If that's all my business is worth.

[Jetfire]

Canada doesn't even do pennies anymore. The useless pennies are just annoying anyway. I usually just tell them to keep it because I don't want it in my pocket.

We aren't making pennies any more, but they are still to be given as change until February 2013. After that, cash payments will be rounded up/down to the nearest 5. (8,9,0,1,2 to 0; 3,4,5,6,7 to 5).

As for me, if I get pennies in change (and even nickles and dimes) I tend to toss them in the nearest charity/tip jar more than anything. Most of my time I just pay with debit anyway.

[Moirae]

We aren't making pennies any more, but they are still to be given as change until February 2013. After that, cash payments will be rounded up/down to the nearest 5. (8,9,0,1,2 to 0; 3,4,5,6,7 to 5).

As for me, if I get pennies in change (and even nickles and dimes) I tend to toss them in the nearest charity/tip jar more than anything. Most of my time I just pay with debit anyway.

Yeah, when I heard Canada was getting rid of pennies, my immediate thought was "this can be abused by unscrupulous people". My sister says that she doesn't mind it, and it makes things simpler.

[NorthernZel]

Over here, things are rounded up or down to the nearest DKK .50 (approx. USD .10) (Edited to add: the amount is not rounded up/down when one pays with credit or debit card, only cash payments). At the Zel household we have a habit of throwing our spare change (DKK 2.00 or lower) in a jar, where the content is saved for unexpected expenses and deposited to our bank account when the jar is full.

But on the other hand, tips aren't expected at general stores - perhaps in cafés/bars, but then it is expected that you get the change back and THEN can opt to put it in the tip jar on the counter, the cashier doing that would be a huge no-no.

[MoonCat]

That happened to me once at a store and it really annoyed me, because as you said, it's not the cashier's decision. A lot of people save pennies until they get several dollars' worth and cash them in. If I said keep the penny, that's different.

[LillFilly]

Makes you wonder to what amount the cashier might be shorting people; a penny there, 5cents here...it adds up. Just sounds more dishonest than lazy to me.

[gremcint]

Honestly I don't care, I am so busy with school and two jobs that it's easier to just let it go, it just means I go to another convience store, there every ten feet like starbucks.

[malmalthekiller]

Makes you wonder to what amount the cashier might be shorting people; a penny there, 5cents here...it adds up. Just sounds more dishonest than lazy to me.

Right? Does this store not count their drawer at the end of the night?

[Andara Bledin]

I have been a cashier and I am very good with numbers and money.

It is dead easy to take any bit of money that isn't part of the total off to one side for collection later.

I used to do this for when people left change behind on their own so that I would know how much to expect my till to be off by at the end of the night (I'd actually use the left-behind stuff to cover the pennies on later payments so that I'd be as close to perfect as possible because I'm anal like that).

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[spark]

Quite a few places, when I've had just a penny due, have said "Do you want the penny?" and I say no. But they *asked* Just assuming is quite different and would annoy me too.

[Gizmo]

Right? Does this store not count their drawer at the end of the night?

One store I worked at didn't even blink unless it was £10 or so either way but then we didn't have dedicated tills. And if you were over they didn't care. I saw one of the counting sheets from the night count once and that night they'd been £1500 up over about 5 active tills and the front end people were brushing it off as nothing. Never sure they followed through on that.

(It used to happen due to issues with cashback procedures and the fact that the cashiers normal speel didn't include it - therefore sometimes they'd ring the cashback up and not give it by mistake. Very few customers ever picked up when that happened either. I only did it once AFAIK and realised and called the Tobacco desk to send him back to me as he'd gone there for stuff afterwards.).

[wolfie]

Makes you wonder to what amount the cashier might be shorting people; a penny there, 5cents here...it adds up. Just sounds more dishonest than lazy to me.

Right? Does this store not count their drawer at the end of the night?

Doesn't matter if the drawers are counted. Cashier mentally keeps track of how many pennies they've shorted customers over the course of a shift. End of shift, cashier takes that much out of the drawer. Drawer gets counted, comes out correct down to the last penny, because cashier has been stealing from CUSTOMERS rather than from the store. I believe it's what's known as a "salami" fraud (take slices too thin to be noticed individually, but they add up to something worthwhile).