I Am Sure This Has Happened To Others Here.

The manager doesn't have to cover it. The drawer will just be off. The cashier may get written up for it but they legally can't make them cover the loss that is assumed to be accidental. If it happens for a large enough sum they will likely be fired but the money is still lost. (Doesn't stop managers from trying to make employees pay it though)


I just wanted my change to sift through. Haha.

Has this ever happened to you?

I was walking into a SevenEleven and as I walked by the counter I heard silver being splashed all over the counter. Errrrrttt!! I immediately turned and went back to the counter to find a lady spreading half dollars all over the counter and counting them. I said, "Would you like me to exchange cash for your coins to make it easier?" She said why yes, thank you very much. So out of all the coins 6 were 40% silver halves. As I was walking through the store smiling and thinking about the nice score I realized that she had 3 young kids with her. They were begging for candy. So I went up to her and told her to let them pick out all the candy they want and that I would pay for it. It was the least I could do

Well, she was two seconds away from spending it. Plus kids got candy. Win Win in my book. What would you have done?

Depending on the type of store the manager does have to cover it out of "pocket". If you ate at a franchise, then the manager has an income of the stores profits. that 7 cents and any further like it eats away at the managers paycheck. the grunts get paid wages, but eh manager of a franchise only takes home what final profits the store has after costs, including paying the grunts. Also legally he can take it from the wages of the employee. I have never heard anything stating otherwise and unless it is a cash of waste food (Burger King has to throw away several patties at close). The cashier is responsible for the til coming up correct including them losing the money. The cashier also doesn't get to keep the extra in the til when someone says "keep the change" because that money kept will have no receipt where taxes were collected and must be made even by someone.

Now it may be a case someone left change prior that allowed them to have the drawer balanced, but any shortage can easily and legally be taken from the cashiers pay and having overage in the til is just as big a problem for a manager and business when taxes time comes. Unless you want to get audited and have some receipt or proof that random customers just told them to keep all the change.

@n9

true it could be written as a loss-leader type situation, but you cannot assume it will be guaranteed. Also in those cases it is not per till, but per day of ALL the tills in that register. If every til was allowed to be short $2 with the number of cashiers that could cycle through, then the volume of money lost on such already explains higher prices on EVERYTHING, they can take the loss cause they already padded the price and everyone is subsidizing those loses whether it if for their benefit or not. Honestly, why should I have to pay $6 per gallon of milk because they can't better balance a til? If the cashier needs more time to get through more customers, maybe they shouldnt have 12 registers with only 2 of them open at any given time. Hire 1 more cashier, or let the manager do it and do his after horus work... after hours when the store is closed.

I was once the person in Walmart spending rolled halves, which they didn't want to take and wanted to open them to count and a woman behind me asked if I minded selling them. I explained they weren't silver and all were exactly what the wrapper said. If she wanted them I didn't mind It was only money to spend to me. So she took 2 of the rolls I have in my pockets, and the lady between us took another roll. I still had the 2 rolls already on the counter being counted and let Walmart cashier continue counting them to put in his register, plus some loose to finish my purchase. (I always carry a handful of extra halves since I get them by the box now.)

Wanted a salad today and forgot I was out of lettuce, so went to the store with $2 (bills, my coins don't come in until the month begins again) for the $1.01 purchase. Guy hands me one of the dollars back.

well there's 99 cents I didn't get to see, could be a missed chance for the Bombay Hook quarter, a silver roosie/merc, Wheat penny, 1950D nickel... WHO KNOWS what I could have gotten from that assortment of coins still trapped and imprisoned in the cash register!

*Note: A coin I should have gotten in change but didn't get means it was something of either great worth I was intended to get that I wouldn't want for my collection and could sell, or was a hole filler that I missed.

When my total comes to $$.99, they always give me the penny.

If I say "Keep the change" to a hot girl, I'll probably get slapped.

Shadz, many places in my area regularly round cash totals down, as much as to nearest dollar. It saves time and rewards cash payers. Why? Electronic payments are not free. The vendor is charged a percentage of each transaction, a fee that they cannot or will not pass onto the customer.

@jbuck

Well that ain't my area. You either pay it all or you get nothing. Only when its 2 cent range will it happen like yesterday, they want anything over 3 cents.

electronic payments depend on company you are using and what account you have with them. Not all have a per transaction fee, but you still have the monthly cost and machine rental costs which should be subsidized by all company business jsut like any other bill (phone, electricity, water, etc.)

Where you live must take some weird forms of electric payments. I heard a woman in the grocer asking if they take Google, and the manager came and told her no, they take only monetary payments.

I agree. EPP fee on every transaction.

I do not think Shadz knows how to verify the things he hears. I am still waiting for him to cite the state law he claims requires all banks to take rolled coins for deposit.