles and have a bunch of change in my pocket. Nope, cashier looked at me like I was stupid and handed me back my worst nightmare because they had to make up being short a quarter in dimes and nickels.
Yeah, my experience has been the reverse, where cashiers look at me like I’m stupid if I give them an additional $1 bill with the $20 I give them for something that costs $10.50.
I had this twice in the same day the other day. Was travelling, had cash to get rid of and the poor teenage cashiers these days can’t wrap their brain around the concept at all cos they never had to. Both times I get a “this 20 is already enough” and I said I’m trying get rid of coins. I could watch their brain rebooting, give up, punch it in the till and then be really baffled when they hand me back a 10 euro note.
Claiming this an idea no teenager can wrap their mind around has some serious boomer vibes. Especially given the context of the meme which is saying the customer is unable to process such a transaction at the moment which alludes to the fact that anyone on autopilot is capable of this sort of lapse.
Yesterday I was buying groceries and, having been a grocery store cashier before, I faced the UPCs towards him to make it easier. He picked up each item individually and checked every other surface before finding the UPC on every single time.
I wanted to grab him and shake him by the shoulders yelling “This was supposed to be easy for you!”
I do this a lot for cases of beverages and usually let them know verbally since most people are just on autopilot. Most thank me for making things easy for them.
To be honest, I’m always a bit amazed that this doesn’t happen more often. Yesterday, I had to pay 50.93€ and handed the cashier 51.05€, because I’d rather have a 10ct coin and the cashier typically needs smaller coins more often.
In this case, it was obvious that I didn’t hand them the 5ct by accident, but that’s the sort of mind games I’ll play and so far, the cashiers were always a step ahead of me…
Cash transactions now get rounded to the nearest 5 cents here in Estonia so you won’t even get the 2 cents anymore. 5 is the minimum now
Think it’ll reduce usage of the tiny coins, but no idea if they’re also slowly removing them from circulation or not. In your scenario you would’ve received just 5 cents
Doesn’t invalidate the extra 5 cents to get 10 cents back, just nice to get back even fewer small coins I’d say. Sometimes you pay an extra cent or 2, sometimes you lose a cent or 2. Never more than 2 anyway
Yeah, our government occasionally discusses that idea again, but unfortunately nothing has been put into law yet. I would certainly prefer not having to carry around extra copper, just because companies want their .99 prices.
No, no, you’re mathing correct. I did receive 12ct back. But 12cts is a 2ct coin + a 10ct coin. If I would have given 51.00€, it would have been a 2ct coin + a 5ct coin back. I didn’t mention the 2ct coin, because it’s always involved.
And I didn’t have 3cts myself, otherwise I would have made it 51.03€, yeah.
Honestly, I have no idea, if the cashiers are allowed to take extra change here, at least in the supermarkets.
I still want to try that at the town market, where I’ve always been too stupid to think of that so far, so I once got told that I could’ve kept that 1ct coin and one time, the guy actually gave me extra change, because he did not want to deal with those small coins. 🥴
I once did this in reverse- I gave the cashier a dollar extra so I could just get a 10 back, and she said “here, you gave me too much”, and handed the 1 back
Same, I bought something years ago that amounted to something like $15.05, I had a $20 and some change so I tossed in an extra dime so I wouldn’t have to fill my wallet with singles and have a bunch of change in my pocket. Nope, cashier looked at me like I was stupid and handed me back my worst nightmare because they had to make up being short a quarter in dimes and nickels.
Yeah, my experience has been the reverse, where cashiers look at me like I’m stupid if I give them an additional $1 bill with the $20 I give them for something that costs $10.50.
I had this twice in the same day the other day. Was travelling, had cash to get rid of and the poor teenage cashiers these days can’t wrap their brain around the concept at all cos they never had to. Both times I get a “this 20 is already enough” and I said I’m trying get rid of coins. I could watch their brain rebooting, give up, punch it in the till and then be really baffled when they hand me back a 10 euro note.
Claiming this an idea no teenager can wrap their mind around has some serious boomer vibes. Especially given the context of the meme which is saying the customer is unable to process such a transaction at the moment which alludes to the fact that anyone on autopilot is capable of this sort of lapse.
Yesterday I was buying groceries and, having been a grocery store cashier before, I faced the UPCs towards him to make it easier. He picked up each item individually and checked every other surface before finding the UPC on every single time.
I wanted to grab him and shake him by the shoulders yelling “This was supposed to be easy for you!”
I do this a lot for cases of beverages and usually let them know verbally since most people are just on autopilot. Most thank me for making things easy for them.
I struggled with this when I got moved to the front end of my store at 22
I done the dumb version: it’s 9.50 and I give 20.50
I’m just trying to help.
Eh, I’d still prefere a 10 and a 1 over a 10 and a 0.50.
(For those who can’t math, that means they get $11 back)
I paid in euros, so you should take into account the exchange rate
To be honest, I’m always a bit amazed that this doesn’t happen more often. Yesterday, I had to pay 50.93€ and handed the cashier 51.05€, because I’d rather have a 10ct coin and the cashier typically needs smaller coins more often.
In this case, it was obvious that I didn’t hand them the 5ct by accident, but that’s the sort of mind games I’ll play and so far, the cashiers were always a step ahead of me…
Cash transactions now get rounded to the nearest 5 cents here in Estonia so you won’t even get the 2 cents anymore. 5 is the minimum now
Think it’ll reduce usage of the tiny coins, but no idea if they’re also slowly removing them from circulation or not. In your scenario you would’ve received just 5 cents
Doesn’t invalidate the extra 5 cents to get 10 cents back, just nice to get back even fewer small coins I’d say. Sometimes you pay an extra cent or 2, sometimes you lose a cent or 2. Never more than 2 anyway
Yeah, our government occasionally discusses that idea again, but unfortunately nothing has been put into law yet. I would certainly prefer not having to carry around extra copper, just because companies want their .99 prices.
Shouldn’t you have received 12cts? In order to get 10cts back you ought to give 51.03€. Or am I just not mathing today?
No, no, you’re mathing correct. I did receive 12ct back. But 12cts is a 2ct coin + a 10ct coin. If I would have given 51.00€, it would have been a 2ct coin + a 5ct coin back. I didn’t mention the 2ct coin, because it’s always involved.
And I didn’t have 3cts myself, otherwise I would have made it 51.03€, yeah.
I just tell them to keep the change at this point
“You know what, here are the keys to my vault, help yourself”
It’s 12c
Honestly, I have no idea, if the cashiers are allowed to take extra change here, at least in the supermarkets.
I still want to try that at the town market, where I’ve always been too stupid to think of that so far, so I once got told that I could’ve kept that 1ct coin and one time, the guy actually gave me extra change, because he did not want to deal with those small coins. 🥴
I guess it isn’t significant enough for people to care
Might be different if you live in a country that is very strict on rules (like Germany or Japan)
Good guess. I live in Germany. 😅