A lot of the small markets and gas/7-11s have a take a penny/leave a penny
dish, where if you're a cent or two short you can take a couple cents out
of the tray to meet the cost if you're a few cents shy.

I use it and contribute to it all time.

Anybody else familiar with this practice?

Andy

"Andy" q wrote in message
I use it and contribute to it all time.

Anybody else familiar with this practice?

Andy

I've used it also. I think we'd be better off if everything was just
rounded to the nearest 5¢ and did away with pennies. I like Euros for that
reason, especially the E1 and E2 coins.

yes, we have those all over the place in the milwaukee area, and i
contribute if i have a penny!

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"Andy" q wrote in message ...
A lot of the small markets and gas/7-11s have a take a penny/leave a penny
dish, where if you're a cent or two short you can take a couple cents out
of the tray to meet the cost if you're a few cents shy.

I use it and contribute to it all time.

Anybody else familiar with this practice?

Andy

"Edwin Pawlowski" wrote:
I think we'd be better off if everything was just rounded to the nearest
5¢ and did away with pennies.

I'm in favor of that too, but my guess is it will never go over. People tend
to think *each item* will be rounded to the nearest 5¢ rather than the
*total bill* being rounded. The financial impact to the consumer would be
minimal if the total bill was rounded, even if it were always rounded up for
each transaction.

The penny dishes are fairly common around here in small establishments, but
I rarely use them except in the "take a penny" mode, as I tend to empty my
pockets of pennies in particular when I come home, and I don't tend to hit
multiple establishments using cash on one outing. Technically, I'm not the
one doing the "take a penny" thing, it's the cashier who is doing it.

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wff_ng_7 wrote:

"Edwin Pawlowski" wrote:
I think we'd be better off if everything was just rounded to the nearest
5¢ and did away with pennies.

I'm in favor of that too, but my guess is it will never go over. People tend
to think *each item* will be rounded to the nearest 5¢ rather than the
*total bill* being rounded. The financial impact to the consumer would be
minimal if the total bill was rounded, even if it were always rounded up for
each transaction.

I confess to having a problem with businesses/cashiers who insist on full
payment to the penny but when short on pennies will round off in their favour.
I really don't much about a few pennies but fair is fair. If my coffee and
donut is $1.71 then $1.70 should be close enough, but it isn't, so when my
purchase is $1.69, I want 30 cents change, not 30 cents.

The penny dishes are fairly common around here in small establishments, but
I rarely use them except in the "take a penny" mode, as I tend to empty my
pockets of pennies in particular when I come home, and I don't tend to hit
multiple establishments using cash on one outing. Technically, I'm not the
one doing the "take a penny" thing, it's the cashier who is doing it.

I prefer the stores who round off in my favour. Why should we count on people
dumping their loose change to make things easier and faster for the store. Let
them put their own change in the take a penny tray when they could just round it
off in your favour?

"Edwin Pawlowski" wrote in
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"Andy" q wrote in message
I use it and contribute to it all time.

Anybody else familiar with this practice?

Andy

I've used it also. I think we'd be better off if everything was just
rounded to the nearest 5¢ and did away with pennies. I like Euros for
that reason, especially the E1 and E2 coins.


Australia's smallest coin is the nickel. I think it's an excellent idea.

Andy

Dave Smith wrote in
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I prefer the stores who round off in my favour. Why should we count
on people dumping their loose change to make things easier and faster
for the store. Let them put their own change in the take a penny tray
when they could just round it off in your favour?


Computerized cash registers haven't evolved to round in your favor.
Asking the store to supply the take a penny service is asking for
embezzlement, albeit a penny at a time!

The take a penny, leave a penny is a true public service. We're not talking
Ben Franklins for Heaven's sake!!!

Andy

wff_ng_7 wrote:
"Edwin Pawlowski" wrote:
I think we'd be better off if everything was just rounded to the nearest
5¢ and did away with pennies.

I'm in favor of that too.

Yes, prices should be to the nearest nickle... pricing at 99¢ is just
stupid... in my mind that's a dollar. Pricing gasolene needs to be at
nickle intervals... pricing at say $2.83.9 is done excusively for the
pin heads who are so easily psychologically led... I mean like who came
up with this pricing gasolene to the tenth of a cent. And do away with
the stupid trashy 99¢ stores, make it an even buck. There's really no
reason for the penny anymore... nothing costs a penny anymore. In fact
I don't think anything in the US is priced less than a quarter
anymore... and even two bit items are extremely rare... right now,
other than a local call from a pay phone, I can't think of a single
thing that costs 25¢... and very soon at the rate pay phones are
disappearing there won't be any in 2-3 years.

