self service checkout-loose change

Angela

The good thing about Morrisons self serve tills is that you can bung all your change in and it will give you your change back in bigger demominations so chuck in loads of 2 and 5 p's and get pound coins back.

DCFC79

Ive used alot of 1 and 2p's in teh tesco SS but gone late at night to avoid any grumbles from people behind. I found you cant put too many in at once otherwise it might not take them so means you have to put them in again.

DCFC79

eleanor73 wrote: »

I would never ever use a cash counting machine at a supermarket as it costs money doesn't it? A percentage?
HSBC has a coin machine that pays straight into your bank. Before that I would use them in the self service-not really collect them for that purpose but just always use my small change first so rarely had any for anything else.

No idea why people use the coin machines when you can use the self service tills for free.

slowlygoingmad_2

eleanor73 wrote: »

I would never ever use a cash counting machine at a supermarket as it costs money doesn't it? A percentage?
HSBC has a coin machine that pays straight into your bank. Before that I would use them in the self service-not really collect them for that purpose but just always use my small change first so rarely had any for anything else.

My local Natwest has one of these in there branch now, very good idea i must say

freakyogre

I always seem to end up getting loads of loose change from the machines, so I consider it pay back

shop-to-drop

People get rid of all there small change all the time at SS checkouts. However, if you want to get rid of a lot I would go to a 24 hour store in the wee hours when it's not busy. Otherwise just use a handful each time you go in and you will soon get rid of it.

spikejrt

If you have loads of loose change, get some money bags from the bank, load them up and then get the bank to weigh their value. I can't remember exactly how you do it, but I think it's bags of 1p or 2p's a quid at a time, 5p or 10p's a fiver at a time etc.

lemontart

tallyhoh wrote: »

Usually save my loose change & put it in the cash counting machine thingy at the supermarket, the one thar takes a percentage.
Just read that one chap just puts it in the self service checkout to pay for stuff. Would this really work with a load of 1p & 2p??:D

Yes it does I regularly do this only pain is if you use a larger coin to pay if short a few coppers you get a load back :rotfl: but such is life and seems to feel less painful than paying with pound coins or notes

thatguy1

Middy wrote: »

We had a self scan break because a customer tried to pay £8 with coppers. The buckets only can hold about 500 coins.

Then on the other side of the coin (no pun intended) we have to close self scans as we run out of £10 notes. Its thanks to those customers that pay with £20 for buying the Sun for 30p. I have seen customers with a purseful of coins still paying with a £20. I had a customer drop their contents of their purse and I did count around £22 in coins. I'm surprised she hasn't complained about her purse being heavy.

See that's the bad thing about the old style self scan because they run out or fill up quickly. Good thing about the new ones is they recycle all the money.

We had to close one the other week as it ran out of 20p's

Middy

Also the change given by self scans is random. A few weeks ago, we had a load of reductions at work and I was buying some for myself and a colleague on a separate transaction (she paid me later) and we both got the same goods and I paid the self scan with the same amount each time. Both shops came to £1.60. I put in a £2 coin each time. One gave change in two 20ps. The other a 20p, three 5p, two 2p and 1p.