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   From: YourName@YourISP.com   
      
   In article , Gutless Umbrella   
   Carrying Sissy  wrote:   
      
   > YourName@YourISP.com (Your Name) wrote in   
   > news:YourName-2408131229430001@203-118-187-242.dsl.dyn.ihug.co.nz:   
   >   
   > > In article , Gutless   
   > > Umbrella Carrying Sissy  wrote:   
   > >   
   > >> YourName@YourISP.com (Your Name) wrote in   
   > >> news:YourName-2408131046210001@203-118-187-72.dsl.dyn.ihug.co.nz   
   > >> :   
   > >>   
   > >> > In article ,   
   > >> > Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy  wrote:   
   > >> >   
   > >> >> Doc O'Leary  wrote in   
   > >> >> news:droleary-6DB040.10492919082013@news.eternal-september.or   
   > >> >> g:   
   > >> >> >   
   > >> >> > Since cash is a legacy cost, it's probably best to offer a   
   > >> >> > business the smallest bills you can along with exact   
   > >> >> > change.   
   > >> >>   
   > >> >> That is true only if you have change in hand when the   
   > >> >> cashier starts ringing you up, sufficient to reach any   
   > >> >> amount possible.   
   > >> >>   
   > >> >> And can count change in a less than geologic time frame (and   
   > >> >> many people can't). The thing the store wants more than   
   > >> >> anything is to move you through the line as efficiently as   
   > >> >> possible, so they can reduce the number of employees they   
   > >> >> have to pay (payroll is second only to cost of goods as   
   > >> >> business expense, in retail). The cashier can count out   
   > >> >> change from the till far faster than you can from your   
   > >> >> pocket, and generally faster than you can from your hand.   
   > >> >   
   > >> > There's a TV advert playing here in New Zealand for the new   
   > >> > "tap" / "wave" credit card systems. It has people all using   
   > >> > "tap" / "wave" cards to buy their lunch and then eating it in   
   > >> > the cafeterria almost like a conveyor belt and clockwork   
   > >> > machine ... then one person offers the cashier actual money   
   > >> > and everything grinds to a shocked pause while she puts it in   
   > >> > the cash register. Once he goes past the machine restarts   
   > >> > ticking over again.   
   > >>   
   > >> Well, whoda thunk a commercial selling a new product would make   
   > >> it look superior to what it's supposed to replace? Color me   
   > >> amazed.   
   > >   
   > > It was simply an advert that fitted the topic.  :-)   
   >   
   > For a flexible enough definition of "the topic," I suppose.   
      
      
   Here we go with the pedantic idiocy. Time to ignore yet another   
   argumentative moron on the Internet.  :-\   
      
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