Most BHS tills only accepting cash

edda

I don't know whether this affects evrywhere, but the Wolvehampton BHS store was having a few problems today with their tills.

"Most of the tills" according to several assistants were only accepting hard cash - no cards of any kind at all.

Now, this could be a local glitch, but I wondered if anywhere else has been similarly inconvenienced? On a 20% off day as well! Its not wise to carry a lot of cash around so those paying by card had a long queue.

Am I being cynical? I did wonder if BHS were artificially trying to encourage cash to improve their cash flow? Customers could lose out on credit card extra warranty as well. :eek:

furryjen78

Don't know about BHS, but I was in Clintons this morning and they were having problems with their chip and pin. When I came to be served the system went down totally so they were also only accepting cash.

zenseeker

It's probably just a glitch with the BACS system that controls card orders, it used to happen quite often with the tills in Morrison's when I worked there.

ITFCNUT

simply because this was alot of peoples last payday yesterday before xmas and this is generally extremely busy because of this.

xdaisyx

its been the same in a lot of places, as someones said, today is the one of the busiest shopping days of the year, these things happen

fedupconsumer

had some problems in boots today as well.

Chocmonster7

Chip & Pin machine was disabled at the till we used in Mattalan this morning too. Luckily they could still swipe the card and do the old fashioned signature thing!