Anybody notice that cashiers are no longer able to deal with cash?

[Anonymous]

Been that way for a long time. Too much time spent on gender studies, too little time spent on math in school.

[Anonymous]

A few stores I've been to lately don't take cash- coffee house, hair salon, doughnut shop. And other similar places offer a cash discount.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just happened to me in the new Trader Joe’s.
Total was $18.25. I gave him a $20 bill and a quarter. He rang up the $20 bill then got all confused and couldn’t figure I wanted $2 back.
I really had to spell it out out for him.

I had pretty much the exact same experience recently at a different retailer! I genuinely believe these young people are working higher than kites. They’re hitting weed/thc vapes all day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Trump is advocating for a bill that will require all bricks and mortar companies to accept usd cash.

That's rather progressive of him. Usually it is the lower income and cash-job-gig folks who only have cash for paying.

Totally false. Wealthy boomers love cash. Wealthy minorities love cash. Being thoroughly obsessed with “gaming” credit card swiping so you can get a free weekend at a Hampton Inn with your points is prole.

[Anonymous]

They aren’t given cash that often to be fair. If it was all of their transactions they would know it. Most people barely carry cash anymore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who in the world still pays with cash? They don’t know how to handle it because you are probably the only customer still using it.

Ah, millennials, the generation that ruined the world with their whining.

[Anonymous]

My ex used to always tell the story about a guy he worked with in high school who could only make change using dimes. Quarters were too hard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Cash and cursive.

Young people in 2025 cannot handle either.

Both are irrelevant, so that’s fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who in the world still pays with cash? They don’t know how to handle it because you are probably the only customer still using it.

Ah, millennials, the generation that ruined the world with their whining.

This.

[Anonymous]

I work at a movie theater in a rural area. About half of the people pay cash. Our registers don’t have us input how much cash we receive and tell us what the change is, we have to do it on the spot in our heads. I don’t have a problem with it at all (I’m a middle aged professional and this is just a casual gig for me), but I just wanted to put out there that plenty of people pay cash and the registers don’t always calculate the change for you. Maybe they could benefit from calculators, I see some of the vendors at the farmers market use those. Old fashioned, but still works.

[Anonymous]

Yes, notice this! It’s embarrassing for the cashier and the business tbh.
Yes sometimes still use cash.

I notice overall customer service has gone down, like employees don’t know their own products. Few places are still good and I prefer to shop there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I work at a movie theater in a rural area. About half of the people pay cash. Our registers don’t have us input how much cash we receive and tell us what the change is, we have to do it on the spot in our heads. I don’t have a problem with it at all (I’m a middle aged professional and this is just a casual gig for me), but I just wanted to put out there that plenty of people pay cash and the registers don’t always calculate the change for you. Maybe they could benefit from calculators, I see some of the vendors at the farmers market use those. Old fashioned, but still works.

If you start with the base price and count up to the amount given, you don’t have to do math. So, for example, if the customer’s total was $13.65 and they gave you $20, you start at $13.65, give them a dime and count $13.75. Add a quarter and count $14.00. Add a dollar and count $15.00. Add a five and count $20.00.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I work at a movie theater in a rural area. About half of the people pay cash. Our registers don’t have us input how much cash we receive and tell us what the change is, we have to do it on the spot in our heads. I don’t have a problem with it at all (I’m a middle aged professional and this is just a casual gig for me), but I just wanted to put out there that plenty of people pay cash and the registers don’t always calculate the change for you. Maybe they could benefit from calculators, I see some of the vendors at the farmers market use those. Old fashioned, but still works.

If you start with the base price and count up to the amount given, you don’t have to do math. So, for example, if the customer’s total was $13.65 and they gave you $20, you start at $13.65, give them a dime and count $13.75. Add a quarter and count $14.00. Add a dollar and count $15.00. Add a five and count $20.00.

To make the math easier I just use pennies. $13.66, $13.67, ...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just happened to me in the new Trader Joe’s.
Total was $18.25. I gave him a $20 bill and a quarter. He rang up the $20 bill then got all confused and couldn’t figure I wanted $2 back.
I really had to spell it out out for him.

To be fair, I made this same mistake at my first job 25 years ago when I was 16. It sounds silly, but the manager hadn't trained me on this situation and I'd never paid like that.

[Anonymous]

This is nothing new.
As a teenager in 1984, I was hired as a cashier at a store with an old-fashioned register, and had no idea how to count back change. It never occurred to me since even then cashiers usually could input the money given and the register would tell you how much change. After a tough day of scribbling equations on a scrap piece of paper, I told my dad that evening and he taught me how to do it.