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 thought that was pretty ridiculous too. A program that fosters dependence deserves better than a counter-descriptive name.
>> “I know CA charges no matter what store you’re in...gotta save the planet dontcha know...one plastic bag at a time.” <<
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Really not true. LA tried it but I believe that the court said no.
All banks here give out free coin rolls all you have to do is ask for them.I’d assume it was that way everywhere.She could’ve rolled her own rolls before she went to the store then she would not have had more than $5 in loose change and there would have been no problem.She is a dumb woman.
They can weigh them at the service desk they know what each should weigh and also they make you put your name and phone number on the rolls just incase.
Verizon sucks!
I still ask for quarters from stores and they look at me like an alien. You need quarters for the laundry and the stores ARE the ones trying to protect their quarters..I’m for the lady.
I don’t get...someone is PAYING for groceries and NOT BEGGING for money. Good grief this country.
>> “Second she can’t afford groceries but can afford to sue?? seriously???” <<
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Jerks that want to sue a business can always get a free lawyer.
eπi = -1 and the sum of the infinite series approaches 1 as a limit. So $0.002 - $1.00 + $1.00 = $0.002.
QED.
The “e raised to the power pi i” is another way of saying ‘negative one’. The summation adds up to 1. The two cancel each other out and the amount of the check is therefore two tenths of a cent.
I don’t know of any smokers who quit drinking or going to bars because of the smoking bans.
I quit going to bars — but didn’t quit drinking :) — because of the smoking bans. I know of a few others too. I think the colder the climate, the more people like me you’ll find; smoking outside in January/February can be harsh.
My nana lives in Ukiah so it might just Mendocino County.
Cindie
Yours is the most sensible idea. Set a limit of paying with coins at $5.00 at the register and ask anyone with more then that to go to the service desk.
BTW, you can also check out at the service desk.
*DING!*
Only these days it’s a darn EBT credit card so that people won’t be “embarrassed” to use food stamps.
Yet bar owners report a 30% drop in business following the ban.
Yes, they do. Of course refusing to accept legal tender will get you into all sorts of issues a business doesn't want to be in.
Bottom Line the Store was dumb. They got a snoot full of bad publicity for no good reason.
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