More customer miscalculations..
A customer walks up to my till, hands me a product retailing at £4.99, now the customer (in an attempt to be “cool”) slides a 50p piece across to me, to my reply of “right, I’ll need another £4.49″ the customer tapped the 50p, three seconds later he went bright red and realised it wasn’t enough…
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The same happens to me with people handing me large notes. I have to admit, when I first started in retail, I did make a couple of mistakes especially during the lunch hour when we were particularly busy. Now I tend not to. At all, usually. Still, there are people ready and waiting to criticise and try and prove me wrong.
One woman, who I’m sure was trying to fleece me, had bought a paper for 50p. I’d handed her the 50p change. Fifteen or twenty minutes later, she returned to tell me that she’d paid with a ten pound note and I’d only given her 50p - as if she’d paid with a one pound coin. Being as the manager wasn’t there, it’d have been too much trouble to call somebody in to run a till check and as I was busy - there was a giant queue which she’d interrupted and was holding up - I gave her the change. Seriously though, how could she not notice a five pound note, four one pound coins and a fifty pence when I gave her the change? You’d notice that, right?
I warned the boss my till might be down. I’m not sure if it ever was either. The cheek of her though, interrupting when I had a customer too!
By Lanares on Aug 31, 2008