[ProtectOurFreedom]

After school, I clerked at Famous Barr (now Macy’s) near St. Louis back in ‘67 and ‘68. We were taught how to hand change back by counting up from the purchase price. No cash register in those days told you what the change was supposed to be. It only rang up the sale price. If you couldn’t master counting back change, you didn’t last long.

[Tired of Taxes]

"We were taught how to hand change back by counting up from the purchase price. No cash register in those days told you what the change was supposed to be. It only rang up the sale price."

Same here, as I wrote in post #38 above. Making change was easy when we dealt with cash and paper. I worked at places that didn't even use cash registers. The price was written on paper. We counted the change from the price up to the amount of tender from the customer.

But, some years ago, I took a P/T job at a store. Now, the cash registers are a computer system. At that store, once we input the amount of tender from the customer, the monitor would no longer show the price.

[MayflowerMadam]

I think we learned that in 6th grade. Used it all the time when a waitress.