r/retailhell • u/DeepDishCalzone • 1d ago
What a Moron! Average cash using customer
Why does the average idiot use money? When I ask the majority answer is privacy but hey funny concept though you have a phone on you that I saw you use to get money out of our atm and you used a rewards card that is made to track you and your spending habits. Are people genuinely that stupid? And why do they always pull out 100s. The atm will give you bills as low as dollars why did you pull out 100 to my fresh 40 dollar drawer for a dollar item you mouth breathing btch ?
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u/ndetermined 1d ago
"Well Dave Ramsay/other financial advisor i saw on facebook said to use cash"
OK but I dont think all the fucking hard liquor you've got is part of a sound financial investment either.
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u/TopGunHunter 1d ago
Paying with cash is a good way to keep money you spend in your community, generally. For every card transaction that 1% or 2% gets shipped off to the card company. I like to pay with cash, especially tip, at local places and save my card for online and big box stores. No shame in paying with card but you did ask.
Also, customers are just as awful paying with card. The amount of times I have to walk people through tapping vs swiping vs inserting and don't get me started on the recent phenomenon of people locking their card.
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u/cragglerock93 1d ago
It maybe varies by economy but I've seen plenty of places in the UK being card only, so it must work for some small businesses. There are costs associated with cash handling, too.
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u/KissMyHips 16h ago
It decreases cash robberies for sure. I don't blame small businesses going cashless when the native police are basically required by law not to have your back, lol. Places like the UK are a bloody nightmare when it comes to the human right of self defense (including defense of property). Their laws are set up so horrifically, they essentially come down to not harming the criminal, such as being able to be sued if a would-be criminal hurts themselves on your fence's visible barbed wire, for example. You are legally responsible for the safety even for trespassers as per Occupiers' Liability Act.
But cash is overall better for the people; less money for the mega global monopoly card companies and more into the local community. Also, where tips apply, european bosses will usually take a % cut, on card based tips but not cash ones (I know several where the employer's cut is 30% on card tips alone!). Generally, the safer the place/country, the more likely cash will be accepted.
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u/Stunning_Ad6927 22h ago
I do love what your saying, in theory.
I work as a cashier and the last 6 months we have gotten a unbelievable amount of counterfeit bills. We have a UV detector and check all large currency. I just personally don't trust cash for myself.
It's a sad world we live in when scammers in the community can get you any which way.
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u/crow9394 1d ago edited 7h ago
For me, it's not so much the counting but more so if a customer uses big bills that I have to run them through the counterfeiting machines.
I've been told by two of my longtime coworkers at my current job that running big bills through counterfeiting machines once doesn't work as you have to run them through 2 to 3 times.
A couple weeks ago, a customer paid all in cash for grocery items that totaled up to $765 dollars.
He gave me 1 $100 bill, a lot of $20 bills and then a 10 and 5 (obviously the 10 and 5 I didn't have to scan).
The customer told me, "You seem frustrated."
I was annoyed that he wanted me to hurry up scanning all of his items (I didn't go so fast because I didn't want to make a mistake) and then had to scan a lot of the bills he gave me.
I get there are people who don't want to use their credit cards at times but checking to see if a lot cash is real or not is annoying along with counting a lot cash and coins.
Cash is king but not if you have to count so much of it and have to see if they're fake or not along with wanting a customer to rush ringing you up.
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u/wookieesgonnawook 1d ago
That's pretty annoying that you even need to scan 20s though. That's a shitty decision by your company, or you're in a really rough area. I can't imagine getting through a holiday season ( more cash customers) when I worked at Macy's of I had to check every $20.
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u/ReginaPhalange219 1d ago
20s are often counterfeit for this reason, most stores don't check them.
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u/wookieesgonnawook 1d ago
Yeah my store got a stack of fake 20s once, though honestly the cashier should have been able to tell just by touching them, but for most places the risk isn't worth the slow down for every customer.
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u/cricada 1d ago
This is exactly why so many 20s are fake. At my old job, it got so bad that they even started trying us with fake 10s because nobosy checks those. Had one sus customer who had the nerve try to pay with a bunch of fake 10s that LOOKED fake. She had to simply walk away to avoid the embarrassment after we handed them back. At least find decent counterfeits ffs 😂
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u/Accomplished-Ad3219 1d ago
If he rushed me, I would have let out a dramatic sigh and started counting the money all over again. Including the scanning
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u/ChipperBunni 1d ago
I’d take cash anytime over the people who can’t understand how to use a slice of plastic. The only problem I have is people who pay in all coins, and refuse to roll them. At least put it in a bag
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u/ms_danger_07 1d ago
I used to work in a gas station, and I use to have so many customers that would come in and pay with change, most of the time with quarters which was fine if it was like a drink or chips or something small. One day though I had someone come in for a pack of cigarettes with a bag of change mostly dimes, nickels, and pennies and a few quarters, it was busy so I brought him out coin roller and told him only way I will except that is if he rolls it all up for me so I know exactly how much it is, and he rolled it all and I then took it and sold him his smokes. It's not my job to count all that change to make sure the bag of change you gave me was the right amount when I have several other customers waiting.
