Boomers please take note

[Crushingdandelions]

First sign you're of a certain age...you always pay in cash and count out every last frickin' bit of change no matter how big the queue is behind you.

Just don't? Use a card please. I don't want to count out your 5p pieces.

Also - why do you need a receipt when you have bought 2 items worth £1.49?

I always get a receipt when I’m buying things for my elderly neighbour or she will heavily hint that I’m defrauding her. I think she’s still mentally working with pre-EEC prices.

@MrThorpeHazell you are so right - I literally could not have coped 😄

I sneakily try to pass for X, it has connotations of Billy Idol

I'm early GenX and I do take great comfort in the BI connotations.

Must be confusing between the fiver and the bank card! I wonder if they faff about with their change holding the queue up.

Indont mind people counting change but i do object to very anal people having to precisely pack their shopping in a very very set way
I find it incredibly selfish

Your thread title suggests you were aiming your insults at a whole generation. Perhaps those people dont have much money and need to count every penny, nothing to do with age. Some smaller places I go prefer cash and I have to apologise fir not carrying any. We were in a cafe during the week that was Cash Only.

You're just not a very pleasant person are you? If I knew where you worked i could avoid it and take my contactless payments elsewhere.

So rude on a sunny Sunday morning!

I think I am going to make a jug of Pimms.

Fuck off OP. If you have a problem with people paying in legal tender then I suggest you educate yourself on the fundamentals of economic transactions.
FYI my parents are ‘boomers’, they were the first generation to use ATM cards, debit cards, and yeah they invented the fucking internet.

I pay cash often and happily count out the exact change. Age isn't a factor as I have done this from childhood. Money is legal tender and a perfectly acceptable way to pay.

The length of the queue is the shop's responsibility to manage, not the shopper. Have more cashiers available and all tills open.

People take receipts as proof of purchase not just for high cost items but if they are going to several shops, they can show they bought the items elsewhere.

No need for the ageist comments. First sign of a certain age indeed!

I'm 34 and I like to pay with cash. And I'm not going to be sorry about it because it's literally your job to take it?

I don't understand how it affects you at all. You're not going home early because grandad Jim paid by card today.

Haha yes! I’m not a boomer, but the number of “young folk” who look so perplexed when my mother does this!

@MagnoliaTreeBlossom Well said 👏👏

Ageist crap

What is it they say read the room? Do you object to a single mum on benefits counting out her cash too?

Well "boomers" are old enough to fucking swear if they want to

But it is cash sitting in their purse/pocket why shouldn't they spend it? Is it too much for you to sort into your till tray. Are you one of those scary Aldi cashiers that throw your shopping at you so have no patience to wait for £2.40 ?

Even in the 80s lots of people paid with a mixture of cash and card, so we had to do two different transactions… take the cash first and then do card ( with blue ink paper ) for the balance

Also I feel uneasy walking out of a shop when I’ve paid on Applepay without a receipt, let alone cash - no proof of purchase at all apart from the cashier’s word for it. Mind you, sounds like OP would remember me forever if I paid cash in her store.

Tell me where you are and I will come with a bag of pennies!

Couldn't you just take a minute to try to work out and understand why some people, older or not, have to count out every penny?

You lost me at boomer...

As a pensioner myself I never use cash, only card. However some pensioners have so little money to spend that the only way they can budget is by using cash, which needs counting out when they spend it. As for wanting a receipt, what is wrong with you? How long does it take for you to give out a small piece of paper! One day you too will be old.

I am a tail end boomer (61yo) and use cash a lot. I am one of those who will give 10.50 for a 5.50 total, so I get a fiver back, and not a pile of weighty coins.

I also ask for a receipt - because yours is not the only shop I will be going into and I seem to have the "mad cat lady/ditzy accidental shoplifter" look where I need to prove I bought my branded toothpaste in Savers, not (for 2 quid more) in Waitrose. Contactless is by default receiptless, and not every shop assistant knows the key combo to print off the receipt after the fact.

Ooh your wear your bitterness and envy like a millstone round your neck. Its not our fault we were born between 1947 and 1964 but hey, heres something else to piss you off....we are mortgage free yay whoop whoop 😂😂🤣😍🤭😆

I am a “Boomer” and haven’t used cash since the 1980s and I would get a receipt for £1.49 for 2 reasons

1. if I leave and security decide I have shoplifted (has happened on more than one occasion) I can produce my receipt and be on my way. Have always had one of those faces security guards assume to be definitely a shop lifter.
2. I run a business so that £1.49 might be an expense I can put against tax

Please use some imagination. I find it’s the ones who are middle aged who are more likely to use cash