Asking questions over and over is neither making a point nor explaining it. Yes, some customers will be confused.
Payment is due, in any manner the purchaser and the store agree upon, before you can leave with the item. There’s nothing that says it has to be cash. Until payment is offered and accepted, there is no transaction.
Joey doesn’t seem to understand that or why; I was trying to help.
And do you think it is unreasonable that most people, seeing the prices in monetary denominations and knowing that the currency their nation issues is in those monetary values, would assume that cash money was an acceptable form of payment?
Every radio and TV report I have heard mentions that “Change will still be given at self-checkout stations throughout Kroger stores” but I had to poke around a bit to find it in a written story. It’s only cashiers that won’t handle coins for change for a while.
Seems like if most of their cash customers start using the self-checkout they’ll have to restrict change there too.
Some may, but they would be wrong. So I would think it unreasonable.
Cool. I disagree.
Just make sure you have enough variety and quantity of coins and notes with you to pay the exact amount. Problem solved. The first sentence in the link in the OP even says this.
It doesn’t even take that many coins/notes. For example, eg 4 pennies, 1 nickel, 2 dimes and 3 quarters will make anything between 1 and 99 cents.
your state dosent put the cash on the ebt card ? here in CA they do …the customer just has to sort their items on the checkstand and tell cashier which pile is cash only and which is the food and its switched at the press of the button… some of the up to date registers sort it out automatically also …
And some costumers are startled seeing their shadow while walking through the Kroger parking lot. What’re you going to do, though?
The vast majority of people on EBT/food stamps in both Indiana and Illinois (I’m right on the border, so our store gets both) DO NOT receive any funds for anything other than food. They have no “cash on card” to be used. They get cash with jobs (because a sizable number of folks on food stamps do, in fact, work), or scrapping, or odd jobs, or charity… but no, the government issued card they have buys food and only food and nothing else.
In the instance where are family does get a “cash” amount yes, it would be on the card, as are things like child support funds collected by the state and then disbursed to the child’s guardian, or, I’m told, unemployment money.
Yes, our cash registers can sort out which items they purchase can be paid for by food stamps/EBT, or WIC, or whatever… but only if there is money on the card. For many, their card does not pay for their entire food budget for the month so the rest of the food is, in fact, paid for by cash.
If they have a job, you ask, how do they cash their paychecks? With check cashing services that typically charge 3% of the value of the check being cashed. Or they get paid under the table in cash.
Then there are the folks in the, shall we say, not entirely legitimate economies. Undocumented aliens, for example, or prostitutes whose customers pay strictly in cash - they buy groceries, too. I’m sure we have people who come by their money by illegal means, crooks have to eat, too, and they deal in cash. Employees of marijuana-based businesses might be legal on a state level (in Illinois, not Indiana) but due to that still be illegal on the Federal level such businesses typically deal strictly in cash and pay their employees strictly in cash.
I’m sure there’s even some overlap between all those groups at times.
Everyone needs to eat. Everyone shops at the grocery store. As long as they behave and don’t break the law while in the store we don’t ask. We’re not the police, we’re not society’s enforcers, we just sell food and some other stuff to people who need/want it.
In the Detroit area the 3 or so Krogers I have been to went “Card only” at the self-scan for the last month or so, I assume because of the coin issues. I wonder if this means they will now open them back up to a “cash in- bills only out” scheme.
As I understand it, it is only discrimination if they are choosing to not take your money because of sex, age, religion,disability,race, etc. It is legal to refuse service to people without shirts or shoes on, other example. As long as the refusal is not because of some legally protected status.
Lots of stores either didn’t take $20s or $50s or only took cards long before Covid.
Perhaps they can adopt the practice used in some developing countries – if the cashier can’t make change, they just give you a pack of gum or small piece of candy or similar small value item instead. (No, that’s not an entirely serious suggestion, but I have seen it done in other countries).
If they cared, what’s to stop them printing out or issuing chits or vouchers or plastic gift cards at the register in lieu of change? Why the stupid pack of gum?
Who the fuck wants a gift card for twenty-three cents?
Or worse, a whole pile of 'em from every grocery outing?
I’m in California, and a couple of grocery chains here sell Kroger-brand products.
Kroger owns a bunch of other chains, including Ralphs, so that may be why you’re seeing their private label goods where you are.
I think they’ll put the change on your Kroger Card. The balance will steadily increase.
It’ll add up pretty quickly. Shop 40 times a year. Some days change is 25 cents and other days 90 cents. You could have $25 to $30 on that card.