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   Questor to Howard   
   Re: A rant directed at grocery store fue   
   29 Jan 21 22:13:55   
   
   From: usenet@only.tnx   
      
   On Thu, 28 Jan 2021 17:37:49 +0000 (UTC), Howard  wrote:   
   >Snidely  wrote:   
   >> On Wednesday, Roger House yelped out that:   
   >>   
   >>> 2.)  In relation to number 1, as an example, if your order total   
   >>> comes to something like, say, $18.02, when you give me your payment   
   >>> money, you do not *NEED* to give me $20.05, twenty even covers it   
   >>> just fine.   
   >>   
   >> Some of us prefer to get 3 pennies back, rather than 98.  Most   
   >> cashiers I've tried this with understand just fine.   
   >   
   >Based on the change shortages that I have seen some retailers complaining   
   >about, I'm surprised they don't push for that.   
      
   One of the nearby supermarkets has stopped accepting cash at the self-checkout   
   machines; the signs state this is because of the coin shortage.  I don't   
   understand that.  I just have to go to the human cashier, where I get the same   
   change I would have gotten at the machine.   
      
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