Tightwads come in all shapes and sizes
I work as a till monkey/trainee manager (think monkey in a tie) for a well known supermarket chain. Rhymes somewhat with "Al-fresco." This particular company has a reward scheme with literally hundreds of ways to earn points without "theoretically" spending any of one's hard earned cash. The most common of these is to recycle a carrier bag when you do your shopping. For this you will receive 1p (or as much as 4p if you trade your points in for vouchers to any number of food purveyors.) The scheme isn't that popular, but you do get the odd person who steadfastly refuses to budge until they see you add "Bag Re-Use" to their shopping list, all for 1p. Some even go home, then drive back to the store, all to complain to the management that they didn't get their green point. To which the management have to tell them to request an extra point next time, as it costs much more than 1p in wasted time to put it on manually.

My favourite of all though are the fuel dodgers. The ones who put £20.01 in fuel in and come in to the store armed with a twenty, thinking they can get away with it. I've almost turned it into a game to see who can make a customer part with the most extra cash to pay the extra penny. The best one was a guy in a Porsche, who put £15.01 in fuel in and paid with a £20 note, but asked for a fiver in change. I was feeling happy that day and would have obliged except:

1. He was driving a Porsche,
2. He put unleaded petrol into said brand new car (I guess it was just too much for him to spring the extra 6p a litre for his £60k motor),
3. He had a wad of notes in his wallet so thick you could beat a whale to death with it.

When I handed him his £4.99 change he started shouting, eventually asking to speak to the manager who kindly pointed to his receipt and told him if he didn't dribble so much he might have got a fiver back.
(guyie failed to be witty on, Sat 25 Oct 2008, 19:57, 2 replies)

Got it!
It's Presto right?
(muzzvsworld, Tue 28 Oct 2008, 2:42, closed)

To be honest with you
I hate when I make the effort of bringing a lot of bags with me for my shopping and I never get green points.

Now I go to the "do it yourself" till, where I can put the bags I'm reusing.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Tue 28 Oct 2008, 14:36, closed)