Exact Change Please!

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.