Originally Posted by ptquilts

Most people don't know how to count back change any more. It's a fact of life. Why make it hard for them, just take your change and you can roll the coins when you get home. If I were a store owner with a modern cash register, I would not want young clerks trying to do math in their head.

Probably 100 years ago the old people were complaining, "these young kids, they don't even know how to drive a team of oxen."