If You Watched,

Superman III, 

you will know a part of the plot revolves around Gus Gorman (Richard Pryor), who puts a computer code into the computer of the company he works for, to channel all of the odd half pennies that are on pay cheques that his company normally keeps into his account, which results in a bonus check for $85,789.90 at the end of the week, this is called salami slicing, well in a real life situation a similar thing happened, 

a Chinese man recently took a supermarket chain to court after allegedly being cheated out of 0.04 yuan ($0.008) because the checkout clerk rounded down the change he was owed, the plaintiff, named only as Xiao, claimed that after shopping at a branch of Yonghui Superstores and offering 55 yuan ($8.16) for groceries worth 54.76 yuan ($8.12), he was given only 0.20 yuan as change instead of the 0.24 yuan he was owed, He did not really need the 0.04 yuan, but he considered the supermarket’s rounding off system to be cheating, so he decided to sue them and draw attention to the practice, hoping it would get fixed, 

“I paid 55 yuan in cash, and they gave me 0.2 yuan in change, they illegally took 0.04 yuan,” Mr. Xiao said in a short interview with Pear Video, “By filing the lawsuit, I only wanted them to return the 0.04 yuan that should be mine. I just wanted to say no to the business’s unlawful practice and unreasonable rules. By pursuing a lawsuit, this matter was recognized at the legal level, and hopefully it attracts society’s attention.” A judge at the Yanqiao District People’s Court in Xian, Shaanxi Province, agreed and ordered Yonghui Superstores to pay Xiao the change he was owed, as well as 50 yuan ($7.41) in legal fees, so it does happen, I wonder if any of the big super markets in the UK do the same? I mean it beggars belief that every single product arrives at a full pence price, so where do all of the 'odd' bits of penny coins go?