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Yea american POS systems will have to get the rounding off added because ultimately cashiers will get grilled if their registers are off at the end of day.

dghlsakjg 2y ago
Registers are always off at the end of the day everywhere I've worked retail. I even worked as a bank teller and it wasn't uncommon for drawers to be out small amounts.
- rascul 2y ago
  From what I recall when I worked retail, nobody cared until the difference was something like 2% or so. Then someone might care, or might not.
  - pentel-0_5 2y ago
    It was always easy to keep a perfect running balance when the cashier can make change accurately and when there was a penny/nickel jar because customers might not have had exact change. It's only the normalization of sloppiness, or sometimes theft, of cashiers that causes shrinkage in reconciliation. It doesn't just magically happen and isn't a foregone conclusion.
    - sgerenser 2y ago
      It doesn't just magically happen, but it basically is a foregone conclusion. Nobody cares about a register that is off by 57 cents at the end of the day. You're going to waste WAY more money trying to hire "smart" cashiers at $5-$10 over the prevailing wage than you would just putting up with people who occasionally make errors in counting change.
      - pentel-0_5 2y ago
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  - firesteelrain 2y ago
    Last time I worked retail was 1996-1997 and we meticulously had to count the register. If it was off then it was on us. This was pre touch screens and auto calculating registers. The same still applies in the latest modern world. You are off then you pay.
- pentel-0_5 2y ago
  Sloppy managers and lax fiscal controls aren't pertinent to companies that actually do check.
  - dghlsakjg 2y ago
    The companies check, they just realize that humans are human. There are procedures for ensuring that cash handling errors are never made, but they are so wildly expensive and time consuming compared to the option of not hunting down a $.73 discrepancy that it isn't worth it. The procedures typically involve multiple employees counting (this is how the discrepancies are found at the end of the day), or counting all cash in triplicate (this is what bank tellers are doing when they give you the money, they are counting it out for their sake). It is a trade-off that competent management makes, you don't hire two cashiers for every register, and ask them to count everything in triplicate for the sake of a few pennies. This isn't going to conform to your worldview, but even ATMs and automatic bill accepters make errors. There is a procedure for cash discrepancies even when you take the human out of the loop.

dghlsakjg 2y ago

Registers are always off at the end of the day everywhere I've worked retail. I even worked as a bank teller and it wasn't uncommon for drawers to be out small amounts.

rascul 2y ago
From what I recall when I worked retail, nobody cared until the difference was something like 2% or so. Then someone might care, or might not.
- pentel-0_5 2y ago
  It was always easy to keep a perfect running balance when the cashier can make change accurately and when there was a penny/nickel jar because customers might not have had exact change. It's only the normalization of sloppiness, or sometimes theft, of cashiers that causes shrinkage in reconciliation. It doesn't just magically happen and isn't a foregone conclusion.
  - sgerenser 2y ago
    It doesn't just magically happen, but it basically is a foregone conclusion. Nobody cares about a register that is off by 57 cents at the end of the day. You're going to waste WAY more money trying to hire "smart" cashiers at $5-$10 over the prevailing wage than you would just putting up with people who occasionally make errors in counting change.
    - pentel-0_5 2y ago
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- firesteelrain 2y ago
  Last time I worked retail was 1996-1997 and we meticulously had to count the register. If it was off then it was on us. This was pre touch screens and auto calculating registers. The same still applies in the latest modern world. You are off then you pay.
pentel-0_5 2y ago
Sloppy managers and lax fiscal controls aren't pertinent to companies that actually do check.
- dghlsakjg 2y ago
  The companies check, they just realize that humans are human. There are procedures for ensuring that cash handling errors are never made, but they are so wildly expensive and time consuming compared to the option of not hunting down a $.73 discrepancy that it isn't worth it. The procedures typically involve multiple employees counting (this is how the discrepancies are found at the end of the day), or counting all cash in triplicate (this is what bank tellers are doing when they give you the money, they are counting it out for their sake). It is a trade-off that competent management makes, you don't hire two cashiers for every register, and ask them to count everything in triplicate for the sake of a few pennies. This isn't going to conform to your worldview, but even ATMs and automatic bill accepters make errors. There is a procedure for cash discrepancies even when you take the human out of the loop.