• Anonymous Cow-Herd (unregistered) in reply to boh
    boh:
    Swedish tard:
    I hate small change, and I wish we'd lose the 50 öre (cent) coins in sweden, since they are pretty much useless as it is anyway. We aready tossed the lower denominations anyway.

    You're late, it's already announced. They will cease to be legal tender on 30 september 2010. Look it up on www.riksbank.com .

    At which point rounding to the krona will be perfectly sensible. The all-important difference between this and the Dutch example being that the coins are still in use. Pretty much everywhere else that does this (including Sweden), the relevant coins are either abolished, going to be abolished, or have one-way tickets to the bank.

    And to all you other whiners, how often do you buy just one item at a grocery store?

    Surprisingly often. Bought 1.14L (2 pints in proper measures, not those namby-pamby short ones the Merkins use) milk yesterday, at a cost of 89p.

  • (cs)

    I'm astonished by the number of people who claim to really and honestly want a one cent back.

    What the heck are you planning to do with that penny?

    I put mine in a jar. One day I'll bring that jar to a coin-sort machine at a supermarket (Not the one near me, of course, they don't have one.) If I'm very lucky I'll get marginally more money redeeming the pennies than I could have gotten if I'd just spent that time at work and thrown away my pennies.

    We really need to get out of the 1700s and retire the penny. It may have been worth something back in the day, but today it literally won't buy you an empty soda can!

    Frankly, I'd pay extra if I could shop at a grocery store that didn't trade in pennies or hand me a three foot long receipt that I didn't ask for. If they also didn't take coupons they'd be the best grocery store ever.

  • Worf (unregistered) in reply to VRAndy
    VRAndy:
    I'm astonished by the number of people who claim to really and honestly want a one cent back.

    What the heck are you planning to do with that penny?

    I spend mine. I usually have under 10 pennies in my wallet at any given time because of that. Then again, I try to make "nice change" - if it's $1.66, I'll try to wrangle $2.16 or something, to get back $0.50.

    Frankly, I'd pay extra if I could shop at a grocery store that didn't trade in pennies or hand me a three foot long receipt that I didn't ask for. If they also didn't take coupons they'd be the best grocery store ever.

    Wow, so a grocery store that'll round everything up to say the nearest dime, won't take back any product at all (recalled or no, since you never get a receipt) and didn't take coupons. Really? If only the rest of us had as much money to throw away!

  • mickeyding (unregistered) in reply to Andreas

    Just go to the supermarket website http://www.ah.nl and go to the search ("zoeken" for those that don't know how to translate dutch) And do a search for "ajam". It tells you it is a balinese food thingy - I suspect either a sauce or the name of a dish. Hopefully a dish because a pack of sweet popcorn and chips doesn't really cut it for dinner !

  • (cs)

    'Ajam' means 'chicken' in Indonesion. Until just after WW2, Indonesia used to be a Dutch colony.

    'Goreng' means 'fried', so 'ajam goreng' means 'fried chicken'. 'Pisang' means 'banana', so 'pisang goreng' means 'fried banana' (very nice, I should add). 'Babi' means 'pork', if I'm not mistaken, and so on.

    Now you may wonder, WTF has that got to do with me, but you'll find a large number of Indonesian restaurants in the Netherlands, and practically all Chinese restaurants will serve certain Indonesian dishes as well. In fact, usually they're advertised as 'Chinese-Indonesian'.

  • Anonymous Cow-Herd (unregistered) in reply to VRAndy
    VRAndy:
    I'm astonished by the number of people who claim to really and honestly want a one cent back.

    It's not wanting the money. It's wanting to pay what's asked. Round to the smallest unit in use, regardless of how stupidly small it is. Want to round to something bigger than a penny? Then abolish it. Until then, anything else is just plain wrong. The coin is in active circulation - live with it.

    What the heck are you planning to do with that penny?

    Pay for another bill where I'm stupidly charged somethingty-one pence.

    Frankly, I'd pay extra if I could shop at a grocery store that didn't trade in pennies or hand me a three foot long receipt that I didn't ask for.

    That would happen if they wouldn't all engage in the annoying practice that is point pricing. Sometimes has its advantages (99.9p/L petrol was a natural resistance level, and the big chains were reluctant to breach it), but for the most part it's just annoying.

