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Went to Target yesterday and while paying for my stuff at the self-checkout I noticed some abandoned pennies on top of the machine, which I quickly nabbed. Then, looking at the three machines adjacent to me, I noticed all of them had a similar small pile of pennies. So I grabbed all of them too. Also noticed that other occupied machines had leftover pennies too.

It was only after I left did it hit me: I wonder if this is Target's "Need a penny? Take a penny" system and not just stray coinage no one wants. Did I breach some Target etiquette? The employee monitoring the checkouts never said a word.

Don't feel all that bad about it, but I wonder...

Baaasd boy

Looking for the closest Target now lol

My target just had skittles on the check outs

hobo finds wrote:My target just had skittles on the check outs

If they were loose I'd pocket those too.

coindood wrote:

hobo finds wrote:My target just had skittles on the check outs

If they were loose I'd pocket those too.

Ewwwwwwww

My credit union had a pile of coins sitting on the coin counting machine the other week. I brought it to the attention of the teller and they said someone bailed, leaving the money in the tray and that I could keep it. Felt weird at first. I think it was maybe $3 of coins. There were times when TD Bank had coins left in the Penny Arcade hopper and I would end up with more money counted than I dumped ( I usually weighed beforehand the nickels or pennies or knew to the penny what I was dumping). I was honest maybe the first time when this happened and told the teller and they said that they think they knew who used the counter last. After that, it happened at least one more time and I did not bother to tell the tellers. After the Penny Arcade debacle concluded with a lawsuit, TD Bank credited me either $40 or $100 approximately to my account for the undercounted coin scandal. I used that Penny Arcade a lot!