Comments on posts about employees at register not giving customers thier change

[tantricia44]

Employees that don't give you're change back should be punished or fired! Even if it was a penny customers should get their change back! It 's called stealing if they don't or refuse to give back the customer's change. The employee might think they don't want a penny change back but to some people a penny is as valuable as a 100 bucks. You it's because change adds up. I decided to test this this idea of change adding up. I started last week my 7 days change collection.
Thur 08     sonic Dr.thru: 2penny & dime=12
Fri    09     post office stamp machine change some1 left. 2quarters,2dimes,4nickles=90
Sat   10     check out line: penny & nickle=6
Sun  11     Popeye's Dr. thru: 5pennies,1quarter,2dimes,3nickles=65
Mon  12    Stopped man from throwing his change in trash: 5pennies&1nickle=10
Tue   13    Soda machine:nickle & quarter=30
wed  14     Park: 2 pennies=2

Grand total is: $2.25! Not bad for just bending over & picking up change for 7 days. So, ya demand your change back if the employee short change you.Image how much money the person pocketed every year with thousands of customers not getting their change back!

[kmason1]

  I agree..hubby used to through all his pennies on the floor board of the car..at the end of the week he would through them in the trash when he cleaned the car!..I started collecting all this 'garbage' at the end of the week I had 392 peennies, the end of the month I had 25. 32..he now lets me keep the pennies. he hands them to me  and I carry the weights in my purse..when it gets too heavy..I put them in the banks money machine then into my savings acct. the yrs total so far? 1,056.12

[alaric99x]

Right, after all of my years living in Europe, I didn't understand this US American attitude about small change.  I've never found so much small change on any street anywhere in Europe as I have here in the US.  This applies most especially to pennies, it seems that people will refuse to pick them up when they're dropped.  I don't need to go around searching for pennies, I make more than enough money to meet my needs, but I'm still astonished that so many pennies are left for people like me to find and pick up, and I have no hesitation in picking up pennies.

As far as getting rid of change, that's not so easy here in the US.  I absolutely refuse to use those machines that take 10%, or some lesser amount for my money.  In Germany, where I used to live, the banks give you 100% of the value of the coinage you deposit through their machines, and why should the banks get any percentage of your money, which is actually cash at full value, but they do charge some amount to accept your change?

It all makes no sense to me that you put some amount of change into a machine and then get some amount of value less than the amount of change that you put into the machine, you're paying some bank or organization to give you back some portion of your money which is "legal tender for all debts public and private," as it says on your dollar bill, if you ever care to read it.  Somebody remind me of the revoution and "no taxation without representation" and the comparison of you 2011 "Americans" who complacently accept this degradation of your hard earned currency without even thinking about how unfairly you're being you're allowing yourselves to be taken advantage of?  How about if you all send me $100 checks and I'll send you $90 checks as soon as I've received and deposited your checks and they've cleared? 

I collect my change.  I usually use a credit card that gives me a cash back bonus.  I pay the balance of that credit card every month so I don't have any interest charges.  Whenever I know I'll have a cash payment, I take coins that amount to 99 cents, like 2 quarters, 3 dimes, 2 nickels and 9 pennies.  Whatever the cost is, I'll get rid of as much change as possible.  I still have about $20 in small change, but it's much less than it was before and I'll reduce that even more in the future. 

 

[jnjmolly]

You have done a lot of work in 7 days lol...i always think that i don't need to get my penny change and then i'm in the next store looking for a penny lol 

[handllucas]

I ALWAYS make sure to get my change, because it does add up.

My pet peeve now is that cashiers do not count the change back to you. They just crumple up the bills and change in their hand and dump it in your hand, 'announcing' the total.

Never mind customer service, how about some simple curtisy?

[wittylance]

I wouldn't be so hard on them.  I would diffently tell wheres my change but I don't think they should be fired.  Here a thought what if they gave you to much change back and you didn't noticed until you got to your car would you return it?  They are responsable for there register so if it is short they get in trouble me personally I would give it back so it works both ways.  This time of year alot of places are so busy and people in general are inpatient and so they try to hurry and may forget or give back to much so be patient and thin what if that was me,