They did it again. The same fast food joint almost shortchanged me for the third time (that I know). They did it before twice, shortchanging me about 20 centavos. Good thing I noticed while I was still inside the store and I was able to go back to the counter and ask for the missing amount. Today they shortchanged me 93 centavos. But this time I was ready, I asked for the missing amount right away and, as usual, they gave it to me right away. Imagine if on the average each customers get shortchanged 50 centavos. It can add up pretty quick.
Then there is the deferred change when the cashier doesn’t give you your change right away (mainly because of the coin crisis, but that’s another story). Sometimes you forget and when you finally remember, you are already too far away and you decide it’s too small to bother going back for. But it can add up pretty quick.
Finally, there’s there’s the combo savings when you order several items and there’s a combo package of items that’s exactly the same but is priced quite a bit lower (in my case P10). The cashier usually don’t tell you about the savings. Probably because of way too many combo packages available to begin with. Again, it can add up pretty quick.
The savings may be small, but they can easily become a quite significant amount. At times of economic hardship like these, that’s quite important.