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I’m not front be US. The first time I learned about give a penny, take a penny was on My Name is Earl. Is it really a thing?
Tip jars are different than give a penny take a penny. Tips are for the employees.
The penny thing was from back when cash was regularly used and pennies were annoying so sometimes stores would have a little dish thing for pennies to be used for rounding out purchases. The gas station I worked at in the 90s had them because we didn't need to keep as many pennies on hand for making change when we could use a spare penny to avoid giving out four.
So your store relied on charity to steal pennies for the company... sounds about right
We always put a few pennies in when it emptied out and never put pennies back into the register. At best it was the company spending a small amount for customers to trade pennies around both to benefit them and the company.
When I paid with cash I loved the give a penny take a penny.
Are you thinking of those charity jars where people donate loose change? That is something completely different and no we did not have those charity jars in the store.