Why do they round up/down amounts in Euroland?

[moorfield]

I've noticed this increasingly in Euroland shops. When paying in cash amounts get typically rounded up or down to the nearest 5 or even 10 cents. Sometimes I'm short changed, sometimes I'm not. Why do they do it? - it confuses the hell out of me. There seems to be no consistency to it either.

[Mich the Tester]

Shopkeepers don’t like 1ct coins; they have pay for taking rolls of coins from the bank and as I understand it 1ct coin rolls are relatively expensive. Some round up, some round down and I have found no consistency in their approach, although most use 5ct coins. If I had to live from a permie income I might care.

[BlasterBates]

yup that's right most shops scrabble around with a few 1 and 2 ct coins, so they often run out. They're always greatful if you give them change, especially small coins.

[Mich the Tester]

There is a shortage of copper coins, and they generally can't get enough from the bank.

Two Dutchmen fought over a copper coin and thus invented copper wire.

[Sysman]

Before the advent of the Euro you were likely to get small change in another currency if you filled up close to a border.

[threaded]

From a skiing trip to Livigno a few days ago I've purse full of 1 ct coins.

They're nice an' soft and a pretty colour. I think I might use them as spacers on the suspension on one of my bikes.

[chef]

German Jokes Alert

Joke 1
2 teachers met each other in the supermarket at 1:30pm, one says to the other "Oh, you couldn't sleep either"

Joke 2
german version: 2 polish men working on a german building site, it's 9.30am, one says to the other "where's my knoppers?"

uk version: 2 scousers working on a building site in the the uk, it's 11:30, one says to the other "eh, where's my diet coke gone?"


both jokes had gf chef rolling around the floor yesterday ?????


it turns out that teachers work until 1.30 in germany and have a reputation for being lazy and always sleeping

and the 2nd is kind of racist, polish are stereotypical thieves in germany and 9.30 is THE time to have a well known choc bar because of the advert (think 11:30, Diet Coke break equivalent)

anyway, thought i'd share how cr@p german jokes are with you all

[Mich the Tester]

German Jokes Alert

Joke 1
2 teachers met each other in the supermarket at 1:30pm, one says to the other "Oh, you couldn't sleep either"

Joke 2
german version: 2 polish men working on a german building site, it's 9.30am, one says to the other "where's my knoppers?"

uk version: 2 scousers working on a building site in the the uk, it's 11:30, one says to the other "eh, where's my diet coke gone?"


both jokes had gf chef rolling around the floor yesterday ?????


it turns out that teachers work until 1.30 in germany and have a reputation for being lazy and always sleeping

and the 2nd is kind of racist, polish are stereotypical thieves in germany and 9.30 is THE time to have a well known choc bar because of the advert (think 11:30, Diet Coke break equivalent)

anyway, thought i'd share how cr@p german jokes are with you all

For the real comic effect, you’re supposed to wear lederhosen and a silly hat with a propeller on top. You just don’t get it do you, Britisher?

[darmstadt]

it turns out that teachers work until 1.30 in germany and have a reputation for being lazy and always sleeping

German schools are pretty crap, well the one my sone goes to seems to be, however he does start at 8am most days and is there until 15:00 or later. The German education system is not all its cracked up to be

[xoggoth]

Maybe this is evidence that the EU really is becoming the EUSSR. I was in Russia during the cold war and they did that. Frequently you got all your change in boiled sweets.