self service checkout-loose change

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Hi Tallyhoh,

As your thread is more about supermarkets accepting change rather than Old Style, I've moved it over to the food shopping and groceries board where you should find other shoppers experiences.

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kazwookie

sproggi wrote: »

This might help

http://www.royalmint.com/corporate/policies/legal_tender_guidelines.aspx

Thank you

Just as I thought the article is misleading, as they are 'only guidelines' and not 'rules' at all!!

richardw

I just don't save small change and just spend it as I go, reduces the frequency of trips to the cash machine for notes.

meg72

I try to use loose change as I go along as I have a neck purse and find its uncomfortable if it gets heavy.

eleanor73

I would never ever use a cash counting machine at a supermarket as it costs money doesn't it? A percentage?
HSBC has a coin machine that pays straight into your bank. Before that I would use them in the self service-not really collect them for that purpose but just always use my small change first so rarely had any for anything else.

Middy

We had a self scan break because a customer tried to pay £8 with coppers. The buckets only can hold about 500 coins.

Then on the other side of the coin (no pun intended) we have to close self scans as we run out of £10 notes. Its thanks to those customers that pay with £20 for buying the Sun for 30p. I have seen customers with a purseful of coins still paying with a £20. I had a customer drop their contents of their purse and I did count around £22 in coins. I'm surprised she hasn't complained about her purse being heavy.

antrobus

katkins78 wrote: »

Just had a quick google and found this

• You can only pay for 20p worth of goods with pennies or tuppences
• You can only pay for £5 worth of goods with 5ps or 10ps
• You can only pay for £10 worth of goods with 20ps or 50ps
• £1 and £2 coins can be used for any level of transaction.

http://www.money.co.uk/article/1004497-whats-the-best-way-to-cash-in-spare-change.htm

That's the law regarding 'legal tender'.

sproggi wrote: »

This might help

http://www.royalmint.com/corporate/policies/legal_tender_guidelines.aspx

And that is too.

Which is perfectly correct. However in my experience Tesco (for one) has neglected to program the law on legal tender into it's self-service tills, so you can pump in as much loose change as you like.

Owain_Moneysaver

Middy wrote: »

Then on the other side of the coin (no pun intended) we have to close self scans as we run out of £10 notes. Its thanks to those customers that pay with £20 for buying the Sun for 30p.

The railway ticket vending machines (may vary according to type) don't give notes as change.

So paying for a <£1 fare with a £20 would give a clunk-clunk-clunk-clunk-clunk-clunk-clunk-clunk-clunk-clunk-clunk-clunk-clunk-clunk-clunk-clunk-clunk-clunk-cluck of £1 coins.

sproggi

Yep, the coinage act 1971 states what is 'legal tender' and anyone can refuse to accept payment in coins above the actual 'legal' amount (with a few exceptions).

BUT.............As long as it is agreed beforehand, you could pay with absolutely anything, that is why stores do not legally have to accept coupons, although a lot do and the same applies to coins, they do not legally have to accept them, but most do (not sure that the supermarkets would feel quite the same way if you tried to pay with a cow though:rotfl:)

Until I am told otherwise, I will treat it as 'pressumed acceptance' and carry on letting my DD have a bit of fun feeding small change into the self service machines


Sproggi

Middy

We accept Scottish and NI bank notes (not the Scottish £100 one) and Channel Islands, IOM and Gibraltar coins, but we don't give these as change or cashback. We have a section in the till for these.