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Changeless bus passenger denied boarding
In message , at 16:09:06 on Tue,
16 Sep 2008, Martin Underwood remarked: I very very rarely pay for anything by cash these days, so maintaining a supply of change for parking etc is a major problem. Or even a £1 coin for supermarket trollies. I've solved that one now by having a Brazilian coin in the car that's almost exactly the same size as a £1, so releases a shopping trolley. It's worth about 20p I think. No fraud, because you get back the coin you put in. Interesting how a device like "£1 deposits" completely changes the shopping paradigm. It used to be the case that there was a "pool" of spare trollies at the far end of the checkouts, so you could unload from one onto the belt, while a companion loaded up another as the items were checked out. Now they can't start the till running until you've unloaded the whole lot and have an empty trolley to use (bar a small buffer zone of a couple of bags-worth). As a result I now rarely buy more that a 3/4 full trolley, as that's all you can get on most belts. -- Roland Perry |
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