How often do you get to a cash register and the total you have due is some 'weird' number like $1.04 or $6.26 or some such value, and you find yourself digging thru your pocket or purse desparately searching for that tiny handful of change just so you don't get a BIGGER handful of it back? Can't these businesses 'really' make money if they rounded off their prices to a reasonable number?
Perhaps its just me, but I would much rather have them charge me $1.25 for that $1.04 transaction, and get my butt out of there in half the time! Plus, you'd walk away with change that you could actually use somewhere else...like in a vending machine or car wash, rather than that fistful of coins that at times seems like more of a hassle than its worth!
Oh, I know...many times I've been glad to have that jar in my closet when times were tough, but I'd much rather count quarters when the time comes, than all those pesky (and usually filthy) pennies and such!
Face it, none of us wants to stand in line longer than necessary, but when 95 percent of all transactions go thru this ridiculous ritual, it seems to me it would behoove the owners of these businesses to make 'convenience' an actual feature of their store, rather than the alternative. Not only that, how much simpler would it be on your cashiers and accountants!
Let's take a look at the wage of that cashier for a moment: Assuming you make $7.00 per hour, that boils down to just under $0.02 per second. If it takes the cashier more than one second to count change back to a customer, they've basically just lost that two cents! Imagine if (heaven forbid) they get it WRONG...now how much time / money has the owner just lost! Over the course of one 8 hour shift, that's a lotta change! And let's be honest...how many of you actually count the pennies in the till at the end of your shift anyway? Yeah...that looks like about 50! I can't imagine ANY owner actually asking their employees to count pennies when balancing their till!
Now I'm no CPA...but will someone please tell me where this is such a bad idea? Start spreadin' the news...together, we CAN make a difference!
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I totally agree...my wallet hates all that small change. I use only quarters at my craft shows and price my items accordingly. If I can dfactor the sales tax into my prices I am sure anyone can.
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