Yes I suspect it's some idiosyncracy with Dunnes' financial systems as Tesco, Supervalu and the German chains all round up/down.Not sure of the legal position but Dunnes are always 5 years behind on IT.
Agreed although starting to catchup.Not sure of the legal position but Dunnes are always 5 years behind on IT.
Exactly. Five years behind everyone elseThey just launched an app..
Not sure of the legal position but Dunnes are always 5 years behind on IT.
I use all cash again now, briefly resorted to card during early pandemic as there were a couple of local shops doing card only, all have reverted back now and take cash no problem. Was it Woodies I think or some one of the diy chains I frequent that had a card only policy for a while, can't remember at this stage.What surprises me is that you are using cash/coins! Especially in a large multiple. And even more especially during the pandemic.
A number of places I know only accept card payments at present during the pandemic. I’m not sure if they’ll revert to cash/coins.
Exactly. Five years behind everyone else
Do that many people pay with cash these days though?Very glad that Dunnes Stores do NOT round up.
In order to break even with rounding one has to avoid buying one or two items - ie always buy MORE than two items - if they are priced at €X.99.
I find that I quite frequently want just one - or maybe two items - thereby potentially loosing 1.0 or 2.0 cents per transaction.
(I don't think I have ever seen anything priced at €X.01 ?)
So - in a country with a population of roughly 4 million, say a quarter of them buy a single item for €X.99 per week. That's one million cents, or ten thousand euro which has been 'rounded up'.
I would imagine that that's not unrealistic.
So €10,000 per week ends up in the accounts of Tesco, Aldi or what ever - just because we don't ask for the cent in change and put it in the nearest Charity box.
If we did - I'm sure Vincent de Paul or RSPCA or whatever your favourite charity is - wouldn't say no to ten grand per week.
I would personally prefer to avoid 'rounding' and get retail to introduce honest pricing - for example €5.00 and NOT a 'pretend' €4.99 - to make things sound cheaper.
But the rounding also goes in customers' favour so theres no windfall that "ends up in the accounts of Tesco" etc Unless I'm missing something?!Very glad that Dunnes Stores do NOT round up.
In order to break even with rounding one has to avoid buying one or two items - ie always buy MORE than two items - if they are priced at €X.99.
I find that I quite frequently want just one - or maybe two items - thereby potentially loosing 1.0 or 2.0 cents per transaction.
(I don't think I have ever seen anything priced at €X.01 ?)
So - in a country with a population of roughly 4 million, say a quarter of them buy a single item for €X.99 per week. That's one million cents, or ten thousand euro which has been 'rounded up'.
I would imagine that that's not unrealistic.
So €10,000 per week ends up in the accounts of Tesco, Aldi or what ever - just because we don't ask for the cent in change and put it in the nearest Charity box.
If we did - I'm sure Vincent de Paul or RSPCA or whatever your favourite charity is - wouldn't say no to ten grand per week.
I would personally prefer to avoid 'rounding' and get retail to introduce honest pricing - for example €5.00 and NOT a 'pretend' €4.99 - to make things sound cheaper.
But the rounding also goes in customers' favour so theres no windfall that "ends up in the accounts of Tesco" etc Unless I'm missing something?!
You have literally just invented numbers with no evidence that on average rounding goes in favour of the supermarkets,Hallo Deanpark:
My point was that rounding can never go in customers' favour unless they buy more than two items.
If you buy either one or two items priced at X.99, the rounding is always in favour of the supermarket.
So you always loose out if you buy only one thing.
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