[Mgs] Totally off topic but funny

[Barrie Robinson]

A $1, $10, $20 or whatever note STILL has to go into the till even 
when change is not required - but with taxes the final price is more 
than a straight 00000 price !!!  If the clerk is going crooked there 
is better chance to steal when till is open!  My father, when 
retired, took on a pub in England (oh happy days!!!).  He told me to 
watch fingers when the register till was open - It was the best place 
and time for the staff to snaffle a few bob.


At 08:24 AM 12/26/2007, Bob Howard wrote:
>   There is another explanation for this less-than-even dollar pricing,
>one I read in Invention & Technology magazine, I believe.
>   This story said that in the early days of cash registers, when
>customers were not accustomed to them and did not necessarily expect that
>they would be used for each transaction, merchants learned that 95 cent
>and 99 cent pricing would usually require the clerk to make change. To
>make change, he had to use the cash register, thus causing the bell to
>ring and the cash drawer to open.
>Bob
>
>
>On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 10:55:18 -0800 (PST) David Breneman
><david_breneman at yahoo.com> writes:
> > --- Barrie Robinson <barrie at look.ca> wrote:
> >
> > > I get extremely annoyed at this 999.999 price list business.
> > Every
> > > damn price tag is in the 99999 class - I mean how dumb do they
> > > think we are.
> >
> > Well, your real enemy isn't the poor clerk, but Mr. James Cash
> > Penney (real name) who popularized this pricing strategy in
> > his stores in 1902.  He must have been on to something, because
> > JC Penney is a very successful department store chain to this
> > day.  I find the malls themselves so annyoing that anything
> > that happens within the individual stores pales in comparison.
> >
> >
> >
> > David Breneman         david_breneman at yahoo.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
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Barrie

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