60 Baht and 25 Setang

[Mac Mickmanus]

Just been to a Tesco lotus and my bill came to 60 Baht and 25 Setang .

I gave the cashier 60 Baht and she looked at me and held her hand out waiting for the 25 Setang .

I gave her a five Baht coin and she gave me 4 Baht change and closed the till.

I stood there and held my hand out , waiting for the 75 Setang . 

She had to call the manager to open the till . 

[1FinickyOne]

. her job is to make the register balance, regardless of the amount - your job seems to be to make sure it won't... 

 

I guess human nature doesn't change.. you <deleted> on someone over a penny and they want to <deleted> back.

 

How do you make it through a day - anywhere?

[Dmaxdan]

Satang coins should have been abolished years ago.

[Saltire]

Great post, made me laugh. I would likely do the same lol.

[Mac Mickmanus]

Just now, 1FinickyOne said:

. her job is to make the register balance, regardless of the amount - your job seems to be to make sure it won't... 

 

I guess human nature doesn't change.. you <deleted> on someone over a penny and they want to <deleted> back.

 

How do you make it through a day - anywhere?

 

   Getting the correct change back would actually make the cash register to be correct , at the end of the day . 

   If Tesco lotus  wont disregard 25 Setang , why should I disregard 75 Setang ?

[Saltire]

1 minute ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

 

   Getting the correct change back would actually make the cash register to be correct , at the end of the day . 

   If Tesco lotus  wont disregard 25 Setang , why should I disregard 75 Setang ?

Maybe she gets to keep any overage? Call it a tip or a service charge lol. She did that a hundred times a day it a 7+ baht tip.

[1FinickyOne]

Just now, Mac Mickmanus said:

 

   Getting the correct change back would actually make the cash register to be correct , at the end of the day . 

   If Tesco lotus  wont disregard 25 Setang , why should I disregard 75 Setang ?

she didn't do it to make the register correct - she did it because you were acting like an $%^&^%&^% and all for a penny.... the register being a bit over is not a problem... and she probably didn't care at that point... 

 

it's not a great job, why make it more difficult and confrontational? 

 

But you know this right? 

[Mac Mickmanus]

1 minute ago, Saltire said:

Maybe she gets to keep any overage? Call it a tip or a service charge lol. She did that a hundred times a day it a 7+ baht tip.

 

  No , Tips are given voluntarily . 

This was a case of deliberately giving people the wrong change and possibly keeping the access .

   This was attempted theft 

[Saltire]

1 minute ago, Mac Mickmanus said:

 

  No , Tips are given voluntarily . 

This was a case of deliberately giving people the wrong change and possibly keeping the access .

   This was attempted theft 

Possible, but to be certain you'd need to know if she was following training (so Tesco are the theives) or she was showing a bit of initiative.

 

Either way all Tesco have to do is take satang off every price.

[CharlieH]

Its the age old argument of "principal" not the amount involved.

 

Forget the amount, they wanted you to lose 3 x more than they would.

 

The question/issue actually would never have arisen if the correct full amount was paid to start with.

[OneMoreFarang]

And then some farangs are surprised why some Thais think farangs are crazy. 

[Mac Mickmanus]

8 minutes ago, 1FinickyOne said:

she didn't do it to make the register correct - she did it because you were acting like an $%^&^%&^% and all for a penny.... the register being a bit over is not a problem... and she probably didn't care at that point... 

 

it's not a great job, why make it more difficult and confrontational? 

 

But you know this right? 

 

  Tesco Lotus were acting like $%^&^%&^% by sticking 25 Setang onto an item and keeping the 75 Setang change .

   If they did they regularly , they would make a huge profit .

For every thousand customers , they would make and profit 75 000 Satang 

   

[KhunBENQ]

16 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

And then some farangs are surprised why some Thais think farangs are crazy. 

They don't get me. Always have some copper in my little "coin bag" :>)

If there is a queue I will abstain from picking for the coins.

At 7/11 they are quite happy when I just empty the coins to the desk for self service.

At Makro only 1000/500/100.

 

I think Thais are hoarding thousands of tons of coins :>)

[OneMoreFarang]

35 minutes ago, KhunBENQ said:

I think Thais are hoarding thousands of tons of coins :>)

I put all the coins I receive in my pockets. And at home I take them out of my pockets. And then my girlfriend puts them in jars and whenever she visits her family up country she takes those jars with her. That money is then used for the kids for school, etc.

 

 

[timendres]

1 hour ago, Saltire said:

Maybe she gets to keep any overage? Call it a tip or a service charge lol. She did that a hundred times a day it a 7+ baht tip.

 

75 satang one hundred times = 75 baht tip. A decent meal.

