School Holidays and coins

[darkcrimsongoth]

Okay, I'm not sure if this shoulg go here, but anyway:

School holidays suck. There's no better way of saying it. They suck.

Due to the fact that every kid has saved up their pocket money in COINS!!!!

Me: Me
KWC: Kid With Coins
M: Manager

Me: Hi, How are you?
KWC: Good
Me: *proceeds to scan items*
Me: Comes to $49.99
KWC: *Then proceeds to unscrew lid on containter with money and pours out $50 worth of coins onto register bench*
Me: 0.0......0.o....*in head, *I'm not even going to try and count this...*
Me: MANAGER
M: What?
Me: Come count this for me please!

Kids, next time, before you go and spend your pocket money, go to a bank!!!! Or ask you parents to give you a note! I wouldn't have minded so much, if the kids parents and his brothers and sisters didn't come through my register as well, with more COINS!!!!

As you can tell I'm sick of coins.

Happy readings!

[Barefootgirl]

One word - COINSTAR. Yes, they take a percetage, but its not huge and its quicker than the bank. My bank HATES bags of change anyway.

[darkcrimsongoth]

Coinstar?

I've never even heard of COINSTAR.

Although, I'm pretty sure I don't have it where I live...0.o

[Imogene]

Coinstar is a green (usually) machine that hangs out in the entry of any grocery store. You pour your random loose change into a tray, and shake it down into the machine. It counts the change, and gives you a choice of getting a gift card for the full amount, or getting it back in full money for a slight percentage fee. It then gives you a slip to turn in at a cashier.

[Sliceanddice]

coin star is great. I use it when ever my penny suplie is to high ( i made to 20 bucks in pennys once..... the peaple at the grocery store gave me funny looks...)


oh and if get card from coinstar instead of the voucher you dont lose the precentage (gift cards like for itunes or pre paid debit cards and the like.) and i think you and reuse cards... i dont id have to check..

[Namrepus221]

I won't even accept more than $5 in change if it's not rolled, and even then it's dependant upon how much it will screw up my register.

[tollbaby]

I wouldn't have minded so much, if the kids parents and his brothers and sisters didn't come through my register as well, with more COINS!!!!

Maybe they'd been saving up coins for years for this precise outing... and they couldn't be arsed to roll the coins or cash them in *boggle*

Incidentally, folks, Coinstar is an American phenomenon. From the way the OP was talking, I assumed they were in the UK somewheres.

[Shengirl]

You can avoid the percentage fee? You can't do that in my store's Coinstar; it just gives you a voucher for the full amount of your change minus 8.99% that you get to take to me at customer service. All. Day.

[delorean623]

I refuse to accept rolled coin from customers... half the time, when I used to accept it, they were in incorrect amounts. The coin counting machines are amazing... we use them all the time, because we have a literacy fund donation jar at each register (6 reg's) and they fill up rather quickly.

[Becks]

If I time it right on weekends, the cashiers at my store don't mind if I pay for a few small things in change. (Not more than a couple of dollars worth, at the VERY most.)

[Rapscallion]

It's a fairly new phenomenom in the UK. I know only of one machine, and losing nearly a tenth of what you put in just ... doesn't appeal to me.

Rapscallion

[Andara Bledin]

Either lose the percentage, get a gift card, or take the time to trot over to the bank and get some bills for $deity's sake!

^-.-^

[AriRashkae]

You can avoid the percentage fee? You can't do that in my store's Coinstar; it just gives you a voucher for the full amount of your change minus 8.99% that you get to take to me at customer service. All. Day.

Some of them also let you donate the full amount to the Red Cross, March fo Dimes, Jimmy Fund, etc.