German Cash Receipts in 2009
My journal was filled with plenty of cash receipts from our most recent trip to Franconia, where we also ate out a few times. One such place, a very nice wine tavern called Korkenzieher (corkscrew) near my former apartment in Schweinfurt, was revisited by us for old times sake.
Before junking the receipts, I got to take a quick look at the one from Korkenzieher, and realized they still posted the amount charged in Deutsch Mark. We have had the Euro since 2002 and therefore was very surprised to find a business still converting the charge.
Korkenzieher cash receipt
We paid € 15,30 and below it in smaller print, you can see DM 29,92.
I wonder how many other businesses in Germany still do this.
In France, I noticed quite a few supermarkets still listed the FF price on their receipts a couple of years ago.
I guess some habits, or currencies, are hard to break.
Tags: cash receipts, Deutschmark
January 3rd, 2010 at 3:16 pm
In Spain it is still very common to display prices for everything in ESP (pesetas), and in fact when we were talking to an architect recently about the house we will be building there, he had to keep referring to his calculator to convert prices from ESP to EUR to tell us what he expected the costs to be!
We’ve been told that although people think in EUR for every day purchases at the supermarket, big-ticket items like cars and houses are still usually mentally priced in pesetas!
January 5th, 2010 at 9:50 am
You got there first! I had a post about pesetas lined up: http://tinyurl.com/yb6wmb7
January 15th, 2010 at 10:12 am
The only time I still convert euro back to Deutschmark in my mind is when I see overpriced food on a restaurant menu or other small every day items.
Usually, if I get to the point of converting, this means I find the item overpriced.