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Several national stores now do 'Rounding Up for Charities'. They ask you to round up to the next whole dollar amount on credit cards and even cash transactions.

If you are in line in front of a line of customers, you don't want to look like a cheapskate or a Scrooge, so you acquiesce and let them do it.

It's pure EXTORTION and should be against the law.....................

1 posted on 08/21/2020 7:54:59 AM PDT by Red Badger
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Ya I tell them they can virtue signal on their own dime...


2 posted on 08/21/2020 7:56:15 AM PDT by FreshPrince
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If you are not going to give change, you have no choice but to round down.


3 posted on 08/21/2020 7:57:49 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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Or just do not eat there - let them keep that change


4 posted on 08/21/2020 7:58:44 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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Possible solution...do what IRS does. < $.50 round it down...>$.50 round it up. If it comes $.50 exact...give 2 quarters change.


5 posted on 08/21/2020 8:03:05 AM PDT by xkaydet65
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Well, they can’t give away the food poisoning for free.


6 posted on 08/21/2020 8:04:15 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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In my thousands of years with Domino's, I've had to give exact change twice.

Most people don't worry about it, or say keep the change.

These days everything is prepaid on cards, but back when there were more cash orders, I can see this being an issue, just not a big enough one to warrant a lawsuit.

7 posted on 08/21/2020 8:05:11 AM PDT by real saxophonist (Masks are not about controlling a virus. Masks are about controlling people.)
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Oh, PS - Domino’s does a roundup for St. Jude. A LOT of people do that.


9 posted on 08/21/2020 8:07:04 AM PDT by real saxophonist (Masks are not about controlling a virus. Masks are about controlling people.)
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Another reason to go to QDoba.


10 posted on 08/21/2020 8:10:21 AM PDT by sevlex
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Chicken Express tries this **** all the time, they once shorted a friend of mine $5


11 posted on 08/21/2020 8:10:24 AM PDT by mylife (Opinions: $1, Today's Special, Half Baked: 50c)
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I’ve been asked that, but in the past, I’ve always said “All of our contributions go thru our church.”.

Now, I just say “No.”.


12 posted on 08/21/2020 8:12:28 AM PDT by moovova (https://therealjoe.com/)
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If you are in line in front of a line of customers, you don’t want to look like a cheapskate or a Scrooge, so you acquiesce and let them do it.


I must be made out of sterner stuff because I always say “No...thank you”


13 posted on 08/21/2020 8:15:41 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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Wendy’s stole my change - claimed they didn’t have any.


14 posted on 08/21/2020 8:17:14 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)
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Or you customers grow a pair and say no.

Just a thought. :-)


18 posted on 08/21/2020 8:23:14 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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Just say no.


20 posted on 08/21/2020 8:26:52 AM PDT by Eagles6
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that happened to me at a Kangaroo mini mart. I waited for my 6 cents change since the lady gave me the receipt and shut the drawer. she was stunned i was waiting, but she opened the register and gave it to me.


26 posted on 08/21/2020 8:33:15 AM PDT by ronniesgal (Q. why did the chicken cross the road? A. It's Trumps fault and you're a racist!)
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also you could just say “not today” when they ask you to round up. Goodwill does this for their “mission”.


27 posted on 08/21/2020 8:34:20 AM PDT by ronniesgal (Q. why did the chicken cross the road? A. It's Trumps fault and you're a racist!)
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The U.S. Treasury Department confirmed a couple weeks ago that there is a national shortage of coins and small bills.

Here in Seattle, most banks and businesses have no quarters.

Apparently, COVID-19 has caused a massive shift to online purchases and card payments.

The huge amount of cash that circulates through bars, restaurants, vending machines at work, churches, and retail stores has basically dried up because most of those establishments are closed or doing very limited business.

The coins and bills are still out there, but they are not being spent or deposited in banks.

29 posted on 08/21/2020 8:34:49 AM PDT by zeestephen
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Maybe it’s because their employees are lazy. Seems fitting for a libtard organization.

Ate there one time and will be the last.


33 posted on 08/21/2020 8:42:25 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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All these years of me giving them change so all they have to do is give me back bills, and cashiers looking at me like I’m a Martian. Now they want to round up?

Funny thing - lots of time when I gave them change, they still gave me back change!


34 posted on 08/21/2020 8:46:34 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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Chipotle wouldn’t have had a problem if it had just rounded the amount down and returned the customer more change than expected. Would have created some goodwill when a customer points out that too much change was returned and are told that the bill had been rounded down due to the coin shortage. Giving the customer a few cents extra change would be more than worth it if the customer returns for another meal.


37 posted on 08/21/2020 8:48:50 AM PDT by CommerceComet (Hillary: A unique blend of arrogance, incompetence, and corruption.)
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