azzaman333
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What a bizarre practice.
Are you a moocher?
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Leifmk
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It's not a thing around here at all.
Bars have tip jars where you can toss your excess small change and grocery stores often have a kind of piggy-bank thing dedicated to some charity, but you're obviously not supposed to take anything from these.
Largely, however, most people don't really use cash for most transactions; I only do so on rare occasions myself.
Bars have tip jars where you can toss your excess small change and grocery stores often have a kind of piggy-bank thing dedicated to some charity, but you're obviously not supposed to take anything from these.
Largely, however, most people don't really use cash for most transactions; I only do so on rare occasions myself.
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I'm close to breaking even, though I don't use either option much, in part because it's not that often that I'm in a shop with a take-a-penny tray. Occasionally I'll leave one or two if I've already got a lot of change in my wallet. I'm not sure I've ever taken one myself, but I can recall at least one occasion where I was due something like $10.04 in change, and the cashier gave me $10.05 instead and put a penny from the tray into the cash register. It was kind of nice to get a nickel rather than four pennies.
Leifmk
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Following up my previous post: It might be of some significance that we don't have quite as tiny-valued coins as in the USA; our smallest unit of legal tender is a NOK 1 coin, worth something between a US dime and a quarter. Until recently we had NOK 0.5 coins but we finally got rid of those useless little bastards last year. (Prices of individual items can be specified down to the NOK 0.01 level even though coins that tiny haven't been in use for 40 years. When paying with cash, the total sum is always rounded to the nearest whole number, which evens out in the long run; when paying by card, of course one's account will be charged by the exact amount.)
AdamCrock
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I will say it to You governors ! xD Would You buy me a beer ? ... That is highly unlikely ... and that is how You would likely support those unfortunate .... get it ? Or maybe not ? It is understandable and highly very social and the like .... yeah ... that's what I thouht - You just are none too good two penny no one..... hah ! Just like me 
And just what I thought. Well go on than ! I'll be .... I will be just behind You ....
And just what I thought. Well go on than ! I'll be .... I will be just behind You .... Does Australia have a VAT or something like that instead of sales taxes? I figure it's more common in places with an externally-applied sales tax.
CavLancer
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Give and take, no idea who is ahead.
No such thing in the Philippines. Do they exist in any 3rd world country? In the US the person working at Quickie Mart is making maybe $8/hr. In the Philippines maybe $4/day. Would the spare change stay in the bin?
Also, right now there are aprox 44 PHP to 1 USD. Each single peso can be divided into centavos, 100 centavos/peso of course. The smallest I've seen in use is the 10 centavo coin though I have once beheld a 1 centavo coin in a collection.
That one centavo coin is worth 1/44 of a penny.
Just fyi.
No such thing in the Philippines. Do they exist in any 3rd world country? In the US the person working at Quickie Mart is making maybe $8/hr. In the Philippines maybe $4/day. Would the spare change stay in the bin?
Also, right now there are aprox 44 PHP to 1 USD. Each single peso can be divided into centavos, 100 centavos/peso of course. The smallest I've seen in use is the 10 centavo coin though I have once beheld a 1 centavo coin in a collection.
That one centavo coin is worth 1/44 of a penny.
Just fyi.
rugbyLEAGUEfan
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Exactly. A 10% GST on most items (the exclusions make for interesting reading). So the vendor charges a nice round figure and then remits 10% of that to The Man.
GenMarshall
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I don't see any take a penny, leave a penny trays.
classical_hero
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I can see the point of the system, if you are still using 1c coins, which most countries don't do any more due to the cost of them is more than their value. Here most store will round the price to the nearest 5c or if you are using credit or debit, they don't both since thee transaction is digital and thus their is nor physical coins an you can leave the total as is.
Borachio
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No it's not. The sensible thing would be to abolish pennies.
SS-18 ICBM
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I don't use them.
Dimes are handy if you need a screwdriver and don't have one.
This leads me to believe that you never use pay phones... (they cost 50 cents in Alberta)
Borachio
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Hmm. There's always going to be a lowest denomination of physical money, though. And that's your "penny".
I suggest, unless you're going to abolish physical money (which is doable - but seems unlikely in practice), you're always going to have the problem.
classical_hero
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You do realise that this is a form of socialism.
This leads me to believe that you never use pay phones... (they cost 50 cents in Alberta)
No, I haven't used a pay phone in well over a decade. The vast majority of people never use pay phones.
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