Good luck with finding someone who can "count change" back to the buyer. That used to be the way it was done all the time.
Let's see if I can still do it...
Scenario: I'm the cashier, you just bought something for $12.37 and paid with a $20.
cha ching, "that'll be $12.37 sir" and you give me the 20.
The idea is start with the lowest denomination and going up to the next highest coinage or bills.
3 pennies makes 12.40
a dime make makes 12.50
2 quarters makes it 13.00
2 dollars makes it 15.00
and a $5 makes it the total of the $20 you gave me.
The change I just handed you without doing much math should be:
1 $5 bill, 2 $1 bills, 2 quarters, a dime and 3 pennies.
$7.63 added up!!!! YAY!! I can still do it.
When I was a delivery boy at my first pharmacy job, I had some elderly folks challenge me on doing that. I always got a compliment and sometimes a tip.
Yes Eric,.. there was a paradigm shift in cashiers giving change due a little ways back when the digital registers starting displaying the change of the transaction. So the cashiers just started counting the change due only. duh
Cashiers would just count the amount of the change due and hand it to you instead of doing it the way that you describe.
I did the money for a friend who had the cochon de lait booth at the jazz fest here for a few years.
No register and just gave change exactly like you describe. People looked at me like WTF but it was necessary since some of the customers were a lil drunk and it negated them saying that they gave you a larger bill. he would gross anywhere from $12k to $15k on a day there. All cash.
This is true. On recent trips, I received coin dollars at a few vending machines. I think both were at rapid transit ticket and museum ticket machines. This summer, I received some brand new shiny Franklin Pierce dollar coins in Chicago.
Later in Louisiana, I gave a few to a cashier to buy something,. She told me that it wasn't real money.
I said it was the new Franklin Pierce dollar and she said she never heard of Franklin Pierce or a Franklin Pierce dollar.
I should have gone back with a few Sacajawea dollars that I have . 🙂
