Why do Tescos auto checkout machines always give change in (almost)
the smallest amounts possible 5+5+5+5 = 20

franklinKite wrote:
Why do Tescos auto checkout machines always give change in (almost)
the smallest amounts possible 5+5+5+5 = 20


Because banks charge them for banking coinage.

Tim

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franklinKite wrote:
Why do Tescos auto checkout machines always give change in (almost)
the smallest amounts possible 5+5+5+5 = 20

They don't always. However, they don't have every denomination of coin
available to begin with, and if they run out of the larger coins they
will use smaller ones. I've had 20p in pennies from one before today!

Mike

Mike Humphrey wrote
franklinKite wrote

Why do Tescos auto checkout machines always give change
in (almost) the smallest amounts possible 5+5+5+5 = 20

They don't always. However, they don't have every denomination of
coin available to begin with, and if they run out of the larger coins they
will use smaller ones. I've had 20p in pennies from one before today!

Makes a hell of a lot more sense to pay using a card and don't bother with
any change.

On Sun, 5 Feb 2017 10:10:03 +1100
"Rod Speed" wrote:

Makes a hell of a lot more sense to pay using a card and don't bother
with any change.


Which, while a valid point, does nothing to answer the question posed.

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On Sat, 04 Feb 2017 21:40:41 +0000
franklinKite wrote:

Why do Tescos auto checkout machines always give change in (almost)
the smallest amounts possible 5+5+5+5 = 20

Why do Tesco auto checkout machines not give cashback if used with a
debit card? At least, ours hasn't for some years now.

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Davey wrote
Rod Speed wrote

Makes a hell of a lot more sense to pay using
a card and don't bother with any change.

Which, while a valid point, does nothing to answer the question posed.

The answer to the question posed becomes irrelevant if
you have enough of a clue to use a card instead of cash.

Maybe they are after all just human? Its been my experience that anything
under 10p coins are given out by everyone as nobody wants to have them so
they mover them on.
I also often wonder why some 5p and 2 ps are able to be picked up with a
magnet while others are not. Cheapskate Royal Mint. I'm surprised they are
not plastic by now.
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"franklinKite" wrote in message
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Why do Tescos auto checkout machines always give change in (almost)
the smallest amounts possible 5+5+5+5 = 20

Well, I hadn't observed that. Made me search and found this:
q
What are 'bronze' coins made from? Why are some magnetic and some not?

Traditionally bronze coins were made from an alloy of copper, tin and zinc.
Since September 1992, however, 1p and 2p coins have been made from
copper-plated steel. The change was made because of the increasing price in
world markets of base and non-ferrous metals. The copper-plated coins are
the same colour, weight, diameter and design as those struck in bronze and
circulate alongside them. There is one notable difference. Copper-plated
coins are attracted to magnets because of the iron content of the steel
core, whereas bronze coins are not magnetic.

In 1998, 2p coins were struck in both copper-plated steel and bronze. We may
decide to do this again because, by having this flexibility to produce in
either material, the Royal Mint can better meet customer needs promptly and
cost effectively.
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From: http://www.royalmint.com/help/help/magnetic-coins
http://blog.royalmint.com/why-are-so...oins-magnetic/



"Brian Gaff" wrote in message news

Maybe they are after all just human? Its been my experience that anything
under 10p coins are given out by everyone as nobody wants to have them so
they mover them on.
I also often wonder why some 5p and 2 ps are able to be picked up with a
magnet while others are not. Cheapskate Royal Mint. I'm surprised they are
not plastic by now.
Brian

On Sat, 04 Feb 2017 21:40:41 +0000, franklinKite wrote:

Why do Tescos auto checkout machines always give change in (almost)
the smallest amounts possible 5+5+5+5 = 20


To empty the machine of unwanted crap?

"franklinKite" wrote in message
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Why do Tescos auto checkout machines always give change in (almost)
the smallest amounts possible 5+5+5+5 = 20

because they don't have enough hoppers for every coin

2p and 10p are (usually) the missing ones

tim

On Sun, 5 Feb 2017 14:05:10 +1100, "Rod Speed" wrote:

Davey wrote
Rod Speed wrote

Makes a hell of a lot more sense to pay using
a card and don't bother with any change.

Which, while a valid point, does nothing to answer the question posed.

The answer to the question posed becomes irrelevant if
you have enough of a clue to use a card instead of cash.


You have no ****ing idea - as usual.

You could perhaps chose from:

Card not working - need to pay by cash on this occasion.
Only bought one item : easier to bung money in machine.
Waited at machine to find notice : Cash Only.

plus any other good reasons. quite irrelevant to the question asked.

If you have nothing to contribute to reasonable questions : why not just go
away.

