will charities suffer if shop-owners do away with the �0.99 or �0.95 style pricing sytem...?

[joko]

will charities suffer if shop-owners do away with the �0.99 or �0.95 style pricing sytem...?

i often just say 'put it in the box' when im handed my change for things...and i remember in my mums shop the only money that ever went into the few she had the counter were the pennies etc that people left behind...

is this a substantial part of a charitys donations?

just wondered
cheers

[stokemaveric]

i reckon so joko i always say that as well...if something is dead on �1 there will be no more odd pennies going ''in the box'' and over the whole of the uk.....that is a lot of pennies.....good post.....

[legendis.god]

no chance

ive done research

and i know



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[daniela31]

The idea of charging 99p is that the shop owner has to open the till to give you some change. Too many are not being trusted to even put �1 in the till, so really it is to prove the till has been opened.

[joko]

mmm...never heard of that daniela..interesting... i had always thought...and been told i guess...that it was a kind of marketing ploy...to subconsciously make the price 'seem' lower ... even though in reality its only by a penny... we subconciously see the 14 in �14.99 as being 'cheaper' that �15...