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minus-squarecm0002@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·edit-218 days ago because it’s so exceedingly rare for someone to intentionally overpay to control excess change. It’s getting rare to pay with cash at all I worked fast food many moons ago and even then it was like 80% card transactions
minus-squarelunarul@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·18 days agoAdding extra for round change was not only common, but cashiers would ask for it. But that was 20 years ago, when I still used cash. The only cash I ever see now is the one I keep around to put under my kids’ pillows for their teeth.
It’s getting rare to pay with cash at all
I worked fast food many moons ago and even then it was like 80% card transactions
Adding extra for round change was not only common, but cashiers would ask for it. But that was 20 years ago, when I still used cash. The only cash I ever see now is the one I keep around to put under my kids’ pillows for their teeth.