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"franklinKite" wrote in message
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Why do Tescos auto checkout machines always give change in (almost)
the smallest amounts possible 5+5+5+5 = 20

because they don't have enough hoppers for every coin

2p and 10p are (usually) the missing ones

tim


Er so what happens when someone pays with a 10 & a 2?

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On 04/02/2017 21:43, Tim+ wrote:
franklinKite wrote:
Why do Tescos auto checkout machines always give change in (almost)
the smallest amounts possible 5+5+5+5 = 20


Because banks charge them for banking coinage.

It's why they offer cashback on debit cards.

On 04/02/2017 21:40, franklinKite wrote:
Why do Tescos auto checkout machines always give change in (almost)
the smallest amounts possible 5+5+5+5 = 20

Dunno about Tescos but my Sainsburys just got Contactless/Android Pay.

Brilliant. Why use money?

"Nick" wrote in message news

On 04/02/2017 21:40, franklinKite wrote:
Why do Tescos auto checkout machines always give change in (almost)
the smallest amounts possible 5+5+5+5 = 20

Dunno about Tescos but my Sainsburys just got Contactless/Android Pay.

Brilliant. Why use money?

Because they won't take shells?

In article ,
Judith wrote:
The answer to the question posed becomes irrelevant if
you have enough of a clue to use a card instead of cash.


You have no ****ing idea - as usual.

You could perhaps chose from:

Card not working - need to pay by cash on this occasion.
Only bought one item : easier to bung money in machine.
Waited at machine to find notice : Cash Only.

plus any other good reasons. quite irrelevant to the question asked.

If you have nothing to contribute to reasonable questions : why not just
go away.

One reason I use cash in those machines for a small shop is to get change
for things where you do have to pay cash.

But the only time Wodney leaves his computer is to buy food - so wouldn't
have any idea of that sort of thing.

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"jim" k wrote in message
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"tim..." Wrote in message:


"franklinKite" wrote in message
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Why do Tescos auto checkout machines always give change in (almost)
the smallest amounts possible 5+5+5+5 = 20

because they don't have enough hoppers for every coin

2p and 10p are (usually) the missing ones

tim


Er so what happens when someone pays with a 10 & a 2?

it goes to the same place that someone paying with any other coin goes when
that denomination's change hopper is full.

tim

Rod Speed explained on 04/02/2017 :
Makes a hell of a lot more sense to pay using a card and don't bother with
any change.

We never use cash for such transactions and it makes it easier see
where your money has gone.

On Sat, 04 Feb 2017 21:40:41 +0000, franklinKite
wrote:

Why do Tescos auto checkout machines always give change in (almost)
the smallest amounts possible 5+5+5+5 = 20

Because people like my wife feed all their coppers into the things.
And they don't hand out the blue charity tokens.

On Sunday, 5 February 2017 03:05:23 UTC, Rod Speed wrote:
Davey wrote
Rod Speed wrote

Makes a hell of a lot more sense to pay using
a card and don't bother with any change.

Which, while a valid point, does nothing to answer the question posed.

The answer to the question posed becomes irrelevant if
you have enough of a clue to use a card instead of cash.

One is not necessarily buying for oneself.

I have neighbours. If one of them wants to be bought something when I next go to the shops, the simplest way is for me to be given at least enough money in advance, to purchase as a transaction separate from anything I may be buying for myself, and to receive the necessary change to give, with the purchase, to the neighbour later.

Inversely, if the neighbour, who may be a child, is buying for me.

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On 05/02/2017 13:19, Geo wrote:
On Sat, 04 Feb 2017 21:40:41 +0000, franklinKite
wrote:

Why do Tescos auto checkout machines always give change in (almost)
the smallest amounts possible 5+5+5+5 = 20

Because people like my wife feed all their coppers into the things.



Whilst everyone stood behind her that are waiting to use the machine are
looking at their watches and thinking what a **** she is?


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"Nick" wrote in message
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On 04/02/2017 21:40, franklinKite wrote:
Why do Tescos auto checkout machines always give change in (almost)
the smallest amounts possible 5+5+5+5 = 20

Dunno about Tescos but my Sainsburys just got Contactless/Android Pay.

Brilliant. Why use money?

because you spent more than 30 quid

Judith wrote
franklinKite wrote

Why do Tescos auto checkout machines always give change
in (almost) the smallest amounts possible 5+5+5+5 = 20

To empty the machine of unwanted crap?

Unlikely that they'd put unwanted crap in the self checkout in the first
place.

Judith wrote
Rod Speed wrote
Davey wrote
Rod Speed wrote

Makes a hell of a lot more sense to pay using
a card and don't bother with any change.

Which, while a valid point, does nothing to answer the question posed.

The answer to the question posed becomes irrelevant if
you have enough of a clue to use a card instead of cash.

You have no ****ing idea - as usual.

We'll see...

You could perhaps chose from:

Card not working - need to pay by cash on this occasion.