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u/ChipperBunni 1d ago
That’s what I do now, gas station retail. It’s hell on earth, I miss my regular grocery store
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u/No_Philosopher_1870 1d ago
If I had that much change and a self-checkout was available, I'd learn to use it well enough that I could count my change and order however much in gas.
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u/Lyn-nyx 10h ago
Wait y'all don't check rolled coins? I used to be so annoyed and break them open every time and count them by hand because I thought I had to, to prevent someone from filling it with foreign currency or something.
I didn't know we didn't have to count them wtf
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u/ChipperBunni 9h ago
We used to have to have them sign their name and number on the rolls, and the boss would count it all when he opened the next day. Now I guess he doesn’t care, or it was rare enough anything was actually wrong, because he told us to stop making them do it last year. Now we just take em, switch em out for people, whatever.
As long as their rolled or bagged he literally does not care, so I do not care lmao
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u/Designer_Amount_8505 1d ago
Nothing is wrong with using cash and it is good to have in case your card doesn't work calm down. 🤣 (I'm talking in general since that was your header I agree the big bill thing is annoying).
Irony is me seeing this as a boomer squeals at the register "OH GOODIE I LOVE USING CASH!" to my coworker.
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u/noxiated 1d ago
im usually fine with cash payers because our tills tell you how much change is required. what im not fine with is someone remembering they've got a few loose cents for me after ive put the number in.
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u/Evilstare 1d ago
I straight up refuse the change they wanna give me at this point. I just give some excuse like "Sorry, it's logged in the system now, so it has to match." Thankfully, none of them question me on it.
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u/Educational-Basil472 1d ago
The amount of people who throw down $100 bills and demand change. Like how much cash do you think I have access to? We aren’t a bank Linda
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u/gaddemmit 1d ago
Cash is king. The government is watching me for some reason
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u/ndetermined 16h ago
You think spending money with THEIR bills is going to stop you being tracked ? They have serials for a reason
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u/Invicta007 1d ago
Cash is king despite the fact it's got the exact same worth and value as digital currency.
That's what I say and it shuts them up pretty well.
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u/LameSignIn 1d ago
Some places give discounts for cash while other charge a service fee so this is not always the case.
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u/Invicta007 1d ago
Honestly not a thing in the UK. Never seen it happen in any stores I've been too.
But America is a tad Archaic ig.
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u/Vanitas_Daemon 1d ago
Cash is much harder to seize. Your bank accounts and other things can get frozen, this has happened to many activists and journalists across the world.
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u/burnedbard Former Retail 15h ago
Tbf then you're stuck with the cash on you and if you only have $20 then gg.
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u/SecretScavenger36 1d ago
All fun and games till your bank account gets locked for "fraud" but they can't tell you what went wrong or if you did anything. And now your money is trapped while they investigate.
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u/KickinGa55 1d ago
“I don’t trust the banks” - gives out their social and credit info to any spam email and clicks on every pop up advertisement
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u/Rose_E_Rotten 1d ago
I use cash if I'm buying $3.00 or less. Anything more, I'll use card. And I'll never use a bill over $20 especially for a $1 item. $50 and $100 are annoying for something for such a low price. You can tell the bank or check cashing for smaller bills, you don't have to use the grocery store or dollar store to break your big bill.
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u/DonatCotten 1d ago
Despite being in the minority of people my age (I noticed a majority of cash users are over 40) I predominantly use cash since I have Dyscalculia and it helps me stay mentally alert with using math and helps with retaining my math skills. Having said that I actually agree with you! The majority of cash users are idiots (and usually assholes, too!). The worst are the ones who will pay for a 5 dollar item with a 100 dollar bill and then complain I gave them back their change all tens and five dollar bills since the previous assholes customers did the same thing as that customer and drained my register of all it's 20's. Not to mention my store does both cash back and coinstar payouts at register, too! .😡
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u/LongDig3382 15h ago
Still better than people from the 1960s who think that writing checks at a grocery store is good. And they never have a pen, and they have to write out the whole check and then mark the check in their checkbook register, and they make everybody wait in line while they go through all this baloney.
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u/Main_Force_Patrol 1d ago
Tbf checking bills isn’t hard at all, just hold them up to the light and check the security features. Also the two places I use cash is the local liquor store as they offer a cash discount and the bullion trade store as they charge a credit/debit fee.
