Shops Who Keep Your 5c Change

I always try and use my change as I get it, but if I don't have enough, I'll use a note, plus a few coins so that I end up with R1 and R2 coins rather than small change.
 
I'd rather have a debit order come off my account each month for a donation ...
 
dude they will not make millions off 5 cents

i never take it i give the person 20 bucks and walk away

i would need to collect something like 10 for a chappie lol

heck no keep your 5c
 
Do you insist on your $100 000 zim dolar change in zimbabwe? Its worth less than 5c!! lol
 
5c is not worth the hassle either way. I do think that the shop should "do the right thing" though and at least offer the customer the option.
 
It might just be 5c to you, but to someone like, say the SPCA, 100 people's 5c is one big dogs/three cats food for a day...

Great, sign a debit order - but get the 5c in the can too.
 
killadoob said:
dude they will not make millions off 5 cents
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Wrong. They do. I have a friend who woks at a big retailer on the till systems. When they changed from per item rounding to per basket rounding the nett effect was over a million rand per day.

They used to round each item so when something cost R19.95 they would round down (giving the customer the 5 cents). They changed to round down only once all items where scanned so the entire trolley/basket would only be rounded down by 5 cents. It seems logical but is apparently difficult to do technically so took longer than the first option. The change saved them literally millions in rounding losses.

I was in Italy before the Euro kicked in there. A shop owner pointed at a big jar of sweets on the counter when I looked at him for change.
 
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The shop doesn't take that money, the person behind the till takes the money.
 
Deenem said:
Don't know if it's just me, but I'm noticing more and more places aren't giving me my 5c change.

Something costs R19.95, give them a R20 note and they close the till.

I'm in two minds about this , a friend insists that she always get her 5c change because 'If they do it all the time they'll make millions', but I look at all the 5c coins clogging up my wallet I think, let them keep it.

So what do you do? Insist on the 5c or don't bother?
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Then the shop should do the honest thing and edvertise the product as costing R20.00! By offering it to you at R 19.95 they are trying to pull a psychological tactic on you to make you think that you are getting something for less.

But if they are not going to give me change, then they do not have the option of using that tactic on me.

It is a matter of principle. Do not offer something to me at one price and then change the price on me when I get to the till! So how much is it? R20.00 or R19.95? If it is R19.95, then please give me my change.

We are being ripped off already in South Africa in so many other ways, to let them get away with this, just means we are pussies and not real shoppers.

Try that in the USA and you will get a *%$#@$# mouthful!

They know how to user consumer action. South Africans are a bunch of sheep.

"oh sorry, I didn't really want my change... I know you just charged me nearly R39.95 for a bottle of cooking oil... but you can have my change as well!"

Wake up and be a man. Put your foot down and tell them where to get off.

The Retailers are ripping us off... and we are just meekly letting them do it!!!:mad:
 
I save it up with 20c and 10c and 5c in a 1.5L water bottle (empty wallet every evening). Then when that is full I give it to a beggar and he's all smiles.

The R5 and R2 and R1 and 50c go into a 5 litre water bottle at end of day and that has added up to R500 and somethign since somewhere in March. A bottle can easily hold R5000 or more I estimate...
 
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