[dddave]

12 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

I put all the coins I receive in my pockets. And at home I take them out of my pockets. And then my girlfriend puts them in jars and whenever she visits her family up country she takes those jars with her. That money is then used for the kids for school, etc.

 

 

I had a jar full of satang.  I put them all in a plastic bag and gave it to an old lady who begs in my neighborhood.  She took the bag, studied it, then looked back up at me with a look that was clearly not one of gratitude.

[Kwasaki]

1 hour ago, Dmaxdan said:

Satang coins should have been abolished years ago.

They did away with 25 satangs a while back and brought them back again because people complained.

[Mac Mickmanus]

I was just off out getting my ingredients to make a coffee first thing in the morning . 

   I am not in the best of moods before having my first coffee , especially when I need to go out to buy the ingredients 

 

[a3tsw]

On 7/7/2021 at 11:06 AM, Mac Mickmanus said:

No , Tips are given voluntarily . 

This was a case of deliberately giving people the wrong change and possibly keeping the access .

   This was attempted theft 

Yes , I completely agree with your stance on this issue and the manager was probably in on it as well.

I hope that you have performed your civic duty and filed a police report , this shady behaviour has to be stamped out once and for all.

Enjoy your coffee now and have a nice day...

[xtrnuno41]

So it is like bitcoin mining, only for who? Is it for the caissière or the company?

Would  Charoen Pokphand Group be happy with it? Did they put up this scam then?

Could be. My tax collector (government) also wants every cent if you have to pay, on the other hand they dont pay if you have a refund from them up  to a certain limit.

In the beginning (2000) we had 1 cent , 2 cent coins, they disappeared very quickly after introduced.

It costed more, making them and copper could be used otherwise. So it would be crazy for Thailand to have these coins.

You can collect them in jars to do something with it, however sellers want them? Mostly you cant use them.

Showed once when i was on a parking place in CM, someone emptied his coin tray and there were about 20 coins, satangs, lying around.

[champers]

I am amazed that anyone can go shopping at Tesco Lotus and only run up a bill of 60 Baht. 

[WorriedNoodle]

27 minutes ago, champers said:

I am amazed that anyone can go shopping at Tesco Lotus and only run up a bill of 60 Baht. 

That's why the cashier asked for 60 baht and twenty five satang.

[georgey]

On 7/7/2021 at 12:22 PM, timendres said:

 

75 satang one hundred times = 75 baht tip. A decent meal.

congratulations! I was wondering how long it would take for someone to get there!

[Mac Mickmanus]

30 minutes ago, champers said:

I am amazed that anyone can go shopping at Tesco Lotus and only run up a bill of 60 Baht. 

Me either.................................although I did manage to get my bill down to 60 Baht and 25 Setang buying 6 bottles of 1.5 ML  water and some milk

[khunjeff]

On 7/7/2021 at 10:49 AM, Mac Mickmanus said:

Just been to a Tesco lotus

 

It's no longer Tesco Lotus, it's now Lotus's's's's (or something like that) ????

[Hanaguma]

Coin collecting pays for my trips to Thailand. Here in the Land of the Rising Fun, coins go up to 500 yen, which is close to US$5 or about 160 baht.  They add up quickly.  Bills start at 1000 yen (320 baht).  

[greenmonkey]

Why do shops/supermarkets still price sertang into their goods!? Maybe for this very reason... they just expect each customer to not ask for their exact change back... multiply that per customer, per day, per branch and you got yourself a nice little earner!!!

[KhunBENQ]

28 minutes ago, khunjeff said:

 

It's no longer Tesco Lotus, it's now Lotus's's's's (or something like that) ????

Might take long to extinguish the name.

Many of the medium/provincial malls have not been renamed at the front gates etc.

At our medium  size Lotus's they replaced(!) all shopping carts with brand new carts.

Not even wasting a thought about just exchanging the prints on the handles.

[KhunBENQ]

10 minutes ago, greenmonkey said:

multiply that per customer, per day, per branch and you got yourself a nice little earner!!!

60.25/60.00 = 1.004167

0.004167 * 14.3 billion USD = 59 million USD.

I am happy to get the saved change.

(14.3 billion USD = worth of Dhanin Chearavanont)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhanin_Chearavanont

 

(I know it's a "bit simplified" :>)

Edited July 8, 2021 by KhunBENQ
numbers corrected according to wiki

[AgMech Cowboy]

On 7/7/2021 at 10:57 AM, 1FinickyOne said:

. her job is to make the register balance, regardless of the amount - your job seems to be to make sure it won't... 

 

I guess human nature doesn't change.. you <deleted> on someone over a penny and they want to <deleted> back.

 

How do you make it through a day - anywhere?

You're out of line.