Picture this: you walk into a Charity Shop and browse the book shelves. You pick out a book you want to buy and take it to the counter. The assistant looks at the sales ticket and sees it's been priced up as £1.99.
You hand over 2 shiny pound coins and put the change, a single penny, in the charity tin on the counter. After all, it's a charity shop.
Then you wonder why they marked it up at £1.99. Do they really think you would only buy the book for £1.99 and not a nice round £2? Or do they think you might go next door and try to find the same book at a competitor's charity shop? Of course not!
So, Charity Shops, start treating us with a bit of common sense. We're not daft, we know £1.99 is only a penny short of £2 so why don't you save yourself a lot of printing, save yourselves time, save handling so much small change, and stop thinking you are in a real market place having to compete with other shops, 'cos you're not.
It would also save your staff loads of time and aggravation having to listen to grumpy old men like me going on about ticket prices with 99p at the end of them!
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