Shortchanged ?

No you where certainly not especially if it's happened on a number of occasions and the the owner of the shop could potentially be teaching his staff to try and pull a fast one on some customers. Are maybe the server was the same person and is taking a little change for him/herself in this world of dodgy business we need to watch our backs with so much greed/cheats about . Maybe it was an honest mistake but if it's happened on numerous occasions and that just raises doubts .

hello Simplyd, It sounds like a tactic. See,if small amount,or even a peso or cents,if it accumulates ...how much will she have then? Doesn't sound like a new tactic/racket or what hmnnn,to think that this happens in that particular supermarket. This never happens to me,i never encountered such situation that semi-grocery run out of change. .....but...one of their employee will run outside and will get some change from another store,or,they always have option how can they can provide their customers satisfaction by giving right change. Have a good day

No, I do not consider that being mean, quite the contrary, that is very rude, inconsiderate, devious, to say the least for that cashier. One cashier tried to do that to me so I told her that the change she gave me was not correct. So I stood there and waited until she gave me the correct change and NO EXCUSES. You were so very right in telling the cashier what you did.

I think this is very unprofessional. Just because the cashier doesn't have the righ amount of money doesn't mean he/she can't go get or make change i.e to the next cashier. When I use to work as a cashier at a movie theater if I didn't have change I would ask my co-worker to trade off a few dollars for quaters or change. I just wouldn't tell the customer "well, I don't have enough change for you, so you are just out of luck" they would look at me like I'm crazy. And if somebody was to ever do this to me, I would not let it ride so easily. Because sometimes situations as such isn't always about the money its about the principle.

Here in big bazzar one cashier used to do that, people just ignored because it was just a rupee or two, but imagine the rush there, around 3000 per day, may be more, he was earning a good amount this way hubby gave a complaint and he was removed to save the reputation of Big bazzar. Thanks for this nice discussion Happy posting, cheers. Namastey. Kalyani

It happens a lot i think...and sometimes they give a piece of candy when they don't have loose change. I just shrug it off, but sometimes I'm wondering, will they accept candies if I bought something from them? lol!

Hi SIMPLYD Hey this happened yesterday and they did not have the INR 5 to return . They asked me if I could get some other thing worth that amount... Kind of pushing the sales I asked them if they had a tenner and when the cahsier said yes, I pulled out a pack of biscuits from my list of items and said... adjusted now... take back this and pay me the 10.00 I think these supermarket people are unwilling to part with the change and have always been into this. I dont find any reason for them to do this but unfortunately we suffer many a times... This time I had a smaller pack of biscuits that I could let go off.

I have a rule while i am at a store and that is I am not to be asked anything while standing near the cashier. I found in the past that when I was not paying attention they use to keep my change and then say they already gave it to me. So as a general rule while I am standing at the cashier I am very careful to pay attention. Same as the other discussion if I did not have the full 10 cents per se for the item they certainly would not allow us to just have it. So as a rule I want my change too. lol

i think that's mean, but i think you'd better do that, i haven't experienced it in supermarket, but i have always experienced that in bank, my salary was made out of a check, so every payday we usually go to bank to encash our check, sometimes our check have this cents like 10cents 5cents and they usually ask me if it's okay not to give me the excess cents, so in my thinking i can't buy anything with that cent so why not give it to the teller, i never been mean but my officemate do always argue with the tellers and i think that's okay, if everybody won't tell them they won't change