Hints from Heloise

Dear Heloise: I’ve just read your column regarding store checkers’ complaints about customers throwing their money on the counters instead of handing it to them. The article also discussed the checkers putting the coins on the bills when they make change. I agree that both of those complaints need attention.

Now, I’d like to add one more complaint to this: Many checkers do not count your change back to you. Example: Your purchase is for $19; you give the checker a $100 bill. Change should be given back to the customer one bill at a time. Instead, many checkers just stack the bills and hand them to the customer. The customer does not know if the change is correct. If you stand there and count, you hold up the following customers. If you walk away and count and are shortchanged, there is no way you can prove it.– Joe D. Bickham, Atlanta, Texas