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Posted on 11/02/2011 5:43:43 PM PDT by Morgana
PORTLAND, Ore. -- A woman in Portland said her local grocery store refused to allow her to pay for her shopping cart items with $32 in loose change.
The shopper, who was too embarrassed to use her name, said the clerk at the Save-a-Lot store would only accept $5 of the change, claiming it was store policy, KATU reported.
The woman told KATU that she tried to use her loose change at another area grocery to buy her family food -- a Fred Meyer store -- but the manager there directed her to a coin exchange machine instead, where the fees run about 10 percent.
She said the Fred Meyer manager later agreed to cover the exchange machine fee after she started sobbing.
Representatives from each of the stores later apologized for the incidents, and advised that store employees and managers would be retrained on checkout policies -- specifically that all payments, cash or coin, were accepted.
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I have been unhappy with verzion but not as much as this person.
My wife tells me people pay with change all the time at her store. Usually only about 4 or 5 bucks worth. People buying more have EBT cards and don’t need to worry about using change, says she.
Well said and I agree.
I rather be behind her than some luddite with a checkbook.
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I will make sure that I write extra slow when I see you back there.
Hoodat: How do you make the superscript “i-pi”?
Superscript is <sup> </sup>
How ironic that the Maryland EBT card is called an “Independence” card.
First off she could have gone to any bank and had it traded for paper for free. Second she can’t afford groceries but can afford to sue?? seriously???
π. Thank you.
>> “what is with people?” <<
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Petty cruelty in some cases.
I do believe that a store has the right to insist that the coins be counted and rolled. That’s not too hard, is it?
Oregon has no sales tax.
Nickles are presently worth $0.12 in metal value, and pennies are worth about $0.02. Old pre ‘82 pennies are worth about $0.10
The easiest way to deal with a lot of loose change is to shop at a store that has some self-check registers and feed the coins in to pay. To only consolidate the coins, scan an item that costs more than you have. Put in all the coins then push “cancel payment” and the money will refund back in a more consolidated form. Then you can cancel the transaction or tell the person watching over things that you don’t have enough money to buy the item. And leave. With your newly consolidated wad of cash.
The banks here in Omaha won't take hand rolled coin anymore; in fact, they won't run your coin through their coin counters unless you have an account with them.
Yes but they have to pay people to count and roll the coins and why it has almost always been store policy not to accept more than X dollars in change per customer.If you want to roll it on your own there is no limit.
What the math equation means:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%27s_identity
for the first part.
Second part is the summation notation. What it means is the sum of 1/x from x = 2 to infinity. This is equal to 1.
lim 1/2x x-> inf = 1/2+1/4+1/8+1/16 = 1
So the check is for 2 cents (-1) (+1). :)
Rolled change is different than loose change.There are no limits on accepting change per rolled.It is the loose stuff they limit accepting.
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