At today's prices the gas pump dial moves so fast it's near impossible
to stop on an even dollar anymore... most times when I try to stop on
the dollar it goes over a penny so I try to stop at a couple pennies
under the dollar amount, then I make the cashier give me my few pennies
change... most times they just give me a nickle... if everyone did that
maybe they'll learn. With many gas stations where you pay first the
cashier dials in the amount that will pump, all stations should have
that system. That penny dish is such a lame bandage on an F'd up
system it offends my sensibilities... I think anyone who participates
just encourages the stupid system to perpetuate, they are lamers too.

Sheldon

Sheldon wrote:



Yes, prices should be to the nearest nickle... pricing at 99¢ is just
stupid... in my mind that's a dollar.

Like $99.95 instead of $100?

One thing I was impressed with in Europe was the way menu prices were rounded
off, and they included tax and service. For instance in Germany, an item on the
menu would be listed for 10DM. It was 6.95 and then have close end up closer to
9 with the tax and then over 10 after leaving the expected tip. Similarly in our
hotel in Verdun there were three different fixed price dinner menus. We could
get the 80FF, 90FF or 100FF menus, and at the end of the meal, that is what you
were charged for them.

Sheldon wrote:
wff_ng_7 wrote:
"Edwin Pawlowski" wrote:
I think we'd be better off if everything was just rounded to the nearest
5¢ and did away with pennies.

I'm in favor of that too.

Yes, prices should be to the nearest nickle... pricing at 99¢ is just
stupid... in my mind that's a dollar. Pricing gasolene needs to be at
nickle intervals... pricing at say $2.83.9 is done excusively for the
pin heads who are so easily psychologically led... I mean like who came
up with this pricing gasolene to the tenth of a cent. And do away with
the stupid trashy 99¢ stores, make it an even buck.

It's also high time the Chinese shoe manufacturers start making nickel
loafers for us!

;-)

Rusty

Andy wrote:
A lot of the small markets and gas/7-11s have a take a penny/leave a penny
dish, where if you're a cent or two short you can take a couple cents out
of the tray to meet the cost if you're a few cents shy.

I use it and contribute to it all time.

Anybody else familiar with this practice?

Andy


With my luck, I'll end up with a Canadian penny.

;-)

Rusty

On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 08:06:17 -0500, Andy q wrote:

A lot of the small markets and gas/7-11s have a take a penny/leave a penny
dish, where if you're a cent or two short you can take a couple cents out
of the tray to meet the cost if you're a few cents shy.

I use it and contribute to it all time.

Anybody else familiar with this practice?

Yup, they're a great way to get rid of that pocket full of change! And
they've saved our skins more than once.

Carol
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"Sheldon" wrote in news:1145725242.892765.20840
@z34g2000cwc.googlegroups.com:

Pricing gasolene needs to be at
nickle intervals... pricing at say $2.83.9 is done excusively for the
pin heads who are so easily psychologically led... I mean like who came
up with this pricing gasolene to the tenth of a cent.

Adding to that what sucker really believes that gas pumps can accurately
account to the .001th of a gallon? It's laughable, but good stock to own!

Andy

wff_ng_7 wrote:
"Edwin Pawlowski" wrote:
I think we'd be better off if everything was just rounded to the nearest
5¢ and did away with pennies.

I'm in favor of that too, but my guess is it will never go over. [snip]

I think it's already going over. My practice is to say to the cashier,
"You can keep the pennies," whenever there are any due in the change.
No one ever objects, hardly any ever act even a bit surprised. So I
have the impression this is not unusual. And I am noticing more and
more often that cashiers will say something like, "That's close
enough," when I get to within pennies of finding the right change to
pay.

I've heard that it costs the government more than a penny to make a
penny and keep it in circulation. Politicians probably assume that
people would object to its elimination, and those politicians are
probably wrong. -aem

"Andy" q wrote in message ...
A lot of the small markets and gas/7-11s have a take a penny/leave a penny
dish, where if you're a cent or two short you can take a couple cents out
of the tray to meet the cost if you're a few cents shy.

I use it and contribute to it all time.

Anybody else familiar with this practice?


I've seen people grab a hand full of coins out of it to pay for something.
Typically, they are the psychotic looking whakos... and they get away with
it.



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