What happened to this policy “exact
change”? Have you noticed when you buy
in department stores or supermarkets oftentimes they would give you short
change? It’s simply because they ran out change for denominations of 25
centavos, 10 centavos, or 5 centavos. For example, the total amount you’ve got
was P285.85 and you paid P300. “Mam/Sir,
ok lang po ba kung kulang ng 15 centavo? Wala na pong barya.” And everytime you buy, you hear this line. Imagine in one day how many consumers would
be asked like this?
How convenient! Not
to consumers but to them. They already
earn profits because you buy from them, and they keep earning because they give
short change. In other words, you’re
being robbed! No matter how you put it,
this is simple way of getting more from the consumers.
Capitalists expect the consumers
to pay the right amount. In return, they
must be responsible to give the consumers the exact change! If they can’t fully
commit on giving the exact change for simple reason (they ran out of cents),
they might as well change the way they tag price on the goods. No more decimal
parts! Surely hope that next time they
won’t say they ran out of peso coins.
