You don't have to wait for the register to go down to make a modern cashier have a mental segfault - just give them extra cash so you get less bills back.
For example on a $6.95 order hand over $12 and watch first for the bewilderment while keying in the amount and then the amazement when they give back the non-dollar bill change.
pedantic? yes. but as a fellow member of the "give-em-too-much-to-get-fewer-back" tribe, I feel that you might appreciate this particular bit of pedantry.
Only for a new cashier, really. It doesn't take long to understand what the customer is doing - once you've had a few "I can't make change for you because I'm out", it all makes sense and cashiers start to like the customers who minimise the change requirements.
I remember talking to someone who had clearly never worked in retail, complaining about their god-given right as a consumer to have change made for them trumping an open-air market vendor's right to have change for the rest of their sales for the day.
This always makes me sad and I'm shocked on the few occasions (rarer every day) when change is correctly counted back to me: "5 cents make 7 dollars, and 5 more dollars is 12. Have a good day."
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You don't have to wait for the register to go down to make a modern cashier have a mental segfault - just give them extra cash so you get less bills back.
For example on a $6.95 order hand over $12 and watch first for the bewilderment while keying in the amount and then the amazement when they give back the non-dollar bill change.
"fewer" bills back, not "less".
pedantic? yes. but as a fellow member of the "give-em-too-much-to-get-fewer-back" tribe, I feel that you might appreciate this particular bit of pedantry.
Only for a new cashier, really. It doesn't take long to understand what the customer is doing - once you've had a few "I can't make change for you because I'm out", it all makes sense and cashiers start to like the customers who minimise the change requirements.
I remember talking to someone who had clearly never worked in retail, complaining about their god-given right as a consumer to have change made for them trumping an open-air market vendor's right to have change for the rest of their sales for the day.
This always makes me sad and I'm shocked on the few occasions (rarer every day) when change is correctly counted back to me: "5 cents make 7 dollars, and 5 more dollars is 12. Have a good day."