  • jub (unregistered) in reply to Andreas
    My guess is that it was written with a french e aigu (Saté Ayam).
    My guess as well.

    The real WTF is that they spelled AJAM instead of using the official spelling 'AYAM'. The other real WTF is that this person spent as much as 3,89 on food that doesn't manage to taste even near the real thing, but then complains about the spelling on the receipt instead.

  • (cs) in reply to Worf
    Worf:
    Wow, so a grocery store that'll round everything up to say the nearest dime, won't take back any product at all (recalled or no, since you never get a receipt) and didn't take coupons. Really? If only the rest of us had as much money to throw away!
    Yes. That is exactly where I want to shop. I want them to round my total up to a manageable coin unit. Quarters would be fine for large purchases, dimes for smaller ones. (Or just dimes all around, if that's too confusing.)

    I want them to not hand me a receipt, or even print it, unless I specifically ask them for it. Certainly not for small purchases.

    This last is optional, but ideally, I don't want them to take coupons. I understand the value of giving discounts to people who have more time than money, but surely there's a way of doing it that doesn't represent a minor, but frustrating, inconvenience to non-participants?

    All of this would cost me no more than nine cents a week and make my shopping experience noticeably more enjoyable. It's no surprise that I would choose a store like this if one were available.

    (Before someone objects, I'll admit that the actual time savings would average only in the tens of seconds, but it would improve my PERCEPTION of the experience a good deal, and that's what customer service is about.)

  • (cs) in reply to Anonymous Cow-Herd
    That would happen if they wouldn't all engage in the annoying practice that is point pricing.[...] for the most part it's just annoying.

    It's even sillier here in most US states where taxes are added AFTER the listed price. You can go to a 99-Cent store and find that everything there will cost you $1.04!

  • Mate (unregistered)

    Ben P, huh? I believe that should be Ben K.

  • joe (unregistered) in reply to Plz Send Me The Code
    Plz Send Me The Code:
    sorry...I only speak America...please keep your crazy moon man language receipts to yourself.

    And we wonder why the world loves us so much, and crashes planes into our buildings.

  • realist (unregistered) in reply to joe
    joe:
    Plz Send Me The Code:
    sorry...I only speak America...please keep your crazy moon man language receipts to yourself.

    And we wonder why the world loves us so much, and crashes planes into our buildings.

    :::Whoooosh!:::

  • Shea (unregistered)

    2037??!! Quick, let's plan a blockbuster all-CGI disaster movie while there is still time!

  • Quirkafleeg (unregistered) in reply to Anonymous Cow-Herd
    Anonymous Cow-Herd:
    […] If you're not going to use the small value coins, abolish them. If you're not in a position to abolish them, don't act like they have been. I don't much like the collection of coppers in my pocket, but until HMG decides to abolish them, I've got to live with them.
    I like to keep the amount of copper – well, any small change – which I'm carrying down somewhat, though I have to say that what I particularly detest is large numbers of £1 coins. For some reason, when I have a lot of one denomination, it always seems to be those which I notice…

    I'd sooner continue to use the 1p and 2p coins ‒ I've seen the ½p and the £1 note go – though it may yet be that smaller versions are introduced. (Though why we call them copper these days, except for historical raisins…)

  • Quirkafleeg (unregistered) in reply to TheJasper
    TheJasper:
    <pedantic> the 1,2,5 division is supposed to make it so that less coins/bills are needed.
    Fewer, not less… </pedantic> :-þ
  • Quirkafleeg (unregistered) in reply to fahle
    fahle:
    Wouldn't it make more sense to do 1,2,4,8,16,32 to minimise on coin/note used rather than 1,2,5,10,20,50 or do prices cluster toward multiple of 5 (psychology at work)?
    Maybe you should travel back in time a few million years or so and cause the vast majority of us to have either two fewer fingers (no doubt there'd be a few with 012 fingers) or six more fingers. That would do it quite nicely.

    As for multiples of 5, maybe for some things; but 1p or 5p less than some nice round number is very common – and enough people round down when reading these prices for it to be worthwhile. I round up…

    Then again, if a tree fell in the woods....
    The occurrence would be logged.
  • Quirkafleeg (unregistered) in reply to Anon
    Anon:
    Of course, TO(ther)RWTF is people still using cash.
    Why? I like cash. It's nicely anonymous.

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