Quite a bit. Opening the roll is awkward and often requires that you get a pair of scissors out to cut the paper. Then you have to stow the coins, make sure you don’t drop any, and mark on a balance sheet that you opened it. Sometimes you even have to store the wrapping paper as proof. All of this, while a line of impatient customers is getting more and more irritated.
Because one of the cashiers I worked with refused to use dimes (I have no idea why) she would order and open several rolls of nickels during each shift. All us Head Cashiers, the Front End Supervisor and the Bookkeeper tried to get her to quit being so weird about it, or at least open only one roll of nickels at a time, but it took her getting written up (because she was unnecessarily wasting our time and creating a higher probability for mistakes) for her to finally stop. I found this strip and cut it out for the Bookkeeper. She laughed pretty hard and taped it to the safe in the vault.
It makes a huge difference when cashiers count their own drawer at night. I sometimes let a few cents change slip at the end so i didn’t have to open a new roll of pennies.
OTOH, one day I opened the store at 5am, and the manager didn’t leave me any change at all. I was trying to get change out of the safe, with a 15 minute space between coin rolls, while angry customers complained that they wanted to get their coffee and leave.
How much hassle is it to open a roll of coins?
Given that some places have you mark it on your balance sheet when you open a new roll, it can be a fair bit of hassle.
even if all you need to do us open it, sometimes the paper will fight you on getting off the coins this is one area where i almost agree with Cortney
Quite a bit. Opening the roll is awkward and often requires that you get a pair of scissors out to cut the paper. Then you have to stow the coins, make sure you don’t drop any, and mark on a balance sheet that you opened it. Sometimes you even have to store the wrapping paper as proof. All of this, while a line of impatient customers is getting more and more irritated.
Because one of the cashiers I worked with refused to use dimes (I have no idea why) she would order and open several rolls of nickels during each shift. All us Head Cashiers, the Front End Supervisor and the Bookkeeper tried to get her to quit being so weird about it, or at least open only one roll of nickels at a time, but it took her getting written up (because she was unnecessarily wasting our time and creating a higher probability for mistakes) for her to finally stop. I found this strip and cut it out for the Bookkeeper. She laughed pretty hard and taped it to the safe in the vault.
It makes a huge difference when cashiers count their own drawer at night. I sometimes let a few cents change slip at the end so i didn’t have to open a new roll of pennies.
OTOH, one day I opened the store at 5am, and the manager didn’t leave me any change at all. I was trying to get change out of the safe, with a 15 minute space between coin rolls, while angry customers complained that they wanted to get their coffee and leave.