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Subject:	Re: e-commerce (was Technic shuttle etc)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.market.shopping
Date:	Tue, 30 Nov 1999 22:06:36 GMT
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> It's the policy of many retail industries that till shortages come out of > pocket for the people on shift. That is why many retail industry workers have > a policy that till overages(?) go into a pot that is used to cover shortages. That's a illegal activity here in Canada. The store owner has to eat it, not the till person!. Esp. a problem with restaraunts, where people run out on the bill, recently a store was charged and fined quite heavily for billing the waiter for a meal that the people skipped out on. It is viewed as being a cost of business, and a supervisory role problem, not the person on the till. They can fine (take disiplinary action) them for repeated instances, but for single instances, no. James Powell

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		Re: e-commerce (was Technic shuttle etc)
(...) Tell Dairy Queen. (...) Customers skipping out on tabs is a different issue than employees miscounting change. I think the legal issues are different. In the first case, it's the customer that causes the shortage, in the second it's the (...) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.market.shopping)

		Re: e-commerce (was Technic shuttle etc)
(...) have (...) shortages. (...) When I was in high school I worked at a Crown gas station. For those of you who never heard of Crown, back in the early 80's it was the last hold out for full service gas pumping. We would regularly do $8k to $15k (...) (25 years ago, 1-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.market.shopping)

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		Re: e-commerce (was Technic shuttle etc)
(...) It's the policy of many retail industries that till shortages come out of pocket for the people on shift. That is why many retail industry workers have a policy that till overages(?) go into a pot that is used to cover shortages. James (URL) (25 years ago, 30-Nov-99, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.market.shopping)

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