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Store Refuses Shopper's Payment In Coins
http://www.wlky.com/news/29661621/detail.html ^ | 11/2/2011

Posted on 11/02/2011 5:43:43 PM PDT by Morgana

PORTLAND, Ore. -- A woman in Portland said her local grocery store refused to allow her to pay for her shopping cart items with $32 in loose change.

The shopper, who was too embarrassed to use her name, said the clerk at the Save-a-Lot store would only accept $5 of the change, claiming it was store policy, KATU reported.

The woman told KATU that she tried to use her loose change at another area grocery to buy her family food -- a Fred Meyer store -- but the manager there directed her to a coin exchange machine instead, where the fees run about 10 percent.

She said the Fred Meyer manager later agreed to cover the exchange machine fee after she started sobbing.

Representatives from each of the stores later apologized for the incidents, and advised that store employees and managers would be retrained on checkout policies -- specifically that all payments, cash or coin, were accepted.

(Excerpt) Read more at wlky.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Local News
KEYWORDS: bosses; coinpayment; coins; impatient; paymentincoins; spoiled; thieves
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To: editor-surveyor
I won’t argue the point of the coins’ scrape value.

The point I make is that as a unit of currency the coins can not purchase any thing at a retail store individually.

Your point simply strengthens my point that nickels, dimes and pennies should be removed from circulation because it now cost more to produce them than there face value.

101 posted on 11/03/2011 7:44:46 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: gardencatz; Vor Lady

No sales tax...I thought that was just a myth. My admiration for Oregon has just gone up a notch. Thank you both for the information.


102 posted on 11/03/2011 8:02:14 AM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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To: gardencatz

Sounds like an idiocy rub-off from Humbolt state.


103 posted on 11/03/2011 8:24:20 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (No Federal Sales Tax - No Way!)
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To: hinckley buzzard

Most states have changed to EBT cards. It is electronic bank debit card tied to a massive data base. It is supposed to keep the purchases legit and cut down on folk selling food stamps for cash. Except the state picks up the bank fees. It is also supposed to get the “stigma” of being on food stamps to a minimum.

Not saying I agree...just ‘splainin’ how it is.


104 posted on 11/03/2011 8:34:45 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (I just don't like anything about the President. And I don't think he's a nice guy.)
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To: mainevet

If Everyone paid in coins, over an extended period, a good manager would change the standard.

But there are so few of them left in the world it is scary.


105 posted on 11/03/2011 8:38:39 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (I just don't like anything about the President. And I don't think he's a nice guy.)
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To: editor-surveyor
Pennies are worth 2 cents and older pennies are worth a dime?

Want some of my pennies?

106 posted on 11/03/2011 8:48:28 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: NCLaw441

In my experience, (from a long time ago in the 70’s), if you went through the trouble of rolling the coins, all the cashier would do would be to dump the rolls and count/verify the coins anyhoo. Just to make sure it wasn’t subway tokens or whatever.

Total waste of time rolling the coins when a machine can count out 32 bucks worth in about 14 seconds...


107 posted on 11/03/2011 8:51:10 AM PDT by djf (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2801220/posts)
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To: 2001convSVT
I think it says e, not e.
108 posted on 11/03/2011 9:25:33 AM PDT by Hoodat (Because they do not change, Therefore they do not fear God. -Psalm 55:19-)
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To: Morgana

I wouldn’t have taken the coins either.

(1) You’re shutting down the line for at least 1/2 hour while the cashier counts the coins. That means lost sales to the store as there will be at least some people that will walk out rather than wait 1/2 hour or wait in the other (now longer) lines.

(2) The cashier is still being paid. Even if it’s only $10 and hour, that’s $5 gone. Groceries run on thin margins. $5 is probably more than they would have made on the entire $32 sale.

(3) The coins have to be counted and rolled at the end of the day before they can be deposited. That’s more money gone, as the grocery has to pay an employee to roll them.

In other words, the grocery was going to LOSE MONEY on the $32 sale.

Businesses are not in business to lose money. They are in the business to make money.

There are some customers busnesses are better off without—customers that they lose money on.

My parents ran a small mom & pop business. I can remember several times when customers got to be so high-maintenance that we were losing money on them, my dad said to them “We’re not going to be able to meet your expectations, it would be better if you took your business someplace else.”

They were in business 30 years, but if they had tried please everyone—no matter what the demand—they wouldn’t have been.


109 posted on 11/03/2011 10:12:22 AM PDT by Brookhaven (Just say #So? to the mainstream media smears)
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To: Vor Lady
The banks here in Omaha ... won't run your coin through their coin counters unless you have an account with them.

So?

Banks are private busniesses, they are not part of the government. Why should they be forced to provide services (which cost them money) to a non-customer?

110 posted on 11/03/2011 10:29:19 AM PDT by Brookhaven (Just say #So? to the mainstream media smears)
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To: JimRed; cripplecreek

The dirty secret of smoking bans is publicly bars/restaurants are against them, but behind the scenes bars/restaurants favor them.

Bar/restaurant business goes UP after smoking bans. The fact is, a large percentage of non-smokers simply will not go to an establishment that allows smoking under any circumstances.

On the other hand, a large number of smokers will go to an establishment that bans smoking—as long as it’s the government that banned the smoking. If the establishment takes it upon themselves to ban smoking, smokers will not frequent it.

So publicly bars make a big fuss about government laws against smoking, but behind the scenes the don’t do anything to stop it.


111 posted on 11/03/2011 10:36:13 AM PDT by Brookhaven (Just say #So? to the mainstream media smears)
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To: Brookhaven

Anybody who tells you that is a liar.


112 posted on 11/03/2011 11:56:00 AM PDT by cripplecreek (A vote for Amnesty is a vote for a permanent Democrat majority. ..Choose well.)
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To: ShadowAce

I have lots of pre-’82 pennies.


113 posted on 11/03/2011 12:32:39 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (No Federal Sales Tax - No Way!)
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To: Brookhaven

You don’t know what you’re talking about.


114 posted on 11/03/2011 12:35:50 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (No Federal Sales Tax - No Way!)
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To: Brookhaven

I wasn’t advocating that banks provide services for non customers, I was replying to another poster who said just take hand rolled coin to the bank. I worked for a bank for several years, I realize they are private businesses.


115 posted on 11/03/2011 3:52:36 PM PDT by Vor Lady (Everyone should read The Importance of the Electoral College by Geo. Grant)
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To: Morgana
Reminds me of the "Seinfeld" ep in which Kramer tried to pay for calzones with mounds of coins (and was refused). (It's at the 0:56 mark in the linked video)
116 posted on 11/03/2011 4:15:48 PM PDT by pogo101
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To: traditional1; hinckley buzzard
You will appreciate this link to a video describing why the system is such a good deal for those who are on it.

And you'll see why we're doomed.

117 posted on 11/03/2011 5:14:29 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (A half-truth is a complete lie)
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To: Sgt_Schultze
Yeah; that's my tagline......

4th generation parasites.

118 posted on 11/03/2011 5:18:56 PM PDT by traditional1 ("Don't gotsta worry 'bout no mo'gage, don't gotsta worry 'bout no gas; Obama gonna take care o' me!)
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To: trumandogz

Do you believe everyone should use either cash or plastic, no checks? Why?


119 posted on 11/05/2011 7:00:56 AM PDT by stuartcr ("Everything happens as God wants it to...otherwise, things would be different.")
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To: Morgana

Maybe the register drawers don’t have enough room for all that change?


120 posted on 11/05/2011 7:02:42 AM PDT by stuartcr ("Everything happens as God wants it to...otherwise, things would be different.")
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