plastic coin bags

[Adam Funk]

Note "self checkout"! Asda & some others have hoppers (maybe not the right term) that you can dump the change into.

[Adam Funk]

I remember those; I think they lasted into the 1980s.

[Adam Funk]

Ah, but at least that way you're supporting the local economy. ;-)

[Adam Funk]

The last time I asked for coin bags, the cashier tried to give me a bundle about an inch thick, so I asked for only half the stack. I still haven't used them up, a couple of years later.

[Bob Eager]

No, it takes up too much valuable room. Can pack checkouts more closely, leaving more selling space.

These places aren't run for the benefit of customers, you know .-)

[Tim Watts]

On Thursday 31 October 2013 16:43 Bob Eager wrote in uk.d-i-y:

Ah yes - it leaves room for all the extra unmanned checkouts...

;->

[polygonum]

Somehow we manage to make use of some of the Tesco coupon thingies - but very rarely those from JS.

Indeed, we used to buy the majority of our supermarket shop from JS, but at more or less the same time as they opened a huge new store here, they seemed to go downhill in almost every way. Except prices which went uphill. Still a few things we go for. Though even then we quite often go to a branch in another town.

[polygonum]

They need loads and loads of room for them. The other day at Morrisons five out of twelve were non-functional and some of the five were limited to cash or card or something like that. So whatever area they seem to need, double it.

[Martin Brown]

Their most useful ones for us are the occassional 10p/L off fuel.

Experiment with being serially disloyal for 3-4 weeks at a time. They both welcome back the prodigal son with large numbers of discount vouchers and some of them even for products you actually might buy!

[bert]

JS are becoming very much like Tesco.

[Scion]

polygonum put finger to keyboard:

It is a Coinstar in Asda, and the two options are 'Cash (service fees apply)' and 'Donate', which implies that there is no fee for Donate.

[Scion]

Mike Tomlinson put finger to keyboard:

In my local Asda the machine is in the foyer, but it doesn't pay out cash, you get a printed ticket that you must take to the customer service desk. So you have to go into the shop but not, as you say, the main shopping area - the CS desk is near the entrance.

Maybe they are missing a trick. 10% service fee if you opt for cash or 5% if you opt for money off your Asda shop.

[Mike Tomlinson]

In article , Scion writes

Yes, same here

That's a good idea, though if it were viable you would think the supermarkets would have thought of it first.

[Tim Watts]

On Friday 01 November 2013 14:19 Mike Tomlinson wrote in uk.d-i-y:

If everything had already been tried, there would be no new ideas.

Clearly there are from time to time...

[djc]

Until a dozen ago I was a regular JS customer, but the more they expanded the more down-market they went

[polygonum]

Thanks for getting back.

I did contact Coinstar some time ago but cannot find the emails. From memory, the fees for Donate are a tiny, tiny bit lower than for Cash.

They also have their seven partner charities and showed no real interest in adding others. In my book, I think they might at least allow almost any charity to be registered to get money. There is a mechanism on their machines to allow a charity to be identified by a code so it doesn't seem too advanced an idea!