"You didn't want your penny did you?"

Desperate_Housewife_2-2

I would ask for the penny, d*mn cheek!

Every penny counts in my life and in my experience people never let you off the penny when I owe them.

lincroft1710

"You didn't want your penny did you?"


"Yes, as I save up all my copper coins and give them to charity at Christmas"

Then shopkeeper/assistant will feel mean if they don't give you the change.

hcb42

never happened to me, perhaps she didnt have any pennies in the till...happened to us yesterday where I work...(hotel), although mgr made the penny up in the change!

anatomical

I would never do that, it's not like she's going to get any benefit from that 1p, it goes straight into the company's profit. I hate when people leave them at my work and think they're being nice, our tills have to be re-counted at the end of the night if there is even 1p difference, wasting another 5 mins all for 1p which would be better off going into a change jar/charity box.

MeanParent

anatomical wrote: »

I would never do that, it's not like she's going to get any benefit from that 1p, it goes straight into the company's profit. I hate when people leave them at my work and think they're being nice, our tills have to be re-counted at the end of the night if there is even 1p difference, wasting another 5 mins all for 1p which would be better off going into a change jar/charity box.

I don't know. Serve 300 people a day and that's £3 and that is assuming that she hasn't pocketed other cash payments (wild speculation of course).

anatomical

MeanParent wrote: »

I don't know. Serve 300 people a day and that's £3 and that is assuming that she hasn't pocketed other cash payments (wild speculation of course).

That is assuming she is keeping it for herself. I can see what you're getting at, but risking being caught for at the most £3 a day, most likely much less, seems pretty stupid to me. I would be surprised if the tills didn't have cameras on them and a colleague is bound to notice at some point. A lot of risk for a few pennies.

elsien

Well I didn't.....but I do now.

Then I stand and wait, however long it takes.
I don't need the money, but that's not the point.

faerie~spangles

The sales assistant had no right to do that.

I would have waited for my change with my hand out.

Gone home and phoned the head office to complain and refuse to shop there again.

I wonder how much that outlet's till is over when being cashed up at night?

Decluttering

I would hate for a shop assistant to take that decision away from me, from personal experience and what I've seen in other stores it can be rather difficult to open up a till without putting a transaction through (assumingly so that robbers can't access the cash easily). I would be waiting there until she opened up the till, no matter how much inconvienience it may cause. Regardless of the amount, that shop assistant has locked away my money and claimed it as the shop's own. I'd want it back.

lollipopsarah

Customers often leave a penny change and walk out before the receipt is printed, so I bung it in the charity pot.
I try to keep an odd penny near my till because I have been known to shut the drawer before picking one up - gr.
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