Shops/coffe shops that don't have the correct change.

[Mugshot]

They've looked at the amount of extra money petrol stations make by setting their pumps to ALWAYS go 1p over and decided it's worth a punt.

 

[Fnaar]

In a similar vein, I complimented a bloke behind the bar recently for topping up my pint after the head had settled. We had a little discussion about it...I said was it just me but am I getting served with oversize heads more often lately. He said no, it's not just me - staff are told, informally, to serve short measure, topping up without protest if there's a protest. "I don't do it. I serve a pint like I'd like to get one. But it's easy for me - I've been here ages and they can hardly sack me. But the younger ones feel under pressure..."

And while I'm on the subject, where outside the 1st world are people happy to pay full price and get less than they paid for? Or pay more than full price for what they receive?

Three stories, kinda related:

1) At a local Wetherspoons, I accidentally knocked a 'just served' pint, spilling the top 1/3 of it. I asked barman to top it up (it had been served about 5 seconds previously) and was told it was company policy not to do so.

2) I used to live in Spain, a long time ago, but for nearly three years. On many occasions, I've seen drinks spilled by customers in bars, and the whole drink invariably gets replaced without question, even without the customer asking.

3) However, they don't know how to pour a beer in yer Spain. We coached our local barman in not pulling beer with half the glass being froth. We called it 'low tide' (marea baja) and he passed his skills on to his fellow barmen. Who applied them only to us Brits, no doubt.

 

[Markymark]

Surely the whole transaction thing works best if you're facing the staff though.

Yeah, and I turned around to say...
What, were you facing the other way?

 

[Archie_tect]

The biggest question asked in a 99p shop, is how much is this?

The only line I liked that Catherine Tate did was in a PoundShop sketch...
"How much is that?
"£1"
"Well how much is that... and this?"
"Everything in the shop's a £1"
"Really, £1 ... for everything? ...that's very reasonable!"

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

I like the american give a "penny take a penny" bowls at the payment desk.

my old petrol station used to have one of those

 

[stephec]

In a similar vein, I complimented a bloke behind the bar recently for topping up my pint after the head had settled. We had a little discussion about it...I said was it just me but am I getting served with oversize heads more often lately. He said no, it's not just me - staff are told, informally, to serve short measure, topping up without protest if there's a protest. "I don't do it. I serve a pint like I'd like to get one. But it's easy for me - I've been here ages and they can hardly sack me. But the younger ones feel under pressure..."

And while I'm on the subject, where outside the 1st world are people happy to pay full price and get less than they paid for? Or pay more than full price for what they receive?

Last time i was at Dublin Airport I asked for my pint to be topped up, you should have seen the look on the barman's face the cheeky bastard.

If I'm paying over 5 euros for a pint of Stella I expect a full pint, not something with over two inches of froth on the top.