another grocery store sighting *rich snob- tons of coins-express lane*

[purplecat41877]

The Coinstar where I used to work charged a whole 8.9 cents per dollar ! Oh and they couldn't pay for their orders with the voucher, they had take it to Customer Service and redeem it.

The policy is the same where I work. When I've counted out tills, I've occasionally seen a coinstar voucher in a regular checker till. The checker who accepted the voucher probably didn't know the policy. Either that or s/he refused to follow it.

[Primer]

My big question is why would you wear all of your jewls and expensive stuff to go to the grocery store? Who are you trying to impress? I'm nervous wearing anything expensive for fear of drawing unwanted attention to myself.

Back in the days at the animal hospital, we had one woman come in just dripping gold jewelry. Her dog had been in a fight and needed surgery. When we gave her the estimate, she exclaimed, "I can't afford that--I can't sh*t money!" All we could do was stabilize the poor pup as best we could and refer her back to her regular vet.

(I still don't understand having animals {or kids} if you can't afford them.)

My grandmother used to dress to the nines to go to the grocery store.
Seems like it could be some sort of generational thing, but I'm not sure what or how...

I think it was. My mother used to shop at the same grocery store that Lady Bird Johnson frequented, and Mrs. LBJ was always dressed to the nines, also. No, it was not an upscale market; the lady was just frugal!
Seeing her being escorted by her Secret Service guys was always a fun experience when I was a kid.

[JuniorMintz]

When we gave her the estimate, she exclaimed, "I can't afford that--I can't sh*t money!"

Classy.

I swear, rich people make me crazy. They have an assload of money but are too damn stupid to spend it on the stuff that makes *sense*, like taking care of your poor injured pup or getting yourself or your kids the glasses that you desperately need.

Of course, if they had their priorities straight, they wouldn't be able to own quite so many shiny things.

[Argabarga]

The Coinstar where I used to work charged a whole 8.9 cents per dollar ! Oh and they couldn't pay for their orders with the voucher, they had take it to Customer Service and redeem it.

The one at my work does the same thing, you know, when you're like me, and have hoarded $400 in loose change, you dont' mind the 9% tax because lets face it, are you really going to spend the time wrapping and counting it all yourself? I'll pay the fee to have it done instantly and immediately changed into bills.

The looks and comments I got from folks for voluntarily putting up with the fee was astounding, they treated it as if I was giving the machine my firstborn.

[Anakah]

When I worked in an actual store I HATED it when they'd pay in change. These little old ladies would keep all their change in little plastic bags and pay like seven dollars in CHANGE.

Now I am lucky. I have a jetsort. Though you'd think with those things would be less annoying.... NOPE. This dude brought in two large containers filled with pennies, dimes and some quarters. Understandably yes, I dump them in a jet sort that sorts everything out but changing bag after bag after bag... Gets annoying. The dude had $575 in change! He could've paid my rent with all that change!

Or my favorite: They "accidentally" spilled their beer or whatever into the bucket filled with coins... I usually don't notice until I pour all the coins in the machine. Once we actually had to take the machine apart cuz there was so much liquid in it. I felt so stupid and mad because the customers were mad at ME for THEIR drink screwing everything up and we ended up shorting them money because it got stuck all through the machine.

Or people will completely confuse me when they hand me a quarter when all they needed was like a dime or a penny or something. Then I feel stupid because I have to add it with the voucher they have and figure out if they gave me enough or what their change back will be. THANK goodness they finally gave us calculators at each counter.

Sorry I got a bit off topic. At least now our casino doesn't accept coin in our slot machines--only bills. So it really minimized the coin intake. But it made it suck more due to the fact that I have to add (on an adding machine) 200 to 250 tickets every night... Along with all the paper work.

[symposes]

i used to take my coins to the bank, theyd put it in a bag, tag it, and then 2-3 days later it would be deposited, no need for me or the cashier to count it. hehe

[Drakstern]

The dude had $575 in change! He could've paid my rent with all that change!

Good lord! How in the world did he carry that all in? I mean, that had to be friggin' heavy!

[CrazedClerk]

I've never been one to hoard change, usually my change gets used up at Convenience stores, fast food restaurants, grocery stores and thrift shops.

However my one beef with change SCs is a lot of times they say something to the effect of "I'm going to pay a bunch of this in coins so I can get rid of this change" except they say it so happy and cheery like that it makes me want to smack them.

It's not fun and games for ME when they pay in change, just means it'll take me longer to count the till at the end of the day. Keep your happiness to yourself pelase.

[Seanette]

I cling to quarters for laundry purposes (also have been known to confiscate quarters in DH's possession if we're running low. BTW, the plastic tube those cute little mini M&Ms (I call them M&M seeds) come in is just right for quarters). Dimes and nickels get spent either for purchases (I don't think I've ever done over $1 in change that did not include quarters) or given to DH for use in vending machines. I unload pennies when paying cash for a purchase as much as I can, since the things aren't *that* useful these days.

[XCashier]

BTW, the plastic tube those cute little mini M&Ms (I call them M&M seeds) come in is just right for quarters).

The plastic cylinders that 35mm film comes in works well for quarters, too. One film cylinder holds about $7.00 in quarters.

[Tria]

I went yarn shopping the day I had the bank change that into easy to carry paper money.

Knitter or crochet?