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Janet

In article >, says...
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> "Dave Smith" > wrote in message
> ...
> > On 2014-10-18 8:45 AM, Janet wrote:
> >
> >>> Actually in the fast food places and other places here, the machines
> >>> show
> >>> what the change is to be.
> >>
> >> Actually the till person still has to be able to COUNT OUT the change
> >> the machine told them to give.
> >>
> >
> > That's true, but I suspect that most people are experiencing the same
> > thing I have been for some time now. They see the amount of change due
> > and gather it up from the till then hand it to you. They may occasionally
> > say how much they are giving up. The old style of counting up change,
> > starting with the smallest coins, to dollars up to the amount of the bill
> > tended is an almost lost art. I had someone do it last week and it
> > surprised me because I had not experienced it for years.
> >
> > For instance..... If the total is ..say.. $12.43 and the customer tenders
> > a $20 bill, the clerk enters the $20 tendered and the machine ells them
> > them that they change is $7.57. Most clerks will now pull out a five, two
> > ones two quarters a nickel and two pennies, and most don't even bother
> > telling you the amount or to count it out.
> >
> > In counting out, the clerk would announce the $12.43 from $20 and count
> > up, 2 pennies is 45 and 5 is 50, and 50 is $13, and 2 is $15 and 5 is $20.
>
> That's exactly what I was talking aboutl, but Janet didn't get it.

Its what till operators here still do. what part of that don't you
get, Cheri?

Janet UK

Janet