re: Is it rude or ignorance for a cashier to not count back change to a customer?

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Do the math yourself you lazy shite

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Think like a business owner, you dumb gump. Why not just tell the customers to get behind the till and make their own change?

Counting is a control to prevent theft by both customers and employees. The sleight of hand necessary to make a $5 bill disappear after it's been put in your hand isn't extreme at all.

The verbal act of doing the count out loud serves as a conscious check on the tendency of cognitive bias that tends to occur with routine activities. The previous example of asking for change for a $20, and getting $22 in change likely would have been prevented if the dummy behind the counter counted the ones out loud, rather than rely on their phone addled attention span for the count alone.

I'd tell my employees (were I in retail) to do the verbal count to keep them from making mistakes, but I wouldn't tend to be offended by them not doing. Most of them barely know what they're doing anyway.

Move to Nippon, no worries there.

In Japan you don’t hand folks cash and you also don’t get your change back from them by hand.

There’s always a change tray at the register or brought out by the waitress for you to put your payment into.

Your change is returned to you in the tray, both sides of the transaction are very visible.

It's just different times.

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Should we expect more from vendors or just do the math ourselves?

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Is counting math?

I guess It’s just very easy addition.

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Move to Nippon, no worries there.

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Wrong. If I use a 10K Yen note to buy 1200 Yen worth of crap at Lawson, the register is not going to spam me with 500 Yen coins for the change. The cashier will still have to accept and return paper notes.

While the vast majority of payments are done with cards (except in restaurants/stalls), cash is still frequently used in non-chain establishments.

The argument is about the cashier counting the change when cash is used, not when you use your Suica card to buy delicious cold coffee in a can to nurse you through all the drinking that happened the night before.

Make sure you use both hands when you accept the tray with your card/receipt bro.

i like the old school way of counting change. you use a $20 to pay for an item that costs $17. instead of the cashier saying ok thats $3 change, they say ok so that's 17, 18, 19 20.

I throw it back at my customers.

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I’ve found that southeast Asian owned gas station are better at change/math than your local circle K franchise with the quality of workers that affords

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Those Asian owned business are probably owner/operators compared to those franchises which hire anybody and miscounting change hurts their personal profits while an employee of a franchise doesn't give a shite.

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It’s just the way things are.

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Why do any of us bother paying taxes anymore, except for jail and foreclosure? (thread about to be moved to "Politics!")