Emporium and Siam Paragon Love the Satang
I’ve had a few days off moaning recently but the momentum is back and I’m savaging that stupid of stupids, the Satang ( again ).
I’m a regular shopper and diner at Emporium and Siam Paragon but it’s really starting to get me pee’d off when I have to walk away from every purchase with a bloody miniscule golden coin that’s basically no good to anyone. It might as well be Monopoly money for all the good it does.I’ve posted before about this issue but it now seems almost policy by Emporium / Siam Paragon ( both, large Bangkok shopping centers ) to make the price of food or groceries end in some fraction of a Baht.
Each time I shop for groceries at Siam Paragon my bill ends with . 25, .50 or .75 and to this end I always carry one of each coin when doing my shopping so as to hand over the exact change.
A simple POS change could mean that all figures are rounded up or down ( up of course ), and this would leave us free of those pesky little coins.
The Emporium food court, up a few steps from Burger King and behind Swensens will, without fail present a figure ending in one of the three fractions of a Baht and i would have though thtat this was, in some way, time consuming and expensive as there is the need to stock a pile of the coins so as to give change and the need to bank the bloomin things.
At the Emporium, what happens after eating is that you are given your change on a little tray and in front of you is a little jar provided for tips. It’s “expected” that you’ll dump these unwanted coins into the tips jar even though a service charge has already been added to your bill.
Sure, it’s at your discression to give more of a tip or not but it a bit of a cheek to add service charge to your bill and then leave a tip box at the payment counter, knowing full well that the average person wants to rid themselves of the shrapnel and will leave it in the tip box.
If you go to the Emporium food section, you’ll notice that there are two food courts and they seem to be divided by customer type.
The Thai food court has predominantly Thai diners and the International food court has predominantly International diners ( with half now seeming to be Japanese house wives gatehring for a meal and a chin wag with all the other Japanese house wives ).
It’s my guess that all these International clientele will not want to have this rubbish messing up their Gucci bags and Prada purses and will swiftly dump the offending items into the tips box.
Why not just be rid of these annoyances once and for all. It is, after all, to the benefit of the stores to round up the amounts. Just think of the profits they’d make after just a week or two of rounding up the figures.
I, for one, would happily accept the small increase and then my piggy bank jar will no longer have to contain a ton of this stuff.
It would then be possible to smelt the Satangs down and extend the BTS or MRT routes
thank. http://www.bangkokblogspot.com/?p=78
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