Candies replaced coins in local food stall

It's actually against the law to do that. The Department of Trade has been encouraging consumers to report incidents like this. The problem though is a lot of people think it's a big inconvenience to report it just for a few centavos. They think it's not worth the time. I'm guilty of this actually. Sometimes to the point of not accepting even the piece of candy anymore. I know it's a wrong attitude. The next time though, I'll be more firm on my consumer rights :)

I think it's a trend now in the Philippines, I first encounter it in a local grocery store. Yeah, it's ok first but now I think I need peso more than candy for transportation fare right.

I have also experience that in the nearby grocery store.I have ask the cashier why they do it and just quote that they lack some change to give that they just give out candies instead of the real change.It is not equal to a peso per candy but the equal change was only in twenty five centavo coins.It is alright for me if it is just 25 centavos but if it is already more than that I would give it back and instead give her some change I got from my wallet so that she could give me an exact change.

Oh yeah, I've experienced this a lot of times. Its what they do when they don't have any change. Sometimes they don't even ask if its okay to just give a candy instead of a 1 peso. They just assume that its okay.

Well i have experienced it many times before as a kid, sometimes the cashier didn't bother to ask you if you want a candy for a change sometimes they do that to kids although they have few coins inside their drawer, that is some bad habit of SOME filipino's that is very disgusting and need to change...

im not in favor when some cashier in small store is tendering our change into a candy. 1peso is a big deal in our generation, even before time. Maybe that cashier is only making an additional selling strategy to make additional profit to the store.thats a bad market selling strategy. Its a form of forcing to take the candy as change even we dont like candy.no choice.or maybe because us filipino has this kind of attitude also.

Well, if the store forced you to accept the candy instead of money then I guess that's the big deal. Those stores should first ask if you would like to instead get candy as change because they do not have enough change. Another thing, they should have lots of change to begin with since that is the nature of their business.

I wouldn't go as far as being really mad for it but I see your point. Definitely,they should have thought about having to accept candy as payment if they were actually giving it as change in exchange for monetary value. You should have raised this question to them. I would have loved to hear their answer to that. Hahaha! Well, this happened to me in some store but it was more like in exchange for 25 or 50 cents, so it wasn't a big deal for me. I would rather receive a candy than have short of change. I get mad when jeepney drivers overcharge me for my fare or lack change.

It happened to me many times, I just ignore it however as it happened only when my change is 10 or 25 centavos. If it's one peso however,that would be a different story.

Oh. I do not know. I do not care if it is a candy. As for me, it is okay if it is only one peso. It is just only one peso but if more than one peso, I would say that it is wrong. Example the change is P100.00. It is wrong if the cashier would give us change, which is candy equals to P100.00, but as for me, I really cannot blame them because they could not give us the exact change. What can you expect from them? They find the perfect alternative to give us the exact change and that is the candy. Therefore, if they do not have change money, we should give them the exact amount of money to them or we should give them money that they could give us the exact change.

This discussion reminds me of when I was a child. I was impressed that one day my mother went to buy in a grocery store. The shopkeeper, probably not having cash in the coins needed to make change, then to my mother gave it to 2 or 3 candies. I, per day of today would not accept candy instead of the rest in cash! Unless this is just a few eurocents (I'm Italian, the euro is our currency).

YES! alot when i was in high school sigh and elementary... if only i was brave enough to say "Hindi! candy and peso ko miss!" then i would say it frankly but no... I was too shy and she say "Candy na lang ha wala na kasi akong panukli" sigh....

im not in favor when some cashier in small store is tendering our change into a candy. 1peso is a big deal in our generation, even before time. Maybe that cashier is only making an additional selling strategy to make additional profit to the store.thats a bad market selling strategy. Its a form of forcing to take the candy as change even we dont like candy.no choice.or maybe because us filipino has this kind of attitude also.

HI there ! well its been going on since i learned to count. Candies as change indeed it can make our eyebrows raise a bit but it is still better than giving you no change at all for certain centavos. example 90 pesos and 20 centavo. It became the cashiers choice to give you 25 cents or none at all. Only in the Philippines? I dunno, but im more you have experience that also.

Due to scarcity of coins like 10 and 25 cents, some grocery store give candies. But I have not experienced a peso worth of candies as change, only 25 cents.

Yes, I had. I do have a countless experience of it. I used to find it so annoying if they'll use candies as a way to exchange my coins. But else can we do, there is an issue about the scarcity of coins here in the Philippines. It's not the Food stall fault as well. I'll just accept it instead of creating some issue.