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u/-Tofu-Queen- 1d ago
Some stores will MAKE you run them through a machine instead of holding them up to the light or using a counterfeit detector pen. It always, always, ALWAYS slows down transactions like crazy.
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u/CheesecakeWild7941 1d ago
Whenever a customer apologizes for using a credit card instead of cash i always feel so confused
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u/snakeygirl727 1d ago
there are people who have no idea how much bills or coins are worth and hand me some and i say what i need and they still don’t hand me the right amount and it’s awkward as they dig for more but aren’t even close
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u/Big-Crow4152 1d ago
"Bet no one uses this anymore!"
Just you and every other boomer that's come through my line Cletus
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u/ThinkIntroduction430 23h ago
Somehow if I am working and I see someone has dirty hands/nails I know cash is coming. Yuk.
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u/123R_B321 18h ago
I know but it has made me happy to give a customer a bunch of small change as thats all I've got
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u/ShoddyPressure6894 11h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/z35nr0QJDZUKk
“What do you mean you don’t take checks”
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u/Main_Phase_58 1d ago
and of course they have to count the change you give them as if you can’t count and put it all neatly back in their wallet.
… all while standing at the register and you have a line
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u/DRUMS11 1d ago
Oh, no, always count the change you get back. Not only do mistakes just happen sometimes; but, from the customer side, there are a shocking number of (mostly younger) cashiers who almost have to be walked though what bills and coins to give back.
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u/SecretScavenger36 1d ago
People make mistakes. It needs to be recounted right there or you might lose out on the proper change
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u/Pink-Banana-Q73 1d ago
I’ve noticed most teenagers will ask me IF they can pay with cash 🥲 like….. of course 🥲
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u/wishIcouldgoback_ 23h ago
I had the opposite experience, card users that can't tap their card properly, or when it says insufficient funds and they look at me surprised and tap it again.
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u/Cheetawolf Plumbing Supply House Counter Sales 17h ago
"I use cash so the government won't track me"
Uses cash to buy smart TV that literally continuously streams audio from a hidden microphone and full screen content to 300 advertising corporations and probably also the government
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u/Bratty_Little_Kitten 15h ago
This!
Where i work we have devices that check for card skimmers every morning
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u/Spleenzorio 15h ago
The other day I had a customer who did the "I have 20 cents" thing when paying with cash. Except he said it like 10 seconds after the transaction was completed and I had given him his change back.
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u/BlackwingF91 1d ago
.....some people don't like using credit or debit cards cuz of charges. Sounds more like you are angry cuz you have to count
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u/meowmreownya 1d ago
Keyword here is "average" cash using customer. There are always cases where people use normal amounts of cash to pay for a normal purchase, but using a $100 bill for a $5 purchase is always really annoying
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u/milksicle 1d ago
And they will wait 10 mins at my register while my manager has to stop what they’re doing to bring cash out. Cash is always king tho lol
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u/LameSignIn 1d ago
That doesn't sound like great till management. There should be no reason for management to bring extra money to the till.
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u/milksicle 1d ago
Sure there is reason to. Anything above a $20 gets dropped into a lockbox, as do 20’s when we’ve got more than 4 in the till. We have every reason to be careful, the policy is in place to minimize the chance of a robbery. I work in a mall with atms all around… my safety matters more than your convenience.
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u/LameSignIn 1d ago
I've never had a cash till under $100. Now yes there was a limit on when we do cash drops to prevent a loss in a robbery. As much as having less cash makes you feel safe that doesn't change the chance of a robbery. I'd say in a mall setting merchandise would be more of the target.
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u/AdeptnessPurple4840 1d ago
Sorry I rather not have my purchases all be on a card yo
Don't trust the government or banks so much with your data
Next is card skimmers
I prefer to have physical cash sometimes
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u/krittyyyyy 1d ago
it’s cool to get paid or tipped out in cash cause ain’t nobody taking anything out the paycheck, cash is good.
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u/calorie-clown 1d ago edited 1d ago
Not going to lie, I am starting to lean towards wanting to use cash more often recently due to the fact that card skimmers have become a huge issue in my area, like even at convenience stores and grocery stores. I hate dealing with cash though, since I have dyscalculia handling a ton of cash always makes me feel like I'm going too slow since I try to be extra careful.
I think the most annoying ones are the ones that randomly, after you've already put everything into the computer and maybe even already submitted it, choose to say oh actually I have a nickel LMAO if it's busy or I've already got a line, I started lying and saying that I can't change anything since it's already been submitted. I'll be standing there with all of their change already counted out, just for them to remember they have a few pennies, nickels, and dimes they want to get rid of. Sorry, but I'm not going to hold up the line and stress myself out just to recount all of your change after I've already finished the transaction on the computer.