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Aldi: Small change myth finally cleared up – can cashiers refuse coins?

2022-05-24T14:05:28.910Z


Aldi: Small change myth finally cleared up – can cashiers refuse coins? Created: 05/24/2022, 15:54 By: Tobias Becker Aldi – There are many myths surrounding shopping at Aldi, Lidl and Co. One of them: Paying with too much small change can have consequences. Is that true? A quick bit of shopping after work, at home the family is waiting for food and in the discounter at the checkout everything


Aldi: Small change myth finally cleared up – can cashiers refuse coins?

Created: 05/24/2022, 15:54

By: Tobias Becker

Aldi – There are many myths surrounding shopping at Aldi, Lidl and Co.

One of them: Paying with too much small change can have consequences.

Is that true?

A quick bit of shopping after work, at home the family is waiting for food and in the discounter at the checkout everything is dragging on.

As soon as it's almost your turn at Aldi, Lidl and Co., the person in front of you starts rummaging through your wallet and pulling out coin by coin.

On the one hand, it takes forever, on the other hand, especially in the Corona period, it is not even welcomed when people pay with cash.

Many people know this situation and experience it not only in Heidelberg* and Mannheim*, but all over Germany again and again.

Even many bakeries that previously swore by cash payments have switched to cashless payments during the pandemic.

In addition, it is possible to pay completely contactless in many shops, supermarkets and discounters.

With a smartphone, for example, but also with giro cards, MasterCard and other cards if they are NFC-enabled.

There are also situations in which the discounter giant Aldi, who shows a lot of patience * with some allegations on Facebook, does not have to accept the small change.

Aldi: consumer portal clarifies the small change myth

If you take the “typical German idiosyncrasies” to heart, there should be an outcry at first.

"What?

I can no longer pay with small change at Aldi?” That would be wrong, however, because it is of course possible to pay with small change.

Even if many people have now switched to card payment, coins and notes remain the Germans' favorite means of payment.

A study by the Bundesbank showed that 60 percent of purchases are made with cash - even if it may take a little too long for one or the other at the Aldi checkout.

The duration is not a criterion either, but: There are moments when the discounter giant Aldi Süd, who recently commented on the subject of 2G in retail *, could also say “no” and reject the small change.

This was confirmed by the Baden-Württemberg consumer portal.

The explanation states: "Larger amounts should not only be paid for with small change at the supermarket checkout."

Aldi: Watch out, too much small change is not possible when paying

That's the warning, because cashiers at Aldi Süd don't have to accept the money.

As a rule, the consumer portal Baden-Württemberg* states: "Customers who pay with more than 50 coins must expect to be rejected, because cashiers do not have to accept more per purchase." So if you rob the piggy bank, the next one Paying for groceries with coins could be caught cold because it's not a myth.

Surname

Aldi

Seat

meal

founding

1946

founder

Karl and Theo Albrecht

Such an experience has already happened to HEIDELBERG24* reader Thomas B.

He writes: "For me it wasn't Aldi, but a beverage store.

I wanted to buy a keg of beer and had collected coins for it.

It was a gag with friends.” However, there were too many coins.

"We had to go to a bank and change the money," Thomas B. continues.

The small change is not lost, however, because "little cattle also make crap" and "Those who don't honor the penny aren't worth the thaler" aren't just empty slogans either.

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Tips and tricks: How to save small change after shopping at Aldi

There are quite a few tips and tricks that you can use to put a little money aside the next time you shop at Aldi and thus reward yourself at the end of the year.

A trick: if you pay cash at Aldi Süd, keep every five-euro note.

A lot comes together at the end of the year.

Another tip that some savers like the website talerbox.com have already given: throw small change up to one euro coins into a large glass.

The glass is emptied and paid in once a year.

Especially for purchases from Aldi*, Lidl and Co.: Anyone who hands in returnable bottles does not have the deposit offset or spends it.

Deposit is put aside.

So you can start with small change - without being rejected at the checkout in the supermarket.

(tobi)

*HEIDELBERG24 is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA.

Source: merkur

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