For a long time, when shopping in some supermarkets or grocery stores, people are still used to receiving sweets than the excess is around 500 – 1000 VND and if the excess is less than 500 VND, it is considered a “tip”. for employees. With this meager amount of money, many people just let it go. But many of them feel uncomfortable when they have to accept something they don’t want.
Many people feel uncomfortable because they feel compelled to accept something they don’t need.
This issue is also widely discussed on social networks and gets two opinions. While there are comments that it’s just a minor change, there’s no need to make a big deal out of it. Others question whether supermarkets really lack change for returning customers.
Not to mention many are wondering if one person doesn’t take 500 dong, 1000 dong is okay, but if thousands of people don’t take it, then where is the extra money, employees? , supermarkets or anyone who benefits.
This is happening not only in Vietnam but also in big supermarkets in developing countries in Asia. In fact, this is just a supermarket trick when it wants to make more profit.
A customer in Indonesia, Ibu Vashnavi, shared: “Most of us accept sweets for change because we think that the candy’s value is equivalent to the amount of money that needs to be changed. However, from an economic point of view, it is wrong.
Since then, candy has become the “currency” used to return customers. Illustration
We have to remember that when supermarkets or shops buy sweets, they buy them at wholesale prices, while selling them to us at retail prices, some employees even return you with very cheap sweets, few people buy them, The value is sometimes not the same as the price retail. There are customers who do not want to accept sweets and ignore the change. One or two people are fine, but when the average number of customers in a supermarket reaches a thousand people per day, the profits will turn into a very large number.”
In India, this is similar to paying change with sweets. Buyers think it’s natural to accept candy in exchange for change. Attorney Shankar Iyver went to a shop at supermarket chain DMart and bought a box of soap and biscuits for 89 rupees.
When he saw the shop clerk return 10 rupees with a chocolate bar, he refused to accept it. Came to the customer service desk to complain, all the explanations he got were because the supermarket was short of coins.
Shankar Iyver is exasperated: “Not only are they forcing customers to buy things they don’t need, they are also cheating. All the candy and chocolate bars that pay for change are ‘purchased’ but not printed items. If invoices are not printed, revenue is not will be recognized, and from there they can take advantage of not having to pay income tax on those items.”
In principle, the practice of refusing to circulate quality money issued by national central banks is prohibited. According to the Consumer Rights Protection Act, which was enacted in 1986 in India, the payment of sweets instead of changes by the DMart supermarket system can be considered a violation of law. If the sales company takes advantage of the lack of change to make a profit and collects every little dong from customers, they can be punished for “fraudulent seizure of property.”
It must be known that the rich succeeded by collecting from the smallest things. Therefore, whether the change was 500 dong or a thousand dong, they would get it back because it was theirs.
Making money is not easy and spending it right is even more difficult. 1 times 1,000 is not much, but many times 1 thousand is sometimes luck.
In order not to lose money unfairly, customer Vashnavi came up with a solution: “Since all kinds of goods in supermarkets have very odd prices, an odd amount of bills is unavoidable. Please pay. pay by credit card, at least e-bank will deduct the amount right on the bill”.
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