I doubt many people pay cash anymore. But it always surprises me when a cashier can’t figure out math that I can figure out (and I am lousy at math). If the customer gives you a few pennies (well when they were still legitimate currency) it’s so they can get back quarters instead of pennies, nickels and dimes.
My first job was at the Dairy Queen and the boss had set it up so that the price of the item plus the 4% Michigan sales tax at that time would come out to an even number like 25 cents, 50 cents, a dollar even, etc. It didn’t work so well with multiple items but if you ordered only one thing. If it didn’t because of multiple items it was easy to figure that if the order came to say $1.26 that they don’t want 74 cents back so they’ll give you $2.00 plus a penny. So you give them back 3 quarters. But many cashiers that came after me couldn’t figure out what the extra penny was for.
I doubt many people pay cash anymore. But it always surprises me when a cashier can’t figure out math that I can figure out (and I am lousy at math). If the customer gives you a few pennies (well when they were still legitimate currency) it’s so they can get back quarters instead of pennies, nickels and dimes.
My first job was at the Dairy Queen and the boss had set it up so that the price of the item plus the 4% Michigan sales tax at that time would come out to an even number like 25 cents, 50 cents, a dollar even, etc. It didn’t work so well with multiple items but if you ordered only one thing. If it didn’t because of multiple items it was easy to figure that if the order came to say $1.26 that they don’t want 74 cents back so they’ll give you $2.00 plus a penny. So you give them back 3 quarters. But many cashiers that came after me couldn’t figure out what the extra penny was for.