I hear the No Sale key opens the cash drawer without a sale.
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I hear the No Sale key opens the cash drawer without a sale.
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Heh. I was almost infuriated to the point of starting a pit thread about freaking people who jump in to answer a simple question that had already been answered.
Then I noticed that all of those responses came within ten minutes of the question being asked.
I suppose that is reasonable.
Harumph.
Thanks, everyone who answered!
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After that transaction she got her change and left. While I was being checked out the cashier said to a clerk standing there: “I’d like to smack her. she stood around waiting for a lousy 7 cents”
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I’m a cashier, and even if you feel that way, you don’t say it in front of another customer!
Unless you really really hate your job, of course.
(The No Sale key on my register is just called ‘Open’, but you have to click through a menu to get it–no ‘Please steal from us’ function.)
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I’m a cashier, and even if you feel that way, you don’t say it in front of another customer!
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Yeah. Good point. And she said it loud, too.
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No. Very few retail outlets have the No Sale (more properly called the “Please Steal from Us”) key on their registers anymore.
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I suspect that you are mistaken on this point.
Most registers have security systems that prevent other cashiers from opening a register once it has been logged to a specific cashier, but I have never encountered a register that actually lacked a “No Sale” key and I suspect that no such register is actually marketed. (Given the number of registers that do not open the cash drawer for a credit/debit purchase, the lack of a “No Sale” key would mean that a cashier would need to wait for a cash sale in order to extract bills to make a change purchase and then would have to leave the change outside the register until another cash sale had occurred–the latter would be a security violation greater than any simple “No Sale.”)
Now, a “No Sale” might require manager assistance or it might get reported on the daily transaction report, making the cashier loth to use it. Or the cashier might have rung the first item of the next sale and chose to complete that sale before opening the drawer. However, I find it extremely unlikely that a register actually lacked the “No Sale” function.
I think I should be glad I never worked a register in my life.
Lots of vitriol here for a minor squabble in daily transaction. I’m sure the cashier later thought (or had it pointed out to her) that if it had been her 7 cents, she might feel differently about it. Or perhaps not. She may be on the short bus o’ life. <shrugs>
But I learned a lot about cash registers. Thanks! 
I have decided to start punctuating mundane conversations with CUNT! to liven things up some.
I’ll let y’all know how it goes.
I don’t see how that could possibly backfire. 
[QUOTE=pkbites]
You use pennies or swizzle sticks on the side to indicate how many dollars extra are in the drawer (this is known as a “set up”). At the end of the night the number of set ups indicate how many extra dollars are in the drawer. That’s how much you remove at the end of your shift. No record to nail you.
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It wasn’t at a bar, but I noticed a cashier doing this recently when I was buying something. I just thought it was odd, but maybe she was actually scamming the store.
Wasn’t there a thread about how the store should have taken a few cents off the OP’s purchase rather than give him a handful of change? Wouldn’t it have been fun to have him/her and this cashier get together?
Only a slight hijack here, but…
I was once paying for some item at some retail store. I gave the bimbo cashier the exact amount, which included some change. As she was handling it, a quarter fell out of her hand and rolled into a nook and/or cranny from which it could not be extracted without the benefit of a few construction workers. She insisted that I give her another quarter, lest her drawer be short. She was pretty adamant about it.
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I went into the dollar store today to get a gallon of windshield wiper sauce. It’s $3 or more everywhere else.
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mmmmm windshield wiper sauce…
is that best served on rice or noodles?
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mmmmm windshield wiper sauce…
is that best served on rice or noodles?
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It’s best served on windshield wipers of course. But only if you bake or broil.
Your way would just be silly.
[QUOTE=sturmhauke]
It wasn’t at a bar, but I noticed a cashier doing this recently when I was buying something. I just thought it was odd, but maybe she was actually scamming the store.
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In addition to working in law enforcement, over the years I did quite a bit of work in private consulting and investigations. I’ve sent a lot of people into businesses to do shop tests on cashiers and bartenders. The biggest rip off comes when people pay exact change for items (drinks, newspapers, etc..) Cashier just pockets it or puts it in the till and uses a set-up. Over the years we nailed a lot of dishonest employees (especially bartenders) that were stealing so much their actual pay was dwarfed by the amount they’d steal.
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mmmmm windshield wiper sauce…
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I wondered how long it would take for someone to notice that. My wife hates when I talk like that, saying I need a gallon of windshield wiper sauce, or I need a slice of paper to write on, or a measure of tape for the ripped paper. 
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I have decided to start punctuating mundane conversations with CUNT! to liven things up some.
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Well, it is a social lubricant.
I’ve decided the windshield wiper sauce needs a bit of lemon…
Its good with road salt.
I’ll serve it with road kill grilled on the manifold…
yummmm getting hungry i guess.
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In addition to working in law enforcement, over the years I did quite a bit of work in private consulting and investigations. I’ve sent a lot of people into businesses to do shop tests on cashiers and bartenders. The biggest rip off comes when people pay exact change for items (drinks, newspapers, etc..) Cashier just pockets it or puts it in the till and uses a set-up. Over the years we nailed a lot of dishonest employees (especially bartenders) that were stealing so much their actual pay was dwarfed by the amount they’d steal.
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That happened to us. My son wanted to go here for his birthday when he was about 8 or 9. We signed up for the laser tag and the putt-putt golf and paid cash.
I noticed it took two girls to ring us up, and they were doing a lot of whispering. No big deal, we got our tickets and off we went to laser tag.
Ivylad’s laser wasn’t working. He only got off about two shots during the entire game. We complained to a manager who looked at our tickets and said, “Well, you weren’t charged for the laser tag.”
I said, “Wha? Yes we were!” and I told him the total I’d paid, in cash.
Then the manager said, “Are you travel agents?”
Ivylad and I looked at each other. Was this guy nuts? “No, we’re not.”
It turned out the cashiers had comped us as travel agents and pocketed the money. They would have gotten away with it if it hadn’t been for Ivylad’s defective laser gun. I gave the manager a description of the girls. He gave us free drinks and sent us out to play putt-putt while he investigated. After putt-putt, he took our statement. I made the comment that it should take a management override of the register to comp a ticket. I assume the police were called or at the very least, the girls were fired.
Mystery Fun House is not in business anymore.
(BTW, what’s “putting it in the till and using a set up?”)
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(BTW, what’s “putting it in the till and using a set up?”)
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The biggest abuse of this (that I know of) comes when people pay the exact amount for something (this happens a lot in bars). Person hands you $3 for his beer and walks off. You push the “no sale” key. Register makes noise, drawer opens. to someone watching it looks like you rang up the transaction properly, but you really pocket the $3. register tape records “no sale”, therefore the till isn’t short. Or you hit “no sale” key but put the money in the drawer. (just in case someone IS watching). You use pennies or swizzle sticks on the side to indicate how many dollars extra are in the drawer (this is known as a “set up”). At the end of the night the number of set ups indicate how many extra dollars are in the drawer. That’s how much you remove at the end of your shift. No record to nail you.
Sure, inventory will be short, but management will catch a short register long before they’ll catch short inventory (especially in a bar setting where you’re talking about tap beer and liquor shots).
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Thanks, Santo. The one time I skip through the thread…