Not if you have enough of a clue to have more
than one card. I have never ever had to pay with
cash and I always use self checkouts when I can.

Only bought one item : easier to bung money in machine.

Much easier to pay with a card, regardless of how many items you buy,

Waited at machine to find notice : Cash Only.

Never ever seen even a single machine that has said that.

plus any other good reasons.

There arent any with using cash at self checkouts.

quite irrelevant to the question asked.

The question asked is irrelevant.

If you have nothing to contribute to reasonable
questions : why not just go away.

Just as true of you.

"Nick" wrote in message
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On 04/02/2017 21:40, franklinKite wrote:
Why do Tescos auto checkout machines always give change in (almost)
the smallest amounts possible 5+5+5+5 = 20

Dunno about Tescos but my Sainsburys just got Contactless/Android Pay.

Brilliant. Why use money?

Ours have all had ApplePay and Android Pay and contactless for a long time
now.

"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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In article ,
Judith wrote:
The answer to the question posed becomes irrelevant if
you have enough of a clue to use a card instead of cash.


You have no ****ing idea - as usual.

You could perhaps chose from:

Card not working - need to pay by cash on this occasion.
Only bought one item : easier to bung money in machine.
Waited at machine to find notice : Cash Only.

plus any other good reasons. quite irrelevant to the question asked.

If you have nothing to contribute to reasonable questions : why not just
go away.

One reason I use cash in those machines for a small shop is to get change
for things where you do have to pay cash.

But the only time Wodney leaves his computer is to buy food

I in fact do the garage sale run more often than I buy food and
while I can pay to any mobile using the phone, its not worth the
delay convincing people who havent ever done that to do it like
that with a queue waiting to pay at a garage sale or even when
there isnt a queue waiting to pay either, so I use cash for that.

And I'm not actually stupid enough to get change from self checkouts.

I do however get cash from the one chain whose self checkouts
only dispense $20 notes instead of using ATMs and normally
get $200 worth at a time, and use most of that at garage sales
because that is more useful than $50 notes at those.

- so wouldn't have any idea of that sort of thing.

Face down in the mud, as always.

On 05/02/2017 09:52, Judith wrote:
On Sat, 04 Feb 2017 21:40:41 +0000, franklinKite wrote:

Why do Tescos auto checkout machines always give change in (almost)
the smallest amounts possible 5+5+5+5 = 20


To empty the machine of unwanted crap?


If they want shut of unwanted crap I'll take it away for free.

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Harry Bloomfield wrote
Rod Speed wrote

Makes a hell of a lot more sense to pay using
a card and don't bother with any change.

We never use cash for such transactions

I do with the cheapest fruit and veg specialist that doesn't accept
anything but cash for transactions whose value is less than $10
and so far all of my transactions have been less than $10.

and it makes it easier see where your money has gone.

I don't care about stuff like that. It is handy to pay with
the phone for stuff that I have to get recouped like the
bits I buy to do work on the house I bought at auction
for the kids that is currently being rented out, with
them still in the state capital for a few more months.

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On 05/02/2017 13:19, Geo wrote:
On Sat, 04 Feb 2017 21:40:41 +0000, franklinKite
wrote:

Why do Tescos auto checkout machines always give change in (almost)
the smallest amounts possible 5+5+5+5 = 20

Because people like my wife feed all their coppers into the things.



Whilst everyone stood behind her that are waiting to use the machine are
looking at their watches and thinking what a **** she is?

We don’t let people stand behind those using the self checkouts,
they stand outside the area where the selfcheckouts are.

Havent noticed anyone dumping their surplus coins into the
self checkouts.

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"Nick" wrote in message
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On 04/02/2017 21:40, franklinKite wrote:
Why do Tescos auto checkout machines always give change in (almost)
the smallest amounts possible 5+5+5+5 = 20

Dunno about Tescos but my Sainsburys just got Contactless/Android Pay.

Brilliant. Why use money?

because you spent more than 30 quid

No limits with ours. The most you might have to do
is enter a PIN if the total transaction is more than $100.

On 05/02/2017 15:39, tim... wrote:


"Nick" wrote in message
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On 04/02/2017 21:40, franklinKite wrote:
Why do Tescos auto checkout machines always give change in (almost)
the smallest amounts possible 5+5+5+5 = 20

Dunno about Tescos but my Sainsburys just got Contactless/Android Pay.

Brilliant. Why use money?

because you spent more than 30 quid


I spent over £80 yesterday (Android Pay) and it was fine.
I'm not sure if that works everywhere. But it does Sainsburys & M&S.

On Sun, 5 Feb 2017 01:48:10 +0000, Davey
wrote:


Why do Tesco auto checkout machines not give cashback if used with a
debit card? At least, ours hasn't for some years now.

Because it wouldn't take too long before someone claimed they hadn't
received the cash debited and auditing the machine to check is too
much hassle.

On Sun, 05 Feb 2017 17:53:03 +0000
Peter Johnson wrote:

On Sun, 5 Feb 2017 01:48:10 +0000, Davey
wrote:


Why do Tesco auto checkout machines not give cashback if used with a
debit card? At least, ours hasn't for some years now.

Because it wouldn't take too long before someone claimed they hadn't
received the cash debited and auditing the machine to check is too
much hassle.

But the next door Morrison's does give cashback, and they don't appear
to have a problem.

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On Sun, 5 Feb 2017 16:53:03 +0000, Nick wrote:

On 05/02/2017 15:39, tim... wrote:


"Nick" wrote in message
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On 04/02/2017 21:40, franklinKite wrote:
Why do Tescos auto checkout machines always give change in (almost)
the smallest amounts possible 5+5+5+5 = 20

Dunno about Tescos but my Sainsburys just got Contactless/Android Pay.

Brilliant. Why use money?

because you spent more than 30 quid


I spent over £80 yesterday (Android Pay) and it was fine.
I'm not sure if that works everywhere. But it does Sainsburys & M&S.



Many people claim that there is a £20 or £30 limit on contactless.
There is not a blanket limit : it depends on how the contactless reader works.

I believe that Boots has no limit for Apple Pay.

Peter Johnson wrote
Davey wrote

Why do Tesco auto checkout machines not give cashback if
used with a debit card? At least, ours hasn't for some years now.

Because it wouldn't take too long before someone
claimed they hadn't received the cash debited and
auditing the machine to check is too much hassle.

Ours do have cashback with debit cards, so that line can't fly.

On 05/02/2017 19:01, Judith wrote:
On Sun, 5 Feb 2017 16:53:03 +0000, Nick wrote:

On 05/02/2017 15:39, tim... wrote:


"Nick" wrote in message
news On 04/02/2017 21:40, franklinKite wrote:
Why do Tescos auto checkout machines always give change in (almost)
the smallest amounts possible 5+5+5+5 = 20

Dunno about Tescos but my Sainsburys just got Contactless/Android Pay.

Brilliant. Why use money?

because you spent more than 30 quid


I spent over £80 yesterday (Android Pay) and it was fine.
I'm not sure if that works everywhere. But it does Sainsburys & M&S.

Many people claim that there is a £20 or £30 limit on contactless.
There is not a blanket limit : it depends on how the contactless reader works.

It's £30 for contactless debit and credit cards.

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In article ,
Max Demian wrote:
On 05/02/2017 19:01, Judith wrote:
On Sun, 5 Feb 2017 16:53:03 +0000, Nick wrote:

On 05/02/2017 15:39, tim... wrote:


"Nick" wrote in message
news On 04/02/2017 21:40, franklinKite wrote:
Why do Tescos auto checkout machines always give change in (almost)
the smallest amounts possible 5+5+5+5 = 20

Dunno about Tescos but my Sainsburys just got Contactless/Android Pay.

Brilliant. Why use money?

because you spent more than 30 quid


I spent over £80 yesterday (Android Pay) and it was fine.
I'm not sure if that works everywhere. But it does Sainsburys & M&S.

Many people claim that there is a £20 or £30 limit on contactless.
There is not a blanket limit : it depends on how the contactless reader
works.

It's £30 for contactless debit and credit cards.

the vendor might have a lower "floor limit". Another thing about
contactless cards, they often ask for your PIN, just to prove its in the
right hands.

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In article ,
Max Demian wrote:
On 05/02/2017 19:01, Judith wrote:
On Sun, 5 Feb 2017 16:53:03 +0000, Nick wrote:

On 05/02/2017 15:39, tim... wrote:


"Nick" wrote in message
news On 04/02/2017 21:40, franklinKite wrote:
Why do Tescos auto checkout machines always give change in (almost)
the smallest amounts possible 5+5+5+5 = 20

Dunno about Tescos but my Sainsburys just got Contactless/Android
Pay.

Brilliant. Why use money?

because you spent more than 30 quid


I spent over £80 yesterday (Android Pay) and it was fine.
I'm not sure if that works everywhere. But it does Sainsburys & M&S.

Many people claim that there is a £20 or £30 limit on contactless.
There is not a blanket limit : it depends on how the contactless reader
works.

It's £30 for contactless debit and credit cards.

the vendor might have a lower "floor limit". Another thing about
contactless cards, they often ask for your PIN, just to prove its in the
right hands.

None of mine ever do.

In article ,
Judith wrote:
Many people claim that there is a £20 or £30 limit on contactless.
There is not a blanket limit : it depends on how the contactless reader
works.

Having a high limit sounds to be like a recipe for disaster. Like with a
stolen card - before that theft is discovered.

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