Mickey Twopints asks:
Since the Central Bank of Ireland introduced “rounding” of change for cash transactions in shops and supermarkets, I haven’t heard a complaint, nor do I have one to offer. Except, that is, to the signage on display in each branch of one of our favourite German supermarkets.
No mention there of the voluntary nature of the arrangement, the rights of a customer to demand exact change, or of the “policy” of the Central Bank (detailed in their “Rounding – Retailer Guidebook”):
“(the retailer)…could also choose to apply Rounding in a compulsory manner at some part of their store, as long as the customer has some option in that store to get their exact change if they want it.
For example, they could apply compulsory rounding at self serve machines and to direct customers who want exact change to manned tills. In such cases the options should be clearly communicated to the customer with appropriate signage.”
Incompetence or Germanic arrogance? Was sagst du?
Who cares, it’s literally a couple of cent.
Are in a currency union. We should care. This rounding wouldn’t wash in Germany.
this feeds inflation, and we ended up paying for it last time.
ahh now it’ll not do that.
It really doesn’t make any difference.
Sometimes you’ll pay 2-3 cents more, sometimes 2-3 cents less.
You’ll get over it
way to miss the point…
It would make an awful lot more sense if shops would just round their shelf prices rather than the final figure that appears on the till.
But then each item changes by a max of 2c, rather than the value of the entire transaction changing by a max of 2c. Oh there’d be tears then!
Heaven forfend!
Yep… it’d just be an excuse to inflate prices.
Why are you taking a crack at the Germans? Did they do something to annoy you?
You obviously weren’t around in May 1941
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmtNgsYgLfc
Carry on wayward son
And today’s Daily Moan is…
on another note, that chocolate beside the sign is delish, may be the best chocolate out there, certainly at that price
meh
(and I know chocolate)
Can you recommend a decent one? I do like to bake and struggle to find a decent, reasonably priced chocolate.
i didn’t know this – I will demand my full change now.
It’s my money not merkels
It’s ok, calm down you don’t have to demand it.
i’ll ask but I know i’ll end up demanding.
If everything was priced at a multiple of 5c this wouldn’t matter.
Actually this doesn’t matter anyway.
Yay for pointless inflation
Rounding change does not inflate prices, does not apply to card payments and is unlikely to have any impact on a retailers takings. Rounding prices rather than change would be inflationary, apply to card payments and inevitably be solely in the retailers favour. Nowhere has done it.
When you’re near, it all makes cents
https://youtu.be/tsd4lxXiN4Q
but the…what the…yes i know he wrote this with Ian Broudie, but this was a single?
Commission of Inquiry STAT!
IIRC, you do not have a right to change; the onus is on the purchaser to provide exact cash amounts. change is given as a courtesy, but obviously retailers who did not give change would not last long.
There’s a bunch of TDs fighting for that right at this very moment.
http://www.right2change.ie/
Haha excellent
This is the best measure the central bank have ever introduced. stop bloody moaning
+1
And the complaint about the sign? Brevity. he’d also be complaining if they posted a long, foot-noted full explanation of the technicalities of the policy. “HAHA LOOK AT THOSE SILLY, DETAILED